Video Of David Beckham Confronting Fan Over Sex Claim – David Beckham is accused of shelling out lots of money for a steamy threesome with a pair of prostitutes. One ex-call girl has publicly come forward, and the other prostitute has backed the story while remaining anonymous. An infamous madam also insists that Beckham cheated on his longtime wife.For his part, Beckham has sued the magazine In Touch over the story. [huffpo]

Owner Of Segway Rides Segway Off Cliff And Dies – The multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died in a freak accident yesterday when he rode one of the high-tech two-wheel machines off a cliff and into a river. Former miner Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding around his West Yorkshire estate in Boston Spa on a rugged country version of the Segway. He was using one of the machines to inspect the grounds of his property before everything went tits up. [dailymail]

SAA Flight Attendant Gets Seven Years For Smuggling Drugs – A South African Airways (SAA) flight attendant has been jailed for seven years in the United Kingdom after trying to smuggle drugs into the country, the UK Border Agency said on Monday. Elphia Dlamini (42) from Cape Town tried to smuggle cocaine into the UK in her bra and underpants in June, the agency said in a statement. Silly tart. [mail@guardian]

Facebook Movie Is Going To Break Records – Days before The Social Network hits theaters, critics are saying to forget the Oscar race—David Fincher’s Facebook movie has already won. How good is it? Read the reviews here. It has already been compared to Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Balzac. Its Rotten Tomatoes score is a perfect 100 percent. Which by all accounts is very good. [dailybeast]

Google Loses Defamation Case – A French man sued Google because typing in his name resulted in search suggestions for “rapist,” “satanist,” “rape,” and “prison.” The court today ruled against Google in the defamation suit.In what could either be a landmark ruling or one of the most easily overturned decisions ever, the French court ordered Google to 5,000 euros ($6734) in damages. Hmm, I wonder if they thought this through properly.. [tgdaily]

Wal-Mart To Buy Massmart – Massmart’s 12% surge on the JSE on the back of news of an imminent buyout from Wal-Mart Stores in the USA pushed the local bourse higher on Monday. The JSE closed higher on Monday following news that Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart has chosen retailer Massmart as its vehicle for expansion into Africa. By 17:00 local time the JSE all share index was up 0.85%, and Massmart shares surged 10,58% in the day after being up as much as 12% during trade. North of 10…nice. [businessday]

Paris Hilton Sues Hallmark For Using Her “That’s Hot” Phrase – Paris Hilton has filed a federal lawsuit over a $2.49 Hallmark greeting card that uses a photo of the heiress and her trademarked phrase “That’s Hot.” In a complaint filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Hilton alleges that Hallmark has, among other transgressions, misappropriated her image and invaded her privacy with the card, a copy of which you’ll find after the jump. [thesmokinggun]

High-School Dropout Poses As Secret Agent, Gets Friend To Kill Mother – Corderral Smith used props from a board game to convince the hired killer that he was a legitimate agent working for the US Government. He faked an arrest warrant which described his 50 year-old mother Gloria Ryan as “dangerous and unfit to be around anyone.” Prosecutors said 22 year-old Smith convinced the hired killer Jason Rizzi that if he carried out the murder he would be hired as an undercover agent. Awesome! [telegraph]

Is Japan Heading For a Crash? – “A rapidly aging population and the government’s deepening financial struggles make Japan a potential powder keg for international investments. We try to avoid hyperbole as much as possible at Hedgeye, the research firm where I work as an analyst. But after researching Japanese demographics and pension obligations, we have to say that in our opinion, they present one of the most dangerous potential risks to global investing over the next 10-20 years.” [fortune]

The Proof Is in the Placenta – In The Obama Identity, a new satirical novel by Edward Klein and John LeBoutillier, C.I.A. agent Theodore J. Higginbothem III is ordered to check out all the conspiracy theories about Barack Obama: Was he born in America? Is he a Muslim? Is he a socialist? In this exclusive Vanity Fair excerpt, Higgy finds himself in Hawaii on the trail of Barack Obama’s birthplace. [vanityfair]

Kim Jong Il To Hand Power Over To Mini Me – North Korea’s powerful military has given its tacit backing to the dynastic succession plans of Kim Jong-il after electing his youngest son as a delegate to a historic ruling party meeting, it has been claimed. At the last such meeting, in 1980, the then 38-year-old Kim Jong-il was officially declared as his father’s successor at the start of a 14-year apprenticeship that eventually saw him take over as leader following the death Kim Il-sung in 1994. [telegraph]

Photographs Surface Of Lindsay Lohan Apparently Injecting Heroin – According to a photo appeared in News of The World, Lindsay seems to injects a substance in her arm with a syringe. According to a source, “These images of her with the syringe are terrifying. What no one knows for certain is just how often Lindsay does drugs – or exactly which drugs she does. [inrumor]

Now Is the Time to Sell Your Sex Slave Memoir – Jaycee Dugard has sold a memoir about her 18 years in captivity with depraved sex maniac Phillip Garrido. By coincidence, Natascha Kampusch—the Austrian girl who escaped from a sex dungeon at age eighteen—just sold a memoir, too. In other words, now is better time than any to get yours out there. [gawker]

Cape Quarter Spring Food Specials Madness! – Its the final week of the Cape Quarter’s ridiculous Spring Food Specials running across all their fine eateries and outlets. We’re talking half price sushi at Vanilla, Happy Hours and great meals from Chenin, breakfast and specials from Cru Cafe, Andiamo’s two pasta/ pizza with wine for R99, Lazaris 1st anniversary 30% off specials . The list is pretty much endless! [capequarter]

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