Erica Zaccone from New Jersey, US, claims to have been the victim of a 'botched' operation that has left her 'deformed'. The 38-year-old naturally lost five stone through diet and exercise when she ...

She had been waiting 15 years to get the $25,000 (£19,000) op, but now regrets it after being left ‘deformed’. Erica, from Toms River, New Jersey, US, said: "This destroyed my life.

Albert C. Barnes was born into poverty in 1872, in Philadelphia, and went on to make a fortune as the inventor of a topical antiseptic and to amass a staggering collection of modern art.

He went to society’s fringes to minister with mercy: caressing the grossly deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, kissing the tattoo of a Holocaust survivor, or inviting Argentina’s ...

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