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© St. Petersburg Times, published April 17, 2002
That was quick
A day after news of their engagement broke, news of their wedding did.
Benjamin Bratt married his Pinero co-star Talisa Soto on Saturday in San Francisco, where Bratt was raised and owns a home, publicist Ina Treciokas said Tuesday.
Bratt, 38, and Soto, 35, were wed "at an intimate family gathering, a day that perfectly celebrated their love and happiness," Treciokas said in a statement. She offered no details.
The two co-starred in the 2001 film about hard-living Puerto Rican poet-playwright Miguel Pinero, who died of cirrhosis at 41 in 1988.
It's the first marriage for Bratt, who dated Julia Roberts for nearly four years until their breakup last year. Soto was married for three years to actor Costas Mandylor; they divorced in 2000.
Media reports surfaced Monday that the couple were engaged. Entertainment Tonight said Bratt proposed at the end of February.
Attorneys for Anna Nicole Smith asked a federal judge to add up to $30-million in interest to the $88-million she won last month from the estate of her late oil tycoon husband.
Attorney Philip W. Boesch said the additional money was interest Smith would have earned had she not had to wait for a ruling in the dispute over the estate of J. Howard Marshall.
Attorneys for Smith's stepson, who has opposed giving any money to Smith, said they planned to appeal the initial judgment and any subsequent rulings.
U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana, Calif., did not immediately rule on the request, made Monday.
The former Playboy Playmate, whose real name is Vickie Lynn Marshall, met her husband in 1991 when she was working as a stripper. The couple married three years later, when she was 26 and he was 89.
J. Howard Marshall died in 1995 at age 90.
Ozzy Osbourne and his clan are willing to do a second season of the megahit The Osbournes for MTV for a fee in the high seven figures, Variety says. The family was paid in the low seven figures for one season of letting cameras follow them around 24 hours a day for several months. That deal was put together by Creative Artists Agency, which represents Ozzy the rocker. The family has signed with the Endeavor talent agency to help it explore a second-season deal. MTV has the production rights to future seasons, but it hasn't locked up the services of the Osbournes. Ozzy and his wife-manager, Sharon, wouldn't comment on the report to Entertainment Tonight. Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly says MTV has approached Sean "P.Diddy" Combs and Brandy about a similar project. . . . Former Home Improvement mom Patricia Richardson is returning to series TV as the new star of the Lifetime drama Strong Medicine. Janine Turner, who starred in the show's first two seasons, is leaving, citing family reasons, the Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday. . . . Forest Whitaker will host UPN's remake of The Twilight Zone, the Hollywood Reporter says.