Janet Jackson tweets sultry photo as she 'celebrates engagement to Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana'

If the reports are true then Janet Jackson has lots to celebrate this Christmas.
For the singer is said to have become engaged to Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, whom she's been dating since 2010.
And as she tweeted a sultry seasonal greetings card to her fans, Janet certainly looked as if she were in a good mood.
Pouting over her shoulder, Janet's fur coat slips down to reveal her bare shoulder in the card.

Newly engaged? Janet Jackson tweeted this picture and wrote 'Season's Greetings! Love, Janet'

Wissam is the managing director of Al Mana Retail, which represents A/X Armani Exchange, and he's a shareholder in the Saks Fifth Avenue.
The 37-year-old businessman 'gave her a huge, expensive ring' and the 46-year-old pop star is so afraid it will get lost, 'she keeps it locked up,' according to Us Weekly.
Janet's wealthy beau plans on sparing no expense for their spring nuptials in Qatar, and 'he is flying in all of Janet's friends and family on private jets.'

Congrats! Janet Jackson has reportedly become engaged to Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana

Meet her mogul: Wissam is the managing director of Al Mana Retail, which represents A/X Armani Exchange, and he's a shareholder in the Saks Fifth Avenue

One source said that the pair's ceremony will undoubtedly be 'a circus,' and Al Mana plans to hire a 'top chef to create a custom menu.'
The Miss You Much hitmaker, who's almost a decade older than her Middle Eastern man, wants to start a family as soon as possible.
'If she can't have them, she will adopt,' said a Jackson insider.

Loving large: The Nutrisystem spokesperson was last seen with the luxury-brand mogul shopping in West Hollywood earlier this month, and in July the loved-up couple were spotted laughing on a yacht in Sardinia

The Nutrisystem spokesperson was last seen with the luxury-brand mogul shopping in West Hollywood earlier this month, and in July the loved-up couple were spotted laughing on a yacht in Sardinia.
Janet, who's net worth is estimated at $150 million, has been married twice before.
In 1985, she had her marriage to childhood friend and singer James DeBarge annulled after eloping only months earlier.

Past love: Prior to Al Mana, the Rhythm Nation songstress had an on/off seven-year relationship with record producer Jermaine Dupri

And in 1991, she secretly married dancer, songwriter, and director René Elizondo, Jr., but the longtime couple divorced in 2000.
Two years later, the Rhythm Nation songstress began her on/off seven-year relationship with record producer Jermaine Dupri.
In the past, Jackson was linked to actor Rob Lowe, Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore, rapper Q-Tip, actor Matthew McConaughey, and Boyz II Men's Wanya Morris.
A spokesperson for Janet did not respond to a request for comment when contacted by Mail Online.

Twice divorced: Janet has been married two times - to R&B singer James DeBarge in 1984 and music video director René Elizondo, Jr. in 1991

Wonderfully Designed Famous Oil Painting

Everyone likes different art work because everyone is an individual. Famous oil painting makes wonderful gifts for lovers of fine art. There are many talented oil painters who have their own individual subjects and styles. Well known art always costs a lot of money even when it is reproduction. People expect to pay a lot for fine art because it is a high standard and looks exquisite.

Many famous oil painting artists have been trained and cultivated in schools and colleges. Artists train for many years to be proficient at their craft. Real artists take true pride in their work and strive for perfection. Artists are never truly happy until they have created a masterpiece. They go from one project to another drawing inspiration from the world around them.

A beautiful painting often takes pride of place in a person's home. It can make a room stand out and be the center of attraction. Guests and relatives in the home will gaze at the painting and talk about its beauty. A person that owns a beautiful piece of art is proud to show it off to friends and family. It is a talking point that people will mention each time they visit your home.

When artists get a design they use pencil to outline it on white canvas. The first layer of an oil painting is usually created using pencils. During this stage, the oil painting is still rough and there are only a few big color blocks. A few days later it dries and the second layer is then begun. The whole stage of developing the art work is a process.

How I lost my virginity to the VERY racy real life chatelaine of Downton's Scottish castle

For reasons that will become clear, I doubt if many of the 7.3 million viewers who watched the Downton Abbey Christmas Day special had quite the same reaction as I did when the romantic blue-grey walls and conical turrets of Inveraray Castle appeared on screen.
In the programme, they were masquerading as the fictional Duneagle Castle, where the Earl of Grantham and his family were spending their Highland holiday with their cousins.
The castle is the ancestral Scottish stronghold of the Dukes of Argyll, perhaps the most infamous of whom — certainly in modern times — was the 11th Duke, Ian Argyll.

