Peaches Geldof is reported to have been treated by paramedics after collapsing following a suspected drug overdose at her home.
The 19-year-old daughter of Sir Bob Geldof is believed to have been revived by a friend who reportedly gave her the kiss of life as they waited for the emergency services.
The paramedics arrived at Miss Geldof’s home in Islington, North London, on Sunday afternoon.
A spokesman for London ambulance service said: ‘We were called on Sunday at 4.45pm to an address in N1 to reports of a female patient taken ill.
‘We sent an ambulance bicycle responder and a fast response car, but following assessment the patient did not require hospital treatment.’
According to reports in the Sun newspaper, Miss Geldof could not breathe for several minutes and a friend had to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
After receiving treatment Peaches was said to be petrified that her 56-year-old father, the former Boomtown Rats singer, would find out after he publicly said he would go ‘ballistic’ if she ever turned to drugs.
She reportedly began to yell at the paramedics that treated her, shouting: ‘You have to respect my privacy’, before refusing to go to hospital and ordering them to leave.
The teenager will not face any charges over the incident.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: ‘Police were called at about 4.45pm on Sunday by the London Ambulance Service to an address in Islington following a 19-year-old woman taken ill. When police arrived no offences were disclosed. No further police action will be taken.’
Earlier this year, Miss Geldof was spotted allegedly handing over money for drugs. Her mother, TV presenter Paula Yates, died of an overdose in 2000.
source: Peaches Geldof ‘treated by paramedics after suspected overdose’ [daily mail]
A supermodel plunged to her death Saturday afternoon by leaping from her Lower Manhattan apartment window in an apparent suicide.
Ruslana Korshunova, barely shy of her 21st birthday, apparently jumped from the balcony of her residential building in Manhattan’s Financial District, police tell the New York Post.
Authorities said there appeared to be no signs of a struggle having taken place inside the 9th-floor apartment, which the green-eyed, 5′8″ beauty had occupied for only two months.
The Kazakhstan-born “Russian Rapunzel,” as she was known, had appeared as cover girl on editions of French Elle and Russian Vogue, as well as in ads for Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Vera Wang and Christian Dior.
“Our hearts are with her family,” a spokesman for her agency, IMG (which also represents Heidi Klum and Kate Moss) told the Post.
A former boyfriend, Artem Perchenok, 24, told the paper that the two had watched the movie Ghost and that he dropped her off at home at 5 a.m. Saturday. “She was a good person,” he said.
The Daily News suggests that Korshunova had become despondent over a lost love. She poured her heart out on the Web in the months leading to her apparent suicide.
“Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably,” the sandy-haired knockout wrote in a poem that concluded: “And never regret anything that made you smile.”
The Kazakh beauty wrote that love “blinds,” “sets souls afire,” and “is always the answer” in emotion-soaked passages posted on a social networking site.
Korshunova volleyed between Russian and English in her heartfelt prose, but love was a central theme no matter the language. “Do not confuse love and desire,” she wrote in Russian in her most recent posting May 30. “Love is the sun, desire - only flash. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.”
The soulful note warns of the perils of sacrifice.
“Love does not take away from one in order to give to another,” wrote Korshunova, a 20-year-old thousands of miles from her native Kazakhstan. “Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another.”
Korshunova’s most telling message came three months ago: “I’m so lost. Will I ever find myself?”
She appeared angry in some postings, brokenhearted in others.
“I’m a bitch. I’m a witch. I don’t care what you say!!!” she wrote March 11. “I know what it is. I know why my other relationships didn’t work out, ’cause I’m unpredictable. Why are you afraid of it?”
In January, she wrote, “It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out.
“My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high,” she wrote in a March note.
This is very, very sad.
UPDATE (James): Fox News has shown video of Korshunova’s body . I think the family could have done without that. Sad, indeed.
“Heather has been dealing with anxiety and depression. She requested an in-depth evaluation of her medication and entered into a medical facility for proper diagnosis and treatment.”
“Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen.
If you reporters had any balls you’d ask him why. There’s no way I know why he did that … But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It’s not like he didn’t know.”
Lee’s comments came during a press conference to promote his own war film, Miracle at St Anna, at the Cannes film festival last month.
“The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate. A guy like him should shut his face.”
