Friends and family of Joe DiMaggio are blasting the auction of the Yankee Clipper’s private diaries.
“Joe would turn over in his grave,” the slugger’s brother, Dom DiMaggio, told the new York Daily News. “Had he been alive, I don’t think this would have happened.”
The 90-year-old Dom believes his reclusive brother would be livid over the public sale of the 2,000 pages of journal entries he kept between 1982 and 1993.
“I immensely dislike the idea, and I believe it’s a complete disgrace,” adds Dom, a former Boston Red Sox center fielder.
Steiner Sports bought the 29-volume collection from a group that included Joe’s granddaughters Paula Hamra and Kathy Stein and Joe’s longtime lawyer, Morris Engelberg.
Like many wars before it, the one between Martha Stewart and some of her Westchester County, N.Y., neighbors has inspired a protest song.
Written by Katonah resident Marc Black, the song takes aim at Stewart’s attempt to trademark the village’s name for use on a line of furniture and home products.
That idea has outraged many residents, who say that no one should own the name “Katonah,” and some American Indians, who say the name is taken from a beloved 17th-century tribal chief.
“We love you Martha,” sings Black in the video, strumming an acoustic guitar as he lounges in a hammock on his porch. “And that’s why, I wrote this song. We like you here, you can belong. But you just can’t buy us, and simply own.”
Diane Paterson, a spokeswoman for the domestic doyenne’s company, said Stewart was requesting trademark protection to “prevent competitors from selling knockoffs.”Katonah is about 40 miles north of midtown Manhattan. The Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corp. said the average house price there was $912,000 in 2006.
O.J. Simpson has been hitting the bottle since he was persuaded to semi-confessing to double-murder last year with his “If I Did It” book project, the New York Post reports.
Simpson was at The Ivy in Aventura, Fla., the other night “falling all over himself and couldn’t stand up, even though he tried several times,” said a witness. “He started screaming for everyone in the restaurant to go with him to Mansion (in Miami). I don’t think anyone took him up on it.”
Nobody can control Britney Spears.
Now she’s taken over as her own business manager and publicist. Though she’s still signed to Jive Records, a source told the New York Post, “She is doing all of her own business now.”
Spears was seen at Aspen on West 22nd Street yesterday afternoon “signing contracts” – possibly related to the recent deal she inked to open a Las Vegas club. The mother of two recently cut ties with her manager Larry Rudolf, her mother, and her publicist.
