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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
October 1 - 7, 2011
Polanski apologises to rape victim Roman Polanski brought to justice? Not quite. The French-born director, who fled the United States in 1978 after a highly publicised sexual assault case, has for the first time publicly apologised to the victim of his attack. “She is a double victim: my victim, and a victim of the press,” the 78-year-old filmmaker said of Samantha Geimer, who was a 13-yearold model when Polanski, then 43, drugged and raped her. When he made the declaration, Polanski was on camera. His confession was part of filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau’s “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir,” a documentary that premiered Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival, according to ABC News. Zurich isn’t known as a safe place for Polanski. In 2009 when he visited the Swiss city, he was arrested at the airport and placed under house arrest at his Gstaad home while Switzerland and the U.S. fought over extradition for his
crime against Geimer. Bouzereau interviewed Polanski on camera during this time. Polanski has been on the run since 1978, when he fled the U.S. just hours before he was to be sentenced for his assault. Switzerland rejected the U.S.’s plea for extradition in July 2010 and currently there are still charges pending against the director in the United States. For her part, Geimer seems to have forgiven Polanski, even if she’s upset by the continued coverage of her ordeal. “I know that he didn’t really mean to hurt me, and I know we were both going through a really hard time with the publicity and the courts, and nobody was getting treated fairly, and we were being used,” she told “Good Morning America” in March. On the same programme, she revealed that Polanski had sent her a note apologising
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Veteran movie director Roman Polanski has made his first official public apology for the raping of a 13-year-old girl in 1978.
privately for what he had put her through. The gesture, however small, was not lost on Geimer.
“I appreciated the apology,” she said, “and it meant a lot to my mom.” (Nydailynews. com)
Shakira to reinvent tourism COLOMBIAN singer Shakira has joined forces with Pink
Floyd’s Roger Waters to purchase a Caribbean island in an attempt to “reinvent the concept of tourism”. It is believed they have paid $16 million for Bonds Cay, which is north of the Bahamas, as they plan to build there. It is believed that Shakira and Roger are hoping to develop a millionaire holiday resort, which will offer luxury holiday homes with private beaches, as well as top class hotels. They are even planning to sell some prime seaside property which will be built on the island. Shakira and Roger are also planning to set up an artist’s retreat, which will hold galleries for up and coming artists, as well as offering semester-long sabbaticals programmes. The two musicians are joined by Miami based investor Arturo Rubinstein, who is excited by the project.
Shakira and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters purchased Bonds Cay, north of the Bahamas.
Bennett tops US chart at 85 LEGENDARY singer Tony Bennett has become the oldest living performer to score a US number one album, hitting the top spot at the age of 85. The album Duets II, which features Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey, is also the first US number one of the star’s 60-year career. The crooner, who has won 14 Grammy Awards, rose to fame in the 1950s. The chart news comes after Bennett caused controversy by suggesting that US action prompted the 9/11 attacks. In an interview with radio host Howard Stern last week, Bennett said: “Who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right.
“They flew the plane in, but we caused it. We were bombing them and they told us to stop.” He later issued an apology, saying that as a World War II veteran, he was “proud to fight to protect our values”. He added that he believed that “violence begets violence and that war is the lowest form of human behaviour”. “I am sorry if my statements suggested anything other than an expression of my love for my country, my hope for humanity and my desire for peace throughout the world,” he added. Duets II sold 179,000 copies in its first week, according to Billboard magazine. It includes Amy Winehouse’s last recording, on the track Body and Soul.
Holly Madison insures breasts for $1 million Reuters) - Reality TV star and model Holly Madison has insured her breasts for $1 million with Lloyd’s of London, she told People magazine on Thursday. Madison, 31, said she took out the policy to protect herself and others in her Las Vegas production, “Peepshow.” “If anything happened to my boobs, I’d be out for a few months and I’d probably be out a million dollars,” she told People. “I thought I’d cover my assets.” Madison has said she had plastic surgery in 2001 that took her from an A-cup size to a larger D-cup. Madison, who gained fame as one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends on the TV series “The Girls Next Door,” isn’t alone in insuring famous body parts. Film stars Betty Grable and Angie Dickinson as well as TV stars
Madison has said she had plastic surgery in 2001 that took her from an A-cup size to a larger D-cup.
Angie Everhart and Mary Hart each had their legs insured for $1 million. Madison also was a contestant on TV show “Dancing With the Stars” before starting her Las Vegas show.