Marina Abramovic inspired David Blaine and Riccardo Tisci with her masochistic performance art. And now she's crossing the Pond. Watch out for knives, ice blocks, wounds and tears, says Hermione Eyre... more
Last-minute preparations were being made for what is being billed in the US as the 'wedding of the decade', between Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinksy... more
First-time novelist from London is pitted against Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel and big-name Americans Barbara Kingsolver and Lorrie Moore for this year's £30,000 Orange Prize for women's fiction... more
Annie Leibovitz, whose subjects have included the Queen, Michelle Obama and John Lennon, has been bailed out for the second time in a £15million deal that will force her to sort out her chaotic finances... more
Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, died last week alone in a rat-infested Los Angeles mansion. Hers is a cautionary tale of a pointless hunt for fame... more
The deadline for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz to repay a $24million loan or risk losing her life's work has passed - without word from either side... more
The family of Natasha Richardson made an emotional public appearance to thank friends and well-wishers for their support, as Broadway dimmed its lights in honour of the actress... more
The couple and their five-year-old James Wilke escaped to their house in The Hamptons, upstate New York last month following the scandalous reports.... more
Jennifer Lopez and her husband are celebrating the birth of their new twins. The actress gave birth to the babies - a boy and a girl - in the early hours of Thursday in a Long Island hospital outside New York, her manager confirmed
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As a legal battle that threatened one of London's most iconic restaurants is resolved Ruth Rogers tells Lucy Cavendish why she can't imagine cooking anywhere else.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports