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Topic: RSS FeedThe Victoria principle. (Uncensored).
W, May, 2003
Getting her CD collection snatched by creditors hasn't stopped British It girl Victoria en from pursuing her dreams as a rapper. In the late Nineties, her father, former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, was convicted of perjury in what became a huge British tabloid scandal. Victoria herself was arrested (but never prosecuted) for signing a false witness statement.
Today, the 22-year-old is busy launching a music career in New York "Daisy," her first single, bits airwaves this summer. Aitken has fully adapted to American life, appearing on MetroTV's "To Live and Date in New York" and hitting the town with the Sykes sisters. She's also befriended musicians without stuffy British attitudes. "The rappers in England were mean to me," she says. "But in America they're...
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