The former Miss British Columbia 2004 claims in a lawsuit one of the biggest talent agencies in the world promised her stardom but exploited her and set her up to be sexually assaulted. Claire Robinson filed suit in L.A. County Superior Court against International Creative Management
(ICM).
She claims the agency “hip-pocketed” her (when a senior agent [...]
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Actors & Actresses
Mel Gibson has settled the lawsuit filed by a screenwriter over Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ.
The court has been notified that the case is settled “in principal.”
Benedict Fitzgerald sued Gibson and several film companies for $10 million last year, claiming that the film’s budget was underreported to him in order to pay Fitzgerald [...]
Woody Allen agreed Monday to a $5 million settlement in his lawsuit accusing American Apparel of using an image parodying him as a rabbi without his permission.
Both sides announced the settlement — to be paid by American Apparel’s insurance company — on the morning a trial was to start in federal court in Manhattan. American [...]
Hottie actor Gerard Butler was charged yesterday with misdemeanor criminal battery for an altercation with a paparazzi back in October. Butler allegedly punched the photographer in the mouth three or four times after a movie premier and party.
Butler’s people say the photographer stalked Butler and chased people through the streets, almost killing a pedestrian. [...]
Actor John Ratzenberger, best known as mailman Cliff Clavin from Cheers, filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against his former girlfriend, Lindsay McGrail.
Ratzenberger included disturbing e-mails from McGrail with his application. In the emails, she professes her deep love for Ratzenberger and then threatens him and a woman she believed him to [...]
Rob Lowe versus the nannies is over. Both nanny lawsuits against Lowe and his wife Sheryl – and all pending counterclaims – are to be dismissed according to court records.
News of the dismissal of former nanny Jessica Gibson’s suit was quickly followed by news of the dismissal of Laura Boyce’s suit as well.
Lowe actually [...]
Craig Nevius claims that he made a deal with Farrah Fawcett five years ago to create a documentary about her life, called “Chasing Farrah.” They actually made that film and it aired.
Nevius is now suing Ryan O’Neal and others, claiming he was forced out of a subsequent project and O’Neal “physically threatened him.” Nevius claims [...]
Howard K. Stern and two doctors pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide the drugs that killed Anna Nicole Smith in 2007.
Stern, Smith’s reported boyfriend and lawyer, her physician Sandeep Kapoor, and her neighbor/psychiatrist Kristine Eroshevich entered the pleas in Los Angeles Superior. Defense attorneys believe the preliminary hearing will last at least two [...]
Craig Robinson, Darrell from warehouse on “The Office,” caught a break today. The judge in his pending drug case indicated that the felony would be dismissed next February if the actor continued to toe the line. Robinson has already completed a drug education class.
Robinson was arrested in 2008 with meth and ecstasy in his [...]
Actress Linda Fiorentino’s ex-boyfriend, former FBI agent Mark Rossini, will be sentenced in Washington, D.C. federal court later this week. Rossini resigned from the FBI and pled guilty to five counts of illegally accessing confidential FBI information for a person described in the legal docs as Madame X. Madame X was apparently Fiorentino.
Apparently, Fiorentino provided [...]
