[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Spain's fabulously wealthy 85-year-old Duchess of Alba faced a topless photo scandal Tuesday on the eve of her wedding to a civil servant 25 years her junior.If he's 25 years her junior he's 60, which implies she doesn't want him only for his body any more than he wants her only for hers. So he gets money. What's she get?
She gets to shoot pool with a rope...
... in the dark. Really dark.
A 30-year-old photograph of the duchess as she sunbathed topless in Ibiza was splashed on the cover of the racy Spanish magazine Interviu, reportedly prompting a legal threat.
The picture was taken 30 years ago? When she and her udds were 55? Pervs around the world are lining up to see that, no doubt about it. 55-year-old groodies receive no competition from 20-year-old honkers stretched for mostly naked miles on the Costa Brava.
"We are considering suing for interfering with her rights to privacy," her friend and lawyer Javier Saavedra
Saavedra? Isn't that a Klingon name?
was quoted as telling show business news site Vanitatis on Tuesday.
Presumably she was letting them all hang out with a reasonable expectation of privacy, either on her own or someone else's private property or far out to sea.
The twice-widowed aristocrat, renowned for her frizzy hair and colourful dress sense, will marry 60-year-old Alfonso Diez on Wednesday in the chapel of her 15th century Palacio de las Duenas in Seville.
La duquesa was not a comely young chick even 65 years ago. Except for her tiara nobody would have given her a second glance on the Costa Brava. She appears to have been pretty homely, with a facial conformation best described as 'unfortunate.' Today her hair looks like an electrified fright wig and the remains of her phizz bear the unmistakable imprint of at least a half dozen too many unsuccessful plastic surgeries. Despite my stubborn heterosexuality, I'd sooner have a picture of Nikita Khrushchev nekkid than one of la duquesa.
Spain's media, particularly the lively gossip shows and press, are devouring every detail of the nuptials and the duchess' tussle with six children who were doubtful about the match.
"He only wants you for yer money, Ma!"
The noble has said she had to work hard to overcome her offspring's objections. She showered her five sons and one daughter several months ago with much of her estate -- palaces, mansions and treasures including masterpieces by artists from Goya to Velazquez, Murillo, Rembrandt and Rubens.
"Here! Have some riches! Now shut the hell up! Ungrateful wretches!"
But she kept control over the assets, ranging from palaces to lavish estates reputedly worth between 600 million and 3.5 billion euros ($850 million and $5.0 billion), until her death.