Celebrity Justice
F***ing Around With Rob Lowe Will Get You Sued

Rob Lowe has taken his battle against his former nanny from the Internet to the courtroom -- and he's not f***ing around!

In a lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Lowe and wife Sheryl claim former employee Laura Boyce violated a strict confidentiality agreement and spread "malicious lies" about their family, a "betrayal [that] reaches far beyond possibly marring the Lowe's image in the public eye." (Hmmm, what about that little thing in 1988?).

Rob and Sheryl say Boyce worked for them for a little over a year, and became very close to the family -- even going with them on vacations. Then suddenly, last November, they say Boyce was a no-show, and didn't respond to repeated calls and messages from the family, who were worried about her whereabouts. It was only after a missing person's report was filed, the suit alleges, that Boyce contacted them to say she wouldn't be coming back to work.

Since then, the Lowes say they've gotten wind of what they say are serious lies spread by Boyce. In his post today, Lowe claims that she demanded $1.5 million in hush money, otherwise she was going to go public with her claims.

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16. sounds to me that they feel she has with/without others has been yacking it up with the Tabs. I hope his family wins the case against her and any others that they dig up out of the sewer...........

Posted at 9:37PM on Apr 7th 2008 by debeers

17. To Post #11-S*wo

Whuh??

Posted at 9:48PM on Apr 7th 2008 by Rah-Rah

18. Oh my LORD!!!! What a sleazemaster Rob Lowe is!! I agree with 12 he doth protestest too much!!! All he did was alert the hounds to go sniffing out what he doesn't want the hired help blabbing. What a loser.

Posted at 10:33AM on Apr 11th 2008 by mary sue ewing

19. THEY HAVE THE WRONG NANNY!! LAURA BOYCE ISNT SUING THEM THEIR NANNY JESSIE IS! LOL, IDIOTS!

Posted at 9:58PM on Apr 7th 2008 by ME

20. Yep. Runnin scared, I'd say. There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply there somewhere.......

Posted at 11:47AM on Apr 26th 2008 by Carter

21. The Lowe family is entitled to damages because the defendant willingly signed the terms of the NDA.

Cut and dry.

Employment contracts exist for a reason.

He paid her on time, provided a solid work environment, and the terms were clear - she was required to honor the terms in exhange for her compensation.



Posted at 10:51PM on Apr 7th 2008 by Richard in VA

22. Lowe is obviously a control freak who subscribes to "the best defense is a good offense." He must be VERY worried about what this woman has to say.

Posted at 11:00PM on Apr 7th 2008 by MONTE CITO

23. In most states (maybe even California), this complaint would get tossed out for a number of reasons, some of them being that a copy of the the "confidentiality agreement" is not attached to the complaint, nor sufficiently described, and the allegations of defamation are too vague - you generally have to be very specific as to what was said and how it is defamatory. Either the Lowes hired some phone book attorney who has never done civil litigation before, or this whole complaint was done to drum up publicity for the Lowes.

Posted at 9:49AM on Apr 8th 2008 by David

24.

THATS WHAT I'M TAKING ABOUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F THAT BIATCH !!!

TAKE BACK ALL THE MULA YOU PAID THE HOE ...............

ROB FOR PRESIDENT !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:03PM on Apr 7th 2008 by B.D.

25. What went on back in the 80's is irrelevant now. He's been a good boy for the last 20 years, family man, children, faithful to his wife.. That other stuff shouldn't even be brought up now and it's tacky of you to do so.

Posted at 11:12PM on Apr 7th 2008 by Isabella

26. what a slimy weasel sleazebag

Posted at 11:30PM on Apr 7th 2008 by Frank

27. Raise your own children yourself and you won't need a nanny with a big mouth.

Posted at 10:04AM on Apr 8th 2008 by fartmom

28. I sat next to his wife at a party once and she made jokes about him being a premature ejaculator. Just saying...
I think he's a cheater.

Posted at 11:53PM on Apr 7th 2008 by so lowe

29. Supposedly, he's not such a faithful family man, or professional employer.

Posted at 11:58PM on Apr 7th 2008 by ick

30. 1988? Wake up Harv, it was 20 years ago. Long before most of TMZ's TV camera friendly staff was born! May as well be 1958! And the grainy video, long forgotten! To net surfers today, Rob Lowe is "a TV star who started on the West Wing"

Anyway, go Rob!

Posted at 12:07AM on Apr 8th 2008 by tomcat630

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