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- Daddy Cool dies in Russian hotel
- Donate kidney, get out of jail
- Dr Conrad to claim Jackson killed himself
- Anti-anorexia model dies at 28
| Daddy Cool dies in Russian hotel Posted: Bobby Farrell, the frontman of the 1970s disco group Boney M has been found dead in a Russian hotel room. Farrell (61) had performed in St Petersburg on Wednesday but had complained of breathing problems before and after his show, according to his agent John Seine. Staff at his hotel discovered him after he failed to answer a wake-up call. Farrell, who lived in Amsterdam, was more a dancer and showman than singer when he fronted Boney M in the 1970s and 80s. The group, based in Germany, broke into the charts with Daddy Cool and Sunny in 1976. Two years later their version of By the Rivers of Babylon sold nearly two million records in Britain alone, keeping it No. 1 for five weeks. The original Boney M disbanded in 1986. In 1978 Boney M was the first Western music group invited by a Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, to perform in the Soviet Union. A Soviet military plane flew the performers from London to Moscow, where they sang for an audience of 2,700 Russians in Red Square.
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| Donate kidney, get out of jail Posted: Convicted sisters in Mississippi to be freed if one donates a kidney to other For 16 years, sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott have shared a life behind bars for their part in a $11 (Rs 500) armed robbery. To share freedom, they must also share a kidney. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour suspended the sisters' life sentences on Wednesday, but 36-year-old Gladys Scott's release is contingent on her giving a kidney to Jamie, her 38-year-old sister, who requires daily dialysis. The sisters were convicted in 1994 of leading two men into an ambush in central Mississippi the year before. Three teenagers hit each man in the head with a shotgun and took their wallets making off with only $11, court records said. Jamie and Gladys Scott (pic above) were each convicted of two counts of armed robbery and sentenced to two life sentences. "I think it's a victory," said the sisters' attorney, Chokwe Lumumba. "I talked to Gladys and she's elated about the news. I'm sure Jamie is, too." Lumumba said he has no problem with the governor requiring Gladys to offer up her organ because "Gladys actually volunteered that as part of her petition."
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| Dr Conrad to claim Jackson killed himself Posted: Dr Conrad Murray's lawyers are set to claim Michael Jackson "killed himself".
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| Anti-anorexia model dies at 28 Posted: French model became the face of the disorder after ad campaign Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model whose emaciated image appeared in a shock Italian ad campaign and whose anorexia and career were followed by others suffering from eating disorders, has died at the age of 28. Her longtime acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, said Caro died on November 17 after returning to France from a job in Tokyo. Dubreuil-Prevot said she did not know the cause of death but that Caro "had been sick for a long time," referring to her anorexia. Caro featured in an ad campaign by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani in 2007 for an Italian fashion house. Under the headline 'No Anorexia' images across newspapers and billboards showed Caro naked, vertebrae and facial bones protruding. In later interviews, she said she weighed about 27 kilogrammes when the photos were taken. Caro said on her blog and in interviews that she had suffered from anorexia since she was 13. She wrote a book published in France in 2008 titled "The Little Girl Who Didn't Want to Get Fat." The Italian ad campaign came as the fashion industry came under an unusually bright spotlight about anorexia after a 21-year-old Brazilian model died from the eating disorder. Her agent, Sylvie Fabregon, said it was intended "to show what it is like to be anorexic". Some groups working with anorexics warned, however, that it did a disservice to those afflicted with the disorder. Images of Caro appeared on so-called pro-ana, or pro-anorexia websites. On Wednesday, one posted a notice about her death and a photo of her, large blue-green eyes peering over a child-size upper arm, with the caption, 'die young, stay pretty'. Her life and death drew other kinds of followers as well. Caro herself spoke out about her anorexia and her efforts to recover, and the menace of eating disorders on the fashion industry. Her acting instructor described years in and out of hospitals. Her death and her illness "are an absolute waste," Dubreuil-Prevot said. Caro's Facebook page says she was born on September 12, 1982. She took violin lessons and then acting lessons in Nantes and Versailles, according to Dubreuil-Prevot. Media attention The Italian ad campaign got Caro widespread attention in media in countries around Europe and in the United States. She subsequently served as a member of the jury on Top Model France, and worked periodically as a film and television actress. Caro's father alerted a few close friends at the time of her death and a funeral service was held in Paris, according to Dubreuil-Prevot.
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