THE German born opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, made a Dame of the British Empire in 1992, was an avid Nazi who rose to stardom on the coattails of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, according to a biography by Alan Jefferson to be released next week.
Schwarzkopf (80), living in retirement in Switzerland, was barely 18 when Hitler seized power. She served as a leader of the Nazi Students Association in 1935 joined Goebbels' department in 1939 and the Nazi party the following year.
Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said he had been impressed by the leader of the British Labour Party, Tony Blair, when he met him yesterday during a private visit to Singapore.
Lee told reporters that Blair might be in a good position to help improve the British economy if he won the next general election.
The pub and restaurant owned by flamboyant TV chef Keith Floyd went into receivership yesterday.
The receiver said The Maltsters, near Totnes, Devon, would continue trading while a buyer was sought. Floyd (51), best known for his "little slurps" of wine while making numerous cookery series from around the world, is on a three week overseas trip. He was married for the fourth time last month when he wed 32 year old food stylist Tess Smith.
Marlon Brando's son will be paroled from prison this week after serving five years of a manslaughter sentence for killing his sister's boyfriend.
Christian Brando received a 10 year sentence in February 1991 after he pleaded guilty to shooting the Tahitian boyfriend of her half sister, Cheyenne, at their father's $4 million Hollywood Hills mansion the previous May. Cheyenne, hanged herself at the family's Tahiti estate last April.
A man who threatened to slice her throat from ear to ear was found guilty yesterday of stalking pop star Madonna. A jury found drifter Robert Dewey Hoskins guilty on all five counts.