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Charlie Sheen Sues Capri Anderson for Extortion

Charlie Sheen is suing the other person in the room during his non coke-induced bender. You remember, the one during which he was neither drunk nor coked out of his mind, and he ended up trashing his hotel room, and a non-hooker ended up being locked in his hotel closet. A few hours earlier it was revealed that Anderson was with the NYPD filing a criminal complaint against Sheen. According to TMZ, she spoke to the NYPo Po at her lawyer’s office. In separate action relating to the same hotel-trashing, Sheen is suing for extortion. The action against Capri Anderson, real name Christina Walsh, claims she tried to extort Sheen out of $1 million. According to the lawsuit (PDF), filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, in the wake of The Plaza Hotel incident, Anderson demanded the money, in lieu of reporting to prosecutors in Aspen to get Sheen’s probation violated. For some reason Sheen’s logic seems flawed and his allegations ring a little hollow. Don’t know why. It just seems unlikely. The suit claims Capri also threatened ‘to embarrass him and attempt to damage his career by going to the media with her false tale,’ you know, the one about all the stupid things Sheen did on the bender. The suit goes on to clarify that Sheen did not batter Anderson, nor hold her against her will, and calls her ‘an opportunistic pornographic film star and publicity hungry scam-artist’, and calls Sheen ‘a total gentleman.’ Like I said, makes no sense and doesn’t ring true. Sheen is asking for unspecified damages, but nothing less than the $165,000 for his missing/ stolen Patek Philippe watch.

Courtney Love Sued Over Borrowed Jewellery

Courtney Love is being sued by Jacob & Co., over jewellery lent and not returned. My guess? She smoked/ attempted to eat the diamonds thinking they were another kind of rocks and then crack-tweeted about it while taking off all her clothes. The high-profile jewel company says they lent Love several items; $113,700-worth weren’t given back. So they’re suing for their return. The suit, filed on Monday, alleges that Love borrowed two white gold and diamond chains, a white gold floral-design mesh bracelet, and a pair of white gold and diamond pave hoop earrings on September 21. She has allegedly returned only the bracelet, despite demands for the remaining pieces. Love claims she lost the remaining goods. However, an agreement she signed holds her accountable ‘regardless of loss or damage’. The lawsuit seeks the goods or their value.

Image credit to Fame Pictures. Story Pop Eater, The Huffington Post.

Russell Brand Cleared After Paparazzi Attack

It is being reported that Russell Brand will be let off the hook, after the alleged assault of a paparazzo. Brand was arrested after he allegedly attacked paparazzi at LAX airport in Los Angeles on September 17. Perry claimed, on Twitter, that even in the presence of her then-fiance a photographer stuck a camera up her dress in order to try to get an up-skirt photo. They failed and got a smack around the head instead. In defence of her now-husband, Perry tweeted, ‘If you cross the line & try an put a lens up my dress, [Brand] will do his job & protect me.’ After being held on $20,000 bail, Brand was released on his own recognizance. Thursday, Frank Mateljan of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office told Gossip Cop that Brand was essentially off the hook; that he should call the police rather than being a vigilante the next time. ‘We don’t anticipate any further action on that matter,’ said Mateljan, who noted that when Brand came in Wednesday, the City Attorney’s Office ‘discussed the law’ with him as well as ‘future behavior.’

This follows similar reports, from mid-October, that Brand would be in the clear of any charges stemming from the attack, following this month’s hearing.

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Carrie Prejean’s Lawyer Sues Shanna Moakler

Carrie Prejean’s lawyer is suing mad, and filing suit against multiple people. Charles LiMandri, Prejean’s lawyer, has filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA executives Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, and their lawyer. The three of them are accused of leaking details of Miss Biblically Correct’s adult tape; a tape that presumably shouldn’t exist, along with those posed topless photos. Remember them too? LiMandri’s lawsuit focusess on private mediation for the former Miss California’s ‘solo-stimulation’ tape, which she claims to regret; a tape for which we were treated to a million new and interestong ways of saying female masturbation, and for which Vivid had to be turned down multiple times.

LiMandri claims they leaked private information, despite agreeing that everything should be kept private. Proof? Outlets, in particular TMZ, knew very specific details. Including the part about Prejean’s mother watching some of the sex tape. Also, ‘moments after the settlement agreements were signed, TMZ posted a report that the parties had settled, and quoted the agreed upon joint statement.’ LiMandri is suing ecause those named agreed to pay for a portion of his legal fees, which he reduced in exchange for their silence. Since LiMandri believes they broke the deal he wants his full rate and punitive damages.

Image credit to Fame Pictures. Story TMZ (as linked above).

Nicole Richie Restraining Order Protects Harlow

Nicole Richie has taken legal action to protect her family. To be fair, she warned paparazzi who ‘stalked’ her daughter that they would face the consequences. The mother-of-two complains that it’s stressful and dangerous when her children are followed and when her daughter’s preschool is watched by certain paparazzi. The photo above, taken by Richie and attached to legal documents, forms part of a supporting argument for a restraining order. Richie claims photographer Fabricio Luis Mariotto is shown in the image outside of Harlow Madden’s preschool. Her petition for a restraining order, protecting her daughter, says ‘[Mariotto] drives erratically around my children and others, yells, screams and attempts to scare us so that he can photograph our reaction. He trespasses on preschool property to photograph the children.’ Richie adds, ‘He has often left his car in the middle of a busy street just to chase me for a photograph.’ Moreover, ‘His predatory behavior caused and continues to cause severe emotional distress as I fear for the safety of my children.’ A temporary order requires Mariotto to stay 100 yards away from Nicole Richie, Harlow, Sparrow, and Joel Madden, and the preschool.

Lil Wayne Has Been Released From Rikers Prison

Lil Wayne has been released from prison. He was let out of Rikers Island on Thursday November 4 between 8:35 and 8:46AM. The rapper, one of the highest-selling in the industry, served eight months of his one-year-long sentence, according to the NYC Department of Correction website. The star pled guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in 2009. He was sentenced in March.

The rapper and his entourage were leaving his first headline performance in [New York] when police pulled over his tour bus. The NYPD alleged they smelled marijuana odor emitting from the vehicle and later searched the bus. Authorities discovered drugs and a gun, registered in Wayne’s manager’s name, near the rapper. In New York, gun laws prohibit people without proper registration from being within operating capacity of a firearm. As a result, the rapper was charged with gun possession and eventually pleaded guilty to attempted gun possession. [MTV News]

The same month, he turned himself in, after having struck a plea deal in his case stemming from a 2007 gun arrest near the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan. I was surprised he went to jail, TBH, as we all know good enough lawyers have sprung people from worse charges. It’s bad, of course, but celebrities usually avoid jail for anything short of actual murder. A guard told MTV News early on Thursday morning that Lil Wayne had waited an extra day due to ‘miscalculated’ time.

Image credit to Fame Pictures. Story MTV News 1, 2. TMZ.