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#4 Wayne Rooney and
Coleen McLoughlin
The bill was $8 million in 2008.
The bride was a working-class
British girl who started dating
Rooney at age 16, reportedly going
to see Austin Powers 2 on their first
date.
The groom was perhaps the highest
paid footballer ever.
The wedding featured a chartered
flight for 65 Brits to fly to Genoa for
a masked ball on a $120-million
yacht. Guests divided several days
between the expensive yacht and a
five-star hotel. The wedding took
place at a 17th century villa and
reception at a medieval abbey high
above Portofino.

#5 Chelsea Clinton and
Marc Mezvinsky
The bill was around $5 million in
2010.
The bride was the daughter of
President Bill Clinton
The groom was an investment
banker (Goldman Sachs and then
G3) and childhood friend
The wedding costs included
$600,000 air-conditioned tents, a
$11,000 cake, Vera Wang wedding
gown, and the attendance of Oprah.
The rest went to delux pamper and
security costs for 500 guests.

The bill was $3.5 million in 2002, or
$4.2 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The bride was a Broadway star and
the daughter of Judy Garland
The groom was a music producer
The wedding featured best man
Michael Jackson and maid of honor
Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps the
biggest celebrity wedding ever.
Entertainment included a 60-piece
orchestra, Tony Bennett, Stevie
Wonder, and Natalie Cole. The
couple spent an estimated $700,000
on flowers and $40,000 on cake.

#7 Elizabeth Taylor and
Larry Fortensky
The bill was $2.5 million in 1991, or
$4 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The bride was an iconic movie star
The groom was a construction
worker
The wedding was a notorious event
featuring Michael Jackson as father
of the bride at his Neverland Ranch.
Liza Minnelli, Eddie Murphy, and
Nancy Reagan (!) were in
attendance. The marriage lasted an
impressive five years.

#8 Paul McCartney and
Heather Mills
The bill was $3 million in 2002, or
$3.6 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The bride was a PETA activist and
former model
The groom was the most successful
songwriter in history
The wedding was an Indian-themed
wedding at St. Salvador's church in
Monaghan, Ireland, featuring Indian
dancers, a vegetarian feast,
$145,000 worth of flowers, and
$150,000 fireworks. Paul, George,
and Ringo played a new song,
"Heather." The party took place at a
rented castle ($40,000)

#9 Elizabeth Hurley and
Arun Nayar
The bill was $2.5 million in 2007, or
$2.6 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The Bride: Supermodel and movie
star
The Groom: Senior VP of Tyco
The Nupitals: A double ceremony
over eight days kicked off at Suderly
Castle in Gloucestershire and then
moved to Umaid Bhawan Palace in
Jodhpur. They paid $300,000 for
private jets and over $100,000 for
accommodations, including the
$10,000-a-night bridal suite in India.

#10 Christina Aguilera and
Jordan Bratman
The bill was $2 million in 2005, or
$2.2 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The bride was a pop star
The groom was a music producer
The wedding featured 150 guests
including Sharon Stone at the Napa
Valley's Staglin Family Vineyard.
Christina paid $80,000 for a Spanish-
style Christian Lacroix gown.
Decorations included a winter-
themed tent with white roses, silver
and crystals.

#11 Tom Cruise and Katie
Holmes
The bill was $2 million in 2006, or
$2.2 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The bride was an actress known for
Dawson's Creek and Batman Begins
The groom was a movie star known
for Top Gun, Jerry Maguire and
Mission Impossible
The wedding at the 15th century
Odescalchi Castle outside Rome
featured a five-tiered white
chocolate cake decorated with
marzipan roses. Cruise actually
performed "You've Got That Loving
Feeling." They were joined by Will
Smith, Jennifer Lopez, David
Beckham, and others. Costs included
$900,000 for guest airfare and
accommodations and $180,000 for
300 bottles of wine.