Seducing: Margaret Campell, Duchess of Argyll and married to 11th Duke of Argyll, was alleged to have had multiple affairs throughout her second marriage which eventually led to her divorce

He married four times, each time to an heiress, and of those women the most colourful by some distance was his third wife, Margaret, a society beauty of whom, I must confess, I have some intimate knowledge.
People say you never forget the place where you lost your virginity, and Inveraray Castle was where I lost mine on a scorching summer day in 1958 when I was a 17-year-old schoolboy.

That was more than half-a-century ago, but as I watched Downton this week, and looked again at ‘the Versailles of the Western Highlands’ — as Inveraray was once described — that first, unexpected and rather shocking encounter with the opposite sex came back to me in vivid and graphic detail.
I was in Scotland during the long, summer vacation from my school in Brighton, and I was standing in the street in the small Argyllshire town of Oban when I first met the legendary beauty who was to change my life and future.
My male companion, a member of one of Scotland’s oldest landed families, called out ‘Margaret!’ to an elegantly dressed woman walking just ahead of us.

Dramatic events: Inverary Castle in Scotland, home of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, set for the Dowton Abbey Christmas Special and where Michael Thornton lost his virginity to the duchess

She turned, and even before I had been introduced to the devastating Duchess of Argyll, I recognised the startlingly beautiful face so long familiar to the readers of glossy magazines.
As Margaret Whigham, she had been the most celebrated debutante of all time. Her first husband, the American golfer and stockbroker Charles Sweeny, said of her: ‘Of all the attractive girls in England in the early Thirties, one was the undisputed belle of the ball.’
Margaret Whigham was the most beautiful, the most vivacious, the most witty, the most desirable and the most popular of all that glittering galaxy.
It wasn’t just looks or a bright personality; she had something else. Perhaps it was what these days is called “charisma”.’
Cole Porter agreed and included the electrifying Mrs Sweeny in the lyrics of his hit song, You’re The Top: ‘You’re the nimble tread of the feet of Fred Astaire/ You’re Mussolini/ You’re Mrs Sweeny/ You’re Camembert.’
As I stood opposite her in that Oban street in 1958, looking at her immaculate chestnut hair, flawless magnolia skin, and bewitching green eyes, I began to understand what all the fuss was about.

From boy to man: Michael Thornton lost his virginity to the Duchess of Argyll

‘You look terribly hot,’ she said. ‘Why don’t you both come back to Inveraray — she pronounced it “Inverarer” — for tea or some cool drinks?’
We piled into a car and drove to the Argyll ducal stronghold, arriving hot and sweaty from the scorching summer sun.
‘Go up and wash if you like,’ invited Her Grace. ‘You can use my bathroom.’
Her husband, the 11th Duke, was not in residence at the castle on the day of our visit, and I undressed in a room dominated by a pink bath that resembled a giant seashell.
As I stepped naked into this strange contraption, my attention was riveted by a large quantity of hair in the bottom of the bath. Could the Duke or Duchess be moulting? No. It was later explained to me that this was where Her Grace liked to wash her black French poodles.
I was about to turn on the tap when the door opened and the Duchess entered. It took me several seconds to register the fact that she was not wearing any clothes.
‘I thought I would come and join you,’ she said in a charming and normal manner, as if sharing her bath with a naked stranger were an everyday occurrence.
What happened next caused the Duke, who later learned of it, to write bitterly to his father-in-law, George Hay Whigham: ‘Like many middle-aged women, she has developed a taste for the attentions of young men of her children’s age.’ (I was eight months younger than Margaret’s son, Brian.)
Only three months after the alarming episode in the pink seashell bath, Margaret was to be accused of seducing another young man on board the liner the SS Homeric, on which the Duke and Duchess were sailing to Canada to visit members of the extended family.

His name was Anthony Wallace-Turner. Like me, he was blond and blue-eyed, and the 25-year-old son of friends of the Duke, who complained to his father-in-law that Margaret ‘was sufficiently blatant about it to tell me how much she had enjoyed “breaking in” a virgin’.
Within months of my visit to Inveraray Castle, the Argyll marriage was in a state of terminal meltdown.
While she was away in New York, the Duke, rightly suspecting infidelity on the part of his wife, had employed a locksmith to break open a cupboard at the Duchess’s Mayfair house, 48 Upper Grosvenor Street.
There, he discovered passionate love letters from other men and 13 polaroid snaps, two of them showing the Duchess, naked save for a three-strand pearl necklace, engaging in sexual acts with an unnamed male, later famously referred to as ‘the Headless Man’, as the angle of the camera showed his naked torso only up as far as his neck.
The Duke also claimed to have discovered documentary proof that the Duchess had been responsible for perpetrating and circulating forgeries alleging that his two sons by his second marriage had been fathered by other men.

