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

The Bald Truth has learned exclusive new details about Misty Croslin’s behaviour the night she reported her boyfriend’s five year old daughter missing from their trailer in Satsuma, Florida almost a year ago—that she had balked at babysitting Haleigh Cummings, and her little brother, JR, complaining she was just too exhausted after a three day binge of drugs and sex with party pals.

“She told me, ‘I didn’t want to even watch the kids that night because I was too tired from partying that weekend,’” her sister in law, Lindsay, told me in an exclusive interview Tuesday night that I broke on CNN HLN’s Nancy Grace Show.

Then, Misty related, Ronald Cummings mother, offered to pay her. “She told me, ‘Teresa (Neves) said, ‘I’ll pay you to watch ‘em.’ But I told her, ‘No, you don’t have to pay me, I’ll watch ‘em.’ Remember that weekend, she and Ronald were fighting after she came back, so she told his mother, ‘No, I’ll go home and watch ‘em if it’s okay with Ronald.’” 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 »