Her Sentence, It Seems, Will Be Wife In Prison
What kind of woman would want to marry a convicted killer like Lyle Menendez? A very special one, a friend of bride-to-be Anna Eriksson tells People magazine.
“People think this woman is a bimbo,” says Judy Zamos, an alternate juror in Menendez’s first trial along with brother Erik for killing their parents. “But she’s smart as a whip. She’s something special.”
Eriksson, a former model and Playboy poser, says Menendez makes her laugh - sometimes by sharing his favorite knock-knock jokes.
“I don’t cry over the fact that we can’t run around a mall together,” Eriksson says.
And as for a recent California court ruling that inmates who are serving life sentences can’t have conjugal visits, she philosophizes: “What’s the best sex organ? Your brain.”
Loose talk
Sportscaster Bob Costas, on his post-Olympic plans for a six-month vacation (in Newsweek): “I’ll either review the entire canon of Western literature or eat myself sick on peanut brittle. I haven’t decided which.”
So Fang must be getting pretty long in the tooth
Phyllis Diller turns 79 today.
It’s not exactly your usual royal decree
It’s official, almost: For the standard fee of $125, preliminary divorce certificate No. 5029 - with Prince Charles’ and Princess Diana’s names on it - was approved in a London court Monday, exactly two weeks shy of their 15th wedding anniversary. Barring unforseen developments, the dissolution becomes final on Aug. 28.
Sounds like Zorba knows his French, too
A judge told Anthony Quinn to pipe down Monday after the 81-year-old actor unleashed a string of obscenities at an attorney for his wife of 30 years during closed-door divorce negotiations over dividing their $2.8 million art collection, the New York press reported.
He’s afraid they wouldn’t get his good side
A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge has barred cameras from the courtoom during the trial of a wrongful termination lawsuit by five former employees of Michael Jackson. The workers claim Jackson installed listening devices at Neverland Ranch to find out what they knew about molestation allegations against him.
Just hanging out, collecting his royalties
Speaking of Jackson, the King of Pop performed three free public concerts Tuesday as part of the $25 million, 15-day-long, 50th birthday bash for the Sultan of Brunei, who is the world’s richest man. The sultan, who lives in a gold-domed Borneo palace with 1,778 rooms, is worth an estimated $40 billion, give or take $10 bil.
And after that, she’ll do some Sprint ads
In case you didn’t think Olympic fever is everywhere, runner Suzy Hamilton shows up in Penthouse magazine, discussing among other things her upcoming swimsuit calendar shoot in Hawaii. “It’s the first one for a track and field star,” Hamilton said.
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