Three weeks after the death of 22-year-old R&B singer Aaliyah, there was another tragedy linked to the Bahamas plane crash, which also killed eight others. Carl Havetter, the FAA inspector who sources say gave the final test flight to Luis Morales - the pilot of the doomed twin-engine Cessna - has committed suicide. According to a source, Havetter killed himself on September 17 - "not long after it was revealed that he, like the owner of the plane, was tricked into believing that Morales had more flight experience than he probably had." An FAA spokeswoman said she wouldn't comment on whether Havetter was an employee, or on the cause of death. The plane crashed minutes after takeoff from Marsh Harbour airport - the National Transportation Safety Board said the aircraft was overloaded and out of balance.

A Tale Of Two Princes
Prince William was stalked by a camera crew during his first week at St. Andrews University in Scotland. No big surprise there, except that the crew works for his uncle Prince Edward. While other media left after the weekend of William's arrival at the school, Edward's Ardent production company, which was getting footage for an E! Entertainment series called The A to Z of Royalty, stuck around for two extra days. The 19-year-old heir to the British throne was so annoyed that he complained to his father, Prince Charles, who insiders say was "incandescent" with anger over what his younger brother's company had done. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman tells Hot Stuff, "We were disappointed."

Angelina Aid
While most other Americans are donating to relief funds for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Angelina Jolie has just given $1 million to Afghan refugees. Jolie, who's a goodwill ambassador for the U. N. High Commissioner for Refugees, gave the cash after the agency made an appeal for $268 million to help Afghans fleeing the Taliban government. In August, the 26-year-old Tomb Raider star went to nearby Pakistan to visit the more than 3.5 million Afghans who live in camps there and in Iran.

Michael Lives!
Michael Skupin, who suffered second-degree burns after he fainted into a campfire during Survivor 2, must be counting his lives. On September 23, Skupin was in a small plane that crashed into the rocky shore of Lake Michigan. "I'm happy to be alive," said Skupin, who had been flying back from speaking at a memorial service on Mackinac Island in Michigan for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Skupin, 39, who was with his pregnant wife, Penny, and daughter, Emily, 3, escaped with whiplash, the worst of the passengers' injuries, after the 1977 Piper his friend was piloting was forced to make an emergency landing.

Clint's Bad Cut
Why did Clint Eastwood's jacket fit so poorly when he appeared on the America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon on September 21? One rumor suggested that the Dirty Harry star was packing heat in a shoulder holster in case anyone tried to make his day. Another tale making the rounds is that the 71-year-old Oscar winner has a bad back and the jacket was covering a brace he has to wear. "None of those stories are true," Eastwood's manager says. "It's not a normal suit or sports jacket he was wearing. It's a 'bulging jacket' - the kind you'd wear to a football game." Or maybe take to a tailor.

Edward Busted Again
Edward Furlong's road continues to be a troubled one. The 24-year-old actor, who last fall did a month's stint at the Promises rehab center in Malibu, California, for alcohol abuse, was booked in West Hollywood on September 25 for driving without a license and had his car impounded. But that wasn't enough to deter Furlong. At 3:15 a.m., just four hours later, Furlong was nabbed again. The Terminator 2 and American History X star and his actor girlfriend, Jolene Blalock, 26, were involved in a traffic accident on the Sunset Strip, and he was busted for driving under the influence, the same offense his ex-girlfriend Natasha Lyonne had been arrested for just a month earlier. Furlong told Us weekly last December, "My friends were like, 'Eddie, you're drinking too much' . . . and that was true." A spokeswoman for Furlong wouldn't comment.

Stripper Sheila
Sheila Kelley, who's married to The West Wing's Emmy-winning Richard Schiff, got hooked on a new hobby while making the movie Dancing at the Blue Iguana - stripping. "I have two kids, a husband and a dog. I bake cookies for the PTA and attend school concerts," says Kelley. Yet the 37-year-old actor, who has appeared on L.A. Law and Sisters, as well as in such films as Singles and One Fine Day, says she has become so keen on stripping that she had a stripper's pole installed in her husband's home office. Kelley teaches stripping classes twice a week to groups of 11 at a time and dances every day. "I've mastered around eight moves, from the corkscrew to the twirling helicopter to the drop-and-split," says Kelley, who claims she dances for herself but "if he's good, I dance for my husband."

MICHAEL DEWITTES
(Us Weekly 348 - Oct. 19, 2001)