Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
, the wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy
, has been questioned as a suspect in a witness-tampering case against her husband, according to local media reports Thursday.
The 56-year-old supermodel was questioned as a witness in the case last year but is now considered a suspect, according to Le Monde
. The witness tampering case is linked to allegations that her husband accepted money from Muammar Gaddafi
, the late Libyan autocrat, to help finance an election campaign.
Bruni-Sarkozy was at the Paris
offices of the Central Office for the Fight Against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses on Thursday, according to MailOnline
. A source told the outlet that the former first lady of France
is a “free suspect,” adding: “She has spoken to officers before, but not as a suspect in a case in which she’s accused of trying to whitewash her husband.”
Laurence Fox, the controversial British actor-turned-political activist, could be facing a police investigation after he allegedly posted an explicit upskirt image of a broadcaster on X without her consent.
Fox on Wednesday posted an old paparazzi shot showing Narinder Kaur sitting in a car without underwear on, according to The Daily Mirror
. “This is now a police matter,” Kaur wrote in a post
Thursday morning along with a link to an article about the incident.
The image no longer appears on Fox’s X account as of Thursday morning. According to the Mirror
, the photograph was taken without Kaur’s consent or knowledge and was scrubbed from online photo libraries after upskirting was made a criminal offense in Britain.
The victim was identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Glen Burnie, Maryland
. He was one of six workers who went missing
in the March 26 collapse.
According to the Unified Command—the multi-agency task force responding to the disaster—salvage teams located one of the missing construction vehicles and notified the Maryland Department of State Police. Gonzalez’s body was located and recovered from inside the red truck, authorities said
.
The relationship between members of the royal family
and their clothes designers reached its apogee in the bond between Queen Elizabeth
and her dresser, Angela Kelly. Kelly was the gatekeeper through which even family members had to pass to see Her Majesty in her declining years. She spent much of the last two years of her life with her and was at her bedside in her last days in Scotland. Even Prince Harry’s
relationship with his grandmother was soured at one stage by an argument with “AK47” over getting access to a tiara for Meghan
.
Another close relationship has developed between William and Kate and one of their favorite designers. Relations are so close between the Waleses and Amaia Arrieta, the children’s wear designer behind eponymous label Amaia, that it’s worth taking seriously Arrieta’s remarks in the Daily Telegraph
about how she thinks the royals are doing.
The woman behind the classic-inspired look featuring long socks, smock dresses and pleated shirts with scalloped collars often worn by the Wales children at formal events has opened up about her famous clients’ health struggles.
A Man in Full is about the power (and pitfalls) of big dick energy, of which it boasts plenty. David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe
’s 1998 best-seller is a multi-pronged portrait of cocksure macho arrogance and, in particular, the idea—espoused by its protagonist—that “a man has got to shake his balls.” Shake them he does, often and aggressively, as do many others in this six-part Netflix
series, which launches May 2. While it’s ultimately a thin and reductive take on the famed author’s sprawling saga of southern America, it nonetheless struts about with swaggering ferocity, led by Jeff Daniels
’ full-bodied performance as a blustery, bloviating capitalist predator.
In myriad ways, from missing characters and subplots to a rather pedestrian style, A Man in Full is a stripped-down rendition of Wolf’s enormously colorful and descriptive book. Yet on its own limited terms, it remains a lively and eminently watchable affair about Charlie Croker (Daniels), an Atlanta mogul with his hands in just about every facet of the city he calls home. Those innumerable concerns, however, have put Charlie in a perilous spot, as he learns when he’s summoned to the offices of PlannersBanc for a meeting with Harry Zale (Bill Camp), the head of the Real Estate Management Department. Along with his colleague Raymond Peepgrass (Tom Pelphrey), Harry informs Charlie that he owes their institution $800 million, and given that he’s in hoc to other lenders to the tune of an additional half a billion, it’s time to settle his debt.
With a southern accent that’s almost as thick as the coat of arrogance that he wears like armor, Charlie is a titan who’s used to being the biggest swinging dick in the room, and he naturally bristles at Harry’s antagonistic demands that he pay up or risk foreclosure on all his assets, including his prized skyscraper. Listening to Harry lambaste Charlie is music to the ears of Raymond, a wimpy paean who’s long resented being ill-treated by Charlie, and who later admits to what’s written all over his face: namely, that he simultaneously loathes, resents, and envies Charlie for his bulldozer confidence and the success it begets. Pelfrey plays Raymond like a sniveling loser who desperately wants to destroy that which he covets, and he turns out to be a persistent thorn in Charlie’s side, even if Kelley’s series—which he wrote, and is passably directed by Regina King
and Thomas Schlamme—expands its scope to deal with a collection of related strands.
