Many maintained contact with him even after his conviction in 2008 for soliciting a prostitute and procuring a child for prostitution in Florida.
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Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
The mothers were usually poor women or prostitutes, the children generally given up for adoption to orphanages, many of them run by foreign missionaries.
Husk, a French grisette aged in oak barrels, was tart and refreshingly dry; Dolore, a wild ale fermented on dark cherries and black raspberries, was equally tart yet soft and jammy.
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Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
Anne Hathaway—who has played the doomed grisette and has the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to prove it—does not seem to care about any of this.
Despite not speaking English, Bardot landed her first lead role as a temptress in a 1955 British comedy called Doctor at Sea.
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The Week US,
TheWeek,
14 Jan. 2026
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, which is executive-produced by Knox and features a finale co-written by her and showrunner K.J. Steinberg, is an attempt to redefine her as a girl rather than a temptress, an innocent rather than a murderer.
Before the third siren at seven o’clock Chitol parked his bicycle alongside hundreds of others like it, his identified by a faded yellow piece of his wife’s old sari around the handlebars, which doubled as a duster.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
The cuirass, a piece of armor consisting of a breastplate and backplate fastened together, was inspired by another set piece in the film — a mystical siren painted on a ship.
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