Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 7, 1993                   TAG: 9306070015
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: E-5   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE

An army of celebrities turned out to watch the wedding of the pop diva and the man who launched her career, Tommy Mottola, president of Sony Music, at St. Thomas Church, a landmark Manhattan church.

Several hundred fans braved the elements to catch a glimpse of the star-studded guests that included Robert DeNiro, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Michael Bolton, Daryl Hall, John Oats, Tony Danza and the unlikely Ozzy Osborne in a tux.

Entertainment bigwigs David Geffen, Sandy Gallin, Moe Austin and Mickey Schulhoff also showed.

As an eight-piece orchestra played classical music and a boys' choir sang, the bride walked down an aisle lined with candles to join Mottola, 43, in the simple 30-minute ceremony.

It was the bride's first marriage and the groom's second.

"They laugh, they jeer, they give me the finger driving down the road. If it runs one more time, I'm not sure the ministry can survive," said the Rev. Robert Tilton, pleading with an Oklahoma court to stop ABC from rerunning a "PrimeTime Live" expose on his ministry. Tilton says the report made him an object of ridicule to his followers. Among allegations: He threw out prayer requests after removing contributions.

The latest rap about jailed mob boss John Gotti has a beat you can dance to - and it's a hit, at least in Gotti's old New York City neighborhood. The single by Big Lou (a.k.a. Lou Ferrante, 24), called "Justice Not Found: The John Gotti Story," is all the rage because it portrays Gotti as an innocent railroaded by the feds.

Sample lyrics:

As John Gotti sits in his cell while you hang,

The national anthem, it shouldn't be sang.