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YUKIKO IRWIN, who attended both Tokyo Women's Christian College and Indiana University, is descended from Benjamin Franklin. She lives in Manhattan, where she is an expert in shiatzu, a finger-pressure therapy similar to Chinese acupuncture. Her grandfather, a Philadelphia trader, went to Japan in 1866 and wed a local woman in the first legally sanctioned marriage of an American and a Japanese. Her father also married a Japanese...
...with her affections. Even though he lives near by, she has written him almost daily letters filled with phrases like "cheri ... my pigeon ... mon coeur ... my little soul... my beloved husband." (Though no marriage has ever been announced, there have been persistent rumors that Catherine and Potemkin were secretly wed in late...
...sort to nickel and dime his women−except possibly his wives. The oil billionaire was married and divorced five times before he died this month at 83, but his will mentioned only No. 5−Louise Lynch Getty of Santa Monica, Calif., a singer who wed Getty in 1939 and gets $55,000 a year for life. Eleven other women shared in Getty's largesse, including a German countess, a French art dealer, Getty's Nicaraguan companion Rosabella Burch (she got $82,625 in Getty stock) and Lady Ursula d'Abo, a merry London widow...
...loving Financier Bernie Cornfeld lost his mutual fund empire. Now, at 48, he's said goodbye to another cherished asset−his swinging bachelorhood. In a candlelit ceremony at his Beverly Hills mansion, Bernie appeared in dazzling white−it was, after all, his first marriage−to wed Lorraine Dillon Armbruster, 28, a sometime fashion model whom he met in Paris a year ago. After the Jewish ceremony, the happy couple accepted congratulations from a crowd of well-wishers that included Best Man Tony Curtis, Warren Beatty, Michelle Phillips and Bernie's Russian-born ma, Sophie Cornfeld...
...carried on an affair with Elizabeth Ray, 33, whom he employed as a $14,000-a-year committee clerk although she claims that she can neither type nor file. The portly Congressman, 65, who in January divorced one wife after 38 years of marriage and six weeks ago wed his secretary, denied only that Miss Ray's federal salary was awarded solely for sexual services. She was not, insisted Hays, "hired to be my mistress...