Yoko Ono's driver
pleads for bail once again
Yoko Ono's jailed driver was requesting payment for years of sexual harassment and abuse, and not blackmail money, when he asked the widow of Beatle John Lennon for $2 million, a bail application filed Tuesday says.
In support of that claim, a lawyer for chauffeur Koral Karsan filed the letter Karsan wrote that prosecutors said proved he had threatenead to humiliate Ono unless she gave him the money.
In the letter, dated December 2006, Karsan portrays himself as an abused employee seeking justice. He says Ono's demands on him had destroyed his family.
Post office to honor First Lady of Song, Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - the First Lady of Song - is being honored on a new postage stamp.
The 39-cent stamp will be released Wednesday at ceremonies at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and will be on sale across the country. It's the 30th stamp in the agency's Black Heritage series.
“She would be very honored, very pleased and a little surprised,” said Ray Brown Jr., Fitzgerald's son. “She didn't go through life expecting all the accolades that she got. She was just happy to do her thing and be the best that she could be.”
Spears, Hilton compete for new degrading title
Dubbed “style-free and fashion deprived,” Britney Spears and Paris Hilton tied for the No. 1 spot on Mr. Blackwell's 47th annual “Worst Dressed” list released Tuesday.
“Two peas in an overexposed pod,” Blackwell said of the skimpy attire worn by the two celebutantes he called the “Screamgirls.”
Some of Blackwell's nastiest words were reserved for Camilla Parker-Bowles, a member of the British royal family, who finished No. 2 on the list.
Stern gets Sirius stock bonus from satellite radio
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. paid Howard Stern an $82.9 million stock bonus Tuesday after the company beat a subscriber target set two years ago when it lured the star shock jock away from terrestrial radio.
The bonus came one year after Stern started broadcasting his hugely popular and racy programming on satellite radio. The stock bonus is on top of Stern's five-year, $500 million pay package that he signed in October 2004.
Sirius ended last year with just over 6 million subscribers, compared with projections of about 3.5 million from Wall Street analysts when the company signed Stern's employment agreement.
Stern could stand to gain other stock bonuses in the future if the company meets annual subscriber targets.
- From wire reports
Yoko Ono's jailed driver was requesting payment for years of sexual harassment and abuse, and not blackmail money, when he asked the widow of Beatle John Lennon for $2 million, a bail application filed Tuesday says.
In support of that claim, a lawyer for chauffeur Koral Karsan filed the letter Karsan wrote that prosecutors said proved he had threatenead to humiliate Ono unless she gave him the money.
In the letter, dated December 2006, Karsan portrays himself as an abused employee seeking justice. He says Ono's demands on him had destroyed his family.
Post office to honor First Lady of Song, Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - the First Lady of Song - is being honored on a new postage stamp.
The 39-cent stamp will be released Wednesday at ceremonies at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and will be on sale across the country. It's the 30th stamp in the agency's Black Heritage series.
“She would be very honored, very pleased and a little surprised,” said Ray Brown Jr., Fitzgerald's son. “She didn't go through life expecting all the accolades that she got. She was just happy to do her thing and be the best that she could be.”
Spears, Hilton compete for new degrading title
Dubbed “style-free and fashion deprived,” Britney Spears and Paris Hilton tied for the No. 1 spot on Mr. Blackwell's 47th annual “Worst Dressed” list released Tuesday.
“Two peas in an overexposed pod,” Blackwell said of the skimpy attire worn by the two celebutantes he called the “Screamgirls.”
Some of Blackwell's nastiest words were reserved for Camilla Parker-Bowles, a member of the British royal family, who finished No. 2 on the list.
Stern gets Sirius stock bonus from satellite radio
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. paid Howard Stern an $82.9 million stock bonus Tuesday after the company beat a subscriber target set two years ago when it lured the star shock jock away from terrestrial radio.
The bonus came one year after Stern started broadcasting his hugely popular and racy programming on satellite radio. The stock bonus is on top of Stern's five-year, $500 million pay package that he signed in October 2004.
Sirius ended last year with just over 6 million subscribers, compared with projections of about 3.5 million from Wall Street analysts when the company signed Stern's employment agreement.
Stern could stand to gain other stock bonuses in the future if the company meets annual subscriber targets.
- From wire reports
