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PHOTOGRAPH: MENAHEM KAHANA/ AFP/GETTY


NET­AN­YAHU SAYS CHARGES AGAINST HIM ARE ‘OCEAN OF ABSURDITY’ IN BRIBERY TRIAL




VET­ERAN ACQUIT­TED IN NYC SUB­WAY CHOKE­HOLD DEATH




ZELENSKY OPEN TO SECUR­ITY BY WEST­ERN TROOPS


THE UKRAIN­IAN PRES­ID­ENT SAYS HE WOULD WEL­COME DEPLOY­MENT AS A STEP TOWARD
HIS COUN­TRY JOIN­ING NATO AND THE EU.




ISRAEL STRIKES MIL­IT­ARY ASSETS ACROSS SYRIA TO KEEP THEM FROM FALL­ING INTO
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NET­AN­YAHU SAYS CHARGES AGAINST HIM ARE ‘OCEAN OF ABSURDITY’ IN BRIBERY TRIAL

CrimeBenjamin NetanyahuPoliticsCorruption
 * 11 Dec 2024
 * +70 more
 * Peter Beau­mont Jer­u­s­alem

PHOTOGRAPH: MENAHEM KAHANA/ AFP/GETTYNet­an­yahu atten­ded a hear­ing after
being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accept­ing bribes

A com­bat­ive Ben­jamin Net­an­yahu has become the first Israeli prime
min­is­ter to take the stand as the defend­ant in a crim­inal trial for
cor­rup­tion as he assailed the accus­a­tions against him as an “ocean of
absurdity”.

A com­bat­ive Ben­jamin Net­an­yahu has become the first Israeli prime
min­is­ter to take the stand as the defend­ant in a crim­inal trial for
cor­rup­tion as he assailed the accus­a­tions against him as an “ocean of
absurdity”.

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U.N. DIS­PUTES SYR­IAN PRIME MIN­IS­TER’S ASSER­TION OF FUNC­TION­ING
GOV­ERN­MENT


PUB­LIC SEC­TOR HAS GROUND TO A HALT, ENVOY SAYS. REBELS SEEK TO ASSURE PUB­LIC.

Middle East NewsMilitaryMiddle East PoliticsWarfare and ConflictsWorld
PoliticsPoliticsTerrorismUnited NationsReligious extremismBashar al-Assad
 * 10 Dec 2024
 * +8 more
 * BY SARAH EL DEEB, BASSEM MROUE AND TIA GOLDENBERG El Deeb, Mroue and
   Golden­berg write for the Asso­ci­ated Press and repor­ted from Dam­as­cus,
   Beirut and Tel Aviv, respect­ively.

HUSSEIN MALLA Asso­ci­ated PressSYRIANS cel­eb­rate Monday in Dam­as­cus after
the fall of Pres­id­ent Bashar Assad. Troops aban­doned their pos­i­tions as
rebel fight­ers swept into the cap­ital.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s prime min­is­ter said Monday that most Cab­inet
min­is­ters were still at work after rebels over­threw Pres­id­ent Bashar Assad.

Prime Min­is­ter Mohammed Ghazi al-Jalali, who remained in his post after Assad
and most of his top offi­cials fled over the week­end, has sought to project
nor­mal­ity.

Prime Min­is­ter Mohammed Ghazi al-Jalali, who remained in his post after Assad
and most of his top offi­cials fled over the week­end, has sought to project
nor­mal­ity.

“We are work­ing so that the trans­itional period is quick and smooth,” he told
Sky News Ara­bia TV on Monday, say­ing the secur­ity situ­ation had already
improved from the day before.

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VET­ERAN ACQUIT­TED IN NYC SUB­WAY CHOKE­HOLD DEATH

Crime
 * 10 Dec 2024
 * +25 more
 * By Jen­nifer Peltz

NEW YORK — A Mar­ine vet­eran who used a choke­hold on an agit­ated sub­way
rider was acquit­ted on Monday in a death that became a prism for dif­fer­ing
views about pub­lic safety, valor and vigil­ant­ism.

A Man­hat­tan jury cleared Daniel Penny of crim­in­ally neg­li­gent hom­icide in
Jordan Neely’s 2023 death. A more ser­i­ous man­slaughter charge was dis­missed
last week because the jury dead­locked on that count.

