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Schwarzenegger admits affair with Brigitte Nielsen

LOS ANGELES

Arnold Schwarzenegger is confirming that he had a “hot affair” with actress Brigitte Nielsen at a time he and Maria Shriver were dating and already living together.

Schwarzenegger and Nielsen co-starred in the 1985 film “Red Sonja.” Nielsen wrote in a memoir published last year that she and Schwarzenegger had an “outrageous affair” while making the movie and that she didn’t know until later that he was involved with Shriver.

In his memoir “Total Recall,” coming out Monday, Schwarzenegger writes that he and Nielsen did indeed have a “hot affair,” but he knew it wouldn’t last. In fact, their “fling” only made him realize that he wanted to marry Shriver.

Nielsen soon would marry Schwarzenegger’s fellow action star, Sylvester Stallone.

Thousands at concert highlighting poverty

NEW YORK

Neil Young, John Legend, Black Keys, and others wowed thousands who turned out Saturday night for a free concert in Central Park to call attention to poverty worldwide.

Dubbed the Global Citizen Festival, the concert also featured K’naan, Band of Horses and Foo Fighters with Young’s performance capping off the evening. Video of the event was streamed worldwide as about 60,000 music fans crowded the park.

Legend made a surprise appearance, playing “Imagine” at a piano on the Great Lawn stage, a short walk from where the song’s author, John Lennon, once lived.

The concert was scheduled around the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, and organizers used an innovative approach to ticket distribution so that many concertgoers were forced to learn about an array of global problems, such as polio, malaria, child mortality, and polluted drinking water, in order to get a ticket.

Anyone wanting free tickets had to register at globalcitizen.org, which then required users to watch videos or read information about poverty-related issues. Each time material was consumed, users could earn points toward a drawing for tickets. Points also were accumulated by sharing information by way of Twitter or Facebook.

Associated Press