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Maris
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03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 8:55 am
I guess that takes care of those rumors about Prince Albert. I tell you Grace and Ranier had some crazy kids. Now the future prince will be from Togo? I am guessing taht Albert is going to get married pretty fast, going to need to have a legitimate heir.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 8:57 am
well then they are going to have to change monaco's constitution again, because this was posted in may from paris match magazine:
quote:While proof of parentage might mean that young Alexandre is elegible for a share of the Grimaldi dynasty's £800 million fortune, the toddler has no claim on the throne. Under the current constitution, which was revised in 2002, only the "direct and legitimate descendants" of the sovereign can ascend.
so that means that alexandre can never ascend the throne of monaco, but a brother might.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 9:00 am
Is there any chance of Prince Albert recognising the boy as his heir? He has, Mme Coste says, already signed a document which formally recognises the little boy as his son. The Monaco royal line is punctuated with illegitimate children who eventually became royal princes and princesses, including Prince Rainier's mother, Princess Charlotte, who was the daughter of an Algerian maid. The law of succession in Monaco was changed three years ago, precisely because Prince Albert showed no signs of marrying and producing children. The crown now passes to his sisters and their children, if he dies without producing a legitimate son or daughter. http://www.royalarchive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=684&Itemid=2
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 9:02 am
so I guess the laws of succession were changed when the girlfriend got pregnant. No dope our Albert.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 9:07 am

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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 9:09 am
Ms. Stewart looks beautiful on that VF cover.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 9:19 am
amazing how a woman can say she isnt a gold digger but hey, whats a few photos to Paris Match.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 9:24 am
Aww he's a cutie.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:27 am
There's also a rumor out there that he has a 13-year-old daughter, but I haven't seen any kind of acknowledgement of that.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:31 am
Tisha I'll buy the August Vanity Fair, but the first issue I will have missed in the past 15 years will be September when Paris Hilton is scheduled to be on the cover. There is no reason for her to be on that cover (or any other besides "I'm a Hilton" magazine). Graydon Carter has pretty much destroyed everything I once loved about Vanity Fair. Used to be every issue had at least five extended substantive articles worth reading. Nowadays I'm lucky to find one or two.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:31 am
there was a paternity suit about 13 years ago but that was thrown out when the blood tests came back negative.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:36 am
Ah. Thanks for clearing that up, Maris.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:36 am
I agree about VF, GAL. It's been disappointing for a few years now, but I do like James Wolcott...and I do enjoy the magazine's overall mix of politics and celebrity, even though it's not as clever or as interesting as it was under Tina Brown. The Paris Hilton cover, apparently, was between Paris and Beyonce and VF decided to go with Paris after much PR wrangling. I don't think either deserves the cover of the magazine. BTW, am I the only one surprised that Albert has a kid? I thought he was a bachelor for reasons other than not wanting to marry. 
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:37 am
Agreed Tish.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:39 am
Everyone assumed Albert was gay because who ever heard of a discreet royal.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:45 am
I wasn't surprised about him being straight, but I was surprised at him joining his sisters in the unwed and pregnant parade. He always seemed to be a bit more solicitous of his parents' approval of him and his actions, and gauged his behavior accordingly. I guess he figured anything short of circus children would be an improvement at this point.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:12 am
well according to her they were in the midst of their affair and he brough her to the palace for a meet and greet with father. Father told Albert to break up with her. Albert came out of meeting with father and told her they could only be friends. She said they had one other encounter when she forgot to "take one birth control pill" and thus Alexandre was born. So looks like Albert did fathers bidding.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 12:29 pm
A recent article on "Jazmin Grace Grimaldi" breaking down the legal background of the paternity case: Another Little Albert?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:15 pm
Oh THAT paternity claim, I thought you were talking about the topless model: In 1992, a California woman, Tamara J. Rotolo, filed a paternity suit against the prince, claiming that he was the father of her illegitimate daughter, whom she named Jazmin Grace Grimaldi. However, the case, which went to trial in 1993, eventually was dismissed by Superior Court Judge Graham Anderson Cribbs, who claimed that there was "insufficient contact between Albert and the state of California to justify hearing a suit there" (Evening Standard, March 24, 1993, page 20), agreeing with an assertion by the prince's lawyer, Stanley Arkin, that the California court had no jurisdiction. In court papers, Prince Albert admitted that he had been with Tamara Rotolo in Monaco on "a couple of occasions" in July 1991. (The child had been born approximately nine months later, on March 4, 1992.) As reported by a local newspaper covering the case, "Arkin asserted that the Riverside County court had no jurisdiction in the case since the romantic encounter supposedly occurred in Monaco and Albert has had no contacts with California that relate to the issues in the suit." [2] Prince Albert has not agreed to Rotolo's request that he take a paternity test. An earlier paternity suit, brought by Bea Fiedler, a German topless model whom the Daily Telegraph described as a "sex-film star", reportedly also was dismissed. A blood test reportedly proved that the prince was not the father of Fielder's son, Daniel. [3] In May 2005, Nicole Coste, a former Air France stewardess from Togo, claimed that her youngest son, Alexandre, born August 24, 2003, is the son of Prince Albert and that DNA tests conducted by technicians working on orders from the Monegasque government have proven her assertion. _Prince_of_Monaco,link I tell you being a cathoic is pretty tough, that boy should have worn condoms, pope or no pope
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:21 pm
ROTFL Maris! The boy does get around!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:26 pm
Heh. No crap. Wonder how many other little Grimaldi's are out there just waiting to stake their claims. All named "[something] Grace" or "Albert [pick your Roman numeral]." Must make Prince Charles crazy the way Albert's managed to keep out of the scandal spotlight with all of this and Prince Charles can't go across the street without a posse of tabloid reporters on his tail.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:26 pm
I would NEVER believe that "forgot a SINGLE birth control" excuse. She was shagging a prince. I'm sure that fact alone made her memory fail for a few days straight. I think every woman should teach their sons "unless you are a WITNESS to her ingesting that pill every single day, then the girl ain't on the pill, and don't rely on that method".
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:50 pm
U.S. rapper Lil' Kim sentenced to year in prison Reuters Rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced on Wednesday to 12 months and a day in prison after admitting she had acted wrongly in lying to a grand jury investigating two of her friends involved in a 2001 shooting outside a radio station. She was also fined $50,000 but the sentence was lenient compared to the minimum 33 months that prosecutors had sought in the high profile case that shed light on the murky world of the hip-hop community. Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberley Jones, was convicted in March of conspiracy and perjury for lying to a grand jury. The three perjury counts and the conspiracy charge carried maximum sentences of five years each. Before her sentencing in federal district court in Manhattan, Lil' Kim made a plea for leniency, admitting she had done wrong. "I testified falsely to the grand jury and during the trial. At the time I thought it was the right thing to do. Now I know it was wrong," she said in court. The case stems from a 2001 shootout with a rival hip-hop group involving two of her associates, Suif Jackson and Damion Butler. Both men have pleaded guilty to firing shots that injured one man. Prosecutors said Lil' Kim tried to protect the two by telling the grand jury during its 2003 probe that Butler, one of her former managers, was not there that day and that she did not know Jackson. [...]
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:55 pm
yeah she knew it was wrong after she got convicted, lol.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:57 pm
At least it will keep her off the plastic surgeon's table for 366 days. Judge is doing her a favor. Have you seen her lately? Worst cheek implants since Jocelyn Wildenstein.
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