Ivana Trump, 47, filed suit on Dec. 30 in Manhattan federal court against the Italian boatbuilding, company Cantieri di Baia, demanding a refund of the $4.1 million she paid in July 1995 for a 105-foot yacht bearing her name. She is also seeking $35 million for emotional distress. Ivana claims the craft is "unseaworthy, dangerously built and abysmally constructed." A di Baia spokesman claims otherwise.
Ellen costar Joely Fisher, 29, and cinematographer Christopher Duddy, 35, were wed New Year's Eve on the sound-stage of the Hollywood studio where they met. It is the first marriage for Fisher and the second for Duddy, who has two sons—8 and 11—from his first marriage....
Frasier co-star Jane Leeves, 35, and Paramount television executive Marshall Coben, 40, were married over the Christmas holidays in England. It is the first marriage for Leeves and the second for Coben....
Baywatch's Donna D'Errico (no age available) wed Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, 38, on Dec. 28 in Malibu. It was D'Errico's first marriage and Sixx's second.
CBS News anchor Paula Zahn, 40, gave birth to her third child, a 5-lb., 15-oz boy, Austin Bryce, on New Year's Day in New York City. Zahn and her husband, real estate developer Richard Cohen, 49, already have a son, Jared, 3, and a daughter, Haley, 7.
After 20 years of marriage, attorney Eileen McGann, 48, has separated from President Clinton's former political adviser, Dick Morris, 48, who resigned last August after his clandestine affair with a Washington call girl became public. The couple were childless, though Morris has a 6-year-old daughter, Gabrielle, from an earlier extramarital relationship.
Former Bay watch costar Nicole Eggert, 25, was released Jan. 6 from a Los Angeles hospital, where she was treated after suffering a broken vertebra Dec. 27 in a snowmobile accident near Nevada's Lake Tahoe. Her publicist says she is expected to recover fully in about three months.
A U.S. district judge in L.A. sentenced Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, 31, to 37 months in prison on Jan. 7 for tax evasion and laundering prostitution profits. Fleiss was also ordered to perform 300 hours of community service and undergo drug counseling.
Folk and country singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, 52, whose "Pancho and Lefty" became a No. 1 country hit for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in 1983, died of an apparent heart attack on Jan. 1 in Mount Juliet, Tenn....
Composer Burton Lane, 84, who wrote the music for such classic Broadway shows as Finian's Rainbow and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, died of lung cancer Jan. 5 at his New York City home....
Catherine Scorsese, 84, mother of film director Martin Scorsese, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on Jan. 6 in New York City. Scorsese appeared in a number of her son's movies, including Good-Fellas and Casino, often improvising her own lines.
Your Reaction
