People – Kidman Asks Media to Give Her Daughter ‘Space’
Nicole Kidman appealed to the Australian media on Thursday for “a little space” as she travels around Sydney with her new baby.
The Oscar-winning actress and her singer husband Keith Urban arrived in her hometown from the United States this week with their 4-week-old daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban .
“Keith and I are both appealing to the press … just to give us a little space so we can walk around Sydney and show the baby our town,” Kidman told Sydney radio 2DAY FM.
She said she understood the media interest in the child, “but at the same time, it’s our little girl,” Kidman said.
Kidman said the baby looked like Urban with “a bit of a reddish tint” in her hair.
Feds drop case on Ledger death
Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his overdose death this year, a law enforcement official said this week .
Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan had been overseeing a Drug Enforcement Administration probe into whether the painkillers found in Ledger’s system were obtained illegally. But the prosecutors have bowed out “because they don’t believe there’s a viable target,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because no charges have been filed.
The decision comes after recent reports that actress Mary-Kate Olsen was demanding immunity before answering questions about the startling death of her close friend and his drug use. Authorities say she was the first person called by a masseuse who found the 28- year-old “Dark Knight” actor’s lifeless body in his Manhattan apartment on Jan. 22.
DEA investigators suspect the painkillers found in Ledger’s system, oxycodone and hydrocodone, were obtained with phony prescriptions or other illegal means.
Other drugs taken by Ledger, including anti-anxiety medication and sleeping pills, were prescribed legally by doctors in California and Texas.
Ledger died after filming “The Dark Night,” the latest movie in the “Batman” series, in which he has earned rave reviews for playing a maniacal Joker.
Dixie Chick’s divorce is final
Musician Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks and her husband, singer Charlie Robison , have divorced.
The San Antonio Express-News reports that Charlie Robison filed for divorce in January. It was finalized this week.
The divorce filing states their marriage had “become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.”
The couple have three children.
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Today’s birthdays
Producer Dino DeLaurentiis , 89; actress Esther Williams , 87; country singer Mel Tillis , 76; actor Dustin Hoffman , 71; actress Connie Stevens , 70; actor Larry Wilcox , 61; actor Keith Carradine , 59; news anchor Deborah Norville , 50; guitarist The Edge of U2, 47; Kool Moe Dee , 46; actress Countess Vaughn , 30 .
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