The Mail Online has a feature on the true-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland at the hands of her son Antony Baekeland in 1972.

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The New York Times has an article on Christopher Rocancourt, a con man who used his Continental charms to trick the well-to-do in East Hampton, Beverly Hills, Miami, San Francisco and Hong Kong, into believing he was a member of the Rockefeller family, prying nearly $900,000 from the hands of wealthy Hamptonites over the course of a single season alone.

Paris Hilton’s simple life just got complicated. Hilton has been ordered to return to jail and serve out the remainder of her sentence.

Hilton was released from jail Thursday for apparent ‚Äö?Ñ??medical reasons,‚Äö?Ñ?? after having served only 5 days of her 23 day sentence. But sources at the correctional facility claim Hilton faked her illness and did nothing but “whine and complain” about things like not having her moisturizer during her brief stay.

Judge Michael Sauer didn’t buy Hilton’s excuse either and ordered her back in court, to which Hilton suggested she phone in her hearing instead of attending court in person. Within minutes officials arrived at Hilton’s L.A. estate and took her away in handcuffs amid a media frenzy. In court an angered Judge Sauer ordered Hilton to serve the original full sentence of 45 days instead of the more lenient one of 23 days she was previously serving.

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While inmate number 9818783 ( a.k.a. Paris Hilton ) was being strip-searched and hozed down at the women’s penitentiary in L.A., her 18-year-old brother, Barron Hilton, was busy getting mugged at knifepoint near Penn Station here in NYC.

Sources told Page Six that Barron had shown up at Stereo nightclub on West 29th Street with three male friends and two girls. “They were all underage and they hung around for a while trying to get in the club. Eventually they all left together at around 4 a.m.”

Another eyewitness goes on to say “an hour later, two security guards from Stereo were driving by Penn Station on their way home and they saw Barron and his friends. Then they saw two muggers confronting the group…one guy had Barron at knifepoint, and the guards got out and chased away the guy with the knife.” The source goes on to say “the attackers didn’t get any money.”

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Don’t Cry For Me H&M

Vandals in Shoreditch, London defaced a 250 foot tall advertisement for clothing store H&M featuring an image of Madonna promoting her new line of sportswear designed exclusively for the international fashion chain. The culprits climbed a scaffolding to which the banner was attached, cut a hole in one of the 48-year-old pop icon’s eyes and poured green paint through it - now we know what Guy Richie sees when he wakes up in the morning.

No one has taken responsibility for the work of art, but Madonna was recently criticized by anti-fur protesters for wearing a coat made of chinchilla skins. Despite a huge advertising campaign, sales of the Material Girl’s new clothing line are said to be below expectations. The sabotaged poster will be replaced at the cost of $12,000, but something tells me they could make their money back several times over ( and cover their losses for Madonna’s failed fashion venture ) if they sell that thing on eBay.

Source: This Is London

Halle-Wood

Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry was awarded her star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame yesterday morning. Upon receiving the star, Halle addressed the audience with the following statement:

“I cannot tell you how good it feels inside me right now. I wish you all could be inside me right now to know how it feels.”

Following the ceremonies, hundreds of enthusiastic spectators including presenter Samuel L. Jackson, took Berry up on her offer. Hurray for Hollywood.

Source: World of Wonder

Looks like Naomi Campbell went softer and more casual for the final day of her sentence at the NYC Depatrment of Sanitation. The 36-year-old supermodel, as you may recall, is doing community service for throwing a cell phone at an ex employee during an argument over a missing pair of jeans.

Ms. Campbell has been on time and sporting big smiles all week while arriving to serve her sentence, and why shouldn’t she? According to the celebrity gossip site TMZ, there might be more going on behind those walls than toilet scrubbing. The site reports Naomi has been getting very friendly with a fellow community servant.

“For the second day in a row, Campbell emerged from a day of scrubbing and scouring, again with a strapping young man — this one identified as her fellow community servant, who did the gentlemanly thing by carrying the supermodel’s bag,” the website said. They concluded by saying “Naomi apparently returned the favor, giving him a ride in her Escalade — to where, we’re not certain.”

