Designer John Galliano, who was sacked from fashion house Christian Dior this week following his anti-Semitic rants in Paris cafe, may face up to six months in jail despite his public apology. The British designer, who created an uproar with his controversial comments, has issued a statement apologising his behaviour, the Hollywood Reporter said.
“Anti-Semitism and racism have no part in our society. I unreservedly apologise for my behaviour in causing any offence,” the flamboyant designer said in a statement. But the designer, 55, will go on trial over the accusations, the French public prosecutor’s office said. He will go before a court between April and June where he could face up to six months in prison and $31,000 in fines if convicted.
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‘Silvio’s Ruby’ set to marry, live in Mexico
Vienna: The Moroccan woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will marry her boyfriend later this month in Genoa, according to powerful Italian talent agent Lele Mora. Interviewed on Italian television channel La7, Mora said Karima El Mahroug’s wedding will take place on March 17.
According to prosecutors, Mora procured underage prostitutes to have sex with guests attending parties at Berlusconi’s sprawling mansion near Milan.
According to Mora, he will escort El Mahroung, nicknamed Rubacuori, or Ruby the Heart Stealer, down the aisle. El Mahroug’s boyfriend Luca Risso manages nightclubs in Genoa, a port city in Italy’s northwest.
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Keith Richards’ daughter freed in drug case
London: Following her arrest for spraying graffiti on a building and possessing drugs, the daughter of “Rolling stones” guitarist Keith Richards was freed with an order to attend a court hearing in March.
Theodora Richards, 25, was arrested after the police allegedly caught her defacing public property in New York and found marijuana after a body search following her custody, reported Contactmusic. Theodora who is the daughter of Patti Hansen and guitarist Keith Richards, was spotted by plainclothes officers using an acrylic paint marker to spray the letters “T” and “A”, with a heart symbol in between them, on the side of a building in New York’s trendy Soho neighbourhood. The international model also had a small amount of marijuana and eight-and-a-half pills of the narcotic painkiller hydrocodone. —PTI