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Special K when he fell from his eighth-floor Frisch was under treatment for depression and balcony to his death. had been on a weeks-long drug binge, the inquest “My initial witness statements, however, heard. contained an untruthful account about how I first Ketamine can cause hallucinations and met Jeff. This account, prompted by my embarrass confusion. ment and shock at the revelations, is a matter of BP CEO Outed, Resigns deep regret. “These allegations will result inevitably in The chief executive officer of BP (formerly considerable media attention for both myself and called British Petroleum) resigned May 1 after BP.... I have therefore informed the board of BP London newspapers reported that he had a four- that I intend to stand down as group chief execu year relationship with a 27-year-old man he met tive with immediate effect.” through an escort service. The media also reported allegations that CEO Jerusalem Bomb Was John Browne, 59, had misused company funds, facilities and staff to support ex-boyfriend Jeff Warning to Gays Jerusalem police say a pipe bomb detonated Chevalier’s cell-phone ring-tone business. It also emerged that Browne had lied to a court near a construction site April 20 was meant as about how he and Chevalier met, as Browne fought a warning to gays planning this year’s Pride march. Anti-gay fliers were strewn around the bomb site. a months-long behind-the-scenes court battle to block publication of a story about the relationship A tractor operator was slightly injured in the by Associated Newspapers, publisher of The Daily blast. Mail, The Mail on Sunday and The Evening Standard. “This attack was a direct response to our request Browne had claimed the two met by chance for a permit from the police for our June 21 march,” while he was exercising in a public park. Noa Sattah, head of the city’s gay center, Jerusalem Browne also allegedly lied to the court, medical Open House, told Gay City News. tests reportedly confirmed, in claiming that Last year, two bombs were found with anti-gay Chevalier was hooked on alcohol and drugs. fliers beside them. Neither exploded. “For the past 41 years of my career at BP 1 have kept my private life separate from my business life,” Euro Parliament Blasts Poland Browne said in a statement announcing his The European Parliament passed a resolution departure. “1 have always regarded my sexuality as April 26 criticizing government-sponsored legislation a personal matter, to be kept private. It is a matter in Poland that would ban discussion of gay topics in of personal disappointment that a newspaper group schools and punish teachers and principals who vio has now decided that allegations about my person late the proposed law with firing and a fine or jail al life should be made public. time. The vote was 325-124 with 150 abstentions. “1 wish to acknowledge that 1 did formerly have “These kinds of people cannot work with a four-year relationship with Jeff Chevalier.... children,” Polish Deputy Minister of Education I deny categorically any allegations of improper Miroslaw Orzechowski told local radio in March. conduct relating to BP. “These activities need to be acted upon...before it’s too late to make a difference.” Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Roman Giertych also has spoken in favor of the legislation, saying: “Homosexual propagan da must...be limited so children will have the correct view of the family. If we will not use all our power to strengthen the family, then as a continent there is no future for us. We will be a continent settled by representatives of the Islamic world who care for the family.” The Euro resolution also calls for a gay fact- finding mission to be sent to Poland, for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality and for the European Commission to launch court actions against European Union member states that breach EU obligations. After the Parliament’s vote, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski claimed, “Nobody is John Browne, chief executive officer of BP, resigned after his private gay life became public. limiting gay rights in Poland."
