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...young, she's sexy and she's a star. But Nadja Benaissa, the singer in Germany's top all-girl band "No Angels" is now sitting in a Frankfurt prison cell on remand. The 26 year-old was arrested on April 11 on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. State prosecutors accuse her of having had sex with three men without telling them that she was HIV positive. News of Benaissa's arrest has filled Germany's tabloid newspapers while websites have been deluged with postings from distraught fans...
...Adding to the sense of drama, police arrested the glamorous singer just before she hit the stage at a nightclub in Frankfurt, where she was due to give a solo concert. "Nadja Benaissa had unprotected sex with three men in 2004 and 2006, and although she knew that she herself was HIV positive, she didn't tell them," Ger Neuber, a prosecutor in the city of Darmstadt, near Frankfurt, tells TIME. "Her former lover filed charges against her last year. He is HIV positive and suspects that she is responsible. We arrested her and she's been remanded in custody...
None of the cousins have worked harder to make a place at the fashion table for Swarovski than Nadja Swarovski, 36, a London-based cousin of Buchbauer's and Langes-Swarovski's. In a previous job at a New York City p.r. firm, Nadja says, she realized Swarovski had not been effective at communicating its link with fashion. She launched several initiatives, including setting up a showroom in New York, where American designers are invited to paw through 200 drawers filled with crystals. There are event sponsorships and clever collaborations with fashion and interior designers, the most successful of which...
...Still, Nadja says she sometimes encounters resistance to the idea of crystal as a luxury good, since it's machine made in massive quantities. "My response is, 'Try making a perfect crystal that won't break easily,'" she says. "'Try making billions of them and ensuring that not a single one has a bubble.' I salute the fact that my great-great-grandfather embraced the Industrial Revolution...
...Swarovski shed its image as the source for animal miniatures by teaming up with trendy fashion designers like Alexander McQueen on the runway. Now the century-old crystal company wants to revamp lighting. "The chandelier is this luxurious, celebratory lighting fixture," says Nadja Swarovski, 34, who runs communications for the firm. "We challenged designers to reinvent it for today." Twenty-seven of them accepted the dare, and last month seven of the collection's 17 pieces?including Yves B?har's Nest, above, a glowing cyclone suspended by strands of crystal, and Matali Crasset's Plexiglas Sky?were displayed...