Black Parties It Up Before Heading To Jail

Black Parties It Up Before Heading To Jail

Media baron Conrad Black is spending his last weekend of freedom throwing dinner parties at his elegant waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., just a short drive to the sprawling Coleman Federal Prison near DisneyWorld in Orlando.

Black, his glamorous wife Barbara Amiel and a stream of guests sipped fine wines and champagne, snacked on expensive gourmet fare and basked in the deposed mogul's last taste of elegance before he starts a 61/2 year sentence behind bars tomorrow.

In July, the 63-year-old Black was convicted in a federal court of looting $6 million from his media company, the former Hollinger International, and trying to cover up the crime by sneaking boxes of documents out of his Toronto office.

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Read about how Black says going to jail on Monday is "not the end of the world."

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Read about the conditions Black will encounter when he reports to the Coleman Federal Correctional Institute in central Florida at 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon.

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