Oscar Winner Accused of Sexual Assaults
Oscar Winner Sex Assaults?
Joseph Brooks, the Oscar-winning songwriter turned director -- seen here while filming 1978's 'If Ever I See You Again' -- is being accused by at least four women of sexual assault.
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Brooks, again, seen here in 'If Ever I ...' may have used Internet casting calls as a way to lure women into his home, where he then allegedly sexually assaulted them.
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Brooks won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the 1977 Debby Boone ballad, "You Light Up My Life." He went on to become a director and actor.
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Performed by Debbie Boone
Celebrity Troublemakers
Director Roman Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, is asking that the charges against him be dropped. The 'Pianist' director cites prosecutorial and judicial misconduct as the reason for his request.
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Boy George, who is currently on trial for false imprisonment, says he didn't mean to hurt the escort he handcuffed in a recording played in court.
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Lilo Brancato, a promising actor who played the child lead in 'A Bronx Tale' and then went on to more faux-mafia fame in 'The Sopranos,' is now at the hands of a jury who will have to decide his involvement in a 2005 killing of an off-duty policeman in the Bronx.
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Season six winner of 'The Bachelor,' Mary Delgado was arrested on Nov. 16 for public intoxication, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Delgado was released from the Val Verde County Correctional Facility after Bachelor finance, Byron Velvick, whom she allegedly punched last year, posted her bond.
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On Nov. 17, Heather Locklear was formally charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence in connection to her September arrest. Attorney Lee Carter tells TMZ.com that they believe the prescription medications she consumed at the time "could have impaired her ability to safely drive a motor vehicle." The former 'Melrose Place' actress, seen here in her mugshot, was recently treated for anxiety and depression.
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Michael Jackson is being sued by Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, here with Jackson, over a $7 million advance that was given to Jackson for an album and autobiography that were never produced.
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Prosecutors want Raffaelo Follieri to serve all four years in jail he accepted a plea bargain in his case stemming from wire fraud and money laundering charges involving the Vatican.
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Comedian and actor Katt Williams found himself in a not-so-funny situation after Manhattan police pulled him over and found a handgun. He was released on bail, and then performed at Carnegie Hall minutes later.
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'Biggest Loser' trainer, Anthony Badalamenti, has been arrested on charges of beating his girlfriend's 6-year-old son with weightlifting belts.
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Jack Pullman, the 19-year-old son of actor Bill Pullman, was arrested in Asheville, North Carolina, for allegedly assaulting a government officer and being in possession of moonshine.
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