Penny, who had shown little expres­sion dur­ing the trial, briefly smiled as the
ver­dict was read. While cel­eb­rat­ing later with his attor­neys, he said he
felt “great.”

Both applause and anger erup­ted in the courtroom, and Neely’s father and two
sup­port­ers were ushered out after aud­ibly react­ing. Another per­son also
left, wail­ing with tears.

“It really, really hurts,” Neely’s father, Andre Zach­ery, said out­side the
court­house. “I had enough of this. The sys­tem is rigged.”

The case amp­li­fied many Amer­ican fault lines, among them race, polit­ics,
crime, urban life, men­tal ill­ness and home­less­ness. Neely was Black. Penny
is white.

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NEW YORK POLICE SAY ‘PER­SON OF INTEREST’ IN SLAY­ING OF UNITED­HEALTH­CARE CEO
USED FAKE NEW JER­SEY ID

CrimeDomestic ViolenceViolence and AbuseSocietyIncidentsNew York CityNew York
 * 8 Dec 2024
 * +159 more
 * BY DOUG CUNNINGHAM

NYPD / TNSPolice sus­pect this man killed United­Heath­care CEO Brian Thompson.

The per­son believed to have shot and killed United­Health­care CEO Brian
Thompson is likely to have used a fake New Jer­sey ID to pur­chase space at a
hostel on Man­hat­tan’s Upper West Side where he stayed before the attack, the
New York Police Depart­ment said Thursday night. Earlier in the day, police
released two new pho­tos of what they called a per­son of interest in the New
York City slay­ing.

The pho­tos pos­ted on X appear to be screen­shots from secur­ity cam­era
foot­age.

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ZELENSKY OPEN TO SECUR­ITY BY WEST­ERN TROOPS


THE UKRAIN­IAN PRES­ID­ENT SAYS HE WOULD WEL­COME DEPLOY­MENT AS A STEP TOWARD
HIS COUN­TRY JOIN­ING NATO AND THE EU.

PoliticsEuropean PoliticsMilitaryWarfare and ConflictsWorld PoliticsU.S.
NewsGermany News
 * 10 Dec 2024
 * +112 more

Efrem Lukat­sky / APUkrain­ian Pres­id­ent Volodymyr Zelensky talks dur­ing a
meet­ing Monday with the chair­man of the Ger­man Chris­tian Demo­cratic Party,
Friedrich Merz, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrain­ian Pres­id­ent Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that he’s
open to the poten­tial deploy­ment of West­ern troops in Ukraine to guar­an­tee
the coun­try’s secur­ity as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year
war with Rus­sia.

The deploy­ment would be a step toward Ukraine join­ing NATO, Zelensky said in a
post on his Tele­gram chan­nel.

“But before that, we must have a clear under­stand­ing of when Ukraine will be
in the European Union and when Ukraine will be in NATO,” Zelensky said.

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ISRAEL STRIKES MIL­IT­ARY ASSETS ACROSS SYRIA TO KEEP THEM FROM FALL­ING INTO
REBEL HANDS

MilitaryMiddle East NewsMiddle East PoliticsWarfare and ConflictsPoliticsWorld
PoliticsReligious extremismIsraelSyria
 * 11 Dec 2024
 * +166 more

DELIL SOULEIMAN AFP/Getty Images/TNSSyr­i­ans look for metal and unex­ploded
ammuni­tion on Tues­day at the site of the pre­vi­ous even­ing’s Israeli
air­strike that tar­geted ship­ments of weapons that belonged to Syr­ian
gov­ern­ment forces in Qam­ishli in north­east­ern Syria.

The Israeli mil­it­ary appeared to have unleashed more air­strikes across Syria
overnight into Tues­day in an attempt to des­troy weapons, air­craft and
mil­it­ary facil­it­ies before the rebels con­trolling much of the coun­try
could take pos­ses­sion of them.

Pho­to­graphs from Syria on Tues­day showed sunken boats at a shipyard, crumbled
build­ings and the charred remains of a sci­ence research cen­ter that had been
linked to the coun­try’s chem­ical weapons pro­gram, accord­ing to the news
agen­cies that...

