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Month: April 2008

Murder, she wrote

8 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

When Felix Dennis ‘confessed’ to Ginny Dougary that he had killed a man, the interviewer faced a decision: file the sensational exclusive or fast-forward the tape. She has no doubts that she made the right choice. My phone was pretty busy in the after-math of the publication of my interview with Felix Dennis, in which …

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The fine art of extracting an interview bombshell

8 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

The Guardian – Stephen Moss. ‘I once killed a man.” It’s not a bad headline to put over an interview – in this case the estimable Ginny Dougary’s interview with Felix Dennis in the Times yesterday. Her paper obviously thought it was pretty good, too, as it slapped a photograph of the millionaire publisher on …

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Felix Dennis: ex-addict, poet – and murderer?

8 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

He has been jailed for obscenity, overcome an enthusiastic addiction to crack cocaine, and become a best-selling poet. But has he also killed a man? That was the dramatic claim made by the multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis in a newspaper interview published yesterday, a statement he has since retracted, describing it as “a load of …

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Did maverick magazine mogul Felix Dennis murder a man 25 years ago?

8 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

‘I killed him,’ Dennis told interviewer Ginny Dougary from The Times at his Warwickshire mansion. ‘That’s all you need to know.’ Read the entire story at The Daily Mail >>

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The need to share a dark secret

8 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

BBC News, Friday, 4 April 2008 – Julian Joyce Multi-millionaire poet and publisher Felix Dennis has retracted a drunken murder “confession” made to a newspaper journalist. But even if Mr Dennis’s words turn out to be – as he says – “a load of hogwash”, how unusual is it for genuine murderers to risk their …

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Maxim publisher Felix Dennis: ‘I’ve killed a man’

8 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

The Oz trial defendant who is now a billionaire publisher with an empire that includes Maxim and The Week talks about poetry, whores, his past addiction to crack cocaine and the time he killed a man – a confession he later retracts. Felix Dennis is brilliant, aggressive, generous, ruthless, and quite possibly a bit mad. …

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A close encounter with George Clooney

7 April 2008 by Ginny Dougary

George Clooney’s easy banter and high-brow films have made him the thinking person’s heart-throb. But what do we really know about him? Ginny Dougary has a close encounter with a most elusive superstar. George Clooney is a guys’ guy, a gays’ guy and, obviously, a ladies’ man. It’s not just the looks and the voice, …

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