Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Other cars were driven through the opposite lane to determine exactly what witnesses could have seen from that vantage point. But the session last week was just a warm-up for the full-blown re-enactment that will most likely start, like Diana's fatal last ride, at the Ritz Hotel. It will feature an identical Mercedes S-280 accompanied by the 10 paparazzi who are suspected of contributing to the crash by their pursuit. Judicial sources say the main re-enactment is still weeks away...
...CHOICE OF DRIVER. Lab results released last week indicate that Henri Paul, the Ritz's 41-year-old deputy security director, had been in a state of "moderate chronic alcoholism" for at least eight days. Tests of hair samples, moreover, show that Paul had been regularly ingesting Prozac (since May) and tiapridal (since July), a combination of drugs commonly prescribed for the treatment of alcoholism. Earlier tests had shown that Paul had drunk the equivalent of nine shots of whiskey before taking the wheel of the Mercedes. How could his state have escaped the attention of the people around...
...several of the photographers declared Paul's behavior "bizarre." He emerged from the Ritz on several occasions to chat with the paparazzi and even told them the couple would be coming out after dinner. He was so voluble at least two photographers suspected he had been drinking. Another source who knows Paul well and was with him that night found him "chattier than usual...
...regular chauffeur, Philippe Dourneau, and another driver off in two decoy vehicles while Paul whisked the couple away in a different car. Rees-Jones reiterated those statements last week, and fellow bodyguard Wingfield confirms that Dodi made these fateful decisions. But it is also clear that other senior Ritz officials were aware of the plan to use an extra Mercedes for a surreptitious getaway and even took part in organizing...
...though, he had evidently acquired some tastes and vices that clouded his judgment and apparently erased his understanding of the word no. On Feb. 12, Albert and a 42-year-old Virginia woman with whom he had had a 10-year-long sexual relationship arranged to meet at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Pentagon City in Arlington. According to the woman, Albert became angry because she hadn't brought along another man to join them, and bit her repeatedly on the back and forced her to perform oral sex. The woman called 911 and immediately filed a complaint...