Bernie Madoff has company in the "Boy, Did I Let Power Go To My Head" corner.

Business was going bad for a Chinese tycoon, who decided in December to hold a "best mistress" pageant in order to cut costs and eliminate four of his five existing mistresses (that's right, five mistresses). Russian news agency Novosti reports that each mistress knew about the others. An allowance and free rent presumably helped to ease their jealousy, but the pageant—for which a modeling expert was brought in to help judge—pushed one mistress over the edge, literally.

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Remember Omarosa from the first season of The Apprentice? No? We don't either. But she's back nonetheless—at least on bookshelves where you'll find her face on the cover of the new book The B*tch Switch: Knowing How To Turn It On and Off, by Omarosa, of course. (Who does she think she is, Madonna?!) The book is about acceptance (she said the b-word, not us!) and control (not only is Omarosa a self-proclaimed b*tch, but she has the power to hold it in or let it rip… so she says).

Over-adorned with feminist clichés, the book focuses … Read More

Margaret Vangeli loved her job when she left the music business 10 years ago. And who would blame her? As director of international operations, she ran the international departments at Polygram and Atlantic records, logging time in Sydney, Tokyo, London, and Paris, and promoting rock legends like AC/DC. But, when her father was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Vangeli decided to take a break from the road to help her elderly parents through the crisis. "It is just one of those really big bumps in the road of life," she says of caring for ailing parents. "All of a sudden, you're … Read More