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...party and best-selling novelist, to four years in prison; for perjury and obstruction of justice; in London. After asking friend Ted Francis to support a fake alibi to counter a newspaper's claim that he'd had an affair with a prostitute, Archer sued the Daily Star for libel and won. Justice Francis Potts called Archer's actions "the most serious offense of perjury I have experienced...
...with her "orderly" approach to selling everything from pornographic videos to flavored condoms and leather masks. SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, British novelist and politician, to four years in prison for perjury; in London. Archer, the best-selling author of Kane and Abel, had diaries forged to support his 1987 libel suit against the Star newspaper, which reported that he had sex with a prostitute. NATURALIZED. VICTOR ARITOMI, 64, former Peruvian envoy to Japan and brother-in-law of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, as a Japanese citizen; in Tokyo. Aritomi, who gave up Japanese citizenship 10 years ago, is now shielded...
...Winners DAVID BECKHAM Soccer's Spice Boy gets the O.K. from coach to play for England with a mohawk. Coach rejects Beck's bid to play bottomless DARYL HANNAH Actress wins libel suit against London tabloid. For a moment, she imagines the victory will reinvigorate her career?then reality sets in NANNI MORETTI Cannes awards director Italy's first Palme d'Or in 30 years. As if having fine-looking women, swell clothes and great cuisine wasn't enough
...reach out better, Chen says, he has reached in, seeking that emotional center. As examples of travails that built his character, he cites his 1986 prison stay for libel and a traffic accident--some say it was a politically motivated hit--that left his wife paralyzed...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Apologizes for "joke" about bedding certain celebs. Heard the one about the libel suit...