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  • Sorry Hopkins

    Sorry Hopkins

    After Katie Hopkins was forced to say “sorry” to Finsbury Park Mosque, she should now be sent to where she belongs – social media’s equivalent of Siberia

    Katie Hopkins’ sphere of influence has extended too far for too long and that she was forced to apologise for a false tweet about the Finsbury Park Mosque yesterday was quite correct.

     

    Though Hopkins got off without having to pay damages as she has been insolvent since 2018 due to her previous libel loss against the equally noxious Jack Monroe, that she was forced to write the words “I am genuinely sorry” were a most deserved punishment.

     

    That she was also made to write: “I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the contributions made by the Mosque to society” is even more important and now, yet again, all that this childish woman has done is to again prove that the ‘C*NT’ award she was given in February was well and truly deserved.

     

    It is now time that “sorry” Miss Hopkins finally did the decent thing and that is to permanently shut her filth filled trap.

     

    Sorry Hopkins – Katie Hopkins forced to apologise to Mosque – After Katie Hopkins was forced to say “sorry” to Finsbury Park Mosque, she should now be sent to where she belongs – social media’s equivalent of Siberia.
    Hopkins was forced to issue her apology via Instagram as she was banned from Twitter in June for breaching the medium’s “hateful conduct” policy.
    Sorry Hopkins – Katie Hopkins forced to apologise to Mosque – After Katie Hopkins was forced to say “sorry” to Finsbury Park Mosque, she should now be sent to where she belongs – social media’s equivalent of Siberia.
    Amongst the many lowpoints of moralising-without-morals-herself Katie Hopkins’ life was the moment she got caught having sex with a married man in a field. Of this, she shamelessly remarked: “Mark was a married man and yes I stole him. I stole my first husband as well – get over it.”
    Was she really repentant? Unsurprisingly, after issuing her so-called “apology” Katie Hopkins returned to social media and uploaded a video suggesting people “clear the noise” and thus provided indication that she probably isn’t really sorry at all. She stated: “I have been through a few things in my life and they all did pass.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgd3LhvlXqI
    Hopkins then also uploaded an interview in which she ranted against the Black Lives Matter movement and suggested she’d had “more men cry on her than at any time in her life.” She also bizarrely claimed she’d “be able to look after America” if “people came home.”

    Some of “not so sorry” Katie Hopkins’ most outrageous moments:

     

    On people with dementia:

    “Dementia sufferers should not be blocking beds. What is the point of life when you no longer know you are living it?”

     

    On Ramadan:

    “Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don’t eat – but I don’t blow things up. Religion of peace?”

     

    On ginger haired children:

    “Ginger babies. Like a baby. Just so much harder to love.”

     

    On ‘Highgella’ Nigella Lawson:

    “A self-confessed drug-taker, spendthrift, and a self-obsessed flirt determined to show other women they were imperfect.”

     

    On tourists stranded in Egypt after the bombing of a Russian airplane:

    “I think if you are going to take your children out from school, which is ridiculous in itself, stick them in a destination that is dangerous, don’t be complaining on my television that you’ve been delayed at the airport, don’t be complaining that you don’t have any information, and don’t be coming back acting like you are a refugee from a war-torn country.”

     

    On Jewish politician Ed Milliband’s wife:

    “Pollsters say Justine [Milliband] is the least popular of the party wives. He might stick her head in the oven and turn on the gas.”

     

    On refugees:

    “Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit ‘Bob Geldof’s Ethiopia circa 1984,’ but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. They are survivors.”

     

    On obesity:

    “I don’t really like fat people… Would I employ you if you were obese? No, I would not… If you are obese, you look lazy.”

     

    On suicidal prisoners:

    “They should just kill themselves.”

     

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  • Ban the InstaKiller

    Ban the InstaKiller

    Wolf slaying ‘InstaKiller’ Larysa Switlyk disgracefully remains on Instagram in spite of campaign to remove her going viral on Change.org

    On 11th September, Matthew Steeples of The Steeple Times started a Change.org petition calling for the removal of bear and wolf massacring monster Larysa Switlyk’s Instagram ‘blue tick’ verified badge and, better still, her account entirely.

     

    In the time since, over 3,630 people have already signed, yet still shover-of-sex-toys-up-the-bums-of-dead sheep ‘InstaKiller’ Switlyk continues to post shamelessly and freely on the site. Why, one has to ask, do Instagram continue to allow this extremely offensive content to pollute their medium?

