Dr Conrad Murray, found guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Jackson by adminstering a lethal dose of the anaesthetic Propofol, fathered seven children by six different women, the Times reports today. (The jury was not told this fact as the judge ruled the doctor’s personal life wasn’t relevant to the case.)
Archive for the ‘Celebrities’ Category
I am the one, two, three…
November 8, 2011
The King and M
August 13, 2010
Another “How they are related” snippet: Dr Miriam Stoppard is Oona King’s aunt: OONA King, the former “Blair babe”, has a secret weapon up her sleeve in her bid to become Labour’s next London mayoral candidate — the unswerving support of celebrity agony auntie Miriam Stoppard (Miriam’s sister is Oona’s mother). This is London (London [...]
Something for a Renée day
December 6, 2009
Renée Zellweger, the star of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Chicago and Miss Potter has a Norwegian mother and a Swiss father. She grew up in Texas and worked for a while in a topless bar. Weekend Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 14 January 2007
Five star romance
December 5, 2009
‘The heiress [Paris Hilton] did her best to quash reports she and her Greek tycoon boyfriend Stavros Niarchos are about to split’. London Metro 19 February 2007, ’Happy birthday, Paris!’
How they are related (continued)
November 27, 2009
‘Elisabeth Murdoch, her husband PR maestro Matthew Freud, and Ruth Rogers, owner of the dining room for everyone important, the River Cafe [and wife of the architect Lord (Richard) Rogers], pooled their impressive address books to organise an inauguration party yesterday afternoon.’ The Guardian, 21 Jan 2009, ‘[Richard] Curtis [screenwriter] leads Notting Hill celebrities in raising [...]
Flashman
November 27, 2009
‘The pushiest of the photographers [in Rome in the 1950s], Paparazzo, even lent his name to tabloid snappers.’ Another Magazine Aut / Winter 2005, La Dolce Vita
How they are related
November 27, 2009
Nicole Farhi, the French fashion designer, is married to British dramatist David Hare: ‘Ms Farhi, who lives with her husband, theatre director David Hare, at their detached period home [Hampstead] was unavailable for comment last night.’ ‘Knife robbers grab £8,000 gems from top designer Farhi’. London Evening Standard, 1 May 2008 It often seems that the number [...]
