Tania Zaetta Gets Apology for Sex with Soldiers Accusation (PHOTOS)

Australian actress Tania Zaetta received an apology from Australia’s military chief on Tuesday for falsely accusing her of engaging in sex with elite special forces soldiers during a 2008 concert tour
at a military base in Afghanistan.

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston met with Zaetta and her family to apologize for naming her in a defense briefing note, which was leaked to the press.

“There was no substance to the allegations,” Houston said in a statement. “Ms. Zaetta gave her time and her talent to entertain our forces serving in Afghanistan and she deserves our praise and our thanks. I have also made clear to Ms. Zaetta that she is welcome to again join a Forces Entertainment Tour in the near future.”

Zaetta, considered “one of the first foreigners to conquer Bollywood,” toured Australian Defence Force bases in Afghanistan and Iraq during early 2008 with a group of entertainers. A draft ministerial “hot issues brief” was published in various newspapers intimating that the 38-year-old actress had engaged in sex with several members of the Australian Special Air Services Regiment. Other entertainers touring with the group said in media interviews that they were so “managed” and tired during the trip that they could not imagine that this could be possible.

“I’ve heard of quickies mate, but you’d have to be really quick - we didn’t have time to do anything,” said John Clinton, from the country rock band The Wolverines. Additionally, various members of the Government of Australia denied that this was seriously suggested. Zaetta strongly denied the allegation, and demanded an apology.

Late last year Australia’s defense department and Zaetta reached an agreement to compensate her for “an unacceptable breach of privacy” in relation to “false allegations.”

View photos of Tania Zaetta and an interview with the Bollywood superstar below.

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Richard Paul Evans: When it Comes to Money, 'Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus'

Richard Paul Evans, author of the new book The 5 Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women, was on the Glen Beck Program today, and what he had to say was somewhat condescending. When asked why the lessons are different for women (The book is a new take on his previously published The 5 Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me), Evans said he realized that the vast majority of expenditures are now made by women, and yet "women have never been taught because they grow up with these mixed messages that, you know, good girls don't worry their pretty little heads about money."

I'm all for a book of financial tips aimed at women--in fact, one of my favorites is Janet Bodnar's Money Smart Women: Everything You Need to Know to Achieve a Lifetime of Financial Security (disclosure: she is a former editor of mine.) But Evans' assertion that women in general (or "good girls") are taught not to worry about money is way off base (and "pretty little heads"? Come on.) Women are making expenditures because women are more independent these days. And often, independence means they're making their own money. Plus, a lot of those women, like me, actually learned about money growing up.

In this recent interview, Evans explains why he thinks Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus when it comes to money. He says women are vulnerable to "the burnt-toast syndrome:"

You're having breakfast, and a slice gets burned--who gets it? Women do that with money, too," he says. "They trade their needs for somebody else's wants."

Doesn't everyone at one time or another trade their needs for somebody else's wants? It's called a relationship. I'm not quite sure what he means: he wants a monster truck, she wants a convertible? Please. Evans appears to be the king of overgeneralization.

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