SENTENCED. Giovanni Vigliotto, 54, (authorities say he is really Fred Jipp, 47), flea-market merchant who made a habit, and a living, out of wooing, wedding and then fleecing his wives (he claims to have married 105 women in the past 20 years); to 34 years in state prison, the maximum sentence, plus a $336,000 fine, for his February conviction on bigamy and fraud charges brought by one of the 105, Patricia Ann Gardiner; in Phoenix.
RECOVERING. Dang Tuyet Mai, 41, beautiful wife of Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier of South Viet Nam who escaped the Communist takeover of his country in 1975 and is now a liquor store owner in Westminster, Calif.; from a suicide attempt (she took an overdose of Valium); in Manila, while a guest of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, a friend since the 1960s.
RECOVERING. Marvin Mitchelson, 54, celebrity divorce lawyer and palimony pioneer; from broken ribs and a sprained neck received when his Rolls-Royce was hit by a Mercedes-Benz and knocked into a utility pole; in Los Angeles. His recuperation was undoubtedly speeded by the award last week to one of his clients, Dena al-Fassi, of the largest divorce settlement ever granted: half the claimed $6 billion fortune of her ex-husband, Saudi Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi.
DIED. Richard Stankiewicz, 60, sculptor and an innovator of assemblage who reclaimed flotsam and jetsam from what he called “the sea of junk around us” and welded it into irreverent, often witty, anthropomorphic or zoomorphic constructions that nonetheless were possessed of a cohesive, entirely unrandom vision; of cancer; in Worthington, Mass.
DIED. Lisette Model, 76, tough-minded, Austrian-born U.S. photographer whose best-known work was of unlovely, often grotesquely fat people whom she caught at moments of great vitality, conferring on them an intense confrontational power; of heart and lung disease; in New York City. Her early photos of Parisians and Niçois, which she brought with her to the U.S. in 1938, impressed American critics and were soon included in a Museum of Modern Art show, the first of many. “I am attracted to enormous forms,” she once said of her work. “If I go to an aquarium, I love every fish, but I would probably photograph only the whale.”
DIED. Walter Reisch, 79, Academy Award-winning screen author who wrote, and occasionally directed, some 25 films in Austria and Germany before fleeing to the U.S. in the 1930s to script hit movies for Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) and Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman) and to win an Oscar for the 1953 disaster epic Titanic; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles.
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