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HAVING A (MASKED) BALL! WHAT WERE JUNKIE KATE AND PETE, A HARLEQUIN LIZZIE JAGGER AND SCARLETT JOHANSSON DOING AT AN OH-SO-DECADENT PARTY?

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20061026
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Byline: RICHARD SIMPSON

THE MASKED ball was a byword for debauchery and excess in the days when Strawberry Hill House was owned by the waspish playwright Horace Walpole.

Almost 300 years later, it seems that nothing much has changed, as the Gothic mansion played host to an astonishingly louche party in the early hours of yesterday.

There was little warning of what was to come as household names like Scarlett Johansson, Jerry Hall and Elizabeth Jagger arrived immaculately dressed at the 18th-Century pile in Twickenham. David Blunkett's former lover Kimberly Quinn and ...

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