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Model Kate Moss arrives at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Jan. 29. Moss and her publisher boyfriend, Jefferson Hack, are expecting their first baby, Hack's family said Friday.

Model Kate Moss expecting first baby

Olympian news services

Originally published Saturday, March 23, 2002

LONDON -- Kate Moss and her publisher boyfriend, Jefferson Hack, are expecting their first baby, Hack's family said Friday.

Hack's father, Douglas, said the couple told him on Wednesday that the 28-year-old model is three months pregnant.

"It's great news and we are delighted," he said. "They told us that Kate is pregnant. They are very happy about it and they are very happy together."

A spokeswoman for Moss's modeling agency, Storm, confirmed the news.

Moss and Hack, the 30-year-old publisher of style magazine Dazed & Confused, have no plans to marry, Douglas Hack said.

Moss, who grew up in south London, has been modeling since she was 14. In 1998, she checked into a London clinic, suffering from exhaustion. Her previous boyfriends include actor Johnny Depp and Antony Langdon, guitarist with the pop group Spacehog.

NEW YORK -- Forget a million bucks. On Oscar night, Jules Asner will look like 5 million bucks.

Asner, star of E! Entertainment Television's "Revealed" and "E! News Live," will wear a diamond-studded, nude-colored gown with an estimated value of $5 million. Designed by Anne Bowen, the dress features 5,000 quarter-carat Hearts on Fire diamonds, which are known for their precise cut.

The jewels cascade down the silk-and-cotton tulle gown with a silk iridescent chiffon overlay. It flares softly at the bottom with a slit on the center of the right leg.

"I've been a fan of Anne's designs and am honored to wear her latest creation," said Asner, who'll begin reporting from the red carpet Sunday starting at 3 p.m.

The gown then will be auctioned for charity, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Hollygrove, a center in Los Angeles that provides care for abused and neglected children.

LONDON -- A private collector paid $33,000 at auction Friday for a collection of handwritten letters and cards that Princess Diana sent to the former housekeeper at her family home.

Bidding was brisk, and hotelier Michael Rockall, who bid by telephone, paid well above the $23,000 expected by auctioneers G.A. Keys.

The collection had belonged to by Maud Pendrey, who worked at Althorp House, the Spencer family's country estate where Diana spent her teen-age years.

The correspondence includes nine letters that Diana wrote after her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981, and 14 Christmas or New Year's cards sent between 1981-95.

In the first letter, dated Aug. 14, 1981, Diana thanks Pendrey for a wedding present with the words, "I can't tell you how touched and delighted I was to receive your generous present. It's a particularly pretty color which would look lovely in our new home."

A later letter, enclosing a picture of an infant Prince William, is signed, "An extremely proud and lucky mother." In another, dated Sept. 25, 1982, Diana says she hopes to visit Althorp soon to "show off my marvelous husband and son to you both."

Members of the royal family are known to write few cards and letters by hand and use a machine known as an autopen to reproduce their signatures. But all the correspondence in Pendrey's collection was handwritten.

Rockall said he hoped to put the collection on display at his hotel, Whittlebury Hall, which is near Althorp House in southern England.

The Olympian Copyright 2002

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