     

    Amongst updates posted in the time since are offensive images of this evil woman posing whilst on a chamois and wolf ‘hunt’ in Macedonia and another asking: “What is your go to knife?”

     

    Clearly indicative of her and her followers deranged mental statuses – especially at a time when knife crime is so sadly prevalent – in response to one follower revealing: “I could go broke buying knives,” Switlyk distastefully answered: “You and me both!”

     

    We again ask readers to please sign the Change.org petition to ban Larysa Switlyk by clicking here and that you all also please share as widely as possible.

     

    Thank you.

     

    Pictured top: Larysa Switlyk with two of her ‘kills’ this month, a wolf and a Balkan chamois and with a knife she is promoting as part of a competition. Why does Instagram allow this vile content sharer to continue? #ShameOnInstagram

     

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    Ban the InstaKiller – Larysa Switlyk must be banned from Instagram – Wolf slaying ‘InstaKiller’ Larysa Switlyk disgracefully remains on Instagram in spite of campaign to remove her going viral.
    Ban the InstaKiller – In a post yesterday, this distinctly un-ladylike lunatic asked: “Who would be interested in a ladies waterfowl hunt?”
    Ban the InstaKiller – Larysa Switlyk must be banned from Instagram – Wolf slaying ‘InstaKiller’ Larysa Switlyk disgracefully remains on Instagram in spite of campaign to remove her going viral.
    Ban the InstaKiller – Larysa Switlyk has previously shared images online of herself with a sex toy she inserted into the arse of a sheep she’d shot in England and in countless shots with wolfs she’d slayed.
  • Instagram – Ban Larysa Switlyk

    Instagram – Ban Larysa Switlyk

    Change.org petition launched to demand the evil sex toy-shover-up-the-bums-of-sheep Larysa Switlyk be banned from Instagram

    Given the angry reaction to our story on Friday about Larysa Switlyk from our readers, we have now started a Change.org petition calling on Instagram to at the very least remove this Trump supporting endangered animal slayer’s ‘blue tick’ and a the very best, ban her altogether from the medium.

     

    Posting a petition to the Change.org site about the hunting world’s equivalent of Katie Hopkins, Matthew Steeples remarked:

     

    Animal massacrer Larysa Switylk has a blue tick on Instagram in spite of the fact she has:

     

    1. Posted pictures of herself with the bodies of endangered spieces she has killed such as mountain goats and Coke’s hartebeests. She posts these images to Instagram.

     

    1. Has bragged about shooting a sheep in England and shoved a sex toy up its bum. She posted this toecurlingly sick image to the site.

     

    1. Associated with other killers of amongst animals including alligators, peacocks, turkeys, elephants, lions and leopards such as Donald Trump’s sons and brags about what they kill. She has no respect for her victims and posts pictures of such to Instagram.

     

    Larysa Switlyk’s content is offensive and her smugness about killing endangered creatures is morally reprehensible. It is unacceptable and should not be posted to a medium where it can be seen by hundreds of millions of people.

     

    Larysa Switlyk should a) lose the blue tick she should never have been given by Instagram in the first place and secondly b) she should be banned from Instagram for posting offensive content.

     

    We ask readers to please sign the Change.org petition to ban Larysa Switlyk by clicking here and that you all also please share as widely as possible.

     

    Thank you.

     

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    Instagram – Ban animal abuser Larysa Swyitlk from Instagram –Change.org petition launched to demand the evil sex toy-shover-up-the-bums-of-sheep Larysa Switlyk is banned from Instagram.
    Ban Larysa Switlyk from Instagram – That this vile woman enjoys shooting slow moving creatures like sheep about sums up her complete lack of a moral compass. Why do social media operators allow her to continue to share such imagery?
  • Monster of the Moment – Larysa Switlyk

    Monster of the Moment – Larysa Switlyk

    Massacring monster Larysa Switlyk boasts about killing an endangered Coke’s hartebeest and a wolf also; she shares such for personal profit and frankly Instagram should be ashamed of itself for enabling her

    Fresh from proudly boasting about slaughtering an endangered Coke’s hartebeest in Northern Tanzania in August. – which even she admitted has seen its “numbers crashed” – Larysa Switlyk yesterday posted an image of herself with a wolf she’d mercilessly killed in Macedonia on Instagram.

