During the week, the ex-husband of TV personality Umemiya Anna was given a suspended two-year sentence for running an illegal gambling operation. Chiba Takashi (34), listed as unemployed, is said to have made about ¥72 million profit in just three months from the baccarat club in Roppongi. The couple married in 2002, when Umemiya was already several months pregnant. The publicity-hungry and spoiled daughter of actor Umemiya Tatsuo, proudly showed off her expensive engagement ring, but with her equally expensive lifestyle and her new husband’s dubious resume, the marriage was never going to last. In fact, it lasted less than two years. They had a daughter, who now lives with her mother.
• On the subject of shotgun weddings, F-cup pin-up girl Kitagawa Tomomi (25) has announced that she married a 23-year old company employee during the summer and is expecting his baby in January.