Good for her, when one is dealt lemons, one should always make lemonade — or in Naomi’s case a Mojito, accompanied by some Burt Bacharach.

Update:

Naomi leaves her final day at the NYC Department of Sanitation wearing a silver couture gown. It’s either part of photographer Steven Klein’s upcoming layout for W magazine or Naomi’s headed off to Happy Hour for a celebration. Here’s hoping wherever she’s going they have their cell phones and hair brushes securely bolted down.

As always, you can view Naomi’s full outfit after the jump.

Sources: TMZ, Wenn

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In day four of America’s Next Top Convict, Naomi decides to throw on a fur along with a splash of color as she reports to do community service. This is the second fur Campbell has worn since she begun her sentence for throwing a cell phone at a former employee and I’m still waiting for some angry Peta protester to jump out of a garbage bin and attempt one of their infamous, anti-fur, paint splashing tactics on Ms. Campbell. We all know the outcome of that scenario would be Naomi showing up the next day wearing the doomed protester’s skin on the runway to the Sanitation Department.

Famed fashion photographer Steven Klein is said to be shooting Naomi each day of her sentence for a fashion spread scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of Women’s Wear Daily - more to come.

See Naomi’s full outfit after the jump. Images by Getty.

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In case you were wondering - and I know you were, here’s a re-cap of the outfits Naomi Campbell has worn to her stint at the NYC Department of Sanitation so far. No stranger to trouble, Naomi is doing community service as punishment for having thrown a cell phone at her housekeeper in a dispute over a pair of missing jeans.

Ever the fashionista and attention-getter, Naomi has turned her sentence into a one woman haute couture show, sending the paparazzi into a flash frenzy each morning she shows up - And why not? There’s no excuse for a fashion faux pas just because you’re doing time.

Get the full picture after the jump.

Images by Getty

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Two teenage girls ( possibly as young as 16 ) held up a bank in Acworth, Georgia Tuesday. The girls walked up to teller at a Bank of American branch located inside a grocery store wearing sunglasses, demanded the money and walked off smiling. The police say the girls did not appear to be armed and were most likely doing it to be cool.

Do bank tellers in Georgia always give away money to unarmed robbers just for the asking? I’d walk off smiling too if it was that easy to get cash out them. This sounds very similar to the plot of a movie called Sugar & Spice, taking into account the story appeared on Fox News I wouldn’t be surprised if a trashy TV show based on the events is already in the works.

Source: Fox News

Update March 2, 2007

Police last night arrested Ashley Nicole Miller and Heather Lyn Johnston ( both 19 ) as well as the bank teller Michael Chastang, 27 and Benny Herman Allen, a 22-year old bank employee in connection with the Bank of America robbery. The incident, which at first appeared to be a bank robbery, was allegedly an inside job.

Source: The Smoking Gun, WSBTV News

The undercover cop who fired 31 shots at Sean Bell in Queens was a regular at Bungalow 8. Source: Radar Online

Former porn star Timothy Boham ( a.k.a Marcus Allen ) is set to appear in a Denver court on charges of murdering his boss, openly gay businessman John Kelso. Source: CourtTVnews.com

Britney Spears flashes her vag at the paparazzi for the second time in two days, signaling the begining of the apocalypse. Source: icydk.com

Some straight hater swears on his stack of Enquirers and Judy Garland CDs that John Kennedy JR. was bisexual and had a string of man to man flings which apparently went on for several years without a single paparazzi ever snapping one shred of evidence. Of course this claim is being made years after JFK JR’s death which makes it all the more credible. If the article were in print you could probably use it to line your bird cage, so I’m providing this link so readers can print it out and make Tweety happy.

In somewhat related news, Liza Minelli’s ex-husband David Gest claims he’s not gay…but his boyfriend is. Step this way and enter the Twilight Zone before Gest’s two minutes of fame expire.