LVMH Negotiating Lacroix Sale

Jennifer Lopez

Luxury goods powerhouse LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA is reportedly negotiating the sale of its Christian Lacroix fashion house to a U.S. consortium according to a person close to the talks. The Le Nouvel Observateur newspaper reported on LVMH plans to sell the unprofitable fashion brand to Florida-based Falic Group, which has interests in the fashion, luxury goods and duty-free retailing sectors. Lacroix had never achieved sustained profitability since its founding in 1987 for LVMH and is seen as having limited potential within the group. Lacroix would continue to produce products under that name. LVMH spokeswoman Florence Scheller declined to comment.

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January 7, 2005
POSTED BY Fabien Montique
TAGS Fashion

January 7, 2005

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston call it quits

Brad & Jennifer

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston confirmed today that they were ending their four and a half years of marriage. We would like to announce that after seven years together we have decided to formally separate, we happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another." Pitt and Aniston, said in a joint statement initially published by People magazine on its Web site. Gossip outlets speculated the marriage was over a long time ago.

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January 7, 2005
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TAGS Culture

Jackie Just Jumps

Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins long ago appears to have realized that writing about serious matters doesn't earn the big money. 400 million copies of her steam and gasp novels have been sold, and to thank her long-time publisher, Simon & Schuster, Jackie is switching to St. Marten's Press, which offered her seven figures for "Lovers and Players," a "saga" that tells of an LA family with billionaires and bi-racial beauties.

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MOONWALKING ON THIN ICE

It is a matter of public record that Michael Jackson's current accuser, when 5 years old, was sent by his father to shoplift in a department store. Whether that makes that family more or less likely to try to blackmail a pop star, I don't know. But it does seem intensely ridiculous to 1) act as if, when a 13-year-old boy accepts alchohol, looking at pictures of naked people, and sexual activity he did so completely against his will and 2) ignore the possibility that the accuser and his family might have been acting out an entrapment scheme against Jackson. (BY SCOTT ROSE)

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Smells Like Twin Spirit

In an effort to combat the skank-clouds Nicole Ritchie is creating by being the sole user of Paris Hilton's self titled 'perfume', the twins Olsen have come up with not one smell of their own, but two: Coast to Coast NY and Coast to Coast LA. According to The Daily, the set of fragrances is designed to "represent the twins' bicoastal lifestyle" (how cute), not to mention give Britney's Curious a run for it's money.

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