All set for Downton: Inveraray Castle as the fictional Duneagle Castle in the Christmas Special of Downton Abbey

The suggestion was that Margaret, who had suffered several miscarriages during her marriage to the Duke, had planned to cause the Duke’s legitimate sons and heirs to be disinherited, and to substitute either a child of her own, or a baby bought abroad and passed off as hers, as the heir to the dukedom.
In September 1959, the Duke threw the Duchess out of Inveraray Castle, publicly branding her as an adulteress and forger in an interdict pinned to the walls of the Edinburgh law courts. It was the death blow to the marriage.
So what do we know about the 11th Duke?
Ian Argyll, was born in Paris in 1903, the son of Douglas Campbell, the black sheep of the family — an inveterate gambler — and his Roman Catholic wife.
In 1914, at the age of 11, Ian entered Milton Academy in Massachusetts, where he was known to his contemporaries as ‘Duke’.
His academic progress there was undistinguished, and the same may be said of his academic career at Christ Church, Oxford, where he failed his preliminary examinations three times. The death of his father, Douglas, in 1926, left him heir presumptive to the dukedom.

Duchess in style: Born Margaret Whigham the Duchess of Argyll was the most popular debutante in London in the 30s

Ian Argyll, an alcoholic with a streak of sadism in his character, had to wait until the death of his cousin Niall, the 10th Duke, to become Clan Chieftan of the Campbells, one of the most brutal, violent and rapacious families in Scottish history, and the heir to nine centuries of bloody clan warfare, murder, treachery, pillage, rape, and the ruthless acquisition of land and money.
His ancestors, many of them wife-beaters, had made a practice of marrying heiresses. And Ian Argyll himself once said: ‘I only marry rich women.’ All four of his wives were wealthy.
He took his first wife, the Hon Janet Aitken, daughter of the press baron Lord Beaverbrook, to a bordello on their honeymoon in 1927. She then discovered that he had pawned her jewellery to pay off debtors, and was beaten by him so badly that she was unable to open her eyes.
They divorced after seven years together, having had one daughter.
Argyll’s American second wife, Louise Clews, a banker’s daughter whom he married in 1935, was also a wealthy heiress. The marriage was not a happy one, either, although it did produce two sons and heirs. Louise would later claim that her husband had pillaged her trust funds, taking most of her money. She got her own back by taking other lovers, and they divorced in 1951.
When it came to his beautiful third wife, Margaret, the warfare the Duke launched after her affairs emerged was as brutal as anything in the long and bloody history of the Clan Campbell.
He compiled a list of her alleged lovers, believing he could cite 88 men. My name, and that of Anthony Wallace-Turner, escaped the list.
A note in the Duke’s handwriting, found among the Argyll divorce papers, records: ‘MT and AW-T are both innocent victims of M’s nymphomania.’ The original list contained some famous names. The Hollywood stars Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier were on it. So, too, was David Niven, who had taken Margaret’s virginity at the age of 15.

The 13 Polaroid snaps discovered by the Duke appeared to show two different naked men. Pornographic comments written beneath pictures of one of the naked men were alleged to be in the handwriting of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Duncan Sandys, the Minister of Defence in Harold Macmillan’s Conservative Cabinet, and known derisively to the Duke as ‘Shrunken Glands’, paid him £20,000 not to be cited in the divorce.

Castle of divorce: The duke and duchess eventually divorced as a result of her 'nymphomania' and the duke compiled a list of 88 alleged lovers

