Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Playboy son spared jail for lover attack
A DRUNKEN playboy who viciously attacked his girlfriend has avoided jail.
Marco Nardone, 29, the son of a millionaire wine merchant, grabbed Toni Allcock round the throat, dragged her by the hair and kicked her in the stomach at his £2million apartment, a court heard.
Nardone, educated at £37,000-a-year Charterhouse school, got into an argument with her after coming home late from dinner with his father.
He admitted assault by beating and got eight weeks’ suspended prison.
Westminster magistrates heard Nardone, of Hammersmith, West London, had slapped Toni and grabbed her throat previously. They told him: “We are very concerned about her safety.” BRIGITTE Bardot says most of the actresses making claims of sexual harassment in the film industry are being “hypocritical”.
The movie icon has accused women of flirting with industry bosses to secure roles then inventing stories about being preyed upon to get themselves publicity.
She added she enjoyed it when film producers told her they liked her bum.
When Brigitte, 83, was asked what she thinks of actresses denouncing sexual harassment, she said: “In the vast majority of cases they are being hypocritical, ridiculous, uninteresting.
“There are many actresses who flirt with producers in order to get a role. Then, in order to be talked about, they will say they have been harassed.
“In reality, rather than benefiting them, it harms them.”
Since October when harassment and sex assault accusations emerged against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, numerous actresses have come forward to say they are victims.
French star Brigitte, a screen siren in the 1950s and 1960s, told the Paris Match magazine she relished some of her flirtatious conversations with film chiefs.
She said: “I was never the victim of sexual harassment. I found it charming when I was told I was beautiful or I had a nice little backside. This kind of compliment is nice.”
Brigitte, who made her name in 1956 film And God Created Woman, also appearing in hits such as 1965 comedy Viva Maria!, has been criticised in the past for supporting French far-right party the National Front. She has been
SLAMS THE METOO MOVEMENT
JOANNA Lumley says she feels she must wear black to host the BAFTAS because wearing colour at a film event amid the #Me Too campaign is “virtually saying ‘I am Harvey Weinstein’s mistress’”.
The Absolutely Fabulous star, 71, will be taking over from 12-times host Stephen Fry at next month’s ceremony, and said fined five times for inciting racial hatred, including comments, in a 2003 book, on “the Islamisation of France”.
Her criticism of actresses making claims as part of the #Metoo movement come after film star Catherine Deneuve apologised to sex abuse victims over a letter she supported that said the allegations have gone too far.
The Oscar-nominated French actress, 74, was one of 100 women, including writers and artists, to sign the letter published in French newspaper Le Monde saying men should be “free to hit on” women. The message added: “Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone’s knee or try to steal a kiss. Rape is a crime,
the reaction to the move has been “great”.
But she added: “Everybody will be in black out of terror, though I’d love to wear colour.
“I love colours, I love flamboyance and I love our industry and I want but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or clumsily, is not.
“And nor is men being gentlemanly a chauvinist attack.
“As women we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power, takes on a hatred of men and sexuality.”
Catherine has said sorry to the victims of “hideous acts” of sexual abuse.
She added: “Nothing in the text claims that harassment is good, otherwise I wouldn’t have signed it.
“I’m a free woman and I will remain one. I fraternally salute all women victims of odious acts who might have felt assaulted by the letter in Le Monde.”
She added: “It is to them, and them alone, that I apologise.”
As a result of the #Metoo movement, the Time’s Up initiative, backed by many actresses, was launched this year in a bid
to tackle sexual harassment. to celebrate it.” Stars wore black to the Golden Globes awards ceremony earlier this month in a mark of solidarity with actresses who have spoken about suffering sexual harassment amid claims against Weinstein and others.