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PARIS: So you thought the wrangling over Princess Diana's tragic death was over? It's just getting warmed up. Former bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash that killed the princess in August 1997, launched a lawsuit Wednesday against the Ritz Hotel and the Etoile-Limousine car service for "endangering the lives of others." As TIME reported in August, Rees-Jones and fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield consider the hotel largely responsible for the tragic accident. Although Rees-Jones is still plagued by amnesia and doesn't remember what happened that fateful night, Wingfield told crash investigators...
...part, Ritz owner Mohammed Al-Fayed seems to have decided Rees-Jones and Wingfield themselves are guilty -- for not ordering a backup car or making sure the princess was buckled up in the back. "They moved away from the rules. They let me down," he told TIME. Now he and Rees-Jones will likely face each other in French court -- trading barbs over who was responsible for Henri Paul, the Mercedes driver who was found to be legally drunk. Given that Paul was the Ritz security chief, it doesn't look good for Al-Fayed. Then again, the spectacle...
...hard to tell sometimes. He's not a guy who looks comfortable around attention; in fact he has skirted it all pretty well until now. He stays in suburban St. Louis at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, alone with Spectravision when not with friends and teammates. McGwire hasn't even done much on the endorsements front--though that cap he keeps wearing at press conferences for the Abbey, a fledgling restaurant in Seal Beach, Calif., has got to be worth some kind of meal--and his few public appearances have been less than stellar: his taped spot at last week...
...according to Tomlinson, the judges seemed most interested in his contention that a free-lance British photographer who covered the royals had regularly briefed MI6 on Diana's doings. The judges are trying to learn the identity of an English-speaking mustachioed photographer who was at the Ritz Hotel the night of the crash, and may have hoped that Tomlinson could shed light on the possibility that an MI6 agent had been following Diana that evening. The judges expect to wrap up their investigation by late October...