The Long, Unwinding Road
[Vienna, September 22. Image via Getty]
What Lies In The Shadow Of The Statue
[Bregenz, Austria; June 17. Image via Getty]
Kind Of Blue
[Venice, June 4. Image via Getty]
Fritzl Trial, Day 2: Defense Portrays Rapist Abuser As A Caring Family Man
In court today, the defense said Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, raping her, and fathering her seven children, was "not a monster." His daughter's testimony said otherwise.
Austrian Abuser Admits To Rape, Denies Murder On First Day In Court
Josef Fritzl, the 74-year-old Austrian man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered 7 children with her, has pled guilty to incest but denies murdering his infant son.
Black Models: Teen Vogue Goes Where Vogue Will Not
The new December/January issue of
Teen Vogue has 's Kristen Stewart on the cover, and inside, a "Night Shift" photo shoot with not one but black models. Big sister includes two black models — and Indian model — in a jewelry story this month, and there are black models scattered through the magazine. But everyone…
Prosecutors announced today that Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in his basement for 24 years and fathered her 7 children, has been charged with the murder of one of his children who died in infancy. He has also been charged with rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery. Fritzl is the…
More Fritzl horror: In a psychological examination for his upcoming tiral, Fritzl claims that he
locked his mother in a bricked-up room in her house from 1959 until her death in 1980. In the same interview Fritzl says he never thought of his daughter as a daughter but more as his "wife and partner." []
Ingrid Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who was kidnapped by rebels in 2002, was
given the "Woman of the Year 2008" award by World Awards Media in Austria on Sunday. Before the ceremonies, Betancourt held a press conference where she compared her experience to two cases of Austrian women.…
Nightmare Dads
Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who locked up his daughter for 24 years and repeatedly raped her,
told a forensic psychiatrist that he was "born to rape" and that he blames his behavior on his neglectful mother. The report, which was leaked to the Austrian press, said that Fritzl also believed his treatment of his…
UK Female Pioneers Get Own Stamps • Josef Fritzl Declared Clincally Sane
• The British Royal Mail has
issued stamps for six female pioneers, including family planning activist Marie Stopes and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor. • Some activists, however, are upset about the inclusion of Ms. Stopes since she famously supported eugenics and expressed…
Natascha Kampusch, the other Austrian woman who was locked in a cellar for several years, is starting a new gig as a tv talk show host. "So much has been written about me, and so many people want to know what it's like to be on the other side [of the interviewer's table]," Kampusch said in a press conference with…
Paparazzi Hound Rape Victim Elisabeth Fritzl Into Public Press Appearance
Celebrities know what they're getting into, paparazzi apologists will argue, dismissing the constant haranguing mega-stars and their reality TV counterparts experience at the hands of photographers. But Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was locked in the family cellar for 24 years by her deranged father, Josef,…
Having Kids Will Make You Sad • A 10-Year-Old Gives Birth
Having kids sends many couples into downward spiral of sadness. •Albena Danailova has been made the first female concertmaster (or leader of the first violin section) of the Vienna State Opera. • More Austrian news! Crazy-Dad Fritzl says he was aware he was abusing/raping daughter but wanted "lots of children." • The…
Sexually-Inexperienced Seal Tries To Bone Penguin • UK Reports 50% More Female Drunks
A "frustrated, sexually inexperienced" young male seal tries to have sex with a penguin.• Older Japanese singles are trying out that whole online dating thing. • A 51-year-old man admits to using voodoo to seduce teen girls. • Two women make history, win second-"highest" medical prize. • PETA asks Hollywood insiders…
This Week, People Scared Us And We Scared People
• We met an Austrian man who locked his daughter and their children in his cellar for 24 years. Sometimes the eyebrows can reveal the psychopath inside! • Sometimes we eat our trash, it is sort of like recycling! • We told old people to get off Facebook or at least un-tag us from unflattering boozy pictures! • Miley…
Who Is Josef Fritzl?
Austrian authorities are still trying to piece together the story of Josef Fritzl, the man who kept his daughter, Elisabeth, captive in the family cellar for 24 years and fathered 7 of her children. Why, for instance, did he raise three of the children above-ground while keeping the other three surviving children (one…
House Of Horrors
More news is coming out about Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless dungeon for 24 years. Firstly: DNA tests confirm that Fritzl is the father of the seven children birthed by his daughter, Elisabeth. (Three of whom recently emerged from the dungeon to see natural daylight for the…
Austrian Man Locked His Daughter In The Basement For 24 Years
Upon first reading the horrific story of 73-year-old Austrian Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter, Elisabeth, in the family cellar in 1984 and proceeded to allegedly father as many as seven of her children, my reaction was damn, that is some V.C. Andrews shit. But then I read more of the reports, and I can no longer…