#12 Catherine Zeta-Jones
and Michael Douglas
The bill was $1.5 million in 2005, or
$1.6 million when adjusted for
inflation.
The bride was a movie star known
for Zorro, America Sweethearts and
Entrapment
The groom was a mvie star known
for Wall Street (pictured) and
producer known for One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest
The wedding, right out of a spy film,
featured invitations written
invisible ink and holograms -- sent to
guests including Sean Connery, Jack
Nicholson, and Michael Caine. The
ceremony at New York's Plaza Hotel
was guarded by over 50 rent-a-cops.
The bride's diamond tiara cost
$300,000 and her Christian Lacroix
gown cost $140,000.

1. Jon Venables and Robert
Thompson,
both 10Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were
the murderous duo who became the
perpetrators of one of the most notorious
murders in British history.
In 1993, three year old James Bulger was
waiting for his mother outside a butcher
shop in a shopping mall. Bolger was lured
away by Venables and Thompson while his
mother was distracted. The boys brought
Bulger on a long walk along a canal and
during this time they were spotted by
almost 40 separate witnesses. All witnesses
claimed that they believed Bulger to be
their younger brother. The pair went on to
subject Bulger to physical and sexual assault
and then dumped Bulger’s body on some
railway tracks and covered him with stones
– Bulger was later hit by a train. His body
was discovered two days later. Venables
and Thompson were cutting school at the
time of the murder. They were linked to the
murder after they were spotted on the
mall’s CCTV with Bulger. The boys were
tried in adult court and were placed in
rehabilitation units. They were
controversially released, under very tight
parole agreements, in 2001. The motive
behind the killing is still unknown, though
at the time many public figures asserted
that the boys were influenced by violent
movies.

Paul Henry Gingerich played a central role
in the murder of Phillip Danner, the
stepfather of his friend Colt Lundy. The
murder took place on the 21st of April 2010,
when Lundy was 15 and Gingerich was only
12. The pair and their mutual friend Chase
Williams (also 12) were planning to run
away to Arizona together. Lundy knew that
his stepfather would catch them, so Lundy
hatched a plan to kill his stepfather. He
enlisted the help of Gingerich and Williams;
Williams would later get cold feet and
would not participate in the murder.
Lundy convinced Gingerich to follow
through with their plan, however. The two
waited in Lundy’s house for Danner to
return home, shooting him four times in the
chest when he entered the living room.
Gingerich was recently sentenced to 30
years in prison, with the possibility of
parole by the age of 18 if he has engaged
thoroughly with his rehabilitation
programme. The public’s opinion is very
much divided in terms of the decision –
many state that Gingerich should be freed,
believing him a victim of manipulation by
15 year old Lundy, while others believed he
should have been tried as an adult and
subjected to the full force of the law.

In 1968, 11 year old Mary Bell murdered
two boys in the town of Scotswood, in North
East England. The boys were named Martin
Brown, aged 4, and Brian Howe, aged 3.
Bell strangled Martin Brown in an
abandoned house. A few months later, Bell,
with the help of her friend Norma Joyce
Bell (they were not related), strangled Brian
Howe in the same fashion. The girls also
mutilated Howe’s body and cut an ‘M’ into
his stomach. Bell was imprisoned until 1980,
when she was controversially released with
a new identity. Bell has talked anonymously
about her acts, citing sexual abuse at an
early age as the cause for her criminal
behaviour.

Joshua Phillips was involved in one of the
most shocking adolescent murder trials in
history, after he murdered his 8 year old
neighbour Maddie Clifton. Maddie had left
her home at 5:30pm to play basketball, but
never came back. Joshua claims that he and
Maddie were playing baseball when he
accidentally hit her with a ball. Maddie
started crying, and Phillips claimed he
panicked and hit her in the head to make
her stop screaming

Alyssa Bustamante murdered her 9 year old
neighbour Elizabeth Olten in Missouri in
2009. Bustamante slit Olten’s throat and
stabbed her before burying her in a pre-
dug grave in a woodland. Bustamante
attacked Olten when she was walking home
from a friends house. The trial heard that
Bustamante had severe psychological
problems, a difficult family life, and had
previously attempted suicide. Despite her
mental health, she was tried as an adult and
sentenced to life in prison. Bustamante
stated that she murdered Olten to see what
killing felt like, and wrote in her diary “I
just f**king killed someone. I strangled
them and slit their throat and stabbed them
now they’re dead. I don’t know how to feel
atm. It was amazing.”

