OpinionHugh Hefner This article is more than 6 years oldI called Hugh Hefner a pimp, he threatened to sue. But that’s what he wasThis article is more than 6 years oldSuzanne MooreNow that he’s dead, the old sleaze in the Playboy mansion is being spoken of as some kind of liberator of women. Quite the oppositeLong ago, in another time, I got a call from a lawyer. Hugh Hefner was threatening a libel action against me and the paper I worked for at the time, for something I had written.

ObituaryJules EngelPioneering animator behind early Disney greatsThe pioneering animator and educator Jules Engel, who has died aged 94, was fascinated by movement, whether in the choreography of a group of sparkling animated mushrooms - which he created for Walt Disney's Fantasia in 1940 - or the more abstract impact of line and colour in paintings. "I have chosen to convey ideas and feelings through movement, visually formed by lines, squares, spots, circles and varieties of colour,"

Kanye West This article is more than 13 years oldKanye West: 'I contemplated suicide'This article is more than 13 years oldRapper promises he 'will not give up on life again', saying he feels a responsibility to be a 'soldier for culture'Kanye West considered taking his own life several times in the past, he has claimed. The rapper made the admission at a US screening of his new short film, Runaway, but added he now feels a responsibility to be a "

Germany This article is more than 11 years oldKlaus Kinski repeatedly raped me during my childhood, claims daughterThis article is more than 11 years oldPola Kinski says the actor, who died in 1991, subjected her to 14 years of sexual abuse and violence from the age of five or sixThe eldest daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski has claimed she was sexually abused by him when she was a child.

Pop and rockObituaryMary Wilson obituaryFounding member of the Supremes, one of the greatest groups to come out of MotownAlthough she had to wait more than a decade before taking the lead on one of their hit singles, Mary Wilson was the force that held the Supremes together through the episodes of tragedy and internal strife that marked the history of the most successful female pop group of the 1960s. Having endured the removal of one original member, the troubled Florence Ballard, and the defection of another, Diana Ross, to solo stardom, Wilson – who has died aged 76 – worked with their replacements to keep the group’s name going.