OPERA star Luciano Pavarotti, who admitted having an affair with his young secretary, has officially separated from his wife of 35 years.
"They signed the separation agreement without the help of lawyers," said lawyer Calisto Fornero, who acts for Pavarotti's wife, Adua.
The Italian magazine Chi last month published photographs of Pavarotti and Nicoletta Mantovnni kissing during a holiday in Barbados.
Texas billionaire, Ross Perot, is again threatening to shuffle the deck in the US presidential race, hinting that he may seek the nomination of his own Reform Party.
Prince Charles has refused to pay the £20,000 first instalment of Princess Diann's legal costs for the couple's divorce, the Sun reports today. It says that the prince flew into a rage when the bill arrived.
The writer and archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, the widow of playwright and novelist J. B. Priestley has died. She was aged 85.
Educated at Cambridge University, where she gained a first class degree in archaeology and anthropology, she married Oxford professor Christopher Hawkes in 1933. After their divorce, she married Priestley in 1953.
Florence Nightingale attended seances led by a Swedish masseur and took libido killing drugs, according to a letter found in the home of an elderly man who died earlier this year.
In the letter Nightingale confesses to taking bromide and compound spirit chloroform. Chloroform was widely used in the 19th century as a sedative by doctors and dentists. Bromide was given to soldiers to curb their sexual urges.