The wife of detained US escapee George Wright said her husband told her he ran away from a U.S. jail but never unveiled he had been prisoner of murder or alleged of a staged airplane hijacking.

Maria do Rosario Valente said she was astonished to find out about her husband's history after his detention in Portugal last week after 41 years on the lam. She said she considered the jail flee "was just a show off."

"Now I've found out the rest," she told Portugal's TVI television in an interview televised late Sunday.

The U.S. is endeavoring to send back Wright to serve the rest of his 15- to 30-year punishment for a 1962 killing in New Jersey. The FBI also says he was part of a Black Liberation Army group that seized a U.S. plane to Algeria in 1972.

Wright's lawyer says the American will assert a new distinctiveness to stop the U.S. from extraditing him. The lawyer, Manuel Luis Ferreira, told The AP that Wright turn into a Portuguese nationality called Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos in 1991 after wedding Valente.

Wright's current distinctiveness was given to him by Guinea-Bissau's government when it decided him political refuge in the 1980s, and that was acknowledged by Portugal, Ferreira said. At the time, Guinea-Bissau was a single-party Marxist state that seemed kindly on black liberation lobby groups.

That reality may weigh a great deal on the U.S. banishment request for Wright. Portuguese inhabitants crooked in another country may be able to serve their punishments in Portugal if family members are there.

Valente told TVI late Sunday she not at all really considered Wright's jail flee story —pending now.

"I didn't in fact think much of it," she told TVI. "I considered it was only a show off."

Wright broke out of the Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, New Jersey, on Aug. 19, 1970, after allocating at least seven years of his punishment for murdering a man in a 1962 gas station burglary. He was held in a seaside village near Lisbon last week after ten years on the escape, and is being captured in Lisbon while the court rules on his exile.

Valente, who is Portuguese, met Wright in the late 1970s when he was residing near Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. They lived mutually in the 1980s in Portugal and in Guinea-Bissau, an ex Portuguese colony in West Africa, according to Wright's lawyer.

Valente gave birth to a son, Marco, with Wright in 1986 and wedded Wright in 1990. They had a daughter, Sara, the following year.

Valente said she was traveling her parents last week when she was identified into police headquarters in Lisbon and given an account of the allegations against her husband.

"That day is unclear," she said.

She said their children, now grown up, "were sorrow -stricken" when they found out about their father's history and wept with him all the way during their first lockup trip last week.

She explained Wright as a trustworthy husband and fanatical father.

"I've no reason for objection," she said.

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Scarlett Johansson has spoken out for the first time over the undressed pictures that were disclosed online, calling the raid at her personal life "unfair".

The FBI are presently prosecuting complaints of computer hacking, following the disclosed of nude images of celebrities.

In an interview with CNN, Johansson said superstars are no dissimilar to anybody else when it comes to solitude.

"Only due to you're an artist... doesn't mean you're not allowed to your have individual privacy," she said.

"If that personal life is hijacked in some way, it suffers unjust. It feels false," Johansson told US broadcaster CNN.

Quoting to her life in the limelight, the Bafta-winning celebrity said: "I think there are definite examples where you give a lot of yourself and ultimately you have to sort of put your foot down'."

The actress, last watched on the big screen in Iron Man 2, made her first communal manifestation since the photos were revealed last weekend, at Milan Fashion Week.

One leaked picture presented to show Johansson, 26, topless on a bed, while another actually shows her wearing a towel while enlightening her bottom.

The photos, in fact taken by the actress, follow the leaking of nude images of other superstars including Jessica Alba.

Hacked pictures of Justin Timberlake and his Friends With Benefits co-star Mila Kunis have also showed online, according to reports.

Previous this month, Johansson's lawyer dispatched letters out to all the websites that had posted the pictures within hours of them appearing, intimidating legal action.

The images have since been taken down by most channels.

The FBI said it was prosecuting "the individual or groups accountable for a numbers of computer impositions involving glamorous personalities".

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A reported tip has led investigators to a person who might have information on D.B. Cooper's 1971 jetliner skyjacking, and an unspecified item has been sent to a lab. It's the 'most promising lead we have right now' in a case that has captivated the public imagination, an FBI spokesperson tells a Seattle newspaper.

D.B. Cooper, the infamous airplane hijacker who vaulted into urban mythology by parachuting out of a jetliner over the Pacific Northwest with a $200,000 ransom, is back on the FBI's radar screen.

Cooper, whose case remains the only unsolved airline hijacking in U.S. history, became the stuff of legend on the night of Nov. 24, 1971, when he jumped from a Boeing 727 into the skies between Portland, Ore., and Seattle. He disappeared with the ransom he extorted -- 10,000 $20 bills.

The case has remained open, but the trail has been cold despite hundreds of tips, thousands of theories and dozens of breakthroughs in scientific investigation. Now the FBI, which has previously said that Cooper is likely dead, is looking at fresh evidence, according to weekend reports in the media in Seattle, the epicenter of the story that seemingly can never die. The FBI's recent tip in the case was first reported by the Telegraph newspaper in London, a testament to Cooper's international appeal.

The tip provided to the FBI came from a law enforcement source who directed investigators to a person who might have helpful information on the suspect, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich told the Seattle Times on Sunday. She called the new information the "most promising lead we have right now," but cautioned that investigators were not on the verge of breaking the case.

"With any lead our first step is to assess how credible it is," Sandalo Dietrich told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Saturday. "Having this come through another law enforcement [agency], having looked it over when we got it -- it seems pretty interesting."

The information includes an item that was sent to a lab in Quantico, Va., for testing, she said. She did not provide specifics about the item or the man's identity.

Dietrich was on vacation on Monday, according to a message on her FBI voicemail.

It is not surprising that the Cooper story has spawned a dozen books and at least one movie. It combines elements of mystery (what happened to…), adventure (man jumps from plane into rugged terrain..), but above all, the romance of an unknown person getting away with something and vanishing to possibly enjoy the ill-gotten gains.

According to reports, a man calling himself Dan Cooper purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle the day before Thanksgiving, 1971, at the Portland airport counter of Northwest Orient Airlines. He was somewhere in his mid-40s, between 5-10 and 6-2. He wore a black raincoat, a dark suit, white shirt and black necktie. He could have passed for a funeral director or a banker with his mother-of-pearl tie pin.

He ordered a bourbon and water and lighted a cigarette (in those days one could smoke on an airplane). He called over a stewardess and handed her a note, printed in all capitals: "I have a bomb in my briefcase. I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me. You are being hijacked."

By late afternoon, the plane had landed in Seattle, had been refueled and passengers taken off. By evening, the ransom and parachutes were delivered and the plane took off for Reno. At 8:13 p.m, the aircraft's tail section sustained a sudden upward movement.

When the craft landed at 10:15 p.m, authorities searched but Cooper was no longer on board.