Mickey Sherman the well-known lawyer of the well-known Michael Skakel of the even weller-known Martha Moxley case, how's he feel now that the jury found him guilty? "I'm dying. F- - - - - - dying. I've been weeping uncontrollably. I went to bed and stayed for three hours. Knowing we have the appeal and that I'll be there no matter what, I kept saying to myself, 'I can't do this . . .' " Eventually, he went for food. Lobster carbonara. But no drinks. "I need a clear head.
rest of story, along with J-Lo scoop.
Oh yes, and Liza news:
...[O]ne source - who paid full price for his pricey ticket - said he didn't exactly get his money's worth. "It was good to see Liza do her old standards, but she was hoarse and needed a teleprompter," the concertgoer told us. "And that rap number - it was just disconcerting."
But what creeped out audiences the most was the $15 program for the show, which was an homage to Minnelli's new hubby, Gest. "His name was on the front cover, twice. There is a photo of them with their wedding invite inside and people have bought congratulatory ads and homages to her. ..."
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Martha Stewart among those who benefited from a little insider trading info:
IT'S a bit unfair to single out Martha Stewart in the mini-scandal about insider trading in the stock of Dr. Sam Waksal's dodgy ImClone company. The way I hear it, all of Dr. Sam's society chums got the tip to sell before the shares tanked late last December.
"Waksal's like some star-struck kid," says an SEC source. "He loves mixing with celebrities and he looked after a whole bunch of them by letting them in on ImClone's IPO. But he couldn't afford to have them actually lose money on the stock - that would have lost him face and friendship."
This source says the various investigations going on now will likely turn up at least a half dozen big names who sold out just as fortuitously as did Martha.
So was it insider trading? "Maybe not," says my SEC source. "Waksal, or someone acting for him, called his special friends and said they should sell because a matter that was public knowledge would impact on the stock. The only trouble was, the public didn't yet know about what Waksal said was public knowledge."
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I bet Hillary's steaming that she wasn't in on the Waksal deal, after her great success with cattle futures.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's youngest brother may have embarrassed her again. Tony Rodham was in a Washington, D.C., court on Thursday battling his ex-wife, Nicole Boxer, over child support. Boxer, daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), claimed that Rodham is way behind in payments for their son, Zachary, who turns 7 this week.
"He hasn't paid child support in over six months," said our source. Rodham, who's representing himself in the child-support case, was most recently in the business of importing hazelnuts from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Boxer, who works in film, divorced Rodham in 2000. Since then, the 47-year-old Rodham has been criticized for lobbying his brother-in-law, then-President Bill Clinton, to pardon embezzlers Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory. Last Aug. 18, police were called to the Rodham family cottage in the Berkshires after Daniel Coyne allegedly broke in and kicked Rodham "in the head and body." According to police reports, Coyne saw Rodham having sex with his girlfriend, Kelly Quick. Rodham admitted he "might have" smoked marijuana with Coyne earlier, as Coyne claimed.
Boxer's lawyer Robert Liotta would say only, "This is a sealed case." Rodham did not return messages left at his office and on his cell phone.
Sen. Clinton's spokeswoman did not return calls by deadline.
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