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| 28.10.2013, 07:52 - 1333kuou1t4n - Anfänger - 2 Posts Socialite Casey Johnson accused of stealing jewellery and underwear from friend Jasmine Lennardbr There's never a dull moment in the life of Simon Cowell's one-time inamorata Jasmine Lennard. Returning to America after a month with her mother in London, the model turned TV presenter found her new home in Los Angeles had been broken into and ransacked. Among the items stolen from her apartment in West Hollywood were jewellery, Christian Louboutin shoes, 20 Herve Leger dresses, 600 pages of a legal document and various items of underwear. More recent... Socialite Casey Johnson found dead in her LA home But what made it truly shocking was that the thief had apparently left an unsavoury calling card - in her bed, Jasmine found a sex toy. Betrayal: Jasmine Lennard, right, befriended Casey Johnson and tried to get her on an AA programme but now she's been arrested for stealing Lennard's clothes Twelve days later, as Jasmine, 24 - whose father was Sacha shoes founder Brian Lennard - was still reeling from her discovery, she got an even greater shock. For a text message arrived from a friend, Courtenay Semel - daughter of internet firm Yahoo!'s ex-chairman Terry Semel - which read: 'There's a problem,miu miu bags, Jaz. Casey Johnson just got into bed with me and she is wearing your underwear. Call the police.' Casey Johnson is the troubled heiress of the American Johnson Johnson pharmaceutical empire, and it transpires that gamine beauty Jasmine had recently befriended her. Yesterday, Casey was under arrest for grand theft after police in Los Angeles searched her home and found all of Jasmine's belongings. Jasmine's mother, former Bond actress Marilyn Galsworthy, tells me: 'Jasmine had been back home staying with me in London for a month. She discovered the robbery when she went back to LA a fortnight ago. 'She was absolutely devastated. Family heirlooms like my mother's diamond ring and earrings had gone. But she had no idea who had broken in until she got this text message.' Jasmine had been trying to help Casey, 30, who has been linked to several high-profile girlfriends. 'I tried to get her off drugs and alcohol. I tried to get her into a 12-step programme. I tried to help take care of her daughter and gave her money,' says Jasmine. 'I am the only person who helped this girl. I believe she was obsessed with me and thinks in her mind we had some kind of affair. That is not the case. 'She breaks into my apartment, gets into my bed, has a shower in my bathroom, then takes everything.' A prize Bercow With a younger wife and a Westminster grace-and-favour apartment, Speaker John Bercow must feel he has collected all of life's prizes. But there is another award on its way - though I doubt he will be boasting about it. The prize, known as The Big One, was presented from a shortlist comprising of fraudster Bernie Madoff, British Airways boss Willie Walsh and Bercow. Tastefully designed by the Queen's former jeweller, ex-Garrard boss Richard Jarvis, the hefty trinket was inspired by an elephant's deposit. Alas, Bercow was not on hand to receive his gong at the London diarists' club lunch, held at Searcy's restaurant on the 40th floor of the Gherkin tower yesterday. Multi-millionaire textile heir and Tory MP for Huntingdon Jonathan Djanogly is no doubt saddened to lose right-hand man Sir Peter Brown, his constituency agent, who was once described by Djanogly's predecessor, Sir John Major, as 'the best constituency agent in the country'. At the age of 64, Sir Peter told friends he wished to retire from his post after 42 years as an agent, citing pressure of work and health concerns. Intriguingly, his decision comes after the MPs' expenses scandal - Djanogly, whose father is Coats Viyella joint-founder Sir Harry Djanogly, was found to have claimed 77,000 in housing expenses while living rent-free at his parents' 4 million London home. The MP, who has since paid back 25,000, also claimed 50 for jam-making equipment. And now, curiously, it turns out that far from retiring, Brown has set up a political lobbying company with former Foyles bookshop PR Barry Simmons. He has also been parachuted in by Tory Central Office to act as agent for Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, and for Laura Sandys, daughter of the former Defence Minister Lord Duncan-Sandys, standing in South Thanet. The two women are, of course, untainted by the expenses scandal. As the daughter of JCB multi-millionaire Sir Anthony Bamford and his organic pioneer wife Carole, it is hardly surprising that daughter Alice has inherited the entrepreneurial spirit. But film-maker Alice, who is finishing a documentary about organic and sustainable living for a U.S. TV channel, is frustrated that it is not going to be screened in Britain. 'I think "organic" has become like a dirty word in this country,' she tells me at an event at Claridge's. 'People just see the price tag, so I want to show that there is nothing to be afraid of, and how to incorporate it into everyday life.' Meanwhile, Alice plans to launch her own organic pampering range - Bamford Bath And Body - adding to her mother Lady Bamford's food and clothing lines. Ladies' man Charles Dance made an agreeable host for the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award - but he still disassociated himself from other attendees at the bash. 'Let me get this clear: I will not share my own experiences of bad sex because I don't recall ever having any,' actor Dance, 63, tells me at the St James's party, where he handed the joke prize to U.S. author Jonathan Littell. 'I was eager to hear these vulgar fictional excerpts in order to feel a little closer to those who are plagued with negative sexual acts day in, day out,' Dance adds. 'In fact, I don't think I've even ever been asked to act out bad sex. It's not my style. I've been blessed with good rhythm.' Lacey returns to the Kingdom Companions: Lacey and Lady Jane Thirty years ago, writer Robert Lacey and his then wife Sandi left the comfort of their London home to brave life in oil-boom Jeddah. The sojourn resulted in The Kingdom, Lacey's bestseller about secretive Saudi Arabia. Now the writer has returned to the desert state to pen a masterful new volume, but this time - with his marriage over - he went alone. Since splitting from Sandi, Lacey, 65, has a new companion, widow Lady Jane Rayne - Jemima Khan's aunt and the aristocratic elder sister of Lady Annabel Goldsmith. Although she is 12 years Lacey's senior, Lady Jane's absence had nothing to do with the rigours of Saudi life. Instead, I understand, she stayed away because she converted to Judaism when she married the late property developer Max Rayne. Nevertheless, Lacey pays tribute to his companion in the book's acknowledgments, describing her as 'my most inspiring and supportive friend of all'. Says Lacey: 'At the book's launch I made a speech praising both Sandi and Jane.' PS Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green is recovering from minor surgery for a hernia operation. Let's hope the Topshop boss, whose High Street tills are bucking the gloomy economic times and ringing with festive good fortune, did not incur the injury while picking up his bucketloads of money. |