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* New Title: Patricia Kluge, 41, estranged...

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* New Title: Patricia Kluge, 41, estranged wife of billionaire John W. Kluge, 76, has been given the title to Albemarle House, the couple’s 45-room mansion, apparently as part of their divorce settlement, the News Leader in Richmond, Va., reported Monday. The company that formerly held title gave up 9.9 acres to Mrs. Kluge, but it still owns the balance of the 10,000-acre estate in Albemarle County, the paper said. In April the Kluges announced an “amicable” separation. Kluge’s worth is estimated at $5.2 billion, making him the richest man in America.

* Cold Treatment: Donald and Ivana Trump’s former maid says her ex-employers have “no class.” Reidun Torrie told People magazine she quit after three months at Mar-a-Lago, the Trumps’ Palm Beach, Fla., estate. “I just couldn’t take it anymore,” she said. “When the Trumps came, they put plastic Trump Castle ice buckets in each of the guest bedrooms. Well, you just don’t do those things.” A spokesman for Donald Trump said Trump had “nothing to say.”

* Health Report: NBC-TV journalist John Chancellor was doing well after heart surgery, his secretary said Monday. Chancellor, who will be 63 on July 14, underwent a double-bypass operation June 27 at Columbia Presbyterian in New York and was expected to be sent home this weekend, said a spokeswoman at NBC. Chancellor is a commentator on “NBC Nightly News.”

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* Baaaaad Move: A statue of Mary’s famous little lamb has been stolen. The life-size statue had been placed in Sterling, Mass., to commemorate the hometown of Mary Sawyer, the subject of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” “Our lamb was stolen” from the town common Saturday night or Sunday morning, said Police Chief Craig Ohlson. The nursery rhyme was written in 1830 by Sarah J. Hale and was based on Mary Sawyer, whose lamb traipsed after her like a pet dog.

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