Chez Chesler

Angela Onyeador had claimed that she had made a deal with a Miss World agent to put up $360,000 as a guarantee for the pageant's World gala fund-raising dinner at London's Grosvenor House Hotel in return for 60 percent of the profits. But Justice Robert Reid said Wednesday that Allianz Nigeria Ltd., the company with which Onyeador made the deal, was not an agent for Miss World. The company was run by Fidelis Anosike, "someone who might reasonably be described as a thoroughgoing con man," the judge said. The company has now gone out of business and Anosike could not be reached for comment.