Pop star defends Moss

Pop star defends Moss
BERLIN -- British pop star Robbie Williams said Friday that supermodel Kate Moss is being attacked unfairly over allegations of cocaine use.
"It wouldn't have surprised me if she had tried to commit suicide the week that everything hit the papers," Williams told reporters at a news conference to introduce his new album, "Intensive Care."
He said she was being singled out by the press, which "have got a lot to answer for. We're talking about a woman who has never harmed anyone or hurt anyone and who has never pretended to be anyone she isn't."
"She's done nothing wrong. What she does in her private life should be her private life," Williams said. "She is an absolute icon, she's beautiful. Every time I have met her she has been really lovely to me."
Photos of Moss, 31, apparently snorting cocaine in a London music studio were published in the Daily Mirror tabloid last month. Soon after she lost contracts with H & amp;M, Burberry and Chanel.
British newspapers reported last week that Moss checked into the Meadows rehab clinic outside Phoenix, Arizona.
Paternity lawsuit againstSnipes is dismissed
NEW YORK -- A paternity lawsuit against Wesley Snipes was dismissed after a DNA test determined that another man was the father.
Family Court Judge Mary Bednar dismissed the lawsuit Thursday. It was filed in 2002 by a woman identified by one of Snipes' lawyers as Lanise Pettis.
The woman, who didn't attend the brief proceeding, alleged she had sex with Snipes in a Chicago crackhouse and that he was the father of her 3-year-old son.
She was represented by the New York City Law Department, which said in a statement that an investigation by the city "was able to establish that, in fact, he was not the father. As a result, the city has moved to dismiss the case against him today."
Snipes refused to submit to a paternity test, but a second man, whose name hasn't been released, agreed to DNA testing and was determined to be the father of the child.
Outside the court after the lawsuit was dismissed, the 43-year-old star of the "Blade" film trilogy said: "The good Lord says 'Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.' These are the tenets I live by."
Snipes said in a federal civil rights lawsuit, filed last year, that he never met the woman, and alleged she was a "mentally ill former crack addict" who had made wild claims involving celebrities such as Prince, Oprah Winfrey and former President Clinton.
Oral arguments in his lawsuit are scheduled to be heard at the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 2nd Circuit in late November, said Robert Bernhoft, a lawyer for Snipes.
Charles, Camilla dueto dine at White House
WASHINGTON -- Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will make their first visit to the White House since their marriage, officials announced Thursday.
The royal couple will have lunch and dinner with President Bush on Nov. 2, said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
Steve Atkins, a spokesman for the British Embassy in Washington, said the duchess and Prince Charles also will visit New York and San Francisco as part of their first trip together to the United States since their April 9 wedding.
INXS to introducenew lead in January
NEW YORK -- INXS will introduce its new lead singer, J.D. Fortune, on the North American leg of its "Switched On" tour.
Fortune was the winner on the CBS reality show "Rock Star: INXS." The band held the competition to find a replacement for its former lead singer, Michael Hutchence, who committed suicide in 1997.
The tour, which will visit 22 cities, is scheduled to begin Jan. 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Other stops include Denver, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Detroit, Washington and Philadelphia.
INXS is working on its Epic Records debut with producer Guy Chambers. The album, titled "Switch," is due in stores Nov. 29.
Today's birthdays
Actor Fyvush Finkel is 83. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is 64. Singer Jackson Browne is 57. Actor Gary Frank is 55. Actor Richard Chaves is 54. Actor Robert Wuhl is 54. Actress-TV personality Sharon Osbourne is 53. Actor Tony Shalhoub is 52. Actor Scott Bakula is 51. Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues) is 51. Actor John O'Hurley is 51. Actor Michael Pare is 46. Rock singer-musician Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans) is 44. Country singer Gary Bennett is 41. Singer P.J. Harvey is 36. Country singer Tommy Shane Steiner is 32. Actor Steve Burns is 32. Sean Lennon is 30. Actor Randy Spelling is 27. Actor Brandon Routh is 26. Actor Zachery Ty Bryan is 24. Actor Tyler James Williams ("Everybody Hates Chris") is 13.