News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
France's culture minister is struggling to keep his job amid an uproar about a 2005 book in which he details Bangkok's brothels and the pleasure and freedom of paying "boys" for sex. Frederic Mitterrand's candid tale came back to haunt him after he...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 month ago
When he took the job as French culture minister last June, Frédéric Mitterrand probably did not think that a four-year-old tell-all book could come back to haunt him. But this week, his admission in a 2005 autobiography that he had paid for sex...
News Source: The Times of India-Europe-World
| about 1 month ago
French politicians from left and right on Thursday demanded that Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand answer allegations that a memoir he wrote endorses sex tourism. Mitterrand's 2005 book "The Bad Life" recounts how he paid for sex with "young boys"...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Frederic Mitterrand ... extracts of his memoir were read on national TV. Photo: AFP IT WAS a bestseller, critically acclaimed and widely read. Now, four years after publication, the memoir by the French Culture Minister, Frederic Mitterrand, has...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
The revelations in his 2005 autobiography �The Bad Life� have come back to haunt Mitterrand after he emerged as one of the most vociferous defenders of Roman Polanski, the film director currently detained in Switzerland in connection with an...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
The controversy broke out earlier in the week when the daughter of right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen read excerpts from the book on a television talk show devoted to Polanski's arrest in Switzerland for a 32-year-old conviction for having sex...