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ROUND­ING OUT MER­RIAM-WEB­STER’S TOP 10 WORDS OF 2024:

Joe BidenTaylor SwiftFrancis Scott Key BridgeMexicoDonald TrumpKamala
HarrisMinnesotaMcDonald'sFrancis Scott KeyPost MaloneBaltimoreMerriam-Webster,
IncorporatedCanadaRepublican Party (United States)West Coast
 * 10 Dec 2024
 * +22 more

• Demure: Tik­Toker Jools Lebron’s 38-second video describ­ing her work­day
makeup routine as “very demure, very mind­ful” lit up the sum­mer with memes.
The video has been viewed more than 50 mil­lion times, yield­ing “huge spikes”
in look­ups, Soko­lowski said, and prompt­ing many to learn it means reserved or
mod­est.

• Fort­night: Taylor Swift’s song “Fort­night,” fea­tur­ing rap­per Post Malone,
undoubtedly spurred many searches for this word, which means two weeks. “Music
can still send people to the dic­tion­ary,” Soko­lowski said.

• Total­ity: The solar eclipse in April inspired awe and much travel. There are
tens of mil­lions of people who live along a nar­row stretch from Mex­ico’s
Pacific Coast to east­ern Canada, oth­er­wise known as the path of total­ity,
where loc­als and trav­el­ers gazed sky­ward to see the moon fully blot out the
sun. Gen­er­ally, the word refers to a sum or aggreg­ate amount — or whole­ness.

• Res­on­ate: “Texts developed by AI have a dis­pro­por­tion­ate per­cent­age of
use of the word ‘res­on­ate,’ ” Soko­lowski said. This may be because the word,
which means to affect or appeal to someone in a per­sonal or emo­tional way, can
add grav­itas to writ­ing. But, para­dox­ic­ally, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence
“also betrays itself to be a robot because it’s using that word too much.”

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PLEASE CUT IN: ‘DANCE’


BID TO HALT TIK LAW

LawU.S. NewsPolitics
 * 10 Dec 2024
 * +84 more
 * By THOMAS BARRABI tbar­rabi@nypost.com

China-based Byte­Dance asked a fed­eral court to tem­por­ar­ily halt the law
requir­ing it to sell Tik­Tok by Jan. 19 to avoid it being banned in the US
until the Supreme Court can review the stat­ute.

The emer­gency fil­ing came after a US appeals court upheld the law, a major
set­back for the social media app, which had argued that the law is
uncon­sti­tu­tional and a viol­a­tion of free speech.

Without a pause, attor­neys for Tik­Tok and Byte­Dance said, the law would “shut
down Tik­Tok — one of the nation’s most pop­u­lar speech plat­forms — for its
more than 170 mil­lion domestic monthly users on the eve of a pres­id­en­tial
inaug­ur­a­tion.”

“Before that hap­pens, the Supreme Court should have an oppor­tun­ity, as the
only court with appel­late jur­is­dic­tion over this action, to decide whether
to review this excep­tion­ally import­ant case,” the com­pan­ies said.

They also hin­ted at the pos­sib­il­ity of receiv­ing help from
Pres­id­ent-elect Don­ald Trump, who attemp­ted to ban Tik­Tok dur­ing his first
term in office, but has said recently he no longer sup­ports a ban.

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TRAGEDY OF THE SCHOOL GIRL WHO SANG WITH SINATRA


LENA ZAV­ARONI WAS THE ORI­GINAL REAL­ITY TV SEN­SA­TION – THRUST INTO THE HARSH
SPOT­LIGHT OF WORLD­WIDE FAME AGED JUST TEN... ONLY TO FACE A LIFE OF STRUGGLE
AND HEARTACHE

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MovementsGroupiesBDSM
 * 16 Oct 2021
 * by Emma Cow­ing

Star: Above, Lena Zav­aroni with Hughie Green, dan­cing with Bruce For­syth and
on Oppor­tun­ity Knocks. Below, with hus­band Peter Wilt­shire‘Self-con­scious’:
Lena Zav­aroni with Frank Sinatra, who told her she was ‘won­der­ful’

AWARM breeze rippled across Los Angeles as the little girl arrived at the
Hol­ly­wood sound stu­dio. Out­side, crowds of fans cheered for their idols
while inside, the girl, who was only 4ft tall yet appeared sur­pris­ingly
con­fid­ent for her age, was shown to her dress­ing room.

