Artists gone wild

Belatedly spotted:

Several German papers comment on the 11-month suspended prison sentence handed down for drugs possession to painter Joerg Immendorff, a friend of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and one of his favourite artists.

Immendorff was arrested at a luxury hotel in Duesseldorf during a cocaine-fuelled orgy with nine prostitutes.

Nine!? Press reports summarized by the BBC here (along with various other bits and pieces of news from the Continent, including a note on Polish reaction to Russia's decision not to issue any indictments for the Katyn Forest massacre).

Posted by David on September 1, 2004 8:53 AM