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Super-Nannies: Worth the Super Price Tag?

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:20 CDT

Want an elite New York nanny? Adam Davidson considered hiring one until he saw the price tag: $180,000 a year plus Christmas bonus and a $3,000 apartment on Central Park West. "I should be her nanny," quips Davidson in the New York Times . So he probed the world...

For Obama's Transgender Ex-Nanny, Desolation

Matt Cantor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:45:05 CST

Indonesia is home to 7 million transgendered people who face ongoing harassment, rape, and murder—and Barack Obama's former nanny is among their ranks. Following years of abuse, Evie, born a man, decided to leave cross-dressing behind after a friend was brutally murdered in 1985, the AP reports, in an...

Casey Anthony, in Disguise, Takes the Fifth

John Johnson — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:06:03 CDT

Casey Anthony made a legal appearance of sorts today, complete with huge sunglasses, a long, dark wig, and a Philadelphia Phillies baseball cap, reports the Orlando Sentinel . She was deposed this morning—via video from an undisclosed location—in the defamation case proceeding against her by Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez. Anthony...

Nanny Sues The Help Author

Rob Quinn — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:26:00 CST

Author Kathryn Stockett's best-seller The Help borrows a little too heavily from real life and from one life in particular, according to a nanny suing the author. Ablene Cooper says the book's character "Aibeleen"—who, like her, is a middle-aged black nanny with a gold tooth whose son died before...

Cops: Sex-Toy Queen Poisoned by Nanny

Rob Quinn — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:33:27 CST

Sex-shop tycoon Jacqueline Gold brought pleasure to millions of Britons but not, it seems, to the nanny employed to look after her young daughter. The 33-year-old nanny appeared in court yesterday, charged with 3 counts of the unusual crime of administering poison with intent to annoy, AP reports. The nanny...

NY Poised to Pass Nation's First Nanny Protection Law

Rob Quinn — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:00:00 CDT

New York is about to become the first state to recognize nannies and domestic workers as workers with rights. A bill passed by the state Senate this week guarantees full-time domestic workers overtime pay and one day off a week, as well as sick days and vacation days. It will...

Day-Care Kids Take Bigger Risks

Emily Rauhala — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:59:11 CDT

Teenagers who spent long hours in day-care as toddlers are more likely to take risks and act impulsively than peers who spent those years at home, finds the largest and longest study of child-care in America. The findings—sure to stir controversy among parents and policy makers—found that teens...

Nannies Turn Baby Boys Into Skirt Chasers: Shrink

Mary Papenfuss — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:08:22 CDT

Nannies introduce the idea of the "other woman" into the psyche of baby boys and make them more likely to be womanizers when they're grown, a psychiatrist claims. Even after marriage, he'll have "at the back of his mind the notion of this other woman, who knows and caters to...

Jon's Nanny Dishes on Affair

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:21:32 CDT

It was only a matter of time before Jon Gosselin’s nanny got her very own tabloid interview—with In Touch— and Popeater snagged a copy. Stephanie Santoro, 23, overshares with details like Gosselin “wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t the best I ever had.” She claims their fling started with a...