Danielle Chiesi, the 47-year-old femme fatale analyst who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the biggest U.S. insider-trading crackdown, is back in town.

Chiesi, who did a 15-month stint at a West Virginia prison camp for passing illegal stock tips to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, returned in January to New York City and has been living at a federal halfway house in the north Bronx.

“It’s good to be back,” a svelte Chiesi, wearing a white sleeveless peplum top, jeans and pink and white scarf, said yesterday as she left a residence she shares with other newly freed prisoners. “I feel good. I feel great.”

Chiesi is one of more than seventy insider trading since August 2009. The former teenage beauty queen, who once showed up at technology conferences wearing form-fitting clothes and low-cut tops, is among the most flamboyant defendants to be ensnared in the sweeping federal crackdown.

stock traders, analysts, lawyers and executives who have been convicted of


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Repulsion

Roman Polanski, French-Polish, 79 years old, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, The Pianist, Knife in the Water, Tess. The oldest director in Competition, Polanski hardly requires an introduction, whether you associate him first with his crafty, unnerving cinema or his infamous legal troubles. Born in Paris to Polish parents, he moved with family back to Poland shortly before the Second World War, narrowly escaping the Krakow Ghetto after the German occupation -- experience he drew upon in his 2002 Palme d'Or winner "The Pianist." In 1959, he graduated from the National Film School in Lodz, Poland, having already earned considerable attention for his student shorts; in 1962, he struck gold with his debut feature "Knife in the Water," an international hit that scooped an Oscar nomination. After a brief stint in Britain that produced one of his best films, Repulsion, Hollywood came calling in 1968 with "Rosemary's Baby"; he'd make only one more American studio film whilst dabbling in Europe, before statutory rape charges brought about his permanent exile from the US. Since then, his international career has alternated between very high highs ("Tess," "The Pianist") and some dismal lows (the notoriously expensive bomb "Pirates"), but 2010's "The Ghost Writer," premiered in the midst of his 2009 house arrest in Switzerland, kept his stock high going into the current (and his eighth) decade. "Venus in Fur" is his 21st.

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New York New York

Born and raised in New York City, Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw.

He afterward attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, under Batman inker Jerry Robinson and others. One classmate was future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, with whom Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue from 1958 to 1966 or 1968. 

Some of Stanton's work during this period shows Ditko influence, and the introduction to one book of Stanton's work says, "Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured by Ditko". Ditko reportedly denied touching Stanton's work, though Stanton himself said they would spot-ink each other's art.

Tulisa

She dubbed herself 'the female boss' and has carved out a successful solo career - but Tulisa has revealed it wasn't her choice to go it alone.

In a tiny corset top which accentuated her shrinking waistline Tulisa hinted at being forced to perform alone after N-Dubz took a break from music. 

Speaking in central London as she helped launch a new mobile phone, the 23-year-old revealed it took her a long time to get used to being the only performer onstage.

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