Ian Argyll responded by holding up an envelope to the Press during the divorce evidence on the ‘Headless Man’ pictures, with the word, SANDYS, written in large capital letters.
During the three-and-a-half years the marathon Argyll divorce case dragged on, the Duke gave evidence against his wife in a vitriolic libel and slander action brought against her by the couple’s social secretary with the tacit support of the Duke.
Under oath in the witness-box, the Duke admitted that the letter S, used by him to refer to his wife, stood for Satan. The Duchess lost the case and had to pay £7,000 in damages.
In May 1963, the Duke finally won his divorce action. The Catholic Scottish Judge, Lord Wheatley, in a devastating four-and-a-half-hour judgment, denounced the Duchess as ‘a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied by a number of men’.
It seemed to many that her dazzling position in society was at an end. Yet ironically it was the victorious Duke who suffered most from the fallout from the scandal.
His attempts to publish Margaret’s private medical history, including observations from her doctors on her fragile psychological state, in a series of Sunday newspaper articles led to complaints about his ungentlemanly behaviour by members of his London club, White’s, and he found himself forced to resign his membership in 1965.
However, his bruising experience with Margaret didn’t deter him from marriage. He married his fourth wife, the wealthy Mathilda Coster Mortimer, 22 years his junior, in 1963. Unlike Margaret, she was both scholarly and good. But the Duke’s divorce from Margaret had cost him dear and he and Mathilda fled into tax exile in Paris. He returned to Britain only when seriously ill in 1973, and he died a lonely death in an NHS hospital.
As for Margaret, within a year or two of the divorce, her name was restored to the invitation lists of all major London embassies. Lord Mountbatten went out of his way to be photographed dancing with her, and Prince Michael of Kent attended one of her parties.
By the time she died in a London nursing home in 1993, at the age of 80, the fortune, left to her by her millionaire father, had gone — eaten away by litigation, foreign travel and general extravagance.
Of the romantic Scottish castle that enchanted Downton viewers this week, she once wrote: ‘I fell in love with Inveraray at first sight.’ Her last wish, recorded in her will, was to be buried in a churchyard ‘close to Inveraray Castle’ — but that wish was ignored. She is buried in the same grave as her first husband, Charles Sweeny, in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey.
In spite of the fact her father gave £250,000 towards the restoration of the castle, and that Margaret was instrumental in opening it to the public, no portrait of her hangs at Inveraray today, to the obvious disappointment of many of the visitors hoping to be dazzled by that infamous beauty.

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Home in time for Christmas: One Direction arrive back in the UK...but Harry Styles is nowhere to be seen

They have spent most of the year flying between the UK and the US, cementing themselves as the biggest boy band in the world.
And after their final trip across the pond for the year to perform on the X Factor USA, One Direction flew back into the UK on Friday just in time for Christmas.
However one member of the band, Harry Styles, didn't appear to be with the rest of the boys as they left Heathrow airport.

Home time: Louis Tomlinson was seen arriving back in the UK on Friday where he was met by his girlfriend

Presumably the curly-haired singer has decided to stay a few extra days in the country to be with his girlfriend Taylor Swift, as things grow increasingly serious between the couple.

 

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Meanwhile Louis Tomlinson was met at the airport by his long-term girlfriend Eleanor Calder.
While his girlfriend kept the cold at bay in a wooly hat and Christmas jumper, Louis looked cool in a chic grey cardigan.

Time for the fans: Niall Horan made sure he said hello to waiting fans as he left Heathrow to go home

Welcome home: As per usual lots of fans waited at the airport to see their favourite boyband return home

As they left the airport, Liam Payne and Niall Horan wound down their window to say hello to the waiting fans.
Zayn, was also with the boys but wasn't seen driving off, instead the singer, who is dating Little Mix's Perrie Edwards, was seen picking up his guitar from the baggage carousel.

The boys impressed with their performance on the X Factor USA on Thursday evening.

Busy year: The boys have spent a lot of the year traveling between the US and the UK promoting their music

Spotted: Zayn Malik waves as he spots a photographer at the airport

Carpool: Liam Payne appeared to be getting a lift from one his bandmates as they left the airport

The five-piece, who began their journey on the UK version of the show, looked like old pros as they sent the crowd wild singing their new song Kiss Me.
As well as working hard with the band, Harry has struck up a romance with pop star Taylor Swift.
The couple, who first went public a few weeks ago were spotted shopping with Taylor's mum after he spent the night at her family home.

Santa baby: Louis' girlfriend Eleanor was seen carrying a number of wrapped presents ready for Christmas

Welcome home: Louis is seen going to embrace Eleanor as she meets him after his time away in the US

Quiff: Niall's hair doesn't look out of place even after his long flight back to the UK

Still doing it for himself: Zayn proves he's not too famous to pick up his own stuff from the airport

Getting the guitar: Zayn Malik was seen picking up his guitar as he arrived home

However it is thought that One Direction singer is already growing tired of the constant attention surrounding their new relationship.
A source told the New York Daily News: 'In the beginning, Harry loved all the attention, but now he's wondering what he got himself into.'