George Stinney was a 14 year old boy from
South Carolina. In 1944, Stinney was
charged with the murder of two white girls,
Betty June Binnicker (11) and Mary Emma
Thames (7). Stinney, who had been seen
talking to the girls the day before their
bodies were found, was soon caught in a
media circus that would see him convicted
and executed in less than three months.
Stinney was given the electric chair, making
him the youngest person to be executed in
such fashion in the history of the United
States. However, his family have never
given up hope of clearing his name.
Recently, many journalists have outlined
inconsistencies and a lack of physical
evidence to back up the largely
circumstantial case that incriminated
Stinney. Many believe that Stinney became
a victim of the polarising divide between
blacks and whites in South Carolina’s Jim
Crow era.

7.Eric Smith was arrested in 1993, aged just
13, for the murder of four year old Derrick
Robie. Smith lured Robie into an isolated
park and choked him. He proceeded to
drop rocks on Robie’s head and finally
sodomised him with a tree branch.
Unbelievably, this was the first time Robie’s
mother had ever let him travel alone –
Robie was walking a couple of blocks to a
summer camp. Smith soon confessed to the
murder and was sentenced to a minimum
of nine years. As of April 2014, Smith – who
has been diagnosed with ‘intermittent
explosive disorder’ and was bullied as a
child – has been denied parole seven times.

Daniel Bartlam was just 14 years old when
he killed his mother, Jacqueline Bartlam, in
cold blood. On Easter 2011, while his
mother slept, Daniel murdered her by
hitting her seven times with a claw
hammer. Daniel set his mother’s body on
fire before ringing the police and reporting
that a burglar had killed her. Detectives
soon noticed inconsistencies in Daniel’s
claims and searched his computer, where
they recovered a deleted file which detailed
his murder plans in the form of a story.
Bartlam had no motive, but Jacqueline’s
former partner testified that Daniel had a
passion for violent films and video games.
The 14 year old was sentenced to a
minimum of 16 years in prison.

PDP keeps saying ameachi is finished!! But they still go to great lengths to attack him, from orchestrating lies to pandering propaganda and even stoop so low to the ridiculousness we see above. If he is truly finished why go through all the problem? Except they are telling a lie even they don't believe and are working overtime to make their lie a reality.

PDP is a cancer ravaging the nigerian state since 1999.

I don't blame them, I blame the ignorant nigerian masses who have sat passively all this time and swallowed their bulllll shitttt!!! Can you imagine the hubris of not allowing a debate in the people's house of such a monumental issue because they know the people won't hold them accountable for it. Nigeria is not my buisness.

Foolish story meant to appeal to the airhead conspiracy theorist of which nigeria is experiencing a great surge. The internet has made otherwise reasonable people suspicious of even the most obvious thing. Youtube, alex jones, infowars,etc..utterly idiotic people who will make the case that the u.s killed over 3,000 of it's citizens on 9/11. U.s government blew up scoan? My soup soured last night, I have it on good authority the CIA, NSA and FBI orchestrated it.

Goodluck jonathan, his government and party are a band of grotesque liars!! The same man spouting lies about the u.s government to cover up obvious corruption and theft sat across the president of the united states in the UN security council chamber and heaped praise upon him for "all his help for nigeria in our fight against terrorism".... If he claimed the u.s ban us from procuring weapons, how is that help? Why did'nt he raise that issue in the council. Lairs!! They have orchestrated an elaborate cover up from the presidency to the national assembly. They should continue, nigeria is not my business.

Blaqsmith: I will go for the American's Congress system of Government because it makes for equal representation and well passage of bills.

British's is more dictatorial in nature and the issue of collective responsibility is also a lapse.


I stand to be corrected.

correction. It makes for uunecessary deadlock and disgusting party politics. Since 2010, the democratic control senate has not passed a bill that the repubican control house has taken up. They've both park the bus and have taken deep extreamist sides. They can't pass budgets, immigration bills, they've shut down the government once, have even almost defaulted on the u.s debt. If you ask americans, they'll take an efficent single party government over a deadlock two party government.

