Vol 3, No 14: July 12, 2005

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Affleck, Ben

The actor wed Jennifer Garner in a private ceremony on Parrot Cay in the Caribbean on June 29, 2005. This ceremony, his first marriage and her second, was attended by very few people; their parents and many close friends were absent.

Albert, Prince of Monaco

In May 2005, a French publication broke the story that the unmarried prince of Monaco had a son. On July 6, 2005, the Prince confirmed that he had fathered a child with former Air France attendant Nicole Coste. The child, Alexandre, was born in August 2003. Albert, whose father died just a few weeks before the story broke, formally ascends to the throne on July 12, 2005. Under present law, Alexandre cannot inherit the throne of the principality.

Ball, Lucille

The comedienne was born in NY not NJ. The coordinates in her entry were correct in AstroDatabank, however, so any chart generated from AstroDatabank with your charting software would have been correct.

Brown, Jerry

The politician and his fiancée, Anne Gust, married on June 18, 2005 in Oakland, CA.

Carter, Nick

In July 2005, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drinking and driving, the singer was sentenced to serving three years' probation, paying a fine, and attending an alcohol education program.

Fry, Christopher

The venerable playwright died at age 97 on June 30, 2005 in Chichester, England.

Graham, Billy

On June 26, 2005, despite intense heat, his advanced age and his ill health, Graham delivered a rousing 23-minute sermon at what he considers his last revival meeting in the United States. The three-day rally was held from June 24-26 in Queens, NY.

Haver, June

The 79-year-old actress died of respiratory failure on July 4, 2005 at her home in Los Angeles.

Jolie, Angelina

The actress and United Nations activist adopted a second child on July 6, 2005, a five-month-old orphan from Ethiopia. The girl is named Zahara Marley Jolie.

Lewis, Jerry Lee

On June 15, 2005, his divorce from his sixth wife was finalized in Hernando, MS.

Mondale, Eleanor

Mondale confirmed on June 20, 2005 that she had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Earlier in the year, she had noticed that her vision got a bit blurry at times but didn't seek medical care. While on a camping trip on May 16, 2005, at about 4 AM, she had a seizure, with another one occurring 10 minutes later. Doctors found two tumors on her frontal lobe, and on May 31 she received the news that the tumors had proven cancerous. She expects to beat the disease with chemo and radiation to shrink the tumors; so far there is no evidence that the cancer has metastasized. The only daughter of politician Walter Mondale married musician Chan Poling, her third husband, less than a week before she made public her battle with the dreaded disease.

Picasso, Pablo

On June 27, 2005, another of his lovers auctioned off some of his seldom-seen paintings, some of them nudes of her that he called his "letters of love." All together, the works of art were valued at $2.4 million. Genevieve Laporte, now 79, says that she met the famous artist in 1944 when she was 18 years old and interviewed him for her school newspaper. Their relationship developed but, according to her, he waited until he was 24 before he seduced her, and he was not the egotist he is often described as being. She said, "I want to pass on the message that he was a loving man."

Schimmel, Annemarie

Larry Ely points out correctly that her day of birth is the 7th, not the 17th. We've also updated her biography to include notation of her death.

Thera, H. D.

Thanks to an inquiry from an astute reader, I have made a correction in this entry's time zone. Previously the time zone entered was LMT with a GMT differential of -4 hours and 51 minutes but the correct GMT differential according to the ACS atlas should be - 5 hours and 21 minutes.

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