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justingirl1989 Roman Polanski Asks Court to Dismiss 30 Year Old Child Sex Case Dec 3, 2008 12:17 PM Academy Award winning Polish-French director and filmmaker Roman Polanski has been living in self-imposed exile in France since fleeing the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13 year old girl in Los Angeles. His legal team is in the process of filing a new brief asking that the case be dismissed. The filmmaker is the widower of actress Sharon Tate, who was murdered in 1968 by Charles Manson in Los Angeles. She was eight months pregnant with their first child, a son. His legal trouble started in 1977 when he hired a young female model to do a photo shoot. He gave her Quaaludes and champagne and had sex with her in a hot tub. Polanski, 75, was indicted on 6 felony counts and pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. He was locked up for a 42 day psychological evaluation and fled the country prior to sentencing. It is likely his sentence would have been for 16 months to three years in prison. Polanski has continued to direct, including the 2002 Holocaust film The Pianist, which won him the Best Director Academy Award. Other major successes include Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown. New efforts to wipe out the charges against him come after an HBO documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired premiered in June 2008. The show featured several of the principals in the case, including retired Deputy District Attorney Roger Gunson, Polanski’s original prosecutor, who said that if he had been in Polanski’s shoes he also would have fled the country. The documentary portrayed the late Superior Court Judge Laurence J. Rittenband as a publicity hound who held news conferences and extrajudicial meetings about the case. He was advised by former Deputy District Attorney David Wells, who recommended that Polanski be sent away for diagnostic study, which was illegal. Wells also reportedly schemed to inflame the judge by showing him photos of Polanski in Germany with girls at an Oktoberfest party, in an apparent misrepresentation. The kicker is that Wells wasn’t even assigned to the case. Sandi Gibbons, a spokesperson for Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, indicates that they have not yet been served with the new motion and have only heard about it through the media. The female victim in the case is now 43 years old and remains steadfast in her desire that the charges be dropped. http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/12/03/roman-polanski-asks-court-to-dismiss-30-year-old-child-sex-case/
justingirl1989 Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby Oct 24, 2008 5:13 AM TOKYO: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday. The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy. "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations. The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said. HOT GAME OF THE WEEK: FAR CRY 2 She has not yet been formally charged, but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000. Players in "Maple Story" raise and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting against monsters and other obstacles. The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead. http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/online-divorcee-jailed-after-killing-virtual-hubby/1259111
justingirl1989 Man claiming to be lovechild of Marilyn Monroe and JFK goes after Kennedy money Oct 20, 2008 6:53 AM A 53-year old man, who is currently going by the name John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is claiming to be the love child of Marilyn Monroe and the original JFK. Kennedy, who’s real name is John Burton, has filed a lawsuit against the President’s estate for his share of the inheritance. Lawyers for the estate are calling the suit “frivolous”. John, be it Burton or Kennedy, says the reason he decided to go public was because he was being ignored by the administrators of the estate despite his repeated claims. Asked why he waited 45 years after the president’s assassination to come forward, Kennedy, of Queens, New York, said: “You wait for people to do the right thing, and they don’t. “That’s how you end up in my position.” The Manhattan federal court filing insists “Plaintiff is a child of President Kennedy” and insists that he’s been shut out of his “father’s” fortune. His suit names the current administrators of the trust that was set up for Kennedy’s family, Edwin Schlossberg and Martin Edelman. “In [his] will, each child of President Kennedy was to receive a certain amount of money each year pursuant to the terms in said will,” the suit says, and because he’s a Kennedy child, he deserves his share. [From Daily Mail] Lawsuits against the Kennedy estate claiming paternity have come up before, and none have proven genuine. But this John has taken it a step further, going as far as to say that, even though he has no photographic evidence, that Jack and Marilyn were “great parents”, and that “I couldn’t ask for anything better.” He’s also asking for a the court to give him a DNA test. Plaintiff requests this court order DNA testing so that plaintiffs[sic] may prove that [sic] bona fides of his claim,” and order “genetic (DNA) testing of environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Congressman Patrick Kennedy.” “Upon such proof being made,” Kennedy wants a judge to recognize him as a rightful heir, the suit says. [From Daily Mail] John Burton/Kennedy, at 53, would have been born in 1955. Between 1954 and 1956, Monroe was in four movies, River of No Return, There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Seven Year Itch, and Bus Stop, all of which showed her looking in excellent shape and not pregnant. She was also married to Joe DiMaggio until November of 1954 and started dating her next husband, Arthur Miller, in May of 1955. Mr. Burton should have done some research and math in claiming his maternal identity. Attorneys for the estate of JFK intend to “vigorously defend against” the lawsuit. http://www.celebitchy.com/16403/man_claiming_to_be_lovechild_of_marilyn_monroe_and_jfk_goes_after_kennedy_money/
justingirl1989 Woman Shot in Crotch for Refusing Oral Sex Oct 10, 2008 7:45 AM An Australian man shot a woman in the crotch after she refused his demand for oral sex, a court has been told. Laurie Edward Elliott of Adelaide was yesterday found guilty of threatening a person with a firearm and possessing a firearm without a licence. Elliott, 54, demanded the woman perform the sex act on him while the pair were driving in suburban Adelaide, the Advertiser reported. After the gun went off, hitting the woman in the inner thigh, Elliott told her the gun had gone off accidentally. The woman today told how the shooting had forced her to move interstate and the stress it had placed on her family. Judge David Lovell remanded Elliott in custody for sentencing on October 24. source http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24465276-5006301,00.html omg :jawdrop:
justingirl1989 Naked Clown Calendar to Benefit MS Research Sep 25, 2008 8:21 AM If the thought of clowns wasn’t already enough to scare the pants off some people, 21 clowns are dropping theirs for a 2009 Naked Clown Calendar. Graduates of the San Francisco Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory are getting naked for the calendar to help raise money for the Judy Finelli Fund, a non-profit organization that works with the MS Foundation of Florida to do advocacy and research for multiple sclerosis. It also will provide scholarships to people with MS who want to do circus arts. Finelli, 60, co-founded the San Francisco School for Circus Arts, now the Circus Center. In 1989 she was diagnosed with MS. Today she is quadriplegic. So how did the clowns decide to do a nude calendar? The idea came up when they started talking about how great they felt, physically, from all the training. They also felt they had bonded in a unique way and started talking about something they could all do together. The idea of a clown calendar was tossed out, and the next thing they knew, they were talking about doing it naked. “Our goal was to create this sort of craziness in your mind,” says Chad Benjamin Potter, the lead clown on the project. “When you think of clowns you think of costumes and makeup and hair. When you think naked clowns, that’s something else entirely.” Indeed. glad its for a cause..but clowns...can be scary :O http://bittenandbound.com/2008/09/25/naked-clown-calendar-to-benefit-ms-research/