No mink coat for Suri Cruise, age 3, and more

No mink coat for Suri Cruise, age 3

Suri Cruise threw a tantrum in a Boston department store when Katie Holmes wouldn’t buy her the mink coat she wanted, says The National Enquirer. Holmes and husband Tom Cruise have reportedly already spent $3 million on their 3-year-old daughter’s wardrobe. But when Suri demanded a mink on a recent shopping trip, Holmes turned her down, says a source, because she did not want to offend animal-rights groups. “She’s got a fake fur coat,” Holmes is said to have told a friend, “and she’ll have to be content with that.”

Californian learns his birth father is Charles Manson

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A California man who set out to find his birth father was shocked to learn that his father is homicidal maniac Charles Manson, says the London Sun. Matthew Roberts, 41, says that at first the revelation made him “frightened and angry.” But he has since developed “some kind of emotional connection” to the jailed cult leader, with whom he now corresponds. “He sends me weird stuff,” says Roberts, “and always signs it with his swastika.”

Court spares couple for making love too loudly

A Swedish court has declined to evict a couple that was accused of making love too loudly in their apartment. One neighbor of Bjorn Forsberg, 28, and Michelle Larsson, 26, said their “screams of passion were so loud I could hear them three floors away,” and a group of residents filed a lawsuit demanding the couple be evicted. But the judges ruled that “it cannot be determined which apartment was responsible for the noise or exactly what they might have been doing inside.”