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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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Harris: Simpson made bad bet turning down a plea deal– for less time.

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

He stood with lips pursed late Friday night in a Las Vegas courtroom, just like I remember O.J. Simpson did 13 years ago when I watched a Los Angeles jury acquit him of double murder despite overwhelming DNA evidence tying him to the brutal knifings of his ex wife, Nicole, and waiter Ron Goldman.

Again, I watched as the bailiff read the verdict: guilty on all counts for armed robbery and kidnapping stemming from the heist of memorabilia he claimed collectors had stolen from him and he was simply taking back in a Las Vegas hotel room last year, backed by armed goons. Read the rest of this entry »