A tearful Carol Alt says she's happy that a New York City judge's ruling that her ex-husband doesn't owe her money frees her from the longest relationship of her life.

The actress-model commented outside federal court in Manhattan just after a judge on Wednesday said she waited too long to claim former New York Rangers defenseman Ron Greschner owed her money.

Judge Colleen McMahon says Alt otherwise would have been entitled to $165,000 from the sale of their shares in a water filtration company.

Greschner declined to comment afterward.

Alt and Greschner were married for 18 years until 2001.

Greschner lives in West Palm Beach, Fla. Alt lives in Manhattan but has been in Europe working on a movie and is about to appear in a Playboy magazine spread.

Princes William and Harry were on the red carpet on Wednesday for the world premiere of the new James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace", which sees Daniel Craig reprise the role of superspy 007.

The 40-year-old actor and his co-stars were greeted by hundreds of fans and a sea of camera flashes in central London for the 22nd installment of the Bond franchise.

Craig showed up wearing a tuxedo and his right arm in a sling after a shoulder operation.

Quantum of Solace, which follows on directly from the plot of the last Bond movie "Casino Royale", is released in British cinemas on October 31 and hits theatres in the key U.S. market two weeks later on November 14.

After Craig wowed critics and audiences with his Bond debut in Casino Royal

Agent 007 was getting a royal stamp of approval Wednesday, with Princes William and Harry due to attend the world premiere of the new James Bond thriller, "Quantum of Solace."

The princes were joining star Daniel Craig and other celebrities on the red carpet in London's Leicester Square.

Proceeds from the gala are going to charities for military veterans, and 200 soldiers and their families have been invited to the screening.

William, 26, and 24-year-old Harry are both officers in the British army. Harry spent 10 weeks earlier this year serving on the front line in Afghanistan.

The 22nd official Bond film, "Quantum of Solace" features Mathieu Amalric as the villainous Dominic Greene, Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton as the spy's love interests and J

"Easy Virtue," a bubbly comedy based on Noel Coward's play about English high society in the 1920s, has emerged as a hot favorite to win the best film award at the Rome festival, which winds up on Friday.

Italian daily Corriere della Sera called the film, a British production directed by Australian Stephan Elliott, "a little gem" and gave it 3-1/2 stars out of four -- its highest marks for a movie screening in the main 20-title competition.

La Repubblica newspaper also tipped the film as a winner for its witty dialogues, praising actress Jessica Biel's performance as a glamorous and free-spirited American woman storming into the lives on an old-fashioned English aristocratic family.

France's "With a Little Help from

Tom Ford, who largely left the fashion world behind to try his hand in Hollywood, announced Wednesday his first deal to direct a film. "A Single Man," starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode, is set to begin filming in Los Angeles on Monday.

The movie is set in 1962 and tells the story of how Firth's British college-professor character deals with losing his partner of 16 years.

Producers include Ford, Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Robert Salerno.

Ford left high-profile jobs at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent in 2004 with great fanfare, intent on bringing his knack for all things glitzy and provocative to the world of entertainment. He boasted three projects in the works and formed his own production company, Fade to Black, the next year.