BUNGA BUNGA FOREVER
He partied with Putin and Gaddafi when it was almost cool, and left a sordid trail of women problems, tax probes, and a whole lot of photos of naked pols at his Sardinian lair.
Barbie Latza Nadeau, former correspondent-at-large for The Daily Beast and author of The Godmother, about the rise of women in the mafia, Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Guns and Drugs on the Mafia Coast, about sex trafficking and the mafia, and Beast Book Angel Face, about Amanda Knox, has reported from Italy for Newsweek since 1997 and for The Daily Beast since 2009. She is also a CNN Contributor and frequent writer for Scientific American.
IN PIECES
Abby Choi’s ex-husband, his brother, and their parents are in custody over the 28-year-old Hong Kong model’s grisly murder.
BATTLE LINES
One year after Russia’s invasion, European leaders are still split over whether to offer their full support to Zelensky and Ukraine.
END OF A SAGA
Scott Phillip White admitted, then retracted and has admitted again, to causing American mathematician Scott Johnson to plunge to his death off a cliff.
WAR THEATER
Russia claims Ukraine is planning a false flag attack on Moldova, which is exactly the sort of thing they would say before staging their own operation.
HOME SWEET HOME
Heather Mack was 18 and pregnant with baby Stella when she was convicted of killing her mother and stuffing her in a suitcase found at the St. Regis resort in Bali.
COULD IT BE?
A 21-year-old Polish woman says the parents of the missing British girl have agreed to a DNA test.
LIVE FOR THE MOMENT
Indigenous groups have petitioned a court in Australia to bring government benefits in line with lifespans.
RED FLAG
David Ballantyne Smith, who worked as a security guard for the British embassy in Berlin, had Russian flags in his apartment.
CROSS TO BEAR
The group, who subscribe to “premillennialism” called police monsters and demons.