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Susi busy with new massage parlor
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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

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Rapper Sean Combs to collaborate with Estee Lauder cosmetics
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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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