Whoa!
Eastwood, who described himself as libertarian - “Just stay out of everybody else’s hair” - has a reputation for outspoken remarks. He once said he would kill fellow film-maker Michael Moore if he showed up uninvited at his house. His 2004 double-Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby was criticized by Christian groups who objected to part of the plot involving “assisted suicide”.
Defending the racial make-up in his films as historically accurate, Eastwood referred to another of his films, Changeling, which was set in Los Angeles before the city had a large group of African-Americans.
“What are you going to do, you going to tell a fuckin’ story about that?. Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I’m not in that game.
I’m playing it the way I read it historically, and that’s the way it is. When I do a movie and it’s 90% black, like Bird, then I use 90% black people.”
I really had no idea there was so much fire in Clint’s belly. I mean, I know he’s Dirty Harry and all, but really I’m a little shocked.
Former supermodel Jerry Hall’s youngest son is so protective of her, he has banned her from having a boyfriend.
The Texan beauty, 51, admits 10-year-old Gabriel - from her marriage to rocker Mick Jagger - is sickened by the thought of his mother bringing someone home, and has even threatened suicide to persuade her to continue to live her life as a single mother.
She says,
“Gabriel gets very angry with me if I work too much. And he absolutely hates the idea of me having a boyfriend. He says, ‘If you get a boyfriend, I will kill myself.’
I say to him, ‘But darling, you will grow up and get married one day and it would be nice for Mum to have some company.’ And he says, ‘No Mum, I am never going to leave you.’ But that’s what boys are like, isn’t it?”
No… boy’s aren’t like that — him threatening to kill himself is not normal!
And Hall insists she’s in no rush to marry again, because she’s happy on her own:
“I think having a partner is a bonus, but I don’t think it’s a necessity. I’ve always had my own money and worked and looked after myself.
I do see people and have dates and I think love is a wonderful thing, but that hasn’t really happened to me. I haven’t fallen in love. Maybe it will happen one day. But I think it would probably be idiotic to marry again. It seems to me that you do that when you want to have children. And I’ve had mine.”
Hall has three other children with ex-husband Jagger: Elizabeth, 24; James, 22, and Georgia, 16. The couple split in 1999.
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson are set to tie the knot – a year after he tried to kill himself when she dumped him.
Kate is thought to have called off the affair, blaming Owen’s lack of commitment.
Owen and Kate originally met while filming the comedy You, Me and Dupree and is thought to have dated him during her six-month separation from now ex-husband and Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson.
It is thought the devastated actor slashed his wrists and took an overdose of pills after his ex-lover was pictured cuddling her new boyfriend comedian Dax Shephard.
Now seven months on from Owen’s reported suicide bid, the pair are back together and are set to wed next year. I’m happy to see these two back together and happy.
source: Owen Wilson to wed Kate Hudson - a year after he ‘tried to kill himself’ when she dumped him [daily mail]
Convicted “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey railed against what she called a “modern-day lynching” in notes to her mother and sister before hanging herself at her mother’s Florida home, police disclosed Monday.
Police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, released Palfrey’s suicide notes Monday, along with autopsy results confirming her cause of death as a suicide. Her mother and sister confirmed the notes’ authenticity, police said.
“I cannot live the next 6 to 8 years behind bars for what you and I have both come to regard as this ‘modern-day lynching’ only to come out of prison in my late 50s a broken, penniless and very much alone woman,” she wrote.
The front of the note was marked “Do not revive (DNR). Do not feed under any circumstance.”
Palfrey, 52, was convicted of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud in April. She had been staying at her mother’s Tarpon Springs home while awaiting sentencing in July and told ABC News last year she would never return to prison after serving time in the 1990s for other prostitution-related charges.
“You must comprehend there was no way out, I.E. ‘exit strategy,’ for me other than the one I have chosen here,” Palfrey wrote in the note to her sister.
Palfrey released the telephone records of her business, Pamela Martin & Associates, to reporters as she awaited trial. Those records linked two high-profile officials to her firm — State Department official Randall Tobias, who resigned in May 2007 after confirming he patronized Palfrey’s business, and Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, who apologized last July for “a very serious sin in my past.”
Neither Tobias nor Vitter have faced charges in the case.
