Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of the couple's dinner at Paris' Ritz Hotel, the rules of engagement sometimes observed between the photo hounds and the princess had gone completely by the board, as the street value of a grainy shot of Diana with Al Fayed reached six figures. The stalking had become so bad that two weeks ago Diana disclosed that the idea of leaving Britain and its paparazzi had crossed her mind. "Any sane person would have left long ago," she told the French newspaper Le Monde. "But I cannot. I have my sons...
...Finally, it emerged that Dodi Fayed gave Princess Diana a $205,400 diamond "friendship ring" on the night the couple died. The ring was found in the wreckage of the car crash that killed them. Paris jeweler Alberto Repossi , whose store is near the Paris Ritz hotel where the couple shared their last meal, suggested the ring may have meant much more than friendship...
...Meanwhile, one of Henri Paul's colleagues at the Ritz ? speaking on French radio with his voice disguised ? claimed that the driver lacked a limo license required in France to chauffeur passengers. The Al Fayeds quickly denied that accusation...
...attorney for the Al Fayed family ? owners of the Ritz hotel that employed the allegedly drunken, speeding limo driver Henri Paul ? is threatening to sue photographers for damages. The lawyer, Bernard Dartevelle, launched the latest volley in his media offensive by stressing that a witness reported seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing...
Investigators said that Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel's number two security man, had a blood alcohol level of 1.7 grams per liter of blood ? more than three times the legal limit. Paul was not Fayed's regular driver, who was instead used as a decoy for the paparazzi that were hounding the couple...