– Supermodel Heidi Klum and singer Seal are parents once again. Klum gave birth Wednesday to Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, who weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces, according to Seal’s Web site. It did not say where the baby was born. “He is healthy, beautiful and looks just like his mother,” the posting read. The couple, married in 2005, have a 1-year-old son, Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel. Klum also has a daughter, Leni.
– Anna Nicole Smith’s companion said Thursday that he has a court order blocking efforts by her ex-boyfriend to cut power and water to the Bahamas home where the former Playboy model has been staying. Smith’s ex-boyfriend G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina businessman, is seeking to remove her from the waterfront home in Nassau where she has taken refuge since her son’s death on Sept. 10. Thompson said he owns the home and that Smith has not honored a deal to pay the mortgage. “Anna Nicole owns the house, and we have the sales agreement and conveyance to prove it,” said her companion, Howard K. Stern.
– Mia Farrow has called for peacekeepers to be sent immediately to halt “genocidal violence” that she said was spreading from Sudan’s Darfur region into neighboring eastern Chad. “We’re seeing atrocities of an indescribable kind,” said the actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador, just back from a visit to Chad after an earlier trip to Darfur. In a telephone interview Wednesday from her home in Connecticut, Farrow said 60 villages were burned to the ground, forcing thousands to flee. She said she found some people “clustered under trees, dazed and terrified.”
– Gael Garcia Bernal has joined other Mexican celebrities to voice support for Mexico City’s new law legalizing gay civil unions. Garcia Bernal, 28, star of “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “The Motorcycle Diaries,” was among 51 people who published a half-page open letter in newspapers in support of the law passed this month by local lawmakers. “The vote for the civil-unions law was a vote in favor of liberty, social equality and the strength of civil society,” the artists wrote.
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The Personals page was compiled by Alan Leo from Tribune news services and staff reports.