     

    Barbaric bitch Switlyk’s image shockingly attracted over 2,600 likes in just 11 hours and comments such as “that’s cool!” and “you can make a necklace from his tusks,” but what should be remembered is this: The dumb-ass morons flocking to her page are then directed to a page selling ‘sheep yoga shorts’ and ‘baby one pieces.’ Larysa Switlyk, it can be argued, shares this on social media for one reason and one reason alone and that disgustingly is personal profit.

     

    Previously, this vile excuse for a human and all-round personification of evil has been ironically photographed at a fundraiser for Rescue Dogs Rock NYC with fellow slayer of elephants and leopards Eric Trump and she’s also been captured shoving sex toys up the bums of sheep she’d shot in Norfolk, England. Frankly, her eventual elimination from the planet is the only thing about her that will ever be welcomed.

     

    Please sign a Change.org petition calling on Instagram to ban Larysa Switlyk from their site and/or, at the very least, remove her blue tick. The content she posts is not acceptable for family audiences.

     

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    Monster of the Moment – Larysa Switlyk kills wolf and Coke’s hartebeest – Massacring monster Larysa Switlyk boasts about killing an endangered Coke’s hartebeest and a wolf also; she shares such for personal profit and frankly Instagram should be ashamed of itself for enabling her.
    Larysa Switlyk’s post attracted over 2,616 likes on Instagram in just 11 hours from people plainly as mentally retarded as her. If the social media giant had any decency, they would ban this monster from their platform given the offensive content she posts. One has to ask: “Who in their right mind on Instagram’s board, for example, finds it acceptable to shove a sex toy up the arse of a dead sheep?”
  • Magnificent Madeleine

    Magnificent Madeleine

    Matthew Steeples suggests the utterly charming Chez Madeleine as the best place for seafood in Saint Tropez, France

    To those that aspire to be Mary Berry, Saint Tropez is famous for its Tarte Tropézienne – created in a bakery in the main square in the 1950s by Alexandre Micka, a young Polish baker, and made famous by Brigitte Bardot’s obsession with it subsequently in the 1960s – and to the flash with wads of cash, this is a summer spot that is all about hedonism and high fashion.

     

    If you want Celine, Dior, Hermès, Loro Piana or Louis Vuitton, in Saint Tropez you will find yourself in your idea of heaven and in terms of dining, the coastal town is primarily divided between restaurants that cater to tacky tourists and dining destinations that pander to the cravings of the super, super ultra rich. However, for those desiring something a little more authentic there’s a wonderful little oyster bar hidden behind a small fish market named Chez Madeleine that you simply just couldn’t fail to fall in love with.

     

    Owned and operated by a delightful lady named Garance Fonquerne and her family since December 2019, Chez Madeleine is certainly petite. With just a few bar stools, it’s a quick pitstop for some but, if you linger, you’ll soon discover the charm of this dining destination is based upon its atmosphere and jolly staff.

     

    Garance is thoroughly French, but her father runs a hair salon in London’s Gloucester Road. She was educated partly in South Kensington and as such has an ability to click with her international clientele. Here, indeed, is a hostess exceptionnelle and someone whose dining spot is deservedly buzzy.

     

    Featuring primarily a menu of oysters including the Josephine and the Gillardeau – both famously farmed by the family of the latter name since the 19th century. As you sit observing these delights being shucked, you’ll soon realise the truth of Andrew Carnegie’s quote on this most delectable of shellfish: “The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell” as you then witness the suave staff of the ‘have yachts’ arrive to collect stunningly presented takeaway baskets of such for their masters to consume on their nearby gin palaces.

     

    Offered here also is king crab, prawns, salmon and caviar and washed down in the sunshine with a bottle of rose, you’ll also realise you’ve found the best thing in life in Chez Madeleine: A simple, yet utterly glorious culinary paradise.

     

    Chez Madeleine, 14 Place aux Herbes, 83 990, Saint Tropez, France. Telephone: +33 (0) 9 52 04 39 47. Instagram: @la.fine.equipe.chez.madeleine

     

    Pictured top: Garance Fonquerne outside Chez Madeleine.

