Leonardo DiCaprio and Gossip Girls star Blake Lively: Hot New Romance

Leonardo DiCaprio has been photographed escorting Gossip Girls star Blake Lively around the south of France this week, and rumors are flying about their hot new romance. According to US Magazine, ever since his most recent breakup with on/off girlfriend Bar Refaeli, DiCaprio has been in “hot pursuit” of Lively, whom he first met last November at a business meeting in New York City. They met again at actor Jeremy Renner’s birthday party in January, where they “locked lips,” and most recently met up again at the Cannes Film Festival. This time around, DiCaprio was free to pursue Lively, who had broken up with her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley last September.

DiCaprio has reportedly been wining and dining his new love all over the French Riviera. US Magazine published photographs of them walking hand-in-hand on a moonlit street in Monte Carlo, where they stayed at the luxurious Hôtel de Paris next door to the casinos. On May 29, they were seen partying on board an opulent £32 million Benetti yacht owned by billionaire Sir Philip Green, founder of the British fashion store Topshop. US reports they arrived on the yacht “hand in hand” and a source told the magazine that DiCaprio introduced Lively as his girlfriend. “It sounds unlike Leo – but I’ve also never seen him like this with a girl,” the source is quoted as saying. “I would say they’re totally smitten.”

DiCaprio, who is 36, has a reputation in Hollywood for partying hard with lots of beautiful women, but Lively, now 23, has a more restrained, squeaky clean reputation, at least until recently. Lively’s good-girl image has taken a beating with the recent release of five photographs that are allegedly of her in the nude in front of a mirror. Lively claimed the photos were fake and threatened to sue the publications that printed them. The very next day, however, 17 more photographs appeared on the internet. Her representative told People Magazine, “Blake has never taken nude photos of herself.”

While upset over the release of the photographs, Lively has been consoling herself by spending time with DiCaprio in Italy. The pair moved on from the French Riviera to Venice on June 1, where People reports they went on a boat ride and met up with friends. Viva Italia!

Keeping mum: Carla Bruni shows off bump at last, but she still won't announce she's pregnant

It can only be a matter of time now before Carla Bruni finally announces her pregnancy.

She's toyed with the French media in TV appearances, and has hidden her tummy behind oversized handbags to avoid giving anything away...

But here, at last, is the evidence that Carla has a 'croissant' (or two) in the oven.

Carla finally ditched the frumpy outfits we've see her in for weeks today and stepped out in a short white dress that clearly showed a bulging baby bump.

She even openly joked about the pregnancy rumours in front of the cameras, pointing to her stomach while chatting to Geertrui Van Rompuy the European Council President's wife.

Carla wore a smart black coat over the dress - but it looked unlikely that she would be able to do the buttons up over her bump.

Her usual high heels were also replaced with more modest black kitten heels.
The First Lady is in Deauville to accompany her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is attending the G8 summit.
Spouses of the G8 leaders will be meeting on the sidelines of the formal summit, in the French seaside resort, to discuss issues including the fight against illiteracy.
Carla adopted her typical pose of arms over her tummy for a picture with Maria Barroso, the wife of European Commission President, Laureen Harper the wife of Canadian Prime Minister, Geertrui Van Rompuy the wife of European Council President and Svetalana Medvedeva the wife of Russian President.

Why France Believes the Strauss-Kahn Plot

by Roland Michel Tremblay

Fifty-seven per cent of people in France believe the head of the IMF was framed on sexual assault charges.

Le Monde confirmed in a poll conducted by CSA that for 57 per cent of the French population, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the victim of a plot. Reviewing the French press reveals that most of the mass media in France published articles quoting political figures, including political rivals, stating that they do not believe that the sexual assault charges against Strauss-Kahn – allegedly involving a chambermaid at a New York hotel – are genuine.

In the meantime, the career of the former head of the International Monetary Fund and potential future French president, who was seen to be more favourable to people than to global corporations, is over – unless somehow public belief in his innocence could be turned to his advantage, even if found guilty by “forged” evidence.

Here is a review of some of the articles in the French press about this case.
On May 16, Le Figaro published an article entitled, “The thesis of the plot flowers on the web and with politicians,” in which the newspaper argues that the seeds of the conspiracy theory were planted when a “militant” in the UMP, a rival political party to Strauss-Kahn’s Socialists, tweeted news of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest before the press got wind of it. “Denuded of any element of proof, it has nevertheless been evoked by responsible politicians,” the paper reported.

It reported how the website Le Post questioned certain troubling facts in an article “DSK arrested: a young UMP first on the info”: “The promptness with which Jonathan Pinet relayed the information of the arrest of DSK, the fact that Arnaud Dassier, one of the investors of the site Atlantico, already author of revelations about the Porsche, would have been one of the first to have re-tweeted the information, the fact that the site 24heuresactu, reputed close to the right, was the first French site to publish the information.” Le Post mentions that Dassier was responsible for the internet campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. (The Porsche incident stems from when Strauss-Kahn, a socialist, and his wife came out of the said car in Paris in front of their home. At the time, the right took the opportunity to tarnish his image in the media.)

From Le Figaro: “Was [this] the right way of getting rid of a chief of the IMF [who was] too independent in order to instead place someone better adapted to the American economic and financial situation?”, asks Bertrand Neveu on lefigaro.fr. Interrogations linked to the inconsistencies concerning DSK’s schedule were assembled in an article in Les Echos called “Several inconsistencies remain in the DSK timeline.” The article discusses how New York police changed the facts and time of the event after it was shown that Strauss-Kahn was having lunch with his daughter at the time of the alleged offence.

However, this point is of no importance now, since the issue is becoming if sex was consensual. Supporters of Strauss-Kahn wonder why he would contact the hotel to ensure that his mobile phone, which he left behind, could be returned. This does not fit with someone who was trying to flee the scene of a crime, especially since this is apparently how the NYPD found out where they could arrest Strauss-Kahn, on a plane at JFK airport.

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Woman throws mug at Mona Lisa! / Kobieta rzuca kubkiem w obraz Mony Lisy!

Crazy shit! A woman reportedly threw a mug at Da Vinci's masterpiece while visiting the Louvre. Read more here.
A propos - ever been to the Louvre?
I think the new part is quite hideous.
Well on the first look it was. Maybe Ihave grown up? Dunno, but from my point of view Vienna's the only city (as for now) which combines an older building style with newer ones, successfully. Just saying!
Niezłe! Na CNN jest napisane, że jakaś nieznana turystka rzuciła kubkiem w majstersztyk Leonarda Da Vinci odwiedzając Luwr. Na innej stronie internetowej doczytałam, iż kobieta ponoć pochodzi z Rosji i była wściekła , iż odmówiono jej obywatelstwa francuskiego... jeśli to prawda, to o włoskim nawet nie powinna myśleć... dlaczego rzuciła w obraz Włocha? Bądź co bądź obraz oczywiście znajdował się "pod ochroną" jaką jest szkło pancerzowe (jeśli to się tak nazywa po Polsku).
A tak na marginesie? Byliście kiedyś w Luwrze? Francuzi by mnie teraz zapewne zlinczowali za owe słowa, ale według mnie nowa część jest ..mniej udana. Nie podoba mi się. Po prostu. Chyba tylko w Wiedniu potrafią doskonale łączyć stary styl architektury z nowym...