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...Along with his ex-lover Christine Deviers-Joncour and five other defendants, Dumas, 78, stands accused of ?abusing? company funds. The prosecution claims that in 1989 Dumas used his influence as Foreign Minister to win a sinecure position at Elf Aquitaine for his svelte brunette lady-friend. Deviers-Joncour, whose only duties consisted of ?lobbying? her lover??body and soul,? as the presiding judge quipped?is accused of raking in a total of $9.15 million in salary, commissions, rent and the apparently unlimited use of a company credit card during her four years with the then state-owned firm...
...insulting to believe that a state minister can be bought with a pair of shoes,? he railed. As for his private love life, he snapped at the prosecutor, ?Don?t give me any lessons on that score.? Asked whether he never wondered about the source of his lover?s opulent lifestyle, he quipped, ?There has always been a perfume of mystery around Madame Deviers-Joncour.? At one point, Dumas declared: ?It is heartbreaking to find myself here ... At my age, to run the risk of a dishonor is an unbearable reality...
...What a delight. There are eight stories and one "novelette," all of them equally absurd and melodramatic. Sample titles: "My Shameful Past," "My Sister Stole My Man," and "Goodbye, Lover." Although the art rarely veers from a "house style," connoisseurs will recognize names like John Romita, later of "Amazing Spider-Man," longtime Mad magazine contributor Mort Drucker, and, in one case, Wally Wood of "Mad" and "Little Annie Fanny" fame...
Dartmouth, located in the town of Hanover N.H., population 10,000, has been largely crime free for decades. In 1991, two Dartmouth graduate students were murdered by a spurned lover. Prior to that, police say Hanover had not had a murder in 40 years...
...during a five-day celebration in a remote Scottish castle. Ritchie, 32, the father of Madonna's second child, Rocco, calls the nuptials "the best five days of my life," though it was preceded by months in a burning media spotlight. Tabloids excitedly chronicled HER PLOT TO GET TOYBOY LOVER TO ALTAR. Paparazzi stalked them in Greece, and the couple had to relocate three times. "It cost us a fortune," Ritchie says. "We couldn't go outdoors. It was a real mess...