Walk­ing down the cor­ridor she stopped abruptly when she saw the names on the
door. Min­nelli, Ball, Zav­aroni.

The year was 1974 and Lena Zav­aroni, then only ten years old, was on top of the
world. The little girl from the Isle of Bute had won Oppor­tun­ity Knocks, then
the biggest thing on tele­vi­sion, for a record­break­ing five weeks run­ning.

Her first album had reached num­ber eight in the UK album chart, mak­ing her the
young­est per­son to ever have a record in the Top Ten.

Now she was in LA to appear in a char­ity TV spe­cial along­side Liza Min­nelli,
Lucille Ball and per­haps the biggest star of the age, Frank Sinatra. Zav­aroni,
however, was unfazed. ‘I didn’t know who he was,’ she con­fessed years later.
Nor did she recog­nise Lucille Ball, who along with Min­nelli shared a dress­ing
room with her, describ­ing her as ‘a woman with big car­rot hair and eye­lashes.
She came in and said, “You are something spe­cial sweetie. Something spe­cial.”
I thought, ‘Who the hell’s this?’”

Now she was in LA to appear in a char­ity TV spe­cial along­side Liza Min­nelli,
Lucille Ball and per­haps the biggest star of the age, Frank Sinatra. Zav­aroni,
however, was unfazed. ‘I didn’t know who he was,’ she con­fessed years later.
Nor did she recog­nise Lucille Ball, who along with Min­nelli shared a dress­ing
room with her, describ­ing her as ‘a woman with big car­rot hair and eye­lashes.
She came in and said, “You are something spe­cial sweetie. Something spe­cial.”
I thought, ‘Who the hell’s this?’”

Only 25 years on from that extraordin­ary night in Los Angeles, Zav­aroni was
dead, aged 35, fol­low­ing a career blighted by depres­sion and the eat­ing
dis­order anor­exia nervosa, which she suffered from for most of her adult
years.

Now the singer from Rothesay’s life, at turns both magical and deeply tra­gic,
is to be turned into a play, set to debut in Greenock in March next year.

DESCRIBED as a play with songs and writ­ten by Tim Whit­nall, it will star Erin
Arm­strong, with Jon Culshaw, the impres­sion­ist, play­ing TV star Hughie
Green, the presenter of Oppor­tun­ity Knocks.

It will focus, in par­tic­u­lar on the struggle of being in the pub­lic eye at
such a young age.

‘It is very inter­est­ing the way the play deals with the pres­sure in the 70s,
where you had the Press and three TV chan­nels,’ said Culshaw. ‘It was like a
con­cen­trated beam of pres­sure.’

Mar­garet Zav­aroni, Lena’s cousin, who still lives in Rothesay, approves of the
project. ‘I think this is a mar­vel­lous thing that they’re doing,’ she said.

Mar­garet Zav­aroni, Lena’s cousin, who still lives in Rothesay, approves of the
project. ‘I think this is a mar­vel­lous thing that they’re doing,’ she said.

‘For all the young people who suf­fer anor­exia in this coun­try and all over
the world, I would like them to actu­ally see how Lena lived her life through
this anor­exia. And you’ll see it all in this show.’

Zav­aroni was sur­roun­ded by music right from the start. Her father Vic­tor
played the gui­tar and would sing to her when she was a baby.

‘She always had music around her,’ he said once. ‘She was brought up in that
envir­on­ment.’

Zav­aroni was the grand­daugh­ter of an Italian émigré, her fam­ily owned a fish
and chip shop in Rothesay and she grew up in a nearby coun­cil house.

Zav­aroni was the grand­daugh­ter of an Italian émigré, her fam­ily owned a fish
and chip shop in Rothesay and she grew up in a nearby coun­cil house.

As she got older and her tal­ent became appar­ent, she could often be found
per­form­ing for cus­tom­ers in the shop, as well as in local clubs and bars.

She was dis­covered in the sum­mer of 1973 by record pro­du­cer Tommy Scott, who
was on hol­i­day in Rothesay and heard her singing with her father and uncle in
a band.

