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Liza Minnelli has struck a secret deal to end the sordid $100 million sexual harassment lawsuit by her former right-hand man. M’Hammed Soumayah had filed suit against the Oscar winner back in 2004, charging she’d beat him during booze-fueled rampages and forced him to have sex with her. "After many repeated attempts by Minnelli to compel plaintiff to have sex with her," the married father of two "eventually succumbed" after she threatened to fire him from his $283,000-a-year job as her chauffeur, the suit said. The purportedly pugilistic performer — who’d also been accused of beating her oddball ex-hubby David...

LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector stepped out of his mansion with a gun in his hand at 5 a.m. four years ago and said, "I think I killed somebody," a chauffeur testified Tuesday in the record producer's trial on charges of murdering an actress. It was the first time that Adriano De Souza gave his account in public, though he has told the story to police and grand jurors.

Richard Miniter (reports) on Nancy Pelosi's preferred means ofland transportation. This morning Speaker Pelosei will be chauferred in her government-owned black Chevy Tahoe sport-utility vehicle to the Rayburn House Office Building -– where she will be the lead witness on a global warming hearing held by Science and Technology Committee. Rich adds: The Tahoe emits 11 tons of greenhouse gases per year, according to U.S. Department of Energy. The agency ranks it as “one of the worst” vehicles on the road, according to www.fueleconomy.gov, a non-partisan government web site. Many models of the Chevy Tahoe are unavailable in Rep. Pelosi’s...

In 1971, the New York Times published the top secret "Pentagon Papers" which resulted in much angst in government. Years ago, I read that the reason for that angst was that the publishing of the papers blew the cover of a extremely valuable CIA spy. As I remember it, one comment in the Pentagon Papers could be traced back to a conversation that could have only come from the interior of Nikita Khrushchev's limo. The CIA had recruited Khrushchev's chauffeur and he had planted a bug in the limo. When the Russians read the Pentagon Papers in the Times, they...

The driver of the embassy of Jordan in Iraq removed in Baghdad AMMAN - the driver of the ambassador of Jordan in Iraq, itself Jordanian, was removed Tuesday morning in Baghdad, indicated to AFP a Jordanian official source. "the driver of the ambassador, a Jordanian bench in Iraq for several years, has been removed one hour ago (towards 05H30 GMT)", indicated this official source, under cover of anonymity. "the Jordanian government started contacts to know the persons in charge for this removal", added the source.

A company car or car allowance is now a standard part of the compensation package for area public-school superintendents, a survey by The Washington Times shows, but in the District, the free ride also comes with a chauffeur. Superintendent Clifford B. Janey, 59, is taken to and from many school engagements by a support-services assistant who makes $28,711 to $36,939 a year, school officials said. The driver "serves as the main point of contact to ensure the superintendent's timely attendance to various functions," said Erika L. Pierson, deputy general counsel for D.C. public schools.