     

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    Magnificent Madeleine – Review of Chez Madeleine, France – Matthew Steeples suggests the utterly charming Chez Madeleine as the best place for seafood in Saint Tropez, France. Chez Madeleine, 14 Place aux Herbes, 83 990, Saint Tropez, France. Telephone: +33 (0) 9 52 04 39 47.
    Magnificent Madeleine – Review of Chez Madeleine, France – Matthew Steeples suggests the utterly charming Chez Madeleine as the best place for seafood in Saint Tropez, France. Chez Madeleine, 14 Place aux Herbes, 83 990, Saint Tropez, France. Telephone: +33 (0) 9 52 04 39 47.
    Magnificent Madeleine – Review of Chez Madeleine, France – Matthew Steeples suggests the utterly charming Chez Madeleine as the best place for seafood in Saint Tropez, France. Chez Madeleine, 14 Place aux Herbes, 83 990, Saint Tropez, France. Telephone: +33 (0) 9 52 04 39 47.
  • Pooling Barrymore

    Pooling Barrymore

    As outdoor swimming pools reopened, Michael Barrymore trended on social media; it is time thus to remind the disgraced entertainer to reveal the truth about what happened on the night of the 31st March 2001

    On Saturday, as public outdoor swimming pools were allowed to reopen (indoor ones will follow on the 25th July), an image of the toxic twerp Michael Barrymore trended on social media.

     

    Captioned simply: “Swimming pools to reopen,” the photograph circulated showed a sequin clad, somewhat bog eyed Barrymore looking drunk and delighted.

     

    Whilst the shared image will offend some, it is also a timely reminder that the unfunny ex-comedian (born Michael Parker) still hasn’t explained what happened on the 31st March 2001 at his then home at Roydon in Essex. As we reported in September 2019, there were nine (accounted for) people present and of them one, Stuart Lubbock, was murdered and one was his murderer.

     

    Again, today, we join those reminding Michael Barrymore to do the decent thing. He should take a break from trying to revive his career and from using Instagram to reach his few, sad sack ‘fans’ and finally answer the police’s questions about which person there that fateful night orchestrated the killing of an innocent man. Stuart Lubbock deserves justice and the dark secrets of Barrymore’s swimming pool finally need to be revealed.

     

    #Justice4Stuart #BodyInThePool

     

    Pictured top: A smashed off his face Michael Barrymore with his arms around the horrific and equally smashed off her face Marie-Claire, Baroness von Alvensleben; the image that circulated on social media.

     

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  • Monster of the Moment – Dr Walter Palmer

    Monster of the Moment – Dr Walter Palmer

    Reprehensible “driller killer” dentist Walter Palmer will forever be remembered for slaying ‘Cecil The Lion’; the sexual harasser of his own employees has now gone and done it again – this time the monster massacred an endangered ram

    Last month, we featured the story of a female manufacturer of undercrackers emblazoned with Donald Trump’s name who takes ‘pleasure’ in slaying bears. Social media junkie and hideous horror Priscilla Magana unsurprisingly outraged with her antics, whilst previously, her twisted ‘bestie,’ the shover-of-sex-toys-up-the-bums-of-sheep Larysa Switlyk, repeatedly did the same after we named and shamed her on these pages.

     

    Now, an even viler example of barbarity has unbelievably returned to public attention in the form of Eden Prairie, near Minneapolis based Dr Walter Palmer, proprietor of River Bluff Dental. You will likely recall him as the degenerate dentist responsible for luring ‘Cecil The Lion’ to his death with the corpse of an elephant he’d also massacred in July 2015 in Hawagne District, Zimbabwe.

     

    “Enjoyer of all outdoor activities” Palmer – a cretin who ‘kills’ his ‘prey’ with a bow and arrow rather than a rifle and someone whom deservedly became internationally loathed after having not orchestrated a “clean kill” on Cecil (whom tragically had to then be shot with a bullet 12 hours later after suffering immeasurable pain) – featured in the Mirror this morning after being snapped with a sheep he’d shot. This pointless Porsche driving pillock’s face supposedly “turned to anger” when confronted by a representative of the paper outside a bar in Bloomington, Minnesota about his having killed an endangered argali ram – a “species in danger of extinction.”

     

    Plainly as delusional and deranged now as he was five years ago, Dr Walter Palmer – whom was forced to attend a course in ethics after paying out £100,000 in a sexual harassment case in 2009 – travelled to Mongolia for his latest ‘escapade’ as “the ram was on his list of hunts he wanted complete” said an “insider.” His travel companion, Brent Sinclair, then took to Facebook after the trip and disgustingly celebrated what they had done. Without naming his feckless ‘friend,’ he casually commented:

     

    “Another great adventure has come and gone, one to be put in the memory book for sure. Just back from Mongolia, and it’s almost like it was only a dream. We saw rams every day and climbed around the hills in the Altai region getting as close as 20 yards one day to sheep bigger than I could imagine.”