Scott con­tac­ted impres­ario Phil Solomon, which led to his part­ner Dorothy
Solomon becom­ing Zav­aroni’s man­ager.

She was a sen­sa­tion almost from the moment she stepped on stage on
Oppor­tun­ity Knocks, her tiny frame (she never grew taller than 4ft 8in) and
sweet, smil­ing face bely­ing a belter of a voice that knocked the audi­ence’s
socks off.

The offers came thick and fast after her appear­ances, and her first album, Ma,
He’s Mak­ing Eyes At Me, was a huge hit.

Com­par­is­ons were made with a young Judy Gar­land, par­tic­u­larly when she
per­formed in the US.

Zav­aroni moved to Lon­don, far from her fam­ily and under the care of Dorothy
Solomon. There she per­formed reg­u­larly and star­ted record­ing more songs.

‘We didn’t push her,’ Vic­tor said once. ‘The tal­ent was always there. At first
she seemed to love per­form­ing.

‘I was con­cerned that we didn’t see enough of her, but she tele­phoned every
even­ing.’

By the age of 13, Zav­aroni had appeared in front of the Queen at the Royal
Vari­ety Show in Lon­don, sung for Ger­ald Ford in the White House, and been a
guest on famed US pro­gramme The Tonight Show Star­ring Johnny Car­son.

She’d also appeared on More­cambe and Wise, and was a reg­u­lar on UK TV shows.

Her anor­exia, however, was triggered around the same time, when she was sent to
the Italia

Conti stage school. ‘From my first day at stage school I noticed the other kids
were very skinny and I was a little dump­ling,’ she said once. ‘And when you’re
on tele­vi­sion, you become very aware of your own body and are more crit­ical
of it. That was when I became anor­exic. I became very anxious if I put on a
single pound.

‘When they tried to fit me into those cos­tumes they would talk about my weight.
I was a plump little girl and I was also devel­op­ing into a woman. I only
became fan­at­ical about not eat­ing when the pres­sure became too much.’

Yet her star con­tin­ued to rise. There was a show, Lena Zav­aroni on Broad­way,
which was tele­vised by the BBC, and an ITV spe­cial with her lifelong friend
Bon­nie Lang­ford.

SHE released four albums in four years and had her own TV series, Lena. ‘The two
of us were pretty sim­ilar,’ Lang­ford recalled later. ‘I had this image of
being all very bub­bly and loud, but I never was.

‘We were actu­ally pretty shy so we kept our singing, dan­cing and con­fid­ence
for the stage, and off­stage we liked being as nor­mal as pos­sible. Our
favour­ite thing to do was go shop­ping at Brent Cross.’

‘We were actu­ally pretty shy so we kept our singing, dan­cing and con­fid­ence
for the stage, and off­stage we liked being as nor­mal as pos­sible. Our
favour­ite thing to do was go shop­ping at Brent Cross.’

Lang­ford slowly star­ted to real­ise, however, that something was wrong. ‘I was
aware Lena was hav­ing issues as we got older because she was dis­ap­pear­ing in
front of me and being fussy about food. I would try to per­suade her to eat. But
it’s a com­plic­ated ill­ness.’

Anor­exia was also often mis­un­der­stood at the time.

Len’s cousin Mar­garet recol­lec­ted: ‘My exper­i­ence when Vic­tor told me
about it was we just put it over our heads. Nobody really knew much about
anor­exia nervosa so when you were told Lena wasn’t eat­ing prop­erly you
thought, “Oh, maybe she’s just at a time in her life where she’s just going
through a phase”.’

In the early 1980s Zav­aroni’s weight plummeted to four stone and she abruptly
stopped per­form­ing. She was also suf­fer­ing severe depres­sion and was in and
out of hos­pital. But she was determ­ined to find hap­pi­ness.

Her father had intro­duced her to Peter Wilt­shire, a com­puter pro­gram­mer, in
1986, and in 1989 they mar­ried.

It seemed as though Zav­aroni had turned a corner, although she later said that
she ‘didn’t feel any­thing for Peter’ when she walked down the aisle, but hoped
the mar­riage might make her ‘grow up and exper­i­ence life’.

