21.   Attilio Monti, a self-made oil man who later founded a publishing empire, has died at his villa in France, his company said Tuesday.

22.   Cruise is back in familiar territory here as David Aames, a rich, swaggering playboy who runs the magazine publishing empire he inherited from his father.

23.   He founded a publishing empire, and became famous for introducing a Chinese-language version of Playboy to Hong Kong.

24.   Ian Maxwell, who was less involved in the Maxwell publishing empire than the others, was dropped as a defendant.