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Wealthy Democratic donors will be able to score a rare photo Thursday with President Biden and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — snapped by renowned celebrity shutterbug Annie Leibovitz — if they pay $100,000 for the keepsake. Biden’s re-election campaign is hosting a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall to grow the Democrat’s already sizable cash advantage over former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. The hat-passing event will include “a star studded program hosted by Mindy Kaling and featuring musical guests Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, and Lea Michelle,” according to the Biden campaign.

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz has found herself in a racism row with critics of her dimly lit Vogue portrait of Ketanji Brown Jackson claiming it demonstrates her repeated failure to light black stars 'properly'. Leibovitz proudly shared her two photos of the Supreme Court justice on Twitter this week after they were published on Vogue's website.

The celebrity portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz is being sued by an art finance company which lent her $24 million against the value of her entire collection and her two homes. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court, Art Capital Group claimed Leibovitz had violated the terms of their agreement, engaging in "boldly deceptive conduct" to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. The company asked a judge to force Leibovitz to co-operate with the person assigned to selling her copyrights and organising the sale of her properties in Manhattan and upstate New York, so...

Photographer Annie Leibovitz has borrowed £10million against some of her most famous pictures to pay the mortgages on all her homes. The artist, 59, has become so concerned with her mounting debt, accumulated on properties she inherited in 2004 after the death of her lover Susan Sontag, she has turned to a company that lends money with fine art as collateral. Documents seen by the New York Times reveal she secured the funds by giving the company, Art Capital, ownership of all her work - past and future - until the loan is repaid. Ian Peck, a co-owner of Art...

Hannah Montana is on in our house more than I care to acknowledge, but such is life when your wife, er, I mean, your seven-year-old is a manic Disney Channel fan. It’s actually a pretty funny show, although it doesn’t hold a candle to Cory in the House. (You just can’t beat White House chase scenes with Benny Hill-style music.) But this show could not have turned the now-besieged Miley Cyrus into a teen-pop phenomenon, and thus a “role model” if viewers of the show – and I mainly mean parents – could keep the whole thing in perspective. Fifteen-year-old...