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An illegal immigrant has confessed to killing American artist Ashley Olsen in her Italian apartment, who was punched and strangling her with a USB cord in a jealous 'drug-fueled' frenzy. Cheik Tidiane Diaw, 25, told officers he strangled Olsen after the pair had sex when she told him he had to leave because her boyfriend was coming back. The Senegalese man was caught because of DNA evidence from a used condom and cigarette found in the toilet - which he had tried to flush away unsuccessfully. Italian police said they had to swoop on him quickly because they feared he...

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were apparently huge cry babies on the set of Full House, and John Stamos says he tried to get them fired for it. “It’s sort of true that the Olsen twins (who were 18-months-old) cried a lot,” Stamos said at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour in Beverly Hills. He added that the twins made shooting Full House “very difficult” and he requested to “get them out!”

In an interview last year, Ashley Olsen said that she would love to see Michelle Obama wear one of her designs. Now, it seems, her dream has come true. The U.S. First Lady wore a skirt from The Row, the label Miss Olsen, 24, designs with her twin sister Mary-Kate, on The View last week. Mrs Obama, who appeared on the show with Jill Biden, teamed the pale grey pleated Evelyn skirt, worth $1,170 with a cream V-neck and kitten-heel shoes. Though expensive, the President's wife's choice represents a support of American industry, as all of the Olsen twins' designs...