Word: heiress
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...Paris Hilton have collided, and the results aren't pretty. New York City artist Daniel Edwards, creator of a similarly taste-free Britney-giving-birth statue, has created Paris Hilton Autopsy, complete with removable organs. Blogsite DEFAMER wonders if the heiress "is presently savoring the prospects of long lines of East Coast [art] connoisseurs waiting patiently for their turn to handle her petrified innards." SCORE...
...Thomas Jefferson University announced it was going to sell--for $68 million--one of the touchstones of 19th century American painting, The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, who spent nearly all of his turbulent career in Philadelphia. It didn't help that one of the buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years ago for Asher B. Durand's 19th century landscape Kindred Spirits...
...have heard it through the grapevine: the heiress to the Motown legacy has done it again. With her latest album, 19-year-old Brit Joss Stone reminds us just why we liked the ’70s so much. Don’t let the album’s title mislead you. “Introducing Joss Stone” is in fact Stone’s third solo album. And it shows—Stone sounds more mature than she did on either of her previous releases. The album is ambitious; bringing soul back is a touch more difficult...
PARIS HILTON, heiress and socialite, on her place in society...
Hunt—who is former US Ambassador to Austria, the heiress to an oil fortune, and the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government—offers a fascinating glimpse into the bizarre lives of the outrageously wealthy. She tells the stories of her larger than life Texan childhood, her work as a champion of women’s issues and social justice, her stint as an ambassador, and her family life involving three children and two marriages...