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They had finished an intimate dinner at the Ritz Hotel, and Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian-born multimillionaire, and Princess Diana were on their way to his opulent 10-room apartment overlooking the Champs-Elysees. But the couple never made it to Fayed's place. At 12:23 a.m. the speeding Mercedes in which Diana, 36, and Fayed were riding crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel on the right bank of the Seine River. Fayed and the intoxicated driver died at the scene. Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. at Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital...
...best day spa package in Boston, says princess extraordinaire Nancy A. Redd ’03, is The Sports Club/LA at the Ritz Boston Common. After she won $250,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” Redd treated all of her friends to sea salt scrubs, body masks, facials, massages, hairdos, manicures and pedicures. “Dave Matthew’s Band was there getting a manicure while we were,” she says. But Redd also knows how to get things for free: she recommends the Chanel Counter at Saks...
...Debra Gray King of the Atlanta Center for Cosmetic Dentistry calls her practice "the Ritz-Carlton of dentistry" and in fact sends her "dental concierges" to the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center for training in client relations. They're taught to squire each patient as he or she navigates the various rooms of the center's luxe 8,400-sq.-ft. Twelve Oaks--esque mansion...
...leaving Harriet's rearing to the maid and the Alexandria, Miss., library, whose blackhearted adventure tales--Stevenson's pirates, Kipling's cobras--she reads greedily. She also loves Bible stories, for their morbid, operatic horror; in her yard, she stages Passion plays, in which she stars as Jesus, serving Ritz crackers and grape Fanta as the Last Supper and acting out Christ's capture at Gethsemane beneath the tree where Robin was hanged...
Ihsan Gurdal moves in a circle of the powerful and famous, at least in the Boston culinary scene. His store, Formaggio Kitchen, is a legend in the business, offering more than 300 varieties of handmade artisanal cheeses. Formaggio supplies restaurant kitchens throughout Boston, from the Blue Room to the Ritz. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz is among the numerous Harvard professors who regularly stop in. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer often pulls up on his bicycle, an employee confides...