     

    “Sheep hunting isn’t sheep hunting without a midday nap in the sun on a mountain side, but its [sic] hard to relax and count sheep when all you can see through the scope are horns on rams bedded 200 yards away that carry twice the mass I have ever seen on sheep here in North America.”

     

    “I’ve felt my heart beat in my ears when an 8000 lb+ bull elephant looked down his trunk at us as we stood in the thorn brush a mere 31 yards from those tusks and all you had was a bow in your hand… You drew back those 95 limbs and I thought to myself theres [sic] now way it’s going to do the job of harvesting that massive bull, but you placed the arrow perfect and the rest is history. This may however be the one that will be at the top of the pinnacle and hard to beat.”

     

    “The Altai Argali of Mongolia is the largest of the worlds wild sheep and humbling is the only word one can use when you walk up to a ram like this for the first time… Thanks Amigo for the adventure… Look forward to our next one.”

     

    After outrage over Palmer’s actions in 2015 resulted in him quite deservedly receiving death threats, Cecil’s head and skin was given to police in Zimbabwe. In the wake of his latest antics, we wouldn’t be surprised if members of the public now demand that this twisted monster have his very own teeth pulled out; we couldn’t think of a better fate for the monster that is Dr Walter Palmer.

     

    To support our Change.org petition to get the barbarian bear slaying horror Larysa Switlyk banned from Instagram, please click here.

     

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    Monster of the Moment – Dr Walter Palmer kills an endangered ram – Reprehensible “driller killer” dentist Walter Palmer will forever be remembered for slaying ‘Cecil The Lion’; the sexual harasser of his own employees has now gone and done it again – this time the monster massacred an endangered ram.
    ‘Cecil The Lion’ was pointlessly slayed by Dr Walter Palmer in 2015. Whilst the lion will forever be remembered fondly, the dentist will remain deservedly hated for having paid £32,000 to barbarically kill this much loved, majestic beast.
    Dr Walter Palmer found his business targeted quite deservedly after he killed ‘Cecil The Lion’ and now he’ll hopefully find just the same after slaying an endangered ram. His firm’s address is River Bluff Dental, 10851 Rhode Island Avenue South, Bloomington, Minnesota, MN 55438 and his telephone number is +1 (952) 314 8668. He can be emailed at [email protected]
    Dr Walter Palmer was deservedly condemned across the world in the wake of the 2015 slaying of ‘Cecil The Lion.’ Amongst those calling him out were the conservationist and zoologist Dr Andrew Loveridge of Oxford University – whom later wrote of the incident in his 2018 book ‘Lion Hearted.’

  • A Life in a Sentence

    A Life in a Sentence

    Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles

    Last Friday, in anticipation of the drunken mess that would become ‘Super Saturday’ in premises of J. D. Wetherspoons across the land, I shared a Twitter video embed on the @SteepleTimes handle that did not surprise when it went viral.

     

    In the tweet – which I captioned: “Two J. D. Wetherspoons customers at 3pm tomorrow” in honour of the pub chain where the odious Tim Martin regularly entertains our hapless Prime Minister Boris Johnson – a male and a female are seen staggering up and falling down a staircase whilst, frankly, p***ed out of their skulls.

     

    The original tweet I shared came from one Keptin Quarantino and was accompanied by a description that read: “The pubs officially reopen tomorrow in England. We can class today as P***MASS EVE. I imagine many of you will relate to this video be it in Wetherspoons or somewhere else. Have fun, W**kspangles.” Whilst the 1:24-minute clip itself was indeed hilarious, what amused even more was to be found amongst the legion of replies and likes that came henceforth.

     

    Aside from a witty comment suggesting that “a Remoaner pushed him” of the unfortunate male member of the drunken pair, I actually wholeheartedly enjoyed the Twitter handles of those that responded even more. The very best follow below.

     

    Twitter might be a medium that attracts trolls, but unlike with the vain and the vacuous that pepper spray Instagram with their shameless selves ‘swerving’ for the camera, here is somewhere you’ll find some simple amusement: Take a look through peoples’ profiles and you’ll discover there’s more to an individual than just a life in a sentence.

