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...misplaced trust: a series of autopsy results showed not only that Paul was drunk, his blood alcohol nearly four times the legal driving limit, but also that he had ingested a troubling combination of prescription drugs. In reconstructing the last hours of Diana and Fayed, TIME and CNN have uncovered the wanderings of the man who drove them to their death. And while the details shed light on the tragedy, they raise new mysteries and deepen the senselessness of the loss...
...employees in the Hemingway bar tell TIME and CNN that the Liberation account was "exaggerated." Echoing barkeeps in Paul's neighborhood, they describe Paul as a moderate drinker. "Often?" says one. "He came in maybe once or twice every three weeks or so for a drink or two." Another employee at the Hemingway agrees. "Occasionally he would have a special cocktail I prepared for him, and at hotel staff parties he would drink," he recalls. "But he was not a big boozer." In the private Ritz Club downstairs, an employee says, "everyone here knows what really happened...
...from S.O.S. Medecins, a volunteer medical group, sped up. Frederic Mailliez, an off-duty doctor who had happened by the scene, jumped out; seeing others helping Rees-Jones, he went to help the woman in the rear, whose identity he would discover only the next morning on CNN. Mailliez originally claimed Diana was moaning and gesturing, but he now refuses to describe how she looked or if there were last words. "This is the kind of situation that creates myth," he says exasperatedly. "[If she did speak], I would say it only to her family, her sons, her husband...
...With reporting by Helen Gibson/London and Scott MacLeod and Robert Weiner (CNN)/Paris...
...amount is based on Turner's personal profits on Time Warner stock since the corporation merged with CNN parent Turner Broadcasting last year. "I figure its only nine months' earnings, who cares?" Turner said. He also promised to prod similar donations from other billionaires, warning that they should expect his fund-raising calls...