ITALIAN police yesterday raided the homes and offices of Antonio Di Pietro, a former minister and the most popular man in Italy for his judicial assault on corruption.
Italian media reported that some 300 agents were involved in the raids, ordered by magistrates in the northern town of Brescia who are probing alleged irregularities by Di Pietro when he was a star anti graft magistrate.
His lawyer, Massimo Dinoia, said agents had seized a number of legal documents on various subjects from Di Pietro's home in the town of Curno, near Milan.
Di Pietro (46) was the star investigator of the elite "Clean Hands" anti graft team in Milan, which from 1992 launched a series of probes that destroyed Italy's political establishment.
The Who returned to Britain last night for a sell out performance of their rock classic Quadrophenia.
Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend enlisted Billy Idol for their two venue "tour" which plays Manchester's Nynex Arena next Wednesday. Idol took the role of Mod elder The Ace Face. Last night they played to 14,000 people at London's Earl's Court.
Ringo Starr's son Znk Starkey played drums in place of the late Keith Moon, The Who's original drummer, who gave him his first lessons.
Film director Spike Lee is opening his own advertising agency in a joint venture with the DDB Needham group, a spokesman for the group said.
The director of Malcolm X might put his filming skills first to promote Budweiser beer for Anheuser Busch. The company apparently is seeking to increase its sales among urban African Americans and Hispanics.
O.J. Simpson's friend and personal lawyer engaged in a shouting match yesterday with a plantiffs lawyer who accused him of changing his testimony about cuts on the former football star's hand.
Tensions rose on what was expected to be the last day of the plaintiffs' case as Leroy "Skip" Taft insisted that when he picked Simpson up at the airport the day after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered he saw only one cut on the middle finger of Simon's left hand.
A lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, representing Goldman's family, reminded Taft that in his sworn deposition taken earlier this year Simpson's friend of 27 years had recalled seeing two cuts and was not sure about a third.
"How about that, Mr Taft?" Petrocelli demanded on two occasions during the heated exchange, jabbing his finger in the air, after he had apparently tripped up the witness.