DROWNED tycoon Robert Maxwell's daughter treated tired traffic police to tea and biscuits and a flick through the family photographs at her brother's home after she was arrested for drink driving, a court heard yesterday.
But Ghislaine Maxwell's hospitality could not save her from a £1,000 fine and a year's driving ban at London's Horseferry Road Court. Ghislaine (34), whose father named his private yacht after her, earlier joked with police that she had not had a drink for more than four years and was allergic to it - although she was well over the limit at the time, the court heard.
Defence lawyer Keith Oliver described Ghislaine as a woman "of moderate means" based in New York.
Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and wife Nicole Kidman were resting in Italy yesterday after helping in a yacht rescue off Capri on Wednesday night.
Zany DJ Chris Evans has 200,000 fewer listeners now than he did last March - but BBC Radio 1 is still celebrating.
The total number of listeners to Britain's top DJ has dropped from 7.3 million to 7.1 million. But the latest figures from Rajar, the industry's audience research organisation, show that Evans has increased his share of the available morning audience to a high of 15.3 per cent.
A former French TV star who hosted the French version of an It's a Knockout game show was fined 100,000 francs (about £125,000) yesterday for fraud. Guy Lux (74), who founded his own production company after becoming one of France's most popular TV presenters, was also given a 15 month suspended jail term by a Paris court.
James Whitman McLamore, co founder of fast food giant Burger King and inventor of the Whopper, has died of lung cancer in Coral Gables, Florida. He was 70. "There are only two things our customers have time and money, and they don't like spending either of them, so we better sell them their hamburgers quickly," once said explaining his success.