Kate Moss accused of wearing false eyelashes for ad campaign
06/11/2002 - 11:59:06

Rimmel has been investigated by advertising watchdogs over claims its latest campaign features Kate Moss wearing false eyelashes.

The Advertising Standards Authority received complaints ads for its Exaggerate Full Volume and Curl Mascara products were misleading.

Readers suggested the supermodel's look had not been achieved naturally.

The cosmetic firm admitted that "three or four" eyelashes had been added to fill in gaps and to make her eyes more even.

But it said the ads had "deliberately depicted looks that could be emulated by the average consumer."

The ASA ruled in favour of Rimmel, saying it had not tried to fool the public.

Sex-video scandal rocks 2 tony Chestnut Hill schools
By Martha Woodall Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer

Two of the most prestigious private schools in the area are reeling from a sexual scandal that has divided students, faculty and parents.

A senior and a junior at all-male Chestnut Hill Academy secretly videotaped a female student from the nearby Springside School for Girls while she was engaged in what officials have described as "an intimate encounter" with the junior in a bedroom after a party at the senior's home a few weeks ago.

The junior was described as the girl's former boyfriend.

The tape has since been destroyed, but not before it was shown to a dozen CHA students, some of whom left campus during the school day to watch it.

Chestnut Hill Academy convened an administrative committee for a disciplinary review, during which the students and their supporters were permitted to speak. Despite an e-mail campaign on the two students' behalf mounted by many CHA parents, and a brief student sit-in held in the school's chapel, Chestnut Hill Academy expelled the two students last week.

But that's not the end of the matter.

The parents of the senior who videotaped the incident in the family's home have challenged their son's expulsion. He returned to school this week Read more