Sounds like Prince Albert has some more in the can
Prince Albert II of Monaco, who acknowledged last week that he is the father of a child born to a former Air France flight attendant, says others may step forward with paternity claims.
“I know there are other people who have nearly the same cases,” said the bachelor prince, who formally assumed his country’s throne Tuesday.
He declined to elaborate, saying: “We will answer when the moment comes.”
The French magazine Paris Match published photos of Albert feeding his son, Alexandre, while Monaco was mourning the April death of Prince Rainier III.
Albert, 47, son of Rainier and Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly, said Alexandre will “want for nothing.” However, Monaco’s constitution does not place the boy in line for the throne.
He said he remained quiet about his son because “I wanted to protect him,” adding: “I was extremely shocked by the manner in which this was treated and the totally inopportune moment when it came out.”
Marriage: improbable
Tom Cruise started shooting scenes for “Mission: Impossible 3” in Rome on Tuesday by whizzing past the camera in a speedboat on the river Tiber.
Before stepping into the boat, Cruise kissed and embraced actress Katie Holmes on the riverside set. The two became engaged in June after Cruise proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
“Mission: Impossible 3,” co-starring Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Monaghan and Philip Seymour Hoffman, is set for release on May 5, 2006.
Wedding bells for Tiffani
Tiffani Thiessen, who played Kelly Kaposki on “Saved by the Bell,” wed actor Brady Smith over the weekend at a private estate in Montecito, Calif.
Thiessen, 31, and Smith, 33, were surrounded by friends and family for a daytime garden wedding, People magazine reported. It is the first marriage for both.
After Thiessen’s breakthrough role in NBC’s teenage sitcom, she graduated to Fox’s “Beverly Hills, 90210” and later had a role in Woody Allen’s “Hollywood Ending.” Smith has appeared in “ER” and “CSI: Miami.”
But can they buy him love?
A financial company is suing Michael Jackson, saying it is owed $48 million in fees for rescuing the singer’s stake in the publishing rights to songs by the Beatles.
Prescient Acquisition Group Inc. was hired by Jackson in November to provide financial advice and to refinance a $272 million debt to Bank of America.
Prescient secured $537 million in financing, enough for Jackson to pay off the debt and exercise an option to buy the remaining 50 percent of the Beatles library he didn’t already own, the suit says.
It does seem a bit … excessive
Although Australian rockers INXS are looking for a new singer, guitarist Tim Farriss says the band isn’t “in any way, shape or form trying to replace Michael Hutchence.”
“Rock Star: INXS,” a reality show to find a lead singer for the group, premiered Monday on CBS. The band has used guest vocalists since Hutchence died in 1997.
“I think he”d think it was kind of funny in a good way, ‘cause in some ways it is,” Farriss says. “But in another way, it’s really an organic way to find a new singer. It’s the best way we could think of.”
The birthday bunch
Actor Patrick Stewart is 65. Actor Robert Forster (“Banyon”) is 64. Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 63. Actor Harrison Ford is 63. Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 59. Country singer Louise Mandrell is 51. Writer-director Cameron Crowe is 48. R&B singer Gerald Levert is 39. Drummer Will Champion (Coldplay) is 27.