Liz Hurley
- Profession: Actress
- Place/Date of Birth: Basingstoke, Hampshire, 10 June 2020
- Associated with: Hugh Grant
Four month old Damian has yet to meet his daddy who has acted shabbily since Liz Hurley pregnancy was revealed. Regardless of his past behavior, Liz is determined to teach her son to respect his father. "If you’ve been brought up not to sink to a lower level of humanity, then you don’t," she has commented, mind you his ?400 million fortune could make you forgive and forget.
Six godfathers for Damien and not a godmother in sight - 08/07/02
Liz Hurley hit the tabloids again this weekend with her appointment of not one, nor two, but SIX carefully selected godfathers to little Damien. The sometime model and actress, whose been beaming since a DNA test proved millionaire Steve Bing to be the child’s father, unsurprisingly didn’t invite the villain of the saga to the service at Mayfair’s Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Hedging her bets with a variety of father figures, the lucky six were Liz’s ever loyal ex Hugh Grant, friends Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, millionaire Teddy Forstman, Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish, and US comedian Dennis Leary. The event turned out to be a rather star-studded affair (well, oh course sweetie..) with England captain David Beckham, his wife Victoria, supermodel Elle Macpherson and Patsy Kensit in attendance. "The service was beautiful," said Elle Macpherson to reporters. "Damian is just a gorgeous child."
Was Liz exclusive? - 27/06/02
Emerging glowing and grinning ear to ear after paternal tests proved millionaire Steve Bing is the father of baby Damien, it looks like Liz Hurley’s mud slinging match is not yet over. According to American magazine Vanity Fair, Liz apparently enjoyed a three-in-a-bed-romp with Bing and a Las Vegas stripper. Echoing Bing’s protestations that they were committed to each other, a friend of Bing’s told the magazine, ’They had a threesome in Las Vegas, so she must have known it wasn’t an exclusive relationship’. The Vanity Fair article implies that Bing is a regular at the strip clubs of Vegas and often offers financial help to girls. ’I’ve helped so many you’d have to give me the name to give you the details,’ he claims. Bing previously claimed that when he and Hurley were together they were not in an ’exclusive relationship’ and demanded DNA tests to prove that her baby was his. The saga continues.
Bling Bling, Bing Baby’s Bumper Bonanza - 15/04/02
Well, it’ll no doubt take a while for the maintenance cheque to come from the alleged father Steve Bing, who is desperate to hold on to his fortune. So what’s a girl to do till then? Sell pictures of your newborn baby of course! For a cool ?1.5 million (more than Posh & Becks wedding) OK! Magazine have the world wide exclusive of mother and baby in a number of poses for the world to see. Hugh Grant, Patsy Kensit, Henry Dent Brocklehurst and Sir Elton John are all godparents to the young Damian. Looks like birthdays and Christmases will be real gift bonanzas.
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At 21, Hurley got her first film role in the 1987 film Aria after having attended the London Studio Centre on scholarship. Hurley’s role in the film Remando al Viento that same year could be considered a crucial one, as it also starred her future boyfriend Hugh Grant.
However, despite acting and modelling jobs it was a certain safety pinned Versace frock that made Liz on of Britain’s most famous faces. She wore what would soon simply be called ’that dress’ to the premiere of Hugh’s breakthrough film Four Weddings and a Funeral. More attention followed when Estee Lauder signed Hurley to be the face of their cosmetics.
Although together for several years, even sticking together through the embarrassing Divine Brown incident, Hugh and Liz split in 2001 although they remain friends to this day. Liz had a brief fling with billionaire Steve Bing, during which she became pregnant with her son Damien. A very public battle occured during her pregnancy with Bing claiming that the child was not his. Liz found vindication when the child was born - not only was he the spit of Bing but a dna test proved without doubt what we could all see.
Liz is now engaged to Indian businessman Arun Nayer and their impending nuptuals have been the source of much speculation with several dates touted and even Hugh Grant has been suggested as Arun’s best man.
Meanwhile Liz’s career has taken a forward leap. Her acting credentials may be lousy (Bedazzled anyone?) and her stint as presenter of Project Catwalk might have been panned but the very British beauty has found her niche. Elizabeth Hurley Beach, her own range of beachwear has been flying off the shelves in the UK and US while her Estee Lauder job goes from strength to strength.
Liz splits her time between Ampney Crucis in the Cotswolds and California.
November 2007