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Milestones: Feb. 13, 1984

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SEEKING DIVORCE. From Rod Stewart, 39, mercurial British rocker (Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?) who has shown a penchant for young models: Alana Stewart, 37, actress and model; on the ground of “irreconcilable differences”; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

SENTENCED. Jodie Foster, 21, screen actress (Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley’s love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston.

SENTENCED. Roger Gauntlett, 41, an heir to the Upjohn pharmaceutical fortune, who had pleaded no contest to a charge of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter, 14; to a year in jail and five years of “chemical castration” with Depo-Provera, which decreases the male sex drive and is manufactured by Upjohn; in Kalamazoo, Mich. With the drug, said Circuit Court Judge Robert Borsos, “it is now possible to castrate a man and at a future time reverse the effects.” Both sides plan to appeal.

IMPRISONED. Larry Flynt, 41, pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher; for 15 months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, “I’m crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing.” When he yelled, “Give me more!” Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months.

HOSPITALIZED. Ibn Talal Hussein, 48, King of Jordan; for heart and intestinal tests as well as a general physical; at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic, where Saudi Arabia’s late King Khalid and Brazilian President João Baptista de Figueiredo have also been treated.

DIED. Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, 89, legendary red-haired singer, entertainer and nightclub owner better known to generations of café society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the ’40s and ’50s she ran clubs in Mexico City and Rome, then quit in 1961, saying, “I’m tired, honey, tired of staying up till dawn every day.”

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