Inmates rise at 6 a.m. and eat a breakfast of
toast and cereal and then work as janitors, kitchen aides or groundskeepers
for 7-1/2 hours. The 63-year-old entrepreneur will be paid between 12 cents
and 40 cents an hour for her labor. Lunch is cold sandwiches. Dinner, hot and
loaded with starchy foods, is served at 5 p.m. Then Stewart can play
volleyball, softball or tennis or watch TV until 8.45 p.m. when she must
return to her cubicle until lights out at 11.30 p.m. Located 270 miles
southwest of Washington and opened in 1927, locals call the facility "Camp
Cupcake" because it houses non-violent offenders, looks like a college campus
and has no bars, locked doors or razor wire. Stewart built a home catering
business into a media empire including television shows, magazines, books and
a line of housewares sold at Kmart stores and became one of America's
best-known business women. She protests her innocence and says she will appeal
her conviction. But she said she decided to serve her sentence now "to put
this nightmare behind me as quickly as possible for the good of my family and
my company." Once she completes the prison portion of her sentence, she faces
an additional five months of house arrest. Stewart resigned as chairman and
chief executive of her company in June 2003. Her firm has been hard hit by her
legal woes, sending revenues lower. Shares of Stewart's namesake company
closed more than 3 percent lower at $16.02 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Still, the stock has risen more than 40 percent since Stewart announced on
Sept. 15 that she would begin serving her prison sentence -- something
investors hope will see her return to the helm of the company quickly.
LOS ANGELES, California - Britney Spears has formalized her marriage to dancer Kevin Federline, three weeks after a hush-hush ceremony that was her second wedding of the year. Spears' spokeswoman, Nicole King, confirmed Friday that the necessary legal documents were filed on Thursday, although she would not say where. The "Oops! ... I Did It Again" singer, 22, married 26-year-old Federline at a private home in the Studio City area with 20 to 30 people attending. Days later, celebrity gossip magazines questioned whether the event was a hoax because no paperwork for the marriage could be located in any government office. Federline has said the delay was caused when the couple moved their wedding date up to Sept. 18 as word leaked out that they were planning to be married on Oct. 16. Moving the date up a month, he said, did not give their lawyers time to finish their prenuptial agreement. Spears and Federline, who began dating early this year, announced their engagement in June. Federline appeared in the movie "You Got Served" and performed as a backup dancer for singer Justin Timberlake, Spears' former boyfriend. He was previously involved with actress Shar Jackson of TV's "Moesha." They have two children - a 2-year-old and a newborn. In January, Spears married her childhood friend Jason Alexander in a surprise wedding in Las Vegas. That marriage was annulled 55 hours later.
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of fashion designers. From Channel to Sonia Rykiel and Christian Lacroix
Photo: A model wears a creation designed by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen for his spring-summer 2005 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Friday, Oct. 8, 2004 in Paris. (AP Photo/R. de la Maviniere).
PARIS, France- A fine show of Chanel luxury ready-to-wear by Karl Lagerfeld for spring 2005 was almost eclipsed Friday by the arrival of Nicole Kidman. The radiant blonde star, currently the face for Chanel perfumes, was almost smothered by a horde of photographers pushing and shoving each other to get pictures. Once the show began, it was a great exercise in beautiful clothes that well-off Chanel admirers prefer. Lagerfeld led with gracious evening wear in black and white silks, including lean leather toreador pants with sequined jackets. Frothy and light lace or chiffon evening gowns, fitted lightly to the body and sprinkled with some diamante decor, looked as glamorous as any Garbo dress of 1930s cinema. Next came tweed suits, lighter in shade and texture than ever, starting with a tender pink and green short pleated skirt model. A contrast was the young-looking flared leather skirt with short bold plaid jacket.