     

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    A Life in a Sentence – Twitter handles summing up lives – Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles.
    A Life in a Sentence – SophiaS – @whatalovelypair – “As my dear old East End mum says: ‘She’s all fur coat and no knickers…’”
    A Life in a Sentence – Twitter handles summing up lives – Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles.
    A Life in a Sentence – Stephen Johnson – @SteJHindley – “Miserable sod that likes rugby. I drink too much and am lazy. Life coaching available.”
    A Life in a Sentence – Twitter handles summing up lives – Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles.
    A Life in a Sentence – Pat Hetic – @Mr_Pat_Hetic – “Too lazy to achieve my full potential so now working as a village idiot near Chesterfield.”
    A Life in a Sentence – Twitter handles summing up lives – Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles.
    A Life in a Sentence – Ceri Williams – @Cezzawilliams21 – “All my views are my own (and I have quite a few!)”
    A Life in a Sentence – Twitter handles summing up lives – Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles.
    A Life in a Sentence – Graham Greenwood – @graham669 – “Lover of classic cars and a life long nudist.”
    A Life in a Sentence – Twitter handles summing up lives – Matthew Steeples finds amusement in Twitter handles; a life in a sentence can be found on some of the best profiles.
    A Life in a Sentence – Dave Lee – @168dave – “Never been particularly politically motivated, but the shower of sh*t led by Bozo The F**king Clown have managed to change that!!”
  • Moving On – July 2020 – Capone, Conran & Kennedy

    Moving On – July 2020 – Capone, Conran & Kennedy

    Moving on homes owned by the newsworthy – including a country house apartment in a castle currently owned by Jasper Conran and the childhood homes of Al Capone and Jackie Kennedy

    Soppy Savills Fail to Salivate

    Moving On – July 2020 – Capone, Conran & Kennedy – Moving on homes owned by the newsworthy – including a country house apartment in a castle currently owned by Jasper Conran and the childhood homes of Al Capone and Jackie Kennedy.
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    Jasper Conran OBE paid just £2.75 million ($3.43 million, €3.04 million or درهم12.61 million) for New Wardour Castle in Tisbury, Wiltshire in August 2010. The catch? He didn’t get the whole James Paine and Giacomo Quarenghi designed Palladian mansion, but as the Daily Mail’s Alexis Parr reported at that time he “captured” 23,185 square foot of a repossessed building divided into a total of ten flats. ‘Apartment 1,’ as the space the designer son of Sir Terence Conran currently owns is known as, includes 8 reception rooms, 6 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms.

     

    Agents Savills could have enthused gushingly about the Grade I listed building and its spectacular 60-foot central rotunda, but instead they are simply seeking £3.95 million ($4.93 million, €4.36 million or درهم18.12 million) for what they underwhelmingly market as the “largest [apartment] in Wiltshire.” Conran would have done better to have appointed someone more akin to the late Roy Brooks we’d say – at least he’d have showed some flowery enthusiasm for this capacious crib.

     

    From Electric to Insta

    Moving On – July 2020 – Capone, Conran & Kennedy – Moving on homes owned by the newsworthy – including a country house apartment in a castle currently owned by Jasper Conran and the childhood homes of Al Capone and Jackie Kennedy.

    ‘The James Seymour Mansion,’ the £37,000 ($50,000, €45,000 or درهم184,000) Gothic revival mansion in New York State The Steeple Times featured in December 2019, has finally got itself new owners after 204 submissions from across the world to buy it.

     

    Creatively marketed by Michael DeRosa on behalf of the local authority after a property tax foreclosure, the 10-bedroom house on a 0.9-acre plot is situated in Auburn, Cayuga County – a place best known for being the gruesome location of the world’s first legal execution using an electric chair in August 1890.

     

    Whilst the process of the death of “vegetable peddler and known alcoholic” William Kemmler (whom murdered his common-law wife in March 1888) was regarded as a “historic bungle,” all worked out well James and Katie Joynt and their seven children. The family – whom currently manage an Amish co-op in Pennsylvania – will spend around £123,000 ($155,000, €136,000 or درهم565,000) restoring the house according to New York Upstate and are going to take the crumbling house into the 21st century whilst documenting their journey on Instagram.

