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3 AUG 81995 2A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1995 Jackson's Denial Disputed PEOPLE lawyer in "LA. Law," he dapper double-breasted suits by Armani. But now that he has moved to "NYPD Blue" as Detective Bobby Simone, he's favoring the two-button style. m-m "A double-breasted suit gives more a line to the Smits i' tells TV Guide, "and when you" close it, you see the outline of the 1 i gun." Anyway, he adds, "A cop.

doesn't make enough to i Armani." um m.i Compiled by Harry Levins Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Thirteen months ago, when ANNA NICOLE SMITH (Playmate of the Year, 1993) married J. Howard Marshall (90-year-old oil tycoon), his son called her "a greedy gold digger." Her retort: "I did not marry my husband for his money." Now, she doesn't even have his companionship. He died over the weekend at a hospital in Houston, just a year and a month after his honeymoon in Bali. In February, son Pierce Marshall went to court in Texas to But Orth quoted Sneddon as saying Jackson's comment was "untrue and incorrect and not consistent with the evidence in the case" a reference to police photographs of Jackson. The article also said the singer misled viewers by denying he was secretly negotiating an out-of-court settlement with a second youth who claims the pop star molested him.

It quoted law enforcement sources as saying Jackson was negotiating with the second youth, despite his claim that no one else was making charges against him. The article also disputes Jackson's claim that police did not find any photographs of nude boys in his home, "unless people send me things I haven't opened." According to the article, police found a "lewd, commercially published book of photos of nude boys aged about 7 to 12" in Jackson's home. Article Says Pop Star Misled TV Viewers reporter Maureen Orth, Sneddon said Sawyer's comment was a "glaring mistake Michael Jackson has not been cleared. The state of the investigation is in suspension until somebody comes forward." The spokeswoman said Sawyer had spoken to Sneddon for three hours but could not use what he had told her because it was off the record. "We were not prepared to go forward with information that was off the record," the spokeswoman said.

Orth said Sneddon took issue with several comments by Jackson, including one that the boy who accused him of sexual molestation was not able to back up his charge by describing markings on his genitalia. "There was nothing that matched me to those charges no markings," Jackson said on the TV program. News Service NEW YORK It is the controversy that pop star Michael Jackson cannot escape not even with a TV interview watched an estimated 60 million pepjjje. Vanity Fair magazine reopened the furor Monday over child molestation allegations against Jackson by reporting that he and ABC misled viewers of Time, Live" interview in Junj.hy, saying that charges against the ppp.star had.been dropped. Themagazine quoted a key prosecutor in the case, Santa Barbara District Attorney Thomas Sneddon, as saying jjheeasejwa pending and the program'watcfied by about 60 million repjete, with misleading and self-serving statements.

A spokeswoman for ABC's Diane Sawyejr, conducted the interview, said Monday that Sawyer admitted to having "misspoke" when she o1d have been a xharges, we want to make.ijhat clear." Inao interview with Vanity Fair To The Beast Of Our Knowledge keep the senior Marshall's money out of Smith's hands. The money wound up in a trust, which prompted Smith to complain in public: "I'm getting the butt end of this. I can't pay my bills." Rapper M.C. HAMMER (real name: Stanley Burrell) has a new release: Stanley Kirk Burrell Jr. The baby was born July 21 in San Jose, to the rapper, 32, and his wife, Stephanie, 28.

They have two other children. When JIMMY SMITS played a "7 AP Moment In Bodmin Moor Big Cat Produce; Skull, But It's All In Their Heads 4 I l. Over the weekend, JOHN GRISHAM appeared Vicksburg, as a coach for his son's Little League team. Between innings, he signed autographs for fans and loved it. "No one wanted me to sign, baseballs when I played," .0 joked.

"I wasn't any When Brits fall out, their fabled courtesy collapses. Last month, for example, MICHAEL said in an interview that RICH- ARD HARRIS, PETER OTOOLE and RICHARD ON were all drunks. Now, Harris has fired back in a letter to a London weekly. calls Caine's remark "a cheap shot" and says Caine himself is "an over-fat, flatulent, 62-year-' old windbag, a master of inconse- quence now masquerading as a guru." Caine told the paper, "I have not read the letter; I am not inter- ested in reading it, and that's my only comment." O'Toole had no reply, and Burton is beyond words, having died in 1984. PAMELA ANDERSON of "Baywatch" has put last month's miscarriage behind her.

