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Dodi al Fayed, the rakish Egyptian-born heir to the billion-dollar Harrods fortune, seemed an unlikely consort for Britain's fairy princess. An unreconstructed playboy, his taste in books seemed to run mainly to a little black one that once contained names such as Brooke Shields and Tawny Kitaen. His past was littered with women he had romanced and rejected, as well as with creditors still hoping to be paid for meals consumed and lodging used long ago. And then there was that vexing question of his family's nationality. Romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke...
ARPAD BUSSON Lucky dog. European playboy fathers Elle Macpherson's baby...
...took was a few fuzzy photos for Britain to go bananas over its favorite fractured fairy-tale princess. After printing grainy shots of PRINCESS DIANA cozying up to playboy DODI FAYED, the Sunday Mirror declared authoritatively, "The whole world can see it's a book of love." The tabloids were busy reading the little black book of Dodi's past paramours (Brooke Shields, Winona Ryder et al.) when jilted model Kelly Fisher held a press conference, claiming Dodi as her betrothed and flashing a sapphire ring and a $440,000 breach-of-contract and fraud suit. Diana's future wedded...
Imagine the discount she's going to get at Harrods now. According to the British papers--and a newly prosperous Italian paparazzo--Princess Diana has a new man. He is Dodi Fayed, a fabulously wealthy playboy-producer type whose father Mohamed al Fayed owns the famous store. The photographer's pictures of the two looking cozy on Fayed's yacht surfaced on the eve of Diana's departure for Bosnia to continue her campaign against land mines...
...barred in the early 1970s, RJR's Winston was the household name in cigarettes. Philip Morris adapted better to print, though, and boosted its Marlboro brand to prominence. RJR needs to regain some ground, but it won't be easy. "We'll all be jockeying for position in Playboy and Penthouse," an RJR insider quips. Adult magazines are among the few places the tobacco companies would continue to advertise...