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...Castille describes as "a good talker, a hustler." They were assured of a return of as much as 50 to 1 on their investments. Attorney Barry Ginsberg and a group of friends ended up dumping a total of $1.5 million into the trust, and according to investigators, an elderly widow invested $70,000, which amounted to her life savings. Most investors did, however, realize that they were getting into a rather risky venture. "Don't feel sorry for these people," says Richard Butera, a businessman who first dropped money in the Oman Ghana Trust Fund in 1972. "They knew what...
...Cagney's widow Frances reportedly turned down an offer to hold the funeral in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral. It would have been too grand for a former street kid. His last rites were held instead in a more modest setting, the church of St. Francis de Sales in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood, where he once served as an altar boy. His pallbearers were like a sampling of Cagney's many sides. They included Boxer Floyd Patterson, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Actor Ralph Bellamy and Director Milos Forman...
...radio quoted unidentified sources as saying she is a Lebanese Christian, the widow of a Druse militiaman known as Abu Nisrin who was killed last year in Lebanon's civil war. It said Mansur was her maiden name...
...past as well. The effervescent, redheaded Ferguson has long been a favorite of Queen Elizabeth's. She is , distantly related to the Queen through her father, Major Ronald Ferguson, who is Charles' polo manager, a close friend of Prince Philip's and a cousin of Princess Alice, widow of the Queen's uncle. Andrew and his intended, both now 26, knew each other as children. "They met on the polo fields. But then, doesn't everybody?" said Ferguson's mum, Susan Barrantes, who left home when Sarah was 14 and married an Argentine polo player. (There is some chat about...
...graduation he traveled to the U.S., where he spent a summer at Harvard University studying international affairs, working as a waiter at the local Howard Johnson's and romantically pursuing a South Carolina debutante--without success. When the term ended, Chirac took a job as a chauffeur for the widow of a Texas oilman. Returning home in 1953, he married Bernadette de Courcel, a classmate at the institute who was from a wealthy and aristocratic family. They had two daughters, Laurence, now 28, and Claude, 23. After fighting in the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian war of independence, Chirac...