Carlo’s costly caper

Press, 20 February 1989, Page 11

Carlo’s costly caper

I’m not one to gossip, but... Sophia Loren’s son, 18-year-old Carlo Ponti, jun., had his ear pierced, then borrowed an earring from a $28,000 pair belonging to his mum, and lost it. She is making him pay $14,000 to replace it. “Cheers” star Woody Harrelson really blanched when he learned they were filming an episode involving bees. The other stars, including Kirstie Ally, managed to do their scenes with the insects, but it was out of the question for Woody. He was so petrified they had to use fake bees for his scenes.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s RollsRoyce conked out on a Beverly Hills street, and she got conked with a $32,000 bill for a new engine. She had been driving without any kind of coolant for two months. Says Zsa Zsa, "I’ve lost my cool before, but it never cost me $32,000, dahlink!”

Priscilla Presley is so upset about th creeps who scrawled violent messages on th walls of her beautiful Beverly Hills mansion

that she has hired a couple of beefy, armed, security guards to patrol the grounds 24 hours a day. These days she doesn't have a man of her own at home, as she recently threw out her Brazilian boyfriend Marco Garibaldi, who’s the father of her baby. “L.A. Law” stars Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey are mad bcause their costars Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry are getting the best lines in the show. Michael and Jill,

who are husband and wife both On and off the air, are very friendly with the series’ creator Steven Bochco, and Harry and Susan think he is playing favourites.

The ex-Mrs Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen called her lover Mark Gastineau from Italy and complained she was working so hard that she was not getting time to tan on the beach. As a surprise, Mark had an $lB,OOO suntanning bed installed in the massive bathroom of her L.A. apartment for her rtum. Now the two can have matching allyear tans, to go with the matching tattoos on their behinds.

Raquel Welch beat out Fay Dunaway for the lead in the upcoming TV movie “Countess Dracula.” It’s particularly galling to Fay, because of seething rivalry between the two actresses. Raquel had a red-hot romance with photographer Terry O’Neill before Fay married him, and Fay has neither forgiven nor forgotten. That’s why you will nevers&e these two

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ladies in a movie together. Former teen idol Leif Garrett, the boyfriend of Justine Bateman, is panicking about his receding hairline. He’s been pricing super hairpieces like Burt Reynolds’ and William Shatner’s, which are in the $15,000 bracket. Jackie Onassis is fuming over a new, unauthorised biography which is going to dish the dirt on her two children, Caroline and John, jun. Jackie is trying to stop the book ever hitting the stores... but my lips are sealed.