People: Controversial documentary will show photos from Princess Diana’s fatal crash

A shocking paparazzi photograph of a dying Princess Diana will screened for the first time in a documentary about her fatal crash.

“Unlawful Killing,” which will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival this week, is backed by actor Keith Allen and Mohammed Fayed, whose son Dodi died with Diana. The 90-minute film will include a graphic black-and-white close-up of Diana taken moments after the Mercedes carrying the couple crashed in a Paris underpass.

The image, Diana’s blonde hair and features clearly visible, was banned in Britain before it could be shown in public. The documentary will be shown around the world but not in the UK. Similar pictures shown to the Diana inquest jury had her face heavily pixellated. News that Allen, father of pop star Lily Allen, is using the full photograph outraged close friends of the late Princess of Wales.

Rosa Monckton, who went on holiday with Diana a few weeks before she died, said: “If this is true, this is absolutely disgusting. The fact people are trying to make money — which is all that they are doing now — out of her death is quite frankly “… words fail me.”

A spokesman for Britain’s royal family declined to comment but royal sources said Diana’s sons would be sickened by the news. One said: “They rather hope people would treat this with the contempt it deserves.”

Sources told the Daily Mail that the princes never will publicly comment about their mother because they view the issue as “the most intensely personal and private aspect of their very public lives.”

Allen’s film is due to be screened amid a blaze of publicity at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday and Fayed is reported to be traveling to the south of France to help with the launch.

Reports say the film alleges several suspicious circumstances surrounding the fatal crash. Fayed has accused Prince Philip of masterminding the 1997 crash in which Diana and Dodi died and suggested that Prince Charles was involved. Fayed’s said the crash was meant to stop Diana from marrying his Muslim son.

WE KNEW WHITNEY WAS A MESS, BUT: The guy who once changed his name to a symbol says Whitney Houston is too out there to hang out with.

Houston, in rehab for drug and alcohol dependency, has been banned from any future Prince concerts because of her “erratic behavior and constant ticket demands,” TMZ reported Tuesday.

In the past few weeks, Houston has attended several Prince shows and appeared to be “intoxicated” at each one.

According to TMZ’s source, Prince and his people finally turned down Houston because they “didn’t want her to embarrass herself.” Houston is in an undisclosed rehab facility seeking outpatient treatment.

In 2009, she attempted a music comeback, but by the following year she had to cancel tour dates due to illness and negative reviews.

‘FARMVILLE’ GOES GAGA: Lady Gaga will release songs from her new album on a section of online game “FarmVille” before they can be heard anywhere else.

The singer will allow singles from “Born This Way” to be heard within a neighboring farm in the game called “GagaVille.”

NPR reported that players have to complete tasks to hear one exclusive new track per day from May 17 to 19. Additional songs that aren’t exclusive can be unlocked over the following three days. The album is due to be released May 23.

It’s the first time game-maker Zynga Inc. has received exclusive tracks from artists in a game and the first time it’s created a whole farm dedicated to an artist. In December, Zynga partnered with Dr. Dre to release a track from his album “Detox” in the game Mafia Wars.

About 46 million people worldwide play FarmVille every month. The San Francisco-based company is also giving away a download of the full album to fans who buy $25 game cards through electronics retailer Best Buy.