Let I be a finitely supported complete m-primary ideal of a regular local ring (R,m). We consider singularities of the projective models and over Spec R , where denotes the integral closure of the Rees algebra R[It]. A theorem of Lipman implies that the ideal I has a unique factorization as a ⁎-product of special ⁎-simple complete ideals with possibly negative exponents for some of the factors. If is regular, we prove that is the regular model obtained by blowing up the finite set of base points of I. Extending work of Lipman and Huneke–Sally in dimension 2, we prove that every local ring S on that is a unique factorization domain is regular. Moreover, if dimS≥2 and S dominates R, then S is an infinitely near point to R, that is, S is obtained from R by a finite sequence of local quadratic transforms.