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Feds Want to Seize Black's Profit from Park Avenue Apartment Sale
The federal government wants to seize the money Conrad Black made from the $8.5 million sale of his Park Avenue apartment.
According to this morning's Financial Times, the seizure would be part of a government effort to get $17 million from Mr. Black and two other executives of his Hollinger International following their fraud convictions in June. read more »
Will Lady Black Write Conrad Trial Memoir?
!["Do they all hate us?"](http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article-teaser/files/071607_ladyblack.jpg ""Do they all hate us?"")
We're a little obsessed with Barbara Amiel, devoted wife of Conrad Black who once said of herself in a Vogue profile: "I have an extravagance that knows no bounds."
So imagine our excitement so see that Richard Siklos had written a short piece about the Lady Black! read more »
Conrad Black Found Guilty On Four Counts
A Chicago jury has found Conrad Black guilty on four of thirteen chages, three days after a judge ordered them back into deliberation. The jury had said it could not reach a consensus on all of the 16 charges being brought against four executives of Hollinger, Inc.
However, in the mixed jury verdict, Black was acquitted of nine counts that included wire fraud and racketeering.
The former Hollinger chief once presided over an empire that included the Chicago Sun-Times, Toronto’s National Post, London’s Daily Telegraph, and Israel's Jerusalem Post. read more »
Daily News Soon to Be as Famous as Whitney and Bobby's Bathroom
Bravo's Tabloid Wars--that docu-reality-miniseries peek into Mort Zuckerman's Daily News ant farm--hits TVs July 24, the summer after it was filmed. Today brings the press kit, complete with a mock newspaper touting the series' many dramatic attractions ("Married gossip columnists George Rush and Joanna Malloy balance family life and work when their son's sudden injury leaves Rush to cover a Gotti family party solo"..."Columnist Lenore Skenazy scours the city for 'intriguing oddballs'"). read more »
The most excitement, though, comes from the back page roundup of the series' principal characters. Here's Michael Cooke, Editor-in-Chief--"Currently, Cooke is back in the windy city where he is vice president of editorial operations for the Chicago group of papers at Sun-Times parent company, Hollinger Inc." There's Hudson "Hud" Morgan, Junior Gossip Columnist To Lloyd Grove--"Morgan is currently an associate editor at Men's Vogue." Forget the real-life news-chasing story lines. Maybe Bravo shoulda just modeled the program on Survivor.