"I can't wait to be a mother," she says in in interview to be broadcast today on "Extra." She adds: "I have the- Hum icaiiug uuuy. i ill juat vvaii ing to give birth." ON THIS DAY On Aug. 8, 1844, after the killing 'j'4 of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young became leader of the Mormons. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS' Actress Sylvia Sidney 85 Producer Dino DeLaurentiis 76 Actress Esther Williams 72 oll, Basketball's Jerry Tarkanian 65 Country's Mel Tillis 63 Actor Dustin Hoffman 7 58 n' Actress Connie Stevens 57 Director Peter Weir 51 I Actor Keith Carradine 45 I Actor Donny Most 42 I TV's Deborah Norville 37 IU2'sTheEdge 34 I Britain's Princess Beatrice 7 ular leopard skull came to Cornwall only by human agency, and it is most unlikely that it has been in the river where it was recently discovered for any appreciable length of time," the report said. Douglas Richardson, assistant director of mammals at the London Zoo, said the findings didn't shake his belief that big cats are on the loose in southwestern England.

"The evidence that I have examined over the years, coupled with the first-hand observations of some very credible witnesses, leaves me in no doubt about their existence," he said. In July, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture said six months of research had found no evidence that big cats mr Million-Dollar TODAY'S POST-DISPATCH Miss Universe, Chelsi Smith of Deer Park, Texas, models a necklace and earrings during a promotion Monday at a jewelers in New York. The real diamond jewelry is valued at nearly $2 million. The tiara? Nobody's talking. LONDON (AP) Believers in the Beast'of Bodmin Modr held up a skull as proof that a big cat was killing livestock.

A cockroach proved them A team of entomologists and zoologists the Natural History Museum ill London studied' the skull, which was found on the moor in Cornwall two Veeks ago and released their findings on The skull belonged to a young male Indian leopard: probably never been nafSoffiftinIbor. The critical clue: Inside the skull was an-egg case from a tropical cockroach that does not exist in England. "The cbn'clusjpn' is that this partic- INSIDE DEMOCRATS STEP UP their assault on the-Republicans' budget plans 3A MYSTERY LEG: Investigators tell about a fatigue-covered leg found in the bombed-out Oklahoma City federal building-rr-. 3A BACK TO jjjfOityf: A fit-lookingPrejpdent Boris Yeltsin returnsto his office at the Kremlin 5A O.J. SIMPSON'S defense lawyers win a significant appeal that could show a conspiracy to frame him 6A BELL-AGREEMENT: Southwestern Bell communications union employees reach a tentative agreement 6C CHRYSLER WILL build a new transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind 6C BRIDGETON-BASED Dimac Corp.

is buying a Pennsylvania direct marketing company 6C CORRECTIONS CLARIFICATIONS A headline in Monday's editions incorrectly stated that suspect Thomas L. Brooks Jr. would testify in his trial in the murder of Cassidy Senter. Prosecutors in fact were planning to play the videotaped statement Brooks made to police. Merca i DEADBEAT PARENT: Eric Harriel is the first person in St.

Louis County convicted under Missouri's new deadbeat-parentlaw 18 i TAPED STATEMENTS: The jury in the Cassidy Senter murder trial sees Thomas L. -Brooks' taped statements to police 1B i NEW AGE FUN: High technology and fun is the formula for the new Gateway School 1B CHRISTINE St. Albans restaurant provides the ultimate in French cuisine 1B NEWS ANALYSIS i BOREDOM ON SHUTTLE flights may bring on psychological problems to crew members 13B COMMENTARY i PROBLEM SOLVER: Converting flats to single-family homes may solve many problems 15B ntile's teLoan AP The skull of a young Indian leopard, which masqueraded for a while as English. are on Bodmin Moor. The ministry said videotapes showing cats prowling the area appeared to be pictures of domestic pets.

iJOSEOQUENDO is only 32, but after playing professional baseball since 1979, he's starting to think about retirement 1C i TOM WHEATLEY: Mike Keenan bristles at the suggestion that he's trading fan favorites to boost his own ego 1C i A PHOTO exhibit of exceptional pets marks the 1 25th anniversary of the Humane Society 1D ELAINE VIETS: Mosquitoes are back. The good news is that they'd rather bite a pigeon than a human 3D i GAIL PENNINGTON: Channel 2, with the switch to Fox, is still seeking the "best possible" talk shows 6D READER SERVICES (News) Reader's Advocate 340-8250 Photo Reprints 340-8328 Reference Dept 340-8271 SUBSCRIPTIONS, DELIVERY QUESTIONS To start home delivery, for missing papers or other delivery questions 340-8888 (Hours 6 a.m.-6 p.m., 7 a.m. p.m., Sat, and 7 a.m.-noon, Sun.) Mail subscription rate for daily and Sunday $214 annually for Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas and $293 for other states or APO or FPO addresses. TO PLACE AN AD Classified 621-6666 Death Notices 340-8600 Classified by fax 340-8664 Retail 340-8500 Retail by fax 340-3140 WRITE THE POST-DISPATCH: 900 North Tucker Boulevard St Louis, MO 63101-1099 Post-Dispatch is owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Co. and is published daily.

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