Millionaire philanthropist and film financier Steve Bing left notes for his two children before taking his life on Monday, it has been claimed. Bing wrote to his 18-year-old son with Elizabeth Hurley, Damian. He also wrote to Kira Kerkorian Bing, 21 – his daughter with tennis player Lisa Bonder. Television host Billy Bush said that … Read more
A white make up designer who called the police on a man for writing Black Lives Matter on a wall in front of his own house is facing backlash from businesses who partner with her brand. Lisa Alexander, who owns LA Face Skincare, was dubbed a ‘Karen’ after a video circulated Friday showing her accusing … Read more
A social worker with a flair for interior design has revealed how she managed to bag a property she fell in love with – simply by sending the owners a hand-written letter expressing her interest. Sally Deakin, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who lived in a new-build before she spotted the traditional mid-terrace on Lawn Avenue, … Read more
Missing estate agent Chelsie Dack is feared to have taken her own life after she wrote on Facebook about her struggles with life in lockdown. Chelsie, 23, said life was getting ‘scarier by the day’ and that she had ‘really underestimated this current situation’. Norfolk Police stopped searching for her after CCTV footage showed Chelsie … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE LETTERS OF COLE PORTER Edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh (Yale £25, 672 pp) Cole Porter was the most debonair of composers and lyricists, emblematic, I always felt, of a perfect dry martini, served straight-up with a twist of lemon peel. He was responsible for such classics as Miss … Read more
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Woke in Los Angeles to the shocking news that Caroline Flack has taken her own life at just 40 years old. After decades working in the news business, I don’t shock easily but this left me, like everyone who knew her, absolutely reeling. Caroline was a mate of mine. We weren’t close … Read more