To give you an idea they found a photo I had taken of baby Ludwig in the

To give you an idea, they found a photo I had taken of baby Ludwig in the nude, like so many parents, and implied there was something odd about that."The porn queen who was elected to parliament with the Radical Party in 1992 says the legal battle has also cleaned her out financially. To help meet an estimated pounds 1.18m in legal fees, the Hungarian-born model does what she knows best: perform. But gone are the erotic exploits with snakes or the golden showers on front row spectators La Cicciolina broke definitively with hard porn in 1990. "I still do occasional `spettacoli' at discotheques, but it is just fun, not hard in the sexual sense. I also appear on lots of television programmes and they pay me.To keep herself and her little boy, Staller is writing an autobiography, with the snappy title Ilona Staller Cicciolina for you alla fine di un millenio.

No one has signed up yet, but she says publishers in France and Hungary are interested. "It will cover my initiation into hard-core porn, my relationships with various MPs and political leaders, like Bettino Craxi, my marriage, including the intimate side, everything, why not?"Staller has never renounced or regretted her years in the porn industry, and the court victory has quashed moralistic notions that porno actresses aren't mother material. But just as that hurdle is cleared, she finds herself facing some tricky questioning on the home front."The other day Ludwig had been out somewhere, a friend's house maybe, and had seen a poster of me and Koons. He asked me very seriously `Why did you do those things with Papa?'""It's difficult," she says with an embarrassed giggle. "The photo shows me giving oral sex to Koons."So how did she explain it?"I told him we were married then and that those are the special things mothers and fathers do together Last month, he asked me what a porno star was. I am going to have to explain a lot of things to him soon, but delicately, so as not to hurt or confuse him, and so that he doesn't judge me in a negative light.".

The Sydney Olympics - billed as the Green Games - open in exactly 64 weeks, on 15 September 2000. In bidding for the Games, the Sydney delegates promised that theirs would be the most environmentally- friendly Games ever. But there are growing doubts that Sydney will deliver on its promises, even though Australia holds a commanding lead in the race to develop key environmentally-friendly technologies. The biggest single obstacle to the Green Games is the site itself. The land around Homebush Bay, in western Sydney, was an industrial graveyard previously used by chemical giants such as ICI and Union Carbide - infamous for the Bhopal plant leak on 3 December 1984 that poisoned thousands in India. Their legacy was toxic waste in unmarked sites. The bodies associated with the bid knew about this, and saw the Games as a way to clean up the mess and create a new community. Thus Sydney's bid document featured a glorious artist's impression of a ceremonial entrance on the waterfront, where, beneath fluttering bunting, Olympic athletes and grandees arrive from downtown on eco-friendly water taxis.

It was, says Murray Hogarth, environmental correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, "an absolutely key facet of the bid".The fate of the entrance is symbolic of the promises Sydney made to the IOC, the International Olympic Committee: it vanished almost as soon as Sydney was awarded the Games in September 1993. The planned entrance turned out to be over one of the most heavily contaminated areas. Just dredging somewhere for the water taxis to tie up would have disturbed the sediment and sent toxic waste out into Sydney Harbour and the Pacific beyond. Fishing is already banned in Homebush Bay because the fish are not fit for human consumption.Rather than clean up, the organisers re-drew the boundaries so that the grand entrance vanished from the Olympic site. The pollution there was then no longer their responsibility.That still left plenty of pollution on the official site, and so far almost nothing has been done to remove it.