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'Survivor' winner segregated in prison
Compiled from staff and wire reports
Published April 12, 2006
Jailed Survivor winner Richard Hatch was being held in protective custody apart from other inmates until his sentencing this month on tax evasion charges.
Hatch, who won $1-million in the first season of the CBS reality series, was found guilty in January of failing to pay taxes on his winnings and other income. He was taken into custody immediately because U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres said he posed a flight risk. Hatch, 45, asked to be put in protective custody shortly after he was detained, his attorney, Michael Minns, said. Hatch was being held at a jail in Plymouth, Mass., until his sentencing April 25.
Charles Wyant, a supervisory deputy U.S. marshal, said Hatch was placed in protective custody because he's a celebrity. Any prisoner can make such a request.
The charges carry a maximum of 13 years in prison.
Child welfare officials visit Spears' home
MALIBU, Calif. - Child welfare officials and a sheriff's deputy visited the home of Britney Spears but declined to say Tuesday whether they were investigating the pop princess.
Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, are the parents of an infant son, Sean Preston.
The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services and the Lost Hills sheriff's station declined to give details of Saturday afternoon's visit.
The Sheriff's Department said it was a DCFS matter and couldn't release information.
Spears' New York publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, could not be reached.
Theater notes
John O'Hurley, Dancing with the Stars' first sauve fan favorite and Seinfeld's J. Peterman, will play lawyer Billy Flynn in the production of Chicago coming to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the center announced Tuesday. O'Hurley is in the final days of making his Broadway debut in the role. Chicago is at TBPAC June 27-July 2. Tickets are $20-$66.50 and can be purchased at the box office, at www.tbpac.org and by calling 813 229-7827.
The Tony-winning musical The Light in the Piazza, which is part of TBPAC's Broadway series next season, will be telecast June 15 by PBS as part of its Live From Lincoln Center series. The show is scheduled to close July 2 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The national tour, which comes to the bay area in October, is to begin in August.
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