Party Hearty Alert!
Tony Paterson in the Telegraph - Schröder's artist friend caught in sex, drug scandal:

A leading German artist, befriended by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and commissioned to paint his official portrait, is at the centre of a scandal after being caught hosting a cocaine party with nine prostitutes.

Joerg Immendorf, a controversial expressionist painter, was arrested last week after a police raid on his suite at Dusseldorf's five-star Steigenberger hotel. They discovered the 58-year-old artist naked with the prostitutes, and 11 grams of cocaine in a Versace ashtray on the bedside table.

Mr Mocken said that Immendorf had confessed to holding similar parties at the hotel for more than two and a half years.

Party on, Dude!

The police, who were apparently tipped off by a rival prostitute who had not been invited to the party, found a further 10.6 grams of the drug in Immendorf's atelier nearby.

There's always a wet blanket!

But what's the connection with Mr. Grecian Formula?

Lurid newspaper reports of the arrest have scandalised Germany, and put a question mark over Mr Schroder's surprising decision to engage Immendorf to paint the portrait which will hang alongside those of other post-war chancellors in the Berlin Chancellery.
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A former Left-wing Maoist activist who also owned a well-known bar in Hamburg's red-light district, he is best known for his painting Cafe Deutschland, which takes Germany's post-war division as its main subject. He attracted widespread media coverage two years ago when he married one of his students, Oda Jaune, who is 30 years his junior.

Immendorf's rebel image attracted the attention of Chancellor Schröder, who has made a habit of entertaining Left-wing artists, writers and intellectuals with supposedly "progressive" views since he was first elected five years ago.

Earlier this year Mr Schröder and Immendorf appeared together in St Petersburg for the official opening of the city's reconstructed 18th century "Amber Room" which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War.

The chancellor joined the artist to present the city with an avante-garde sculpture by Immendorf, which takes the form of a massively outsized human nose - a fact which reports of the artist's alleged cocaine-sniffing habit have not failed to mention.

Wotta guy!