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Show Want the facts? Opinion? Truth? Write Walter Scott, Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, NLY. 10163-5001 Full name will be used makes personal replies impossible. y 0: friend told me thereis a super-rich whoput her dead husband on i ice.woman Is that true?—Sophia P., Detroit, Mich. Your recent item on actor Michael York mentioned thathis wite, Pat, is a photographer, is she the samePat York who published a bookof photosandinterviews with senior citizens?— Who is that beautiful woman with the amaz- ing blue eyes in Ricky Martin’s video “She’s All After Frank Lahainerdied in March 1995 in Palm Beach,Fla., his widow, Gianna, had him 1 Ever Had”?San Francisco,Calif. Her nameis Charlotte Ayanna. She had been Miss embalmedandstored (notonice) for 40 daysat a funeral home—afact she confirmed tous. It’s oneofthe bizarretales in The Season: Inside Teen U.S.A. in 1993 but was 4 PalmBeach andAmerica's Richest Society, by Ronald Kessler. seems Frank, worth $300 mil- anout-of-work waitress when Ricky Martin picked her head shot from the hundreds sub- dle of Palm Beach’s socialseason,” Kessler told us. “Gianna didn’t want tomiss any ofthe parties. I see that someone is publishing The Autobiography of Howard Hughes, by Clittord Irving. | thought it was exposed as a hoax. § wanted me to shoot celebf rities,” says the former lion, died at an inconvenient time—in the midfarce mitted last year for his roman- tic music video. Born in PuertoRico, she wasraised in Vermont’sfoster-care system and changed her namefrom Perez cadavers. “Editors just What's up?—Gres Stewart, New York, NY. to Ayanna, a Native American word for “blessed.” ayes B fashion photographer. “To Clifford Irving served 17 monthsin jail for defrauding McGraw-Hill with his purported Shedoesn’t know her father’s identity and only 1972 “autobiography” ofthereclusive billion- briefly metherlate mother, whowaspart Puerto Rican,Irish, French, Russian and Egyptian. "My mother was a paranoid-schizophrenic who lost aire, for which he got a $765,000 advance. Now his Hughes bookis being issued as a biography custody of all six of her children,” Ayanna, 23, told us from L.A., where she’sshootinga film of envy for with director Michael Radford. In 1996 she wrote millions ‘of women) Lostin the System, aboutherlife in foster care. Terry Burns, Miami, Fla The same.Pat York, 59, says her 1992 book, Going Strong, was inspired by her grandmother. Her choice of subjects has taken an = 4 unconventional twist and now focuseson nudesand byterrificbooks.com, an Internet publisher part- owned byIrving.“I know I did something wrong, but it has receded so far intothe past, it would be self-destructive to harp onit,”hetells us.Irving, i keep myselfinterested, I began to fantasizeabout what was underpeople's clothes and then what was under theirskin.” Her photo exhibit is now in The Yorks, married ; New York andPittsburgh.Versatile Pat also has writtena screenplaytitled The Marzipan Pigeon and tells us she wasasked to direct a film version. Oprah Wintrey made twoseparate referencesto her teenage pregnancy on 68, has written 10 bookssince his release, but some William Hurt says he suffered from recent shows. How old was she at the time of her pregnancy, and what became Ironically, some of those samecritics have endorsed Dutch, Edmund Mons’ purported “memoir of Ronald Reagan,” a mix offact andfiction. picture him overcome it, and whatis he acting in now? as a pigeon —M.Schwartz, Fort Lauderdale,Fla. A lips liter- of the baby?—C,Tillman, Denver, Colo. d critics contend he doesn’t deserve to be published. In 1990, after her ally started to half-sister sold the story to a tabloid, Oprah admitted that she thatthis matter could lock duringa performance, and I had to tum away from the audience to pry my mouth open with myfin- stay private until I was gers,” Hurt, 49, had becomepregnant at age 14. “I had hoped own deep emotion: Oprah: Lost chance for she told PARADEat important job” the time. Oprah—who important blockingthe flow of good energy.” Whiles\usly ing at Juilliard, Hurt leamed the Alexander ject nique,a century-old method ofposture alignitieril calls motherhood“the toughest, most important jobin the world" —said she delivered her that helped “unblock his energy.” He and J.ne infant prematurely, andit died soonafterbirth. Now 45, Oprahoccasionally refers to her early sexual abuse andteenage promiscuity on her show, but the subjects are still so painful that sherefuses to discuss them in detail Ly Y -_~ — a ae = a“ A ‘ — ¥ (ells us, “Fear was Hurt and Richardson in Ring making me collapse my head and neck down, able to deal with my = paralyzing stage fright. How did he a on Paul face” at PETA gala Kosminsky, whotaughtdanceat Juilliard, !)aye put out a videoteaching the technique. Hur |ast appeared in Showtime's The Big Brass Ring. Miranda Richardson.His latest films are 171: #// Floor and The Simian Line, due out nex! s°! 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