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Michelle Wie is one of teenage girls that never dream again of becoming rich and famous, just before her 16th birthday last fall, she became the highest-paid woman golfer in history simply by turning professional and lending her name to commercial endorsements that will pay her between $10 million and $12 million a year, most of which will go into a trust fund until she becomes an adult.
Since she was 13, she has been a celebrity when people began predicting she would become the Tiger Woods of women’s golf. But, as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, that has never been enough for Wie. She wants to become the first woman ever to successfully compete with men in a professional sport. Read more of Michelle Wie, Youngest and Highest Paid Women Golfer

Supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL was arrested and faces seven years in jail last Thursday after she allegedly assaulted an employee. She was was arrested at her home on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, where the incident allegedly occurred earlier following “some sort of dispute” with the woman. After her housekeeper, Ana Scolavino, was allegedly assaulted with a cellphone by the runway diva. Scolavino went to the hospital after the alleged incident and needed four stitches for an “ugly gash” on the back of her head. Another former personal assistant, Simone Craig, claimed Naomi Campbell threw a mobile phone at her in 2001.
Now the supermodel opens up to ET about her recent troubles, but she insists she is being “extorted.” Naomi Campbell denied hurling a mobile phone at her assistant on Thursday, insisting the charges were “falsely” brought against her as revenge for sacking the employee earlier on Thursday. Read more of Supermodel Naomi Campbell Assault

Two days before right-hander Kris Benson was scheduled to make his Baltimore Orioles debut, his outspoken wife, Anna Benson , rescinded her divorce petition against former Mets pitcher Kris Benson. “Anna did some soul-searching over the weekend and wants to give a considerable effort to repair her marriage,” Jeffrey Bogart, Anna Benson lawyer said. “She’d like to give this a second chance, and hopefully Kris does as well.”

In an interview with the Associated Press last week, before she filed for divorce, Kris Benson said he still thinks the New York Mets traded him to Baltimore because of his wife. Read more of Anna Benson Divorce Petition

After 15 years as morning television’s queen, Katie Couric told viewers Wednesday she’s leaving to join CBS and become the first woman to solely anchor a network evening newscast. She told that on her 15th anniversary on “Today.” In case you missed Katie Couric’s announcement this morning that she would be leaving the Today Show for CBS. “I wanted to tell all of you out there … that after listening to my heart and my gut … I’ve decided I’ll be leaving ‘Today’ at the end of May,” she said. “I really feel as if we’ve become friends through the years.”
Couric appeared close to tears at times as she made the announcement on “Today.” “Sometimes I think change is a good thing,” she said. “Although it may be terrifying to get out of your comfort zone, it’s very exciting to start a new chapter in your life.” Read more of Katie Couric Leaving NBC for CBS

“Finding Miss America” is what they’re calling the seven one-hour shows leading up to January’s live pageant. The beauty pageant is to be transformed into a seven-episode reality TV show with input from audiences along the lines of American Idol.
Country Music Television will air the Finding Miss America series in the days leading up to the January 2007 pageant, the network and the Miss America Organization said on Saturday. The show will have an interactive feature, with viewers casting votes for their favorites by phone and at Country Music Television website.
Those votes will determine seven of the 15 finalists competing in the pageant. Judges will choose the rest.
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It’s surprising me when I found this news on Reuters that “Loyal” donkeys better than wives.” A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their “masters.”

“A donkey is like a housewife. In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents’ home, you’ll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master,” the newspaper reported, quoting a Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds. Read more of Compare Housewives With A Donkey?

Latina pop star Shakira was honoured for her humanitarian work by the United Nations (UN) in New York City on Monday. Other winners who showed up to accept their awards — a Spanish contemporary sculpture — included Ela Bhatt, founder of the SEWA Cooperative Bank in India which has provided microcredit loans to 800,000 women; former Spanish Red Cross president Cristina Macaya; Brazilian writer Nelida Pinon; and Consuelo Ciscar, who has promoted cultural and arts programs in Valencia, Spain.

The winners, including Latin pop star Shakira, Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova, received awards yesterday and then watched a fashion show featuring clothes from nine developing countries, including India, partly made by women trying to escape poverty. Read more of Shakira Humanitarian Work For Honour

That Louis Vuitton designer bag you recently purchased from a street vendor doesn’t seem to be holding up too well. You still expected it to last a while even though you didn’t pay much for it. After all, it is a designer bag.

Fake designer bags may be a bigger draw to New York City than the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building combined. Just because the person selling it tells you it’s a designer bag doesn’t necessarily make it so. Read more of Fake And Real Designer Bags, You Choose