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...Take Manhattan is the latest of Judith Krantz's steamy best-selling novels to be made into a TV mini-series. This one, scheduled for CBS next season, stars Valerie Bertinelli as Maxi Amberville, heiress to a troubled publishing empire. When things look bad, sexy Maxi turns for aid to a worldly real estate developer named Donald Trump, played by Donald Trump. The megamogul had a small, key speaking part in a scene that was filmed last week in -- where else? -- his own Trump Tower. Sighed Bertinelli: "He's so handsome." Trump, an old friend of Krantz...
...fallen into some rather unworthy hands. Pope Sergius III seized the papal throne by armed force and imprisoned his predecessor Christopher, who had already imprisoned his predecessor Leo V. Sergius then had both Popes strangled in jail. He also fathered an illegitimate son by a 15-year-old heiress named Marozia, who eventually got the debauched son chosen as Pope John XI soon after his 21st birthday. John's nephew, who was even more debauched, duly became John XII when barely...
Prince crashes a socialite party and meets a rich, young heiress (Kristin Scott-Thomas) whom he seduces and falls in love with. However, the heiress' father (Steven Berkoff) is determined to make sure their romance never achieves, shall we say, fruition...
...Bulow trial was a media event because it was exciting. It was trash: good, all-American trash. It was not, however, a media event because of the fancy legal maneuvering that accompanied Claus von Bulow's initial conviction--and subsequent acquittal--for twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Sunny Crawford von Auersperg von Bulow...
...STARTED AROUND Christmas 1979, when Sunny, heiress to the Columbia Gas and Electric fortune, fell into a coma. According to Schrallhammer's account, von Bulow ignored Sunny's poor condition for several hours until Schrallhammer convinced him to call a doctor. Some quick action by the doctor saved Sunny, and life went on as usual...