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After All This Time, Dan Still Has A Steph Infection

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Daniel Ducruet’s efforts to patch up his relationship with Princess Stephanie took another blow last week.

Ducruet, appearing on a German TV talk show, flew into a rage when the woman he had an affair with, Fili Houteman, walked in.

A man who knows the need for decorum, Ducruet stormed off the set and commenced to kick in a door, upend dressing room furniture, break a window and tear up a bathroom.

Houteman, you’ll recall, was the woman Ducruet was photographed cavorting with last year. After the photos were made public, Stephanie acquired a quickie divorce.

Ducruet, who claims he was drugged and set up by Houteman, recently published a series of love letters to Stephanie in a French magazine.

Loose talk

John Malkovich on his penchant for playing lunatics (as reported by the Associated Press): “It’s not an obsession of mine how the public perceives me or if they perceive me in a certain way. I really don’t care.”

In our minds, she’ll always be leaving Las Vegas

Elisabeth Shue turns 34 today.

Quien es el mas macho, Somoza o Lyndon Johnson?

According to the New Republic, a gold-plated revolver engraved with Anastasio Somoza’s name went for $5,750 at a recent auction in Nicaragua. Among other souvenirs of the late dictator’s estate, which was controlled by Somoza’s girlfriend Dinorah Sampson, was a signed photograph of Lyndon Johnson.

Rap stands for Rent a Powerful (attorney)

Snoop Doggy Dogg is back in court. But this time he’s being sued by his former boss. Sharitha Knight, estranged wife of imprisoned Death Row Records head Suge Knight, asked a Los Angeles court to freeze Dogg’s assets until the matter is settled. The problem? He paid her nothing over the last three years while making $20 million.

Turns out, the truth was in the larger book

When he agreed to write an introduction to Philip J. Corso’s book “The Day After Roswell,” Sen. Strom Thurmond thought he was commenting on the memoir of a career Army officer. Instead, Corso’s book is about the infamous Roswell, N.M., UFO incident. Thurmond had read only a 21-page outline. “We’ve been totally blindsided by (Corso) and his publisher,” said press secretary Chris Cimko.

She’s not a member of the Lollipop Guild

Roseanne’s Broadway career is in limbo. The television star missed most of the last week of “The Wizard of Oz” at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden because of flu, laryngitis and bronchitis.

They pulled their marriage off life support

Peter Berg (“Chicago Hope”) and his wife of four years, Elizabeth Rogers, have filed for divorce. The cause: “irreconcilable differences.”

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