1. DISGRACED Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has written a vile song from prison, mocking his victims.
The Daily Mail reports that Harris, convicted of sex offences against girls as young as seven, has accused his victims of trying to extract a fortune from him. He has also mocked them for being old and no longer pretty.
Harris, 84, boasts that prison is no great hardship, because he gets to be in the art room. He is painting animal murals, and in any case expects to be released toward the end of 2017.
Of his victims, he writes: “Perhaps you think you’re pretty still, some perfumed sultry wench?”
The Daily Mail says the lyrics were jotted down in a letter written by Harris to a male friend, who passed it on to the newspaper.
If you must read the whole thing, you can find it here:
2. TROUBLED model Gabi Grecko – who just months ago was caught striding naked down the main street of Melbourne – is apparently pregnant to her 72-year-old husband, Geoffrey Edelsten.
Mrs Grecko-Edelsten has posted a photograph of a positive pregnancy test on the stork’s message board d’ jour, no, not Twitter, but Instagram.
There was speculation last weekthat Gabi got married because her visa had less than ten hours left on it.
Now it seems she may have wanted to be wed before giving birth, although she did appear confused at the ceremony, which took place in a Chinese office, saying: “Why am I here … I’m not Chinese?”
Mr Edelston, who served time in prison for a range of offences, has been married three times. He has no children.
3. HILLARY Clinton has delighted her fans – and taken the issue of her age by the horns – by describing herself as potentially the youngest female president of the United States.
Of course, she’d also be the first.
In a 45-minute campaign launch speech in New York over the weekend, Clinton said she wanted to lead a nation where “a father can tell his daughter: Yes, you can be anything you want to be — even president of the United States”.
“I think you know by now that I’ve been called many things by many people,” Clinton said, adding: “Quitter is not one of them.”
Clinton is 67, and if elected, would be 69 before she could move into the White House, which is younger than Ronald Reagan was, but a good deal older than Barack Obama.
But, she said: “I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States. And the first grandmother as well.”
Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte, last year.
4. POPULAR Swedish reality star, Sofia Hellqvist, has married her real-life Swedish prince, and she didn’t have to cover her tattoos to do it.
Sofia, who is famous for her gap-toothed smile, and for posing topless with a snake, married Prince Carl Philip at the royal chapel in Stockholm, with one shoulder tattoo clearly visible through a lace dress.
The couple took a horse and carriage ride through the crowded streets.
Far from being a blushing bride, Sofia is famously open about her fun life to date, telling the press: “I regret nothing.”
Her groom was seen to shed a tear as his bride came down the aisle. He mucked up the bit with where he had to put the ring on her finger but the moment was so cute, everyone forgave him.
Chief court chaplain Lars-Goran Lonnermark, officiating, made comparisons between the prince’s love of motor car racing and married life, saying: “Your home should be a different kind of pit-stop … where you can be together and unwind.” He added: “You already won the big prize when you said yes.”
The couple met at a lunch with mutual friends in 2010. Carl Philip is third in line to the Swedish throne.
5. A YOUNG boy in China has reportedly killed himself and three of his siblings after the children were abandoned by their parents.
In a case that has rocked China, all four children were found dead or dying by neighbours, who say they took poison.
The mother of the children left more than a year ago to try to find work away from the rural centre where they lived. Their father left some months ago, leaving the older boy, who was just 12, to try to manage on his own.
The Xinhua news agency says the case highlights the plight of rural children left behind by their parents, who have to travel to the cities in search of work.
By some accounts, there are more than 60 million such children, who are known as the “left–behind.”
“In the case of this family, no grandparents were still alive to watch the children,” the news agency said.
6. THE estate of actor Robin Williams, who was reportedly plagued by money problems, may be worth as much as $100 million.
Much of the value is tied up in the actor’s house, outside Los Angeles, which he put on the market shortly before his death by suicide.
The house was then valued at $35 million. It’s again for sale, at around $25 million.
Williams left most of his fortune to his children, Cody, 23, and Zelda, 25, and Zachary, 31, who are keen to settle the estate.
His widow, Susan Williams, says she’s entitled to stay in the house. She was an artist making what has been described as a ‘modest living’ when they first met.
7. THE wife of a Nobel Prize winner sacked for sexism has gone to his defence, saying he was just a nervous fool.
Tim Hunt was forced to resign after starting his speech to women in science conference with what he thought was a joke.
“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry,” he told delegates.
He has told the Guardian that he was nervous. “I stood up and went mad,” he admits. “I was very nervous and a bit confused but, yes, I made those remarks – which were inexcusable – but I made them in a totally jocular, ironic way. There was some polite applause and that was it, I thought. I thought everything was okay. No one accused me of being a sexist pig.”
His wife, Mary, described as clutching her head as Hunt talked, agreed that it was “an unbelievably stupid thing to say”.
“You can see why it could be taken as offensive if you didn’t know Tim. But really it was just part of his upbringing. He went to a single-sex school in the 1960s.
“Nevertheless he is not sexist. I am a feminist, and I would not have put up with him if he were sexist.”
The audience began Tweeting the remarks and within 48 hours, the scientist was gone from his jobs.
8. A BROOKLYN woman has exhumed the body of the man who raised her, in an effort to prove that he is not her father.
The move clears the way for the woman to make a claim on the $100 million estate of a man who once had an affair with her mother.
The NY Post reports that Nina Sebastiana Viola Montepagani, 62, claims to be the daughter of a wealthy Italian physician, who died five years ago.
She says that Dr. Sebastiano Raeli had an affair with her mother, Anna Viola, 62 years ago in Rome and that, as his only child, she is due half his $100 million fortune.
She says the affair was not really a secret, because her middle name is Sebastiana, for Sebastiano.
She also says she has letter from him, in which he calls her ‘my daughter’.
She doesn’t yet have permission to dig up his body to test it for DNA but it’s likely she will at least try.
