People: Oct. 28, 1996

TIME TO GATHER MOSS?

JERRY HALL, who seemed to have a store of patience the size of her native Texas, finally may have had enough of husband MICK JAGGER’s wandering ways. She has hired Anthony Julius, Princess Diana’s divorce lawyer. Exactly what she intends Julius to do, if anything more than act as a human warning beacon, is unclear. Her ire was aroused when Jagger was reportedly seen embracing Uma Thurman in one bar and model Jana Rajlich in another. The singer, reputedly Britain’s 145th richest man, has three young children with Hall, two children with other amours and two grandchildren. But sometimes granddads need to feel sexy too.

GUESS WHICH ONE OF THEM IS MICHAEL JACKSON

He has been accused of much, but nobody has ever said MICHAEL JACKSON is overly conservative in his looks. Until now, perhaps. STAN WINSTON, the Academy Award-winning special-effects artist, is on the left; the singer, on the right. The two have collaborated on a short film, Ghosts, based on Jackson’s song Too Bad. Among the characters Jackson plays is the white mayor, above, though the required prosthetics and cosmetics didn’t keep him from his usual high-octane dancing. In other good short-film news for the singer, a judge ruled that a story recounted by free-lance journalist Victor Gutierrez, who said he had seen a videotape of Jackson with a 13-year-old boy, was false and malicious. Jackson had sued him and various media outlets for $50 million.

JUST CALL HIM PAVAROCKER

Charity makes strange stagefellows. SHERYL CROW and LUCIANO PAVAROTTI dipped into each other’s arias of expertise for Pavarotti and Friends for War Child, a concert recording that’s intended to raise money for children in war-torn areas. Crow gamely attempted a duet from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Pavarotti almost as bravely launched into Holy Mother with Eric Clapton, Live Like Horses with Elton John and New York, New York with Liza Minnelli. The album’s almost worth a listen just to hear him go for the big notes in “Myyyy little town blooos …”

SEEN & HEARD

It looks like the engagement between Gary Oldman and Isabella Rossellini is off. Gregory Mosher, a theater director and producer of American Buffalo, is saying that he and Rossellini are now an item. Reps for the actress, whose former loves include Martin Scorsese and David Lynch, refused to comment (and slammed down the phone).

How do you get to meet the President of Ecuador? Be like Lorena Gallo. President Abdala Bucaram told the Ecuadorean-born Gallo, known in the U.S. by her married name, Lorena Bobbitt, that meeting her was “an extremely high honor.” He added, “You look prettier than you do on television.” He also gave her his CD, A Madman in Love.