During her trial, Palfrey insisted she ran only a legal escort service — “Basically a bunch of benign women who want to make a living,” she told CNN in March. “This is not racketeering by any means — this is running a business.”
Palfrey was convicted April 15 in connection with a high-end prostitution ring catering to Washington’s elite. She was found guilty of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud and faced a maximum 55-year prison term at her sentencing, scheduled for July 24.
She had said in interviews that she would kill herself before going to prison.
“I’m looking at 55 years in a federal penitentiary, and at my age, that is virtually a life sentence,” Palfrey told CNN Radio’s Ninette Sosa in March. “Realistically, we estimate between eight and 15 years. I’m also looking at the complete forfeiture of my entire life savings and work.”
She said in the interview that the government “went after me. They found out that I’m not who they thought I was, and instead of dropping the whole matter, they decided to press forward and — what the heck — she’s a woman, she’s weak. We’ll intimidate her, we’ll humiliate her, we’ll pounce on this poor lady and she’ll give in.”
Palfrey also told writer Dan Moldea, who was helping her write a book, that she would commit suicide rather than return to jail, according to Time magazine.
Holy crap! This is some heavy shiz. Whitney Houston’s daughter is desperate for some help. Bobbi Kristina is unraveling. According the Enquirer, the troubled singer’s daughter tried to kill herself and Whitney.
“Whitney Houston’s 15 year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina tried to stab her mom during an argument - and then attempted to kill herself by slashing her wrists!”
After the attack, Bobbi was taken to the psych ward in Atlanta. Just a few days before she was about to celebrate her birthday, she cracked under pressure and attacked her mother. She has reportedly wanted to be free from Whitney Houston’s care. She refuses to live another moment with her.
If this is true, I wish them the best. Poor Bobbi really didn’t have a fighting chance with a mother like Whitney. Get well soon kid.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called “DC Madam” has (apparently) killed herself.
Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother on Thursday to investigate her apparent suicide. Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey who was 52.
Palfrey was dubbed “The DC Madam” by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an upscale call girl ring in the nation’s capitol. She was convicted on Tuesday of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, but she had not yet been sentenced.
Wow.
There has been much speculation in the media about who was on Palfrey’s client list, but few details came out during the trial.
Wayne Frost, the man who made breakdancing a national craze for a couple of years in the mid-1980s, has died.
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as “Frosty Freeze” whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 hit movie “Flashdance” set off a worldwide breakdancing craze, has died. He was 44.
Frost died Thursday after a long illness, said Jorge “Fabel” Pabon, a senior vice president of the crew where Frost and other so-called b-boys (for beat or break boys) made their name performing complicated and daring dance routines.
Breakdancing emerged from the Bronx and Harlem in the early 1970s, part of the hip-hop culture that also included graffiti, MCing or rapping, and disc jockeys scratching and mixing vinyl records on turntables. During extended pauses, or breaks, in the music, b-boys would mimic James Brown’s showmanship and footwork and Bruce Lee’s martial arts, adding their own signature moves.
Frost was known for his energetic style, intricate choreography and fearless moves including back flips and head spins. One was even dubbed the “Suicide.” Frost got his start in 1978 with the Bronx-based Rock City Crew. In 1981, he became part of the Rock Steady Crew, joining such acclaimed breakdancers as Ken Swift and Lil Crazy Legs.
A shame.
Source: ‘Flashdance’ breakdancer dead at 44 [AP/CNN]
Authorities said there appeared to be no signs of a struggle having taken place inside the 9th-floor apartment, which the green-eyed, 5′8″ beauty had occupied for only two months.
“Heather has been dealing with anxiety and depression. She requested an in-depth evaluation of her medication and entered into a medical facility for proper diagnosis and treatment.”
“Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen. 
Owen and Kate originally met while filming the comedy You, Me and Dupree and is thought to have dated him during her six-month separation from now ex-husband and Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson. 
Police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, released Palfrey’s suicide notes Monday, along with autopsy results confirming her cause of death as a suicide. Her mother and sister confirmed the notes’ authenticity, police said.
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as “Frosty Freeze” whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 hit movie “Flashdance” set off a worldwide breakdancing craze, has died. He was 44.
