GEORGE BEST is threatening legal action against Take That star Robbie Williams (23) over claims the former footballer took drugs. Williams said in a newspaper interview he didn't want to end up the pop equivalent of the former sporting star.
Best's wife Alex (24), speaking from the couple's local pub in London, said: "It's no secret that George likes to drink - he makes no secret of it. But he has never taken drugs."
Two photographers were attacked while taking pictures of Princess Stephanie of Monaco's ex husband, Daniel Ducruet, with his latest girlfriend.
Francois Casabianca, a friend of Ducruet, allegedly threatened the photographers with a gun to make them hand over their film, then smashed, their car windows with a metal bar.
One of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sons plans to marry a Turkish woman, but in may run into opposition from the bride's father.
Peter Kohl (32) met Elif Sozen (29) eight years ago when both were students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.
But Elif's father Kemal Sozen, director of an industrial plant in Turkey, is known for his conservatism and would be against his daughter marrying a non Muslim, Hurriyet newspaper reported.
Yehudi Menuhin, Gregory Peck, Elton John and Prince Charles were among those celebrating the 70th birthday of conductor and cellist Mstislav Rosfropovich in Paris.
The celebration was followed by dinner at President Jacques Chirac's Elysee Palace.