Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, January 16, 1992 TAG: 9201160319
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Vanilla Ice said he was asleep in another room when thieves broke into his Miami Beach mansion and stole more than $100,000 worth of clothes, jewelry and other items.The rap singer, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, 24, told police he was asleep when burglars entered through the rear door of the second-floor master bedroom and ransacked the room Saturday night.
Among the missing items: two water bikes worth $10,000 each, a $20,000 Rolex watch, a $7,500 leather jacket and $1,200 white ski jacket.
The thieves also stole a $10,000 diamond ring, $4,300 diamond pinkie ring and $15,000 diamond-studded bracelet, according to police reports.
\ Thurgood Marshall will put on his judicial robes next week at the court he left more than 25 years ago for Washington.
Marshall, 83, will hear arguments with two other judges at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. He is expected to sit with the panel for two days, said his secretary, Jan McHale.
Among the cases scheduled to be argued is an appeal by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the controversial black activist facing state tax evasion charges.
Marshall retired from the Supreme Court last year, but remains a senior judge eligible to hear cases.
\ Kitty Kelley, notorious for having trashed Frank Sinatra, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Nancy Reagan in unauthorized biographies, is about to hone in on another target.
Warner Books confirmed Wednesday it has signed Kelly to a contract for a "non-fiction" book to be delivered in 1995, but would not comment on a New York Times report that the subject would be Britain's royal family.
Meanwhile, the author, who had promised she would not practice "checkbook journalism" if her new TV talk show became syndicated, seemed startled to learn that guests were being paid to show up.
"We pay people? . . . I didn't know that," Kelley told the Los Angeles Times.
Producers of "The Kitty Kelley Show" pilot offered three former members of Michael Jackson's entourage up to $20,000 to appear on the inaugural show. All three turned down the offer, but other guests accepted.