Paternity scandal hounds Kennedy
More photos:Sunday January 22 2006
A statement from Kennedy's office last Wednesday, denouncing the story as "irresponsible fiction", has done little to calm the storm currently swirling around the now 21-year-old boy named Christopher and his mother, Caroline Bilodeau.
According to the Enquirer , who was 51 at the time of the alleged conception, began seeing Bilodeau in 1983 while he was in the midst of his tumultuous divorce from first wife Joan.
"Caroline," said a source, "had dreams about being the next Mrs Ted Kennedy." Instead, a few months into their liaison, after Bilodeau told Kennedy she was pregnant and intended to keep the child, Kennedy cut off allcommunication with her.
"Someone in the Kennedy camp," paid her at least $15,000, the source alleges. "All of a sudden a pregnant, unemployed Caroline buys a new black Mustang convertible and an expensive purebred Shar-Pei dog, and moves out of her parents' modest home and into an apartment."
Bilodeau, who told friends the father of her child had undergone a test which established his paternity, further raised suspicion in her rural Cape Cod community by the fact that she "always seemed to have money".
An insider at the tabloid claims that the multiple sources for the sensational story come from "both the Kennedy side and the woman's family. We've known about the boy for several years but waited until he turned 21 - and is mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father".
What is Teri hatching with George? Incurable romantics who continue to feel pain over the Aniston-Pitt-Jolie mess got some good news last week: superstar neighbours George Clooney 44, and Teri Hatcher, 41, have been spotted tooling around LA together.
Asked if his client was dating the Desperate Housewives star, Clooney's rep Stan Rosenfield obliquely responded: "What is your definition ofa date?"
The usually bubbly Hatcher, who is constantlybemoaning her single status, was more upfront about it. "If I went on a date with George Clooney I would not be talking about it."
Less starlet from Scarlett asks Woody Woody Allen and his Match Point muse Scarlett Johansson have a strong love-hate "something" going on.
Last Wednesday night, the notoriously dishevelled director attended a swish Ferragamo cocktail party and spoke with surprising spontaneity about Johansson, who just made Vogue's February best-dressed list.
Asked about Scarlett's sense of style, which has been Topic A among fashionistas after the actress's rather bizarre appearance at the Golden Globes Monday night, Allen told gobsmacked eavesdroppers, "I have had many conversations with Scarlett on this subject. The main thing I tell her is to simplify. I think that she dresses older than she should. I would tell her to wear her hair looser, to lessen the make-up and heavy red lipstick. Be more natural.
"It's a starlet thing. She isa beautiful girl but I have told her to tone it down. I have told her to dress her age, instead of dressing like my Aunt Minnie."
For her part, Johansson tells the upcoming issue of Spin magazine that she enjoyed working with the eccentric film-maker so much because he would constantly catch her on the hop.
"We'd be shooting some intense confrontational scene where we were going crazy and screaming at each other," she reveals, "and then the moment Woody would yell, 'Cut!' he'd turn to me and ask, 'So how old were you when you lost your virginity?'"
Maybe you had to be there.
Stone and Moss roll back in vogue Despite rumours that Kate Moss would celebrate her 32nd birthday last Monday night with a wild blow-out at the Ritz in Paris, the troubled waif enjoyed a quiet dinner in Beverly Hills with photographer Mario Testino and was reportedly home in bed by the respectable hour of 2am.
Moss, who spent last weekend posing for Sorrenti in the beachside colony of Malibu for the March issue of Harper's Bazaar (which will feature Basic Instinct 2 star Sharon Stone on the cover), also posed for a layout for an upcoming issue of Italian Vogue.
Guess bad girls are finally back in.
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