Whitney in 'mommy' crisis
A judge has issued another restraining order against a New York City woman who believes Whitney Houston is her mother.
Superior Court Judge Kenneth MacKenzie issued the order Tuesday against Desiree Weeks, whose most recent letters to Houston included a threat against the singer's 7-year-old daughter.
The judge also reinstated a lawsuit Houston had filed against Weeks last year. Houston, who lives in Mendham Township, N.J., had dropped the suit and another temporary restraining order after Weeks was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital in New York. But Houston returned to court earlier this month after Weeks briefly escaped from a Bronx psychiatric hospital on Jan. 26.
Weeks began sending rambling letters to Houston's management company, Nippy Inc., in August 1999, calling Houston "Mommy" and the "supernatural reincarnation" of her mother, sending her gifts including underwear, a makeup kit, candy and cake, Houston has said.
Darva gets rid of diamond
A year after the ill-fated marriage of TV bride Darva Conger, her 3-carat diamond wedding ring was sold for $20,000 at a charity auction. "I'm glad it finally went for a good cause and to a couple truly in love," Conger said after the auction, benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The winning bid came from a Los Angeles couple who bought the ring to celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary.
The ring was designed by a Las Vegas jeweler and purchased by the producers of the Fox show "Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire?" Rick Rockwell and Conger's marriage was annulled a short time later.
"It was a bad TV show. That's all it was," the 35-year-old Conger said.
Grisham paints a story
Best-selling author John Grisham says the foundation for his new novel, "A Painted House," came from stories his father and grandfather told about their rural Arkansas family. Grisham was in Jackson, Miss., this week to sign copies of the book, which tells the story of a family outside Black Oak, Ark., that raises cotton for a living and has a hard time making ends meet.
It was originally planned as a six-installment series for The Oxford American magazine, which Grisham co-owns. "But when the folks at Doubleday saw the first installment, they immediately wanted to publish it as a hardback," Grisham said.
Jacko on disabled list
Singer Michael Jackson says he broke his right foot in a fall at his Neverland Ranch in central California.
Although in a cast from foot to knee, Jackson told the New York Post he plans to make a scheduled March 6 appearance at Oxford University in England for Heal the Kid. The Post reported that more than 20,000 people have tried to get tickets to the event. It wasn't immediately known how large an audience the university can accommodate.
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