Supermodel
Tatyana Simanava was released from a New York City hospital yesterday after being treated for multiple injuries following a fall from a moving bus.
The Belarus-born beauty was en route to a modelling appointment last week (
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After tumbling onto the highway, Simanava suffered bruising to her right arm and jaw and was treated at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Speaking to the New York Daily News after the accident, she fumed, “I am not angry, but I would like that there are some changes made, that nothing like this can happen again.
“I am sure that the exit doors have to be locked and they have to be marked.
There were no signs.
“I asked where the bathroom was and I was told it’s down the stairs, there’s a door.
“I opened the first door I saw, and I don’t remember anything after that. My friends told me the bus driver saw me fall. “Everybody said it is lucky that I am alive.”
May 16th, 2006
Swedish fashion model Marzena Kamizela spent the weekend in jail in Canada over an air rage incident that saw her being wrestled to the floor of a British Airways flight by the Manchester City and former England footballer Danny Mills. Marzena, who has appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan and Men’s Health, joined the ranks of air-raging celebrities like Liam Gallagher and Courtney Love when she started to jump on her seat, shout, swear and wave around a wine bottle.
The 32-year-old model pushed away a flight attendant – biting one of them, according to a witness account – and threw away a sternly worded note from the pilot on her Friday flight from London to New York.
“We were astounded by the way the woman was behaving,” said Mills, 28, who was sitting a few rows behind her. “We had to help hold her down so that the crew could apprehend her and tie her to her seat.”
She was restrained using handcuffs, and the aircraft made an emergency landing at the Happy Valley airbase in Goose Bay, Canada, where she was handed over to the police. The flight arrived with a three-hour delay in New York.
After spending the weekend in jail, Kamizela admitted assaulting three members of cabin crew and endangering the flight, when she appeared at a Goose Bay court yesterday.
Judge William English sentenced her to one year’s probation, fined her CN$10,000 and ordered her to pay a further CN$18,490 as compensation to British Airways. The judge said that she would have to remain in Labrador until the money for the fine had been transferred. Kamizela, whose photo credits include advertising campaigns for Martini, pleaded guilty “to get this thing behind me” but said that the flight attendants had over-reacted. In the past, celebrities have usually been let off gently after behaving badly in the air. Courtney Love, the singer was merely told off in London after taking off her underwear and noisily celebrating with musicians in a trans-Atlantic flight.
There have been signs however that airlines and courts are tightening up. Diana Ross was arrested and held for five hours after allegedly being abusive to a Heathrow security officer – she was released with a caution.
The gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg spent a night in a cell recently after an alcohol-fuelled incident in Heathrow’s VIP lounge before take off. He was also officially cautioned and was banned from British Airways flights. A few years ago police would not even have been called in for his offence – allegedly swearing at airport staff.
After an incident of air rage – apparently over a scone – on a flight to Australia, the Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was banned for life from Cathay Pacific airlines.
The Danish model May Andersen slapped a flight attendant on a trip from Amsterdam to Miami and, on landing, was refused entry to the United States, which is perhaps the toughest sentence of all for an international model.
The tolerance of air-borne misbehaviour was based partly on the fact that first class passengers are offered large quantities of alcoholic drinks as part of the on-board service and in pre-take off VIP areas.
At a cruising altitude of 30,000ft alcohol has a more potent on the metabolism than at ground level, and becoming dehydrated can also cause irritability, stress and fatigue. Since many air-rage incidents seem to be prompted by alcohol, airlines contribute to the problem. The no smoking ban also increases irritability among smoking passengers. But more and more high-profile passengers seem to be crossing the boundary between drunken antics and outright violence that directly threatens the aircrew and frightens other passengers. Air-rage incidents in the past have included the case of a man defaecating on the food trolley in the First Class section of a flight to Bangkok, and a Japanese passenger who walked down the isle urinating on the seats. Many alleged air-ragers claim later to have had a complete memory lapse. Peter Buck, a guitarist with the group REM, claimed to have suffered a blackout after drinking alcohol and taking a sleeping pill on a long haul flight.
He said at his trial that he had no recall of overturning the food trolley, and was cleared by a UK jury of charges of drunken behaviour.
May 16th, 2006
Former Juventus of Turin defender Nicola Caricola – who is married to South African fashion model
Tanya Fourie – has been charged by Italian police with supplying cocaine to former team-mate Gianluca Vialli.
This follows a mushrooming investigation of former Juve players’ alleged links to drugs trafficking. The probe had led to the arrest of former Italy international Michele Padovano, police sources said on Sunday. Caricola, a friend of Padovano, 39, who played in the Juve defence line in the early 1990s, apparently settled into family life in Genoa with Fourie.
Carabinieri paramilitary police force investigators have been quoted by the press as saying Caricola in 2004 twice supplied Vialli with cocaine for personal use.
Caricola has been charged with trafficking cocaine, although it is unclear whether he is to be indicted as the amounts involved were apparently limited.
Padovano, however, was sacked from his job as general director of the fourth-division club Alexandria. He is accused of having lent nearly €100 000 to the alleged gang leader, Luca Mosole, 39. Italian media described the investigation of the three well-known former Juventus aces as a “black day for Juventus”. The Carabinieri came across the names of the trio as part of a probe into a vast network smuggling hashish into Italy from Morocco through Spain. Investigators emphasised that there was no immediate suggestion that Caricola was involved in the international drug smuggling gang. Caricola made no immediate comment, but Vialli, in London for the launch of his book The Italian Job, denied involvement in the smuggling ring. Thirty-three people have been arrested on charges of being members of the crime gang. Thirty-eight more people charged remain at large. Carabinieri seized €14-million worth of hashish.
May 16th, 2006
Supermodel
Elle MacPherson is so happy with her new life as a singleton, that she’s ready to tell the world.
The runway star, who recently ended a long-term relationship, told all to television’s Barbara Walters, but when asked if she had someone new in her life, Elle coyly replied, “I have lots of people in my life.”
MacPherson went on to add that she didn’t plan to be single, but as she is, she is enjoying her new status nonetheless. She added, “Listen, I’m single at the moment so everything is joyous and spontaneous.”
May 16th, 2006