     

    Going Gangsta

    Moving On – July 2020 – Capone, Conran & Kennedy – Moving on homes owned by the newsworthy – including a country house apartment in a castle currently owned by Jasper Conran and the childhood homes of Al Capone and Jackie Kennedy.

    Of a New York “multi-family townhouse” at 21 Garfield Place, North Slope in June 2017, the New York Post quipped: “A Brooklyn homeowner hopes a mob of buyers will take a shot at this town house.” That property was sold for £1.94 million ($2.42 million, €2.14 million or درهم8.89 million) in early 2018 to an Emmy award winning television producer named Steven Kalifowitz and is now again for sale, this time for £2.3 million ($2.9 million, €2.6 million or درهم10.7 million).

     

    Agents Douglas Elliman neglect to mention that the 2,980 square foot building – which is “currently configured as an owner’s duplex with two spacious one bedroom apartments above” – was a childhood home of the gangster Al Capone (1899 – 1947) in the early 1900s. 21 Garfield Place previously sold for a “little more than £800,000 ($1 million, €885,000 or درهم3.7 million)” according to The New York Times in July 2006 and now looks anything but like a bootlegger’s workplace; there’s even a child’s playroom in the basement.

     

    Anything But A Discount Holiday

    Moving On – July 2020 – Capone, Conran & Kennedy – Moving on homes owned by the newsworthy – including a country house apartment in a castle currently owned by Jasper Conran and the childhood homes of Al Capone and Jackie Kennedy.

    Those looking to escape to the Hamptons post-lockdown could do worse than purchase the childhood summer home of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) – if they’ve got £6 million ($7.5 million, €6.6 million or درهم27.5 million) going spare.

     

    Built in 1895, Wildmoor at East Hampton extends to 4,291 square foot and has 6 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. It’s on the market through Paula S. Bulter of Sotheby’s International Realty and also noteworthy is that an art studio on the property was used for many years by the Abstract Expressionist artist Adolph Gottlieb (1903 – 1974).

     

    Gottlieb purchased the shingled house on a 0.92-acre plot in 1960, but interested buyers should note that the current décor scheme is definitely a bit passé. As Kennedy herself once said: “It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”

     

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  • Buckle Up! Barking Baker Harber Has Bitten Back

    Buckle Up! Barking Baker Harber Has Bitten Back

    Victoria Baker Harber has sent Kenny Schachter a “cease and desist” letter in the wake of her on-off conman lover Inigo Philbrick being snared by the FBI

    Washed-up, leftover lump from the tepid TV show Made in Chelsea Victoria Baker Harber – the one-time squeeze and sharer of a private planes paid for by victims of the now very much deservedly in-the-clink Inigo Philbrick – has supposedly sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to one of his victims, the anything-but-shy raconteur Kenny Schachter.

     

    Asked by The Steeple Times on Friday evening on his Instagram TV channel about Miss Baker Harber having turned her social media channels ‘private’ and ‘off’ in some instances, very wealthy art collector and writer Schachter responded: “She’s sent me a letter about memes.”

     

    Poor dear Vicky might do better to do something else: The simple, dear darling could go and pleasure herself with a colouring book; she might actually do less damage in that department.

     

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    Buckle Up! Barking Baker Harber Has Biten Back – Victoria Baker Harber has sent Kenny Schachter a “cease and desist” letter in the wake of her on-off conman art dealer lover Inigo Philbrick being snared by the FBI.
    The Odd Art Couple – Inigo Philbrick pictured with the mother of his daughter, fellow art dealer Francisca Mancini. Their relationship did not last and subsequently conman Philbrick moved on to attention-seeker Baker Harber.
    Buckle Up! Barking Baker Harber Has Biten Back – Victoria Baker Harber has sent Kenny Schachter a “cease and desist” letter in the wake of her on-off conman art dealer lover Inigo Philbrick being snared by the FBI.
    Sexing It Up – Victoria Baker Harber posing provocatively with her now in-the-clink lover Inigo Philbrick at the C London restaurant in Davies Street, Mayfair, W1.
    Kenny Schachter having a chat about Inigo Philbrick amongst other things. One thing is for certain about the husband of Ilona Rich Schachter (daughter of the late Marc Rich and Denise Eisenberg Rich)  – he’s anything but reticent about sharing his opinions about his former friend.
    In an episode of ‘Made In Chelsea,’ a ‘participant’ labelled Victoria Baker Harber “a prostitute.” She then went a bit mental (unsurprisingly).