Earlier this week, Harry and Taylor visited the Shamrock Tattoo Parlour in Los Angeles - a favourite haunt of soccer star David Beckham - where he got an inking of an impressive boat.
Taylor watched on as Harry got his latest tattoo, and she chatted to a female friend and enjoyed a game of pool to pass the time.

She's the one: Louis was met by his girlfriend at the airport and he was spotted driving them home

Famous Oil Painting with Wonderful Designs

Everyone likes different art work because everyone is an individual. Famous oil painting makes wonderful gifts for lovers of fine art. There are many talented oil painters who have their own individual subjects and styles. Well known art always costs a lot of money even when it is reproduction. People expect to pay a lot for fine art because it is a high standard and looks exquisite.

Many famous oil painting artists have been trained and cultivated in schools and colleges. Artists train for many years to be proficient at their craft. Real artists take true pride in their work and strive for perfection. Artists are never truly happy until they have created a masterpiece. They go from one project to another drawing inspiration from the world around them.

A beautiful painting often takes pride of place in a person's home. It can make a room stand out and be the center of attraction. Guests and relatives in the home will gaze at the painting and talk about its beauty. A person that owns a beautiful piece of art is proud to show it off to friends and family. It is a talking point that people will mention each time they visit your home.

When artists get a design they use pencil to outline it on white canvas. The first layer of an oil painting is usually created using pencils. During this stage, the oil painting is still rough and there is only a few big color blocks. A few days later it dries and the second layer is then begun. The whole stage of developing the art work is a process.

Once the third layer is done the reproduction usually comes into being. A painting is created by a highly trained and skilled famous oil painting artist. Art is a fantastic aspect of life that is available in many varieties. Although there are many wonderful art forms in the world, oil painting is considered one of the newest forms of art.

'How many more?' Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow 'demand a plan' from lawmakers in gun violence PSA

Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyoncé Knowles are among celebrities campaigning for gun regulation in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary.
The stars feature in a new public service announcement against gun violence for Demand a Plan after 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself at the Connecticut school last Friday.
The one-and-a-half minute clip features the celebrity activists asking: 'How many more colleges? How many more classrooms? How many more movie theatres? How many more houses of faith?' before lawmakers tighten regulations.

Emotional plea: Beyoncé Knowles delivers her plea to viewers to join the campaign against gun violence for Mayors Against Illegal Guns

A cast of artists and entertainers, including Michelle Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Olivia Munn, Selena Gomez, Paul Rudd, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Rashida Jones, John Slattery, Jeremy Renner, Conan O’Brien, and others, have feature in the PSA released Friday on DemandaPlan.org.

 

The effort, a campaign from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, comes a week after the horrific massacre in Newtown and amid polarising debate rippling through the U.S. about gun violence and the Second Amendment.

Together, the actors, singers, comedians and activists deliver an emotional plea to viewers to demand action from lawmakers and donate to the cause.

Celebrity support: Gwyneth Paltrow is among 750,000 Americans who support the petition, according to DemandaPlan.org

Tragedy: Jennifer Aniston recounts the tired phrase, 'If we had just done something yesterday'

Looking into the camera, they read through a list of some of the 31 similar attacks carried out in the US since Columbine in 1999.

'Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Fort Hood. Oak Creek. Newtown. How many more?' they ask.

A statement from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organisation of city mayors promoting tougher federal, state and local gun regulation, calls on supporters to demand President Obama and Congress step forward with a plan to end gun violence. 

Supporting the cause: Michelle Williams and Jon Hamm

Activists: Jeremy Renner and Jessica Alba

'Our efforts cannot bring back the 20 innocent children murdered in Newtown, CT - or the 34 people murdered with guns every day in America,' it reads. 'But we can prevent future tragedies.'

The organisation calls on lawmakers to pass 'common sense' legislation that will require a criminal background check for every gun sold in America, ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and make gun trafficking a federal crime.

The video was released as cries of outrage and support echoed through school halls and on Capitol Hill following a proposal by the nation's largest gun-rights lobby to put an armed police officer in every school.

'Enough': Kate Hudson and Julianne Moore join the outcry

Not a laughing matter: Comedians Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx

'How many more colleges?' Reese Witherspoon touched on some of the 31 similar attacks carried out in the US since Columbine in 1999

The National Rifle Association called for the armed officers in every American school at a press conference on Friday, breaking its silence on last week's shooting rampage.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the press conference 'shameful' in a statement on DemandaPlan.org.

Seven hundred fifty mayors and 750,000 grassroots supporters had signed the campaign's celebrity-backed petition at press time.