Actor Files Lawsuit Against Oscars For False Imprisonment in Academy 'Detention Center'

By PopEater Staff Posted Apr 23rd 2010 07:30AM

Hollywood newcomer Michael Avmen thought attending the Academy Awards would be the highlight of his burgeoning career. Instead, the actor claims that he and his wife were "tentatively confirmed" guests, but were "held against their will" for six hours in the Academy's "detention center," interrogated about how they were able to get onto the red carpet without tickets and accused of lying and trespassing. FOXNews reports that Avmen has now filed a $50 million lawsuit against The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for illegal false imprisonment and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Avmen has small roles in three upcoming films this year -- 'Broken Blade,' 'Battle: Los Angeles' and 'Straw Dogs,' starring Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard.

According to a suit filed in Central District Superior Court in California, Avmen was told he'd been offered a tentative invitation to the event, but despite several attempts by Avmen and his publicist, they were unable to locate the tickets. It's not unusual for the Academy to hold tickets inside the venue; actors such as Robert Downey Jr. also received their tickets on the day of the event. Avmen claims he was led to believe his tickets were waiting for him there.

On the afternoon of March 7, Avmen and his wife dressed up for the Oscars and an usher for the event took them from their hotel to a "resolution desk," where Avmen met an Academy employee with whom he'd been in contact.

After six hours of interrogation, Avmen says uniformed Los Angeles police officers arrived and took them to the station, but no charges were filed. Avmen claims that the officer apologized profusely for how they were treated by Academy officials.

Avmen's lawsuit states that he and his wife were "injured in health, strength and activity" and "sustained injury to his and her body and shock and injury to their nervous system" and have since suffered "humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress."

"If I or some 'REGULAR' individual acted as the Academy did, we would be in prison right now. I will show that these people aren't above the law," Avmen said in a statement. "Security is one thing, but this was outside the realm of excessive. My wife and I have suffered, and there has been a great injustice enforced."

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Friday 23 April

By snowmassey

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BAD VIRUS

By Me

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Who writes these awful stories with misspelled words, missing words, pictures with wrong captions and pictures repeated several times. In this article about the Oscar lawsuit one part says: "actors Robert Downey Jr also received their tickets on the day of the event". Are the writers in pre school or mentally challenged? Thousands of people read these stories so why not have someone with a brain write them?

By ladymarnie

"actors such as Robert Downey Jr. also received their tickets the day of the event" is correct. The word "actors" is plural and so the word "theirs" is used. Know what you're talking about before you try to correct others.

By Nan Hahn (thinkingperson)

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They obviously don't have editors. They sure need them, tho'!

Saturday 24 April

By Lil

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What do we have here? An umenployed editor? I used to edit (as part of a larger job title), and I read the article, sided with the persons harmed and didn't care whether or not there were problems in the article. If you are so hell bent on punctuation, grammer, and continuity, do the article,,,,,,sujbmict it,,,,,and try to prubish it! In other words, lay off and let people read content.

By bob

u r an idiot! wanna be writer. lol

By K Lehman

I agree!

By oscarsmama

>>such as Robert Downey, Jr.

By SandiLee

Applause, applause, applause!!

By hair

Hollywood is filled with a bunch of egotistical crybabies. It's always been a known fact. The reporters who write this crap is also uneducated and followers to these self righteous group!

By BlahBlah

"actors received their tickets"...SO the hell WHAT?

By mommak1m

See what a little "HOLLYWOOD SUCCESS" can do to a person!?
Geez, get over yourself....

By srsnakes

Forget the 50 million, just let him break their ribs without having charges filed.

By N2

FIRST: TO THOSE OF YOU WHO TRASH PEOPLES SPELLING,KNOCK IT OFF. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE AN OPINION, ITS NOT A SPELLING BEE.
SECOND: AVMAN AND HIS WIFE WERE MISTREATED. WHO THE HELL DOES THE "ACADEMY" THINK THEY ARE. IF ANYONE TREATED MY WIFE AND I LIKE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. HOPE HE BEATS THEM FOR MILLIONS THEN FINDS ANOTHER PROFESSION BECAUSE HE WONT LIKELY BE HIRED TO ACT.

By KC

Right on, N2..very rude to correct others spelling or typos. We all make em.

By lily

This law suit is BS and you know it. This wannabe actor is suing to try and make a buck. No where does this man say they were bodily harmed yet thats what he claims in his law suit. The charges are rediculous. Not only do i hope he loses but i hope no one hires him after this and hes black balled.

By Sam

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Learn to speak English and stop typing in all caps.

By Seth

First: Must you whine at the top of your lungs?
Second: With all the wrongs actually perpetrated in the world, this is something worth defending? How silly.

By Jason

We have spellcheck these days and there really is no place for incorrectly spelled words. Also, like the other person said....KNOCK THE CAPS OFF. It's rude and obnoxious.

By lucas

So HE says. And he could be exaggerating or even flat out lying. Find a third party that can verify the story and then we can talk

Until then it is equally possible that he was in fact on a list to get in if someone bigger cancelled but no one did. Which is why he was never confirmed and made his showing up a kin to gate crashing. And chances are that he was told he couldn't go in and got pissed and rather than 'being held' he insisted on sticking around to press the matter until the only way to get him to leave was to have him taken out by the police. And now he's raising a stink.

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