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Headline:

Grace Jones and the mother of all comebacks

Synopsis:

Grace Jones is pushing 60, but that's not stopping her.

By the time I finally pinned down Grace Jones for this interview, I had decided she was a rude has-been with an addiction to tardiness and a penchant for petty thievery.

I had heard she once kept an interviewer waiting for eight hours, but she kept me waiting for five days. On the first attempt, she held a crew of 12 at a photo studio for six hours, before sending word that she wasn’t in the mood to be snapped today. I turned up to find an unamused photographer, a weary stylist and a little chap called Filippo, from Bentley’s restaurant, whose job it was to handfeed her the oysters she had demanded we provide. “She no coming?” asked Filippo, dejected as a kicked puppy, as he sadly packed 85 top-notch molluscs back into his icebox. ...

Publish date:

26 October 2008

Source:

Sunday Times

Media:

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