The limousine company that owned the car CBS correspondent Bob Simon was killed in is blaming Simon for his own death because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Skyline Credit Ride said in papers filed in Manhattan, N.Y., Supreme Court that Simon’s “culpable conduct” caused his death. The 73-year-old newsman died Feb. 11 when the limo he was riding in crashed on Manhattan’s West Side Highway. His widow, Francoise Anne-Marie Simon, sued Skyline Credit Ride and the limo’s driver last month, claiming wrongful death. The Daily News reported that Skyline said in court papers filed last week that Simon “failed to use or misused available seat belts.” The newspaper said a lawyer for Simon’s widow did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cara Delevingne wants the public to know she didn’t strut directly from the fashion runway onto Hollywood movie sets. The British model wasn’t handpicked by studio executives for her lead role in Paper Towns, which opened this weekend. She won the part after an audition process that included 100 other actresses. “Cara killed it in the chemistry read. We all knew as soon as she walked in,” co-star Nat Wolff said. “I killed all the other actresses that went up for the role,” Delevingne joked, laughing alongside Wolff. The 22-year-old may no longer need to be quite so aggressive in Hollywood. She appears in four more films to be released this year, including Pan. She plays DC Comics villain/heroine Enchantress in the dark Suicide Squad, out next summer, then co-stars with Dane DeHaan in director Luc Besson’s big-budget sci-fi film Valerian. “The whole thing has been a joy ride. This is my dream, so I’m kind of following it now,” she said. “I don’t feel like I’m stopping modeling. It’s just definitely slowing down and so I’m just happy to be doing this.” In Paper Towns, adapted from John Green’s popular young adult novel, Delevingne plays the enigmatic Margo, who wrangles Wolff’s character into an all-night adventure, then disappears. “Cara understands better than anyone I’ve ever known what it’s like to be Margo, what it’s like to have people project images onto you and not really know you,” said Green, an executive producer on the film. “Margo is a character in the story who everybody’s paying attention to, but nobody’s ever listening to. And I think that’s probably something Cara can also relate to.” Indeed, Delevingne said that while the promotional grind of releasing a movie isn’t so different from modeling — plenty of posing for photographers — she’s intrigued by the media megaphone provided by movie stardom. “It’s a platform for me to be honest and to talk about issues and stuff that I think is important,” she said on the red carpet at a Los Angeles Paper Towns screening attended by modeling friends Kendall and Kylie Jenner.