CFCfan: The American-style Presidential system of government is more suitable for multi-ethnic, and multi-racial countries such as Nigeria , South Africa, the US etc. This is because the concept of Federalism is usually embedded within their constitutions.
However, in the case of Nigeria, the FG is by far the most powerful tier.

On the other hand, the Parliamentary system is more suited to mono-ethnic, small (by population) nations. In this system, both the Executive and legislative branches are one and d same. The Head of State in a Parliamentary system is usually a monarch or a ceremonial President/Emperor.

So I would say that the Congressional/Presidential system is ultimately the best for Nigeria. If the basis of federalism is further improved, the states would have more powers than they current do. For instance, they (states) could have their own constitutions, police forces, set the salaries of their political office holders, and conduct elections for the office of Governor and House of Assembly.

the presidential system of government as we have seen in the pass 15 years have not worked for nigeria, it has not quelled tribalism, it has prooved to be more expensive, more divisive, more corruptive, etc.. The parliamentary system is better, the mistake we made in 1960 was allocate seats according to fusy population numbers. Create a nigerian parliament like the senate. Every region or state has a fixed number of seat and let the parties fight for votes accross regional and ethnic lines.

I think the british parliamentary system is better! It makes for more accountability as party leaders get to debate themeselves regularly. It is more efficient as the ruling party governs without obstruction from the opposition. Elections are fought over ideology and performance of a party, not if you like who will be the prime minister because he can be changed by the party anytime.

Congress Is a cumbersome and slow governing system. There is also a tendency that no single party will control the presidency, senate and house of representatives, so it gives the opposition powers to obstruct the policies of the ruling party( this has been the hallmark of the obama presidency)... Elections are at times not fought over policies but which presidential candidate is more likable or has nicer hair. The president is not accountable to congress, only his cabinet ministers are. Governing is very slow as every bill must pass two houses of congress and it's harder when two parties control each house. There are many more.....

saxywale: God save the Queen

why won't it be the most powerful? Even when you open the first page of the passport what you see is "her brittanic majesty's secretary of state request's and requires in the name of her majesty" who won't obey such a command?

Goodluck jonathan is a fool... This is a president who is to answer to his counterpart in south africa for the Highest number of their citizens to die on foreign soil shamelessly associating with a man who to a large extent could be responsible for those deaths. If jonathan is an airhead, I wonder if he does'nt have any aides for PR people to warn him against this, same idiotic thing to did with sheriff at chad. No wonder they can't run a country when they can't even govern their inner circle and theatrics.

This is fact!! The nigerian police and it's likes are notorious torture experts and prolific human right abusers. Even if you see how they bring prisoners facing trial to court, you will think they were already convicted and heading to execution. It's repulsive and inhuman. Now we as a people can accept this and demand change recognizing it can happen to any of us someday or we can blame amnesty intl. For bringing it to light. Nigerians, BE WISE!!

Wow!! Just last week she made a joke on fashion police "this dress is as pale as the flowers on kasey kasims grave"...would she have believed if anyone told her then that soon she will be joining kasey kasim?...RIP!!

Once you go into the national assembly and start taking those jumbo salaries. YOU ARE A THIEF. I consider every member of the national assembly a thief since non of them have ever come out to say we are overpaid or declined their salaries. Once again, every nigerian federal legislator is a thief.

Reminds me of one of my favorite books. "The innocent man" by john grisham... This is the beauty of an advanced legal system. No matter how long it takes as long as you try hard and arm yourself with your facts, justice will prevail. Can it ever happen in nigeria? I can boldly say about 40% of everybody currently rotting nigerian prisons are innocent!

Test the bodies for cause of death and if they are clean release it to the families for burial. the family can cover the cost for the test. So because of ebola families should be denied their right of paying last respect to their loved ones or turn to hindu's over night and start cremating corpse. Government should be reasonable if not lagos morgues will soon start overflowing and they will have a crisis on their hands.