Ephraim Hardcastle

Daily MailJanuary 24, 2006

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THE downfall of LibDem leadership candidate Mark Oaten in a scandal involving rent boys appears to make acting leader Sir Menzies Campbell the runaway favourite.

Dandified 'Ming' is a figure of unquestioned probity. Indeed, only one rumour circulates about him at Westminster. That he wears sock suspenders. My source whispers: 'There's also a suspicion that he owns a Corby trouser press, but that is by the by.' MODEL Yasmin Le Bon (pictured) faced with a scrum of Irish photographers asking her to adjust her pose at a crafts show in Dublin, declared grandly: 'You take the photographs, I'll do the modelling.' FRIENDS say that the death at 89 of Anton Rupert, one of South Africa's richest men, will make his charming but secretive son, Johann, even more reclusive. Rupert Jr, 55, who is chief executive of a group which controls brands including Cartier, Dunhill and Mont Blanc, keeps two palatial residences outside Cape Town one for guests and the other for his family. A guest tells me: 'You are greeted by his glamorous, blonde wife, Gaynor. A butler hands you a menu as if you were in a hotel. It's only then you realise the Ruperts don't live there at all but in another house you aren't allowed to visit.' Gaynor, a former model, is much admired.

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Ephraim Hardcastle

Wealthy Sir Chips Keswick, 55, a member of the Hong Kong trading family, was...

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