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Published: December 2, 2008
■ Ivana Trump has issued a statement confirming reports of marital discord with Italian entrepreneur Rossano Rubicondi. Trump, who married Rubicondi in April, said yesterday that she filed a legal-separation agreement three months ago. Trump said she kept quiet because she did not want to ruin Rubicondi's chances as a contestant on the Italian edition of the reality TV show Survivor. Rubicondi is Trump's fourth husband. "Rossano wants to live in Miami and work in Milan.... But, I am a New Yorker and my family, friends and businesses are here" she said.
■ Singer Boy George admits in a recording played in court yesterday that he restrained a male escort with handcuffs. But George, the former Culture Club singer, says he had no intention of hurting the man. He also denies he tried to assault the escort or that he swung a chain at him. George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, is on trial in London for the false imprisonment of Audun Carlsen, 29. George says in a police recording played yesterday that he asked Carlsen to come to his apartment. He says he wanted to ask Carlsen if he had tampered with his laptop.
■ Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio pundit, has seldom been a fan of Sen. Hillary Clinton. But he has given his blessing to her selection as the next secretary of state. He called it "a brilliant stroke" by President-elect Obama, who opposed Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Limbaugh weighs in on the new administration as one of Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008, which will be broadcast Thursday on ABC. Says Limbaugh: "You know the old phrase, ‘You keep your friends close and your enemies closer?' How can she run for president in 2012? She'd have to run against the incumbent and be critical of him -- the one who made her secretary of state."
■ Tina Fey's husband is talking about something she would rather not discuss: the scar on her left cheek. In an interview in Vanity Fair, Jeff Richmond says that a stranger slashed Fey's face when she was 5 years old. He says that the incident occurred in the front yard of her house. I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life," Richmond says. Fey says that talking about the attack would seem like exploiting it. "It's really almost like I'm able to forget about it, until I was on-camera.... Everybody's got a better side," Fey says.
Deaths
■ V.P. Singh, 77, of blood cancer and renal failure, in New Delhi. He was a former prime minister of India who was considered the father of coalition politics there and who stirred controversy by championing the rights of the country's poorest citizens. He brought major changes to Indian politics despite leading the country only briefly, from 1989 to 1990.
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