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%COI I S' Di\ ()Ire will try to get M.L.B. to approve sonic version of the Fox deal. Rut even then, Selig may not allow them to remain the owners. "I think Frank thinks he will get to keep the team if he settles, but I'm sure Selig has already made up his mind." says Knight of ESPN. Even with the team in M.L.B.'s hands. that doesn't mean that Frank won't sue them and everyone else in sight. Most likely there are many more arguments. and more court dates. to come. And Jamie is exhausted. "At this point, all Jamie wants out of this is enough money to keep her houses in L.A., and live comfortably. and never have to deal with this again." says the close source. As far as the Dodgers are concerned. they have a chance of regaining their former shine under new owners. Milwaukee Brew- ers owner Mark Attanasio, Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner, and Chicago White Sox executive Dennis Gilbert. all of whom live in the Los Angeles area, have been floated as possible bidders for the franchise. Steve Canty. an eight-time all-star for the Dodgers, has started an investor group with supermarket magnate Ron Burk lc. who bought the N.H.L.'s Pittsburgh Penguins with Mario Lemieux in 1999. What is not in question is that the new owner will be from Southern California. "One thing the M.L.B. wants is someone who has their finger on the pulse of our re- gion:' says David Carter. of the Sports Busi- ness Institute at the University of Southern California. "They don't want any more out- of-towners taking over the Dodgers." FROM TIIE ARC II I N E cm! %In HI\ I • The Daff•Perelman dam up / Ilarjorir ■ alum, Itiroot oynft • Irreconcilable Rockefeller. /Ina Ifrel'enslo lanor. • The Trumps implode wont II .Neplenetecr tyro) • Stephanie Seymour memo Peter Brant inn...6n woo The Jame. of Pete Rose le../. Si ass*yer,.‘epie =Are • Joe DiSlap/lost one note love Muss p yr. A...decal., 20.0 Prince Andrew F 1151 I IT I mom rata bj her debts at 25 English pence to the pound. Where did that money come from? Andrew cenainly never had that kind of money. No one can prove it. but the assumption is that Fergies debts were quietly retired by the Queen." people who have spent time with Andrew's 1 daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie. conic away impressed by their warmth and unpre- tentious nature. "At a fashion show. I was sitting with Eugenie." said Richard Dennen, a style writer for The Sunday Tines. "and Charlotte Casinighi, the daughter of Caroline of Monaco and the granddaughter of Grace Kelly, showed up. dressed in cool French chic. She introduced herself to Eugenic in the most impeccable French: 'Hello, I am Charlotte.' And Eugenic replied. 'lii, I'm Lug.' which came out sounding like 'Hi, I'm Huge: It was typical old-squire braying English, completely old school, and it was charming." But it was Beatrice. not the more ex- troverted Eugenic. who stood out at the royal wedding with her outre hat. (Beatrice would later auction the hat on ellay. raising 5130.000 for charity.) No one knew whether Fergie had influenced Beatrice in her choice. but everyone agreed that Fergie who has gone clubbing with Beatrice and Eugenie- - exerts a great deal of control over her (laugh- lie VANITY FAIR swor vOlotylua tu. ter; lives. Both girls are said to be in awe of their mother and try to be like her. When Beatrice was 17, she fell in love with a disreputable American M. the name of Paolo Liuno. He was seven years older than Bea- trice. but Andrew and Fergie encouraged the romance and invited Liuno to join the family on a vacation at the exclusive Swiss ski resort Verbicr. It later turned out that Liuno had a rap sheet in America. including a manslaugh- ter charge for taking part in a drunken scuffle that resulted in a man's death. (Liuno even- tually pleaded guilty to an assault-and-battery charge and received three years' probation and WO hours of community service.) Bea- trice was heartbroken when the relationship ended and she had to return to Goldsmiths, which is part tithe University of London. "Beatrice was clearly embarrassed when it was revealed that Fergie took money to introduce an undercover reporter to Prince Andrew," said someone who has been with the princess ut charity balls and nightclubs. "A friend went to Royal Lodge to comfort Beatrice. who wouldn't leave the house be- cause she was so ashamed and didn't want to have to deal with the press. The friend spent two nights with her while she cried.- Andrew's Future Outlook D uring the weeks leading up to the royal wedding, the impact of Andrew's prob- lems on the future of the monarchs was the subject of much discussion in London. The festivities coincided with the most sweeping fiscal retrenchment in Britain since World War II. which forced the coalition government to cast a gimlet eye at the hefty bill for the royal family. In an era of record budget defi- cits, it didn't help the royals' case for people to read that Andrew had spent roughly SI3 mil- lion refurbishing Roy-al Lodge and that, until recently, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenic had 24-hour police protection at a yearly cost to tameners of 5820.000. Nor arc average Britons keen to hear royals whine about being short of money. The Queen. who is reputed to be among the richest people in the world. with a net worth of about S20 billion. receives S60 million from the government to cover her expenses. Most of her fortune is tied up in priceless art treasures, jewels. and Crown Estates. none of which she can sell. According to Philip Beresford, who follows royal finances for The Sunday Times. the Queen has liquid assets of about 5500 million—one-third in shares of blue-chip companies, one-third in revenue- producing properties at Sandringham and Balmoral, and one-third in racehorses and a stamp collection. Last year. the Queen paid the British treasury nearly 5328 million in taxes. Plus. she has to come up with money to support all the minor royals staying in Kensington Palace. Prince Charles's financial situation resem- bles that of his mother. though on a reduced scale. As the steward of the Duchy of Corn- wall, he gets an annual income of S26 million from great tracts of land in the southwest of England. But he can't sell any of that prop- erty for profit. He donates about 60 percent of his income to charity, and another large chunk goes to pay taxes. Recently. the hard-up British government decommissioned the country's last operation• al aircraft carrier, the H.M.S. Ark Royal, lead- ing Tru• Ban Sara Journal to proclaim in a front-page headline. SUN SMING ON Pa 'FISH rITx EK. It would be premature to say that the same is true for the British monarchy, though it, too, will have to adapt to the stringent eco- nomic realities of the 21st century. That doesn't mean, as some have sug- gested. that the monarchy is doomed to fade away or that there is a groundswell of support in Britain to replace it with a republic. On the contrary. a recent opinion poll showed that 76 percent of Britons are proud to live under a monarchy. But it does mean that the AUGUST 201 1 EFTA01166337