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;JP;YAN;CD; ANPAc..r.. Guess-Susi-massage Susi busy with new massage parlor JP/20/SUSI Susi Susanti opens reflexology clinic

JAKARTA: For 1992 Olympic badminton champion Susi Susanti, nirvana means her latest business with fellow former shuttler Elizabeth Latief in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. Both recently opened a reflexology and sports massage center in the area.

"It's our new business. We just opened it on May 5," Susi said recently. "However, many people ask us if we also provide 'extra services' here ... we strongly denounce such things," in an apparent reference to the reputation that many massage parlors cum brothels have.

Susi and Elizabeth even put a Christian cross on the wall in the entrance way.

"We intentionally put it there so people don't have to ask us that same question again," Elizabeth said.

Since her retirement from badminton in 1999, Susi has been busy taking care of her three children and helping husband Alan Budikusuma run their distribution business of their own racket brand Aztec. She also runs a baby shop at the ITC Cempaka Mas in Central Jakarta.

To attract customers, they have distributed leaflets to passersby, called on other former shuttlers and their friends to try the service at the new health spa.

"We guarantee that the service here is good," Susi said. "This is our business so we can survive ... We've had to work hard because the government does not provide us (badminton players) jobs or pensions," she jokingly said, followed by a burst of laughter from Elizabeth. -- JP

;AP; ANPAc ..r.. People-Sean Combs Rapper Sean Combs to collaborate with Estee Lauder cosmetics JP/20/GUESS Estee Lauder hires rap bad boy Combs NEW YORK: Sean Combs seems to have teamed up musically with everyone, from Notorious B.I.G. and Usher to Sting and Dave Navarro.

But his next collaboration, through his fashion designer persona, is with Estee Lauder: The cosmetics company is planning to create and market a new line of fragrances under the rapper's Sean John name.

"People express themselves in many ways -- through their music, through the way they dress, and also through the fragrance they choose, so deciding to make a fragrance was very natural for me," Combs said Thursday.

"This is an extraordinary opportunity to partner with one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic young fashion brands in the market, as well as with a man who has built a phenomenal reputation as a tastemaker in music, in fashion and in business," said William P. Lauder, chief operating officer of The Estee Lauder Companies.

Terms of the multiyear deal were not disclosed.

Combs, 34, also is starring in a Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun.

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