Jane Birkin

(Newser) - Jane Birkin, an actress and singer who charmed France with her English grace, style, and accented French and made the country her home, has died. She was 76 and died at her home in Paris, according to France's Culture Ministry and French media. The London-born star was widely admired...

(Newser) - The Birkin is a bag so longed after it had a whole Sex and the City plotline written about it. Now—drama!—the celeb whom the bag was named after wants that name off of one such bag in particular. In a statement to AFP , Jane Birkin explains that...

(Newser) - Kate Barry, daughter of actress and singer Jane Birkin and composer John Barry and sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg, was found dead Wednesday night of an apparent suicide, Vanity Fair reports. Barry, 46, fell from her fourth-story Paris flat, police say; they are still investigating. The fashion photographer, whose work had...