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Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oreal heiress richest woman in the world

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 25 Sep 2017
Liliane Bettencourt, the French heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune and a family legacy of fascist associations, whose final years were vexed by allegations that she had fallen under the sway of a younger man and given him $1.4 billion, has died at her home in the Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine. She was 94 ... The complaint challenged her mother's competency and led to criminal charges against the man, who was portrayed as a gigolo....

Ferragamo show gives the finger in Milan

Edit The Jakarta Post 24 Sep 2017
The sculpture, by Italy's most famous living artist, Maurizio Cattelan, is titled L.O.V.E ... Rejection of excess ... Read also ... Bottega regular Hutton -- who famously sported a red leather Bottega purse when she starred alongside Richard Gere in "American Gigolo" -- sat in the front row tapping her toe and nodding along with the booming sounds of rapper 50 Cent's 2003 smash "In Da Club" ... ....

Angela Missoni shows feather-light sheer knits in Milan

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 23 Sep 2017
MILAN (AP) — It's a season of celebration and commemoration at Milan Fashion Week, in its fourth day Saturday. Angela Missoni marks 20 years as creative director at the family-owned and -run brand founded by her parents ... Lauren Hutton graced the Bottega Veneta front row on Saturday holding a dusty rose version of the purse she memorably clutched in the 1980 film "American Gigolo." ... "I picked this purse for Gigolo, not the wardrobers ... ....

Bottega Veneta embraces the now at Milan Fashion Week

Edit Reflector 23 Sep 2017
MILAN (AP) — It’s a season of celebration and commemoration at Milan Fashion Week, in its fourth day Saturday ... BOTTEGA VENETA INSPIRES HAPPINESS ... “Modernity is not square and hard ... Lauren Hutton graced the Bottega Veneta front row on Saturday holding a dusty rose version of the purse she memorably clutched in the 1980 film “American Gigolo.” ... “I picked this purse for Gigolo, not the wardrobes,” Hutton said after the show....

David Lee Roth Signs With ICM Partners

Edit Billboard 22 Sep 2017
3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart) and “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody.” Subsequent albums Eat ‘Em and Smile and Skyscraper both went platinum as well, followed by 1991’s A Little Ain’t Enough, which was certified gold ... ....

The Bettencourt Affair, by the Numbers

Edit Vanity Fair 22 Sep 2017
The resulting legal cases have captivated European society and dragged on since that time. Past installments of the Bettencourt affair dealt with the legal management of her affairs, and potential contraband political donations ... Woerth was acquitted ... $40.1 billion. The estimated fortune of Liliane Bettencourt ... $38 million ... “She really likes him and wants to help him, but it’s not like a gigolo and a rich lady at all.”....

What the Death of the World’s Richest Woman Means for the Scandal Enveloping Her Fortune

Edit Vanity Fair 22 Sep 2017
She was the world’s richest woman, worth nearly $45 billion at last count. She befriended presidents, pashas, and kings, and flirted with Mao Tse-tung ... It makes me tremble.” ... Against the backdrop of a lengthy investigation, the Bettencourt Affair became daily fodder for French press stories calling Banier a “gigolo,” questioning both Liliane’s sanity and her daughter’s motives ... The queen is dead....

David Lee Roth Signs With ICM Partners (Exclusive)

Edit The Hollywood Reporter 21 Sep 2017
3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart) and “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody.” Subsequent albums Eat ‘Em and Smile and Skyscraper both went platinum as well, followed by 1991’s A Little Ain’t Enough, which was certified gold ... ....

The Fashion Version Of Netflix Doubles Down On Original Content

Edit Fast Company 18 Sep 2017
The upward trajectory of over-the-top content doesn’t seem to be slowing anytime soon. from PR firm Edelman, average OTT TV viewing in the U.S ... advertisement ... Noticing the foothold OTT has been gaining, agency WME-IMG launched Made to Measure in 2015, a free, ad-supported fashion network featuring runway shows, documentaries like The September Issue, and fashion adjacent films including American Gigolo ... advertisement ... More....

‘First Reformed’ director Paul Schrader on movie economics and his potential musical with Justin Timberlake

Edit Market Watch 16 Sep 2017
Ever since he penned 1976’s “Taxi Driver,” directed by Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader has been a prominent Hollywood writer-director. In what has been a colorful career, Schrader’s films include “American Gigolo,”“Auto Focus” and “The Walker” ... No ... The ones that keep paying out are “Taxi Driver” and “American Gigolo.” Someone was saying to me the other day that they didn’t like Netflix because they never give you any profit....

Paul Schrader on the Extinction of the Human Race and His New Film ‘First Reformed’

Edit Variety 15 Sep 2017
It’s no surprise that Paul Schrader, a filmmaker associated with such dark classics as “Taxi Driver” and “American Gigolo,” has a pessimistic streak. But it’s still bracing to hear him argue that humanity, as we know it, is unlikely to last through the next century. In an interview at the Toronto Film Festival, Schrader said... Read more » ... ....

American Assassin, American Psycho, and 23 other 'American' movies, ranked

Edit Entertainment Weekly 15 Sep 2017
There’s been a trend going back the last 20 years or so of movies with short, punchy titles — half of which is dedicated to the good ol’ U.S. of A ... 25. American Anthem. 24. American Reunion. 23. American Wedding. 22 ... American Gigolo ... ....

Lauren Hutton recalls designing her own clothes at 13: 'We were challenged financially'

Edit Fox News 14 Sep 2017
Lauren Hutton may be a celebrated supermodel and actress who seduced Richard Gere in 1980’s “American Gigolo,” but life wasn’t always so glamorous for the star ... ....
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