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* He Said, She Said: The minister’s...

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* He Said, She Said: The minister’s wife whose embrace cost Marvin Gorman his pulpit contradicted nearly everything he said about their affair in Gorman’s $90-million suit against rival preacher Jimmy Swaggart in New Orleans. In videotaped testimony, Lynda Savage said she and Gorman had sex eight or nine times over 2 1/2 years. Gorman said they only had a one-night stand--in which sex was interrupted by his feelings of guilt. Savage later told a third minister, who told Swaggart, who then got Gorman defrocked in 1986. Gorman’s suit claims Swaggart sabotaged his growing television ministry.

* Nude News: Former beauty queen Tai Collins, who claims she had an affair with U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb of Virginia, poses nude in Playboy’s October issue and gives her account of the purported liaison that Robb denies. Next to Collins’ cover photo are the words: “The Woman Senator Charles Robb Couldn’t Resist.” Robb has denied any infidelity to his wife, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson.

* Pele Plans: They met two years ago at a party in Rio de Janeiro, and now retired world soccer star Pele, 50, plans to marry Rio physician Luciene Tassi, 29. Pele, who is a national hero in his country, is often is seen with fashion models and beauty queens. But he says: “I have finally found the woman of my life.”

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* Weight a Minute: The University of Connecticut has dropped its weight limit for female cheerleaders after a legal challenge by a woman who was removed from the squad because she weighed five pounds too much. Policy required female cheerleaders to stay under 125 pounds but set no limit for male cheerleaders, student Michele Budnik argued. The university said the weight requirement would be replaced by new factors, “including body type and fat content.”

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