It seemed as though Zav­aroni had turned a corner, although she later said that
she ‘didn’t feel any­thing for Peter’ when she walked down the aisle, but hoped
the mar­riage might make her ‘grow up and exper­i­ence life’.

To the out­side world, however, all seemed well. In a 1989 inter­view only two
weeks after her wed­ding to Wilt­shire, she opened up about her anor­exia,
say­ing: ‘It’s a lot more com­plic­ated than just eat­ing. It’s a lot more to do
with feel­ings and things.

‘There’s a lot of pres­sure on women these days. And today’s soci­ety, I think
it has a lot to do with it.’

Asked if she was wor­ried it would come back, she said: ‘Well once you’ve had
anor­exia you’ve always got something there. You know you will always have
something about food. But most people like food and think about food a lot.’

She went on to say that she found eat­ing in pub­lic dif­fi­cult because she
felt self-con­scious.

INDEED, her recov­ery proved to be short-lived. Her par­ents had by then broken
up, and that same year her mother Hilda, died of an over­dose. Zav­aroni went
into a tailspin, and her mar­riage to Wilt­shire was over within 18 months.

Talk of a comeback came to noth­ing and she never released another album.
Instead, Zav­aroni spent the last years of her life liv­ing in a one-bed­room
coun­cil flat at Tower Heights in Hod­des­don, Hert­ford­shire, spend­ing her
time cre­at­ing abstract paint­ings and liv­ing on bene­fits. Occa­sion­ally she
per­formed in pubs with her father, but found the exper­i­ence an ordeal as she
battled with her depres­sion.

Talk of a comeback came to noth­ing and she never released another album.
Instead, Zav­aroni spent the last years of her life liv­ing in a one-bed­room
coun­cil flat at Tower Heights in Hod­des­don, Hert­ford­shire, spend­ing her
time cre­at­ing abstract paint­ings and liv­ing on bene­fits. Occa­sion­ally she
per­formed in pubs with her father, but found the exper­i­ence an ordeal as she
battled with her depres­sion.

‘People would hear me sing. They’d say, “Fab­ulous. Won­der­ful. Lena, you’ve
still got it there”,’ she said in a rare inter­view in 1993.

‘But they don’t know what I’m going through. I know how to put a song across.
How to put on a per­form­ance. But there’s noth­ing inside.’

In her final years she was so poor one neigh­bour gave her his mother’s old
shoes to wear, and only a few months before her death, she was charged with
shoplift­ing a 50p packet of jelly. The alleg­a­tion was later dropped.

In an inter­view with the Mail only six months before she died she talked, with
heart­break­ing hon­esty, about her depres­sion.

‘I don’t feel love. I just can’t identify with any­thing. On bad days I have to
force myself to get up.’

She went on to talk about her dire fin­an­cial situ­ation, and how she had been
left without a penny des­pite her huge suc­cess.

‘I have no money. I don’t know much about what happened to the money – I didn’t
see hardly any of it. All my money was man­aged for me. Even my mum and dad
didn’t know what happened, so I’ll never know really.’

And yet Zav­aroni never stopped fight­ing. A few months later she was admit­ted
to hos­pital in Cardiff to undergo con­tro­ver­sial brain sur­gery. Weigh­ing
four-and-a-half stone, it was a last-ditch attempt to free her from the men­tal
ill­ness that had dom­in­ated her life.

Ini­tially she appeared to be recov­er­ing well but, fol­low­ing the
oper­a­tion, her weight plummeted to three-and-a-half stone, and she caught a
bron­chial infec­tion. It was too much for her fra­gile body, and she died on
Octo­ber 1, 1999.

Zav­aroni’s leg­acy today is a com­plex one. A cau­tion­ary tale against
child­hood star­dom, a warn­ing bell against the dangers of teen­age anor­exia
and untreated men­tal ill­ness. But her tal­ent remains.

That magical night in Hol­ly­wood after her per­form­ance, Zav­aroni went up to
Sinatra and tugged at his sleeve.

‘I heard you singing,’ he told her. ‘It was abso­lutely won­der­ful.’

She might not have recog­nised him, but even then, the biggest singing
sen­sa­tion of the age knew exactly who Lena Zav­aroni was.

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