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Haiti Jesus Survives, (c) artharris.com

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

There’s nothing she can do for close friend Nathalie Michel, 33, a bank teller burned to death in the killer earthquake when her crumbled office building caught fire in downtown Port au Prince six days ago.

But veteran translator Viviane Boulos (French, Creole, English), an old friend of mine who is homebound with a broken leg in a suburb called Petion-Ville just outside the capital, is fielding e mails from friends and neighbors on the prowl for survivors, and begging me, begging me, to direct rescuers to the young mother of a newborn locals are telling her was still trapped and fighting to stay alive Tuesday beneath the collapsed Carribean Market on Delmas Road —an astounding seven days after the earthquake destroyed her city.

The missing mother is Paola Handal, says Viviane, who was buying food for her baby when the killer quake hit. “I’m getting e mails from witnesses who are telling me she’s alive,” says Viviane. “I was so upset when I heard rescuers were calling off the searches yesterday because they said no one could live this long, but people ARE still alive, and still need help.

In a new detail, Viviane tells The Bald Truth Paola’s relatives she knows were receiving text messages from a man claiming to be trapped beneath the pancaked grocery near Paola and that she was still alive. Then his texts suddenly stopped, though it’s unclear when. “The guy was also under the debris when he was texting her relatives,” Viviane added in an e mail I just received. “By now, he must have run out of juice.” Read the rest of this entry »

Gloria Allred, Seeking Italian Justice, More magazine

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

It’s 7 AM on the last Friday in September, 2006 when the gray Lancia rolls down Via Sistina and pulls up to the five-star Inter Continental hotel. Rome is waking up to the aroma of rich espresso laced with exhaust fumes, and to the furies of an American feminist lawyer on a mission.

Gloria Allred has come to Italy to make sure an accused killer doesn’t walk, and to single-handedly show her two grandchildren a real Roman adventure. “I don’t do nannies,” she says with a sniff. “Never did.”

While the teenagers sleep off jet lag, Allred’s off to see the prosecutor, a translator named Rosella in tow–and me, tagging along for a trans-Atlantic joyride with Lady Justice, aka Gloria, an old friend I was then assigned to profile for MORE magazine. Only now she has a Tiger in her tank, representing an alleged mistress of the golf superstar, Rachel Uchitel. And with Friday’s stunning Amanda Knox guilty verdict, Allred can’t be surprised, not after our run-in with double standard Italian justice. Read the rest of this entry »

CNN Headline News Star Nancy Grace Debuts First Novel, “The Eleventh Victim”

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

She splits her time now between New York City and Atlanta, where she hit her hot streak as a Fulton County prosecutor (almost 100 felony cases, no losses at trial), then wound up as the late Johnny Cochran’s sidekick on “Cochran and Grace,” a legal show with a brief run.

But Nancy Grace had legs, and kept running to make her own TV history: from Court TV anchor to CNN Headline News superstar with a loyal 700,000 nightly fan base of true crime afficionados, to author and now gifted novelist.

Recent book signings for her first novel and New York Times bestseller, “The Eleventh Victim,” (Hyperion, $25.99) strongly autobiographical, stretched out the door of an Atlanta book store the other day, as she posed and signed autographs for friends, fans, and locals who thanked her for once keeping their city safe.

Nancy Grace Makes Novel Debut: The Eleventh Victim, (Hyperion, $25.99)
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By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Hot off the presses, the Michael Jackson updated death certificate. It notes as before, it’s a homicide, which means dying at the hands of another, but doesn’t ascribe blame or to what degree–yet. Just that he died from an “intravenous injection administered by another,” with the cause of death “acute propofol intoxication.”

Sources tell me authorities are still digging deeper to tie other drugs in his system to Dr. Conrad Murray or others among the many docs who seemed to prescribe the King of Pop whatever he wanted, without knowing — because Jackson refused to tell them — what he was getting from others.

Will have more coming soon on … including an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson’s manager, Frank Dileo who we interviewed for an E! News special that aired last weekend and may re-air on E! when he’s buried at Forest Lawn.

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