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Robinson claimed the actor made her put away his boxers, wash his sheets, and set his table. The suit also alleges that 'De Niro would direct Ms. Robinson to scratch his back, button his shirts and prod him awake when he was in bed.' Furthermore, states the filing, 'De Niro also stood idly by while his friend slapped Ms. Robinson on her buttocks.' The former production company employee says that De Niro would also exhibit various forms of creepy behavior including 'urinating during telephone calls' and greet her wearing only his 'pajamas or a bathrobe.' --------------------------------- Robert De Niro is...

He was known as the Last Godfather and boasted he had “filled a graveyard all by myself” with his brutal crimes. Now Sicilian don Matteo Messina Denaro has met his own end, at the age of 61. The mafia boss, who was arrested in January after 30 years on the run, died in hospital in the Central Italian city of L’Aquila suffering from cancer. A notorious womaniser who flaunted his wealth with Porsche cars, Rolex watches, Armani suits and Ray-Ban sunglasses, Denaro was respon­sible for some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the Cosa Nostra. Among them was a...

Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley shared a stage in March 1960, when Ol’ Blue Eyes invited the singer of ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ onto his show.When the rock’n’roll phenomenon, spearheaded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, and Chuck Berry, exploded like the musical equivalent of an atom bomb in the mid-50s, it was greeted with both alarm and suspicion by some of the music business’s established artists, Frank Sinatra among them. The Chairman Of The Board invited The King Of Rock’n’Roll to be a special guest on the last of four hour-long TV shows sponsored by watchmakers Timex and...