Posted Dec 2nd 2008 6:00PM by TMZ Staff
Shauna Sand's husband Romain Chavent is fuming over allegations he beat his wife and threatened to sell naked photos of her children -- chalking the devastating allegations up to Shauna being "completely crazy ... like a buffalo."
In what turned out to be one hell of a candid phone call, Romain ferociously defended himself -- and then proceeded to slam Shauna, claiming her own mother doesn't like her, she fights with half the hairstylists in town and that he's going to blacklist her from the Hollywood nightclub scene.
Here's the transcription -- you just gotta read it:
TMZ: What's going on with this restraining order?
Romain: Yesterday, she called me and said, "I'm at court filing for divorce. You need to come tomorrow morning at 8:30 to sign for divorce or I'm putting a restraining order on you." I thought she was joking!
TMZ: And when did you hear that she actually did it?
Romain: I just heard. The first time I heard about it was on TMZ. Someone called and told me to look at the website.
TMZ: These are some crazy allegations! Are they true?
Romain: SHE'S completely crazy – completely! Of course they are not true.
TMZ: So you didn't take pictures of her kids?
Romain: The pictures are not true. Of course not. This is not the first time - when she was divorcing with Lorenzo, she was making allegations he wanted her to be a prostitute!
TMZ: OK, so you know all this but yet you still chose to be with her?
Romain: She's the nicest person on earth, but she can be crazy. Like a buffalo. She just goes mad. She's bipolar.
TMZ: What about that you punched her breasts?
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Filed under: Dirty Divorces
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 5:58PM by TMZ Staff
Plaxico Burress' season is officially over.
The New York Giants just put him on the reserve list and suspended him for four games "for conduct detrimental to the team," meaning his season is toast. It's actually the second time the self-shooter has been suspended by the Giants this year.
Burress also faces felony weapons charges -- and three and a half years in the slammer.
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 5:30PM by TMZ Staff
That's right ladies, Dylan McDermott will officially be a single man on January 2, 2009. The countdown begins!
Dylan and Shiva Rose McDermott had been married since 1995 and have two daughters together.
The two separated in 2007 -- Dylan filed papers in June of this year.
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 5:20PM by TMZ Staff
Everybody hates a name-dropper -- and now the former president of the all-powerful William Morris Agency is being sued for allegedly tossing around Bruce Willis' name to finance a bunch of crappy movies.
The guy in the dog house is Arnold Rifkin, who co-founded a major production company with Bruce Willis in 1999 that put out about 15 movies -- but they went their separate ways in 2006.
In 2007, Rifkin and a guy named Chris Eberts started their own company -- Rifkin-Eberts, LLC -- and Eberts claims he was led to believe Bruce Willis was still Rifkin's pal -- the kind of pal "committed to starring in future projects."
In a lawsuit filed today in L.A Superior Court, Eberts says he was sold a bag of lies -- claiming Willis never got anywhere near the company's flicks and Rifkin never put together talented crews, established good credit lines and was not "well regarded in the Hollywood community."
Ebert is suing Rifkin for over $3 million of alleged unpaid debt associated with their company's movies: "Timber Falls," "Stag Night," and "Night Train."
A call to Rifkin's lawyer has yet to be returned.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 5:00PM by TMZ Staff
Shauna Sand has finally had it with hubby Romain Chavent -- the guy who allegedly beat the crap out of her this weekend -- and now she's filing for divorce. Again. Kinda.
A day after Shauna filed a shocking restraining order against him accusing Romain of a disturbing history of violence, Shauna went back to court today to ask the judge to re-open her divorce case against Romain.
Just last week, Shauna and Romain's divorce became official -- but the couple went to court the next day to have it called off. Shauna claims Romain pressured her into having the divorce canceled so he could keep his green card.
Shauna has accused Romain of choking her on multiple occasions, throwing her against a wall, and threatening to sell nude photos he took of her young daughters when Shauna wasn't around.
Filed under: Dirty Divorces
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 3:51PM by TMZ Staff
Tonight on TMZ TV -- Heidi and Spencer are increasing the population... the dude from How I Met Your Mother is getting crotchblocked by his own crotch ... and you'll never believe who left home without shaving her armpits!
Check your local listings.
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 3:02PM by TMZ Staff
The Cook County state's attorney's office has just officially charged William Balfour with the murders of Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew.
He's been charged with three counts of first degree murder and one count of home invasion.
Balfour is scheduled for a bond hearing at noon Central time tomorrow.
UPDATE 4:21 ET: In their presser, which just ended, the State's Attorney and cops said they're "confident" about their case, which some unnamed sources have claimed is "mainly circumstantial." They said they do have physical evidence tying Balfour to the scene, and emphasized they did not cut a deal with Balfour's girlfriend to elicit her testimony.
Filed under: Jennifer Hudson
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 3:01PM by TMZ Staff
The "Eight is Enough" pop says he wants on "Dancing with the Stars" -- and he's already got one of the prerequisites covered: Hospital tags.
Filed under: Dancing with the Stars
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 2:45PM by TMZ Staff
Gotta love Miss France -- not only does she roll into our home turf in her frickin' sash, but then she fires off a shot at Paris Hilton's reputation?! Sounds like the makings of an international catfight to us!
Filed under: Paris Hilton
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 2:00PM by TMZ Staff
Ilene Graff -- and her feathered winged 'do -- became somewhat famous for playing the mom (Marsha Owens) on the '80s TV series "Mr. Belvedere." Guess what she looks like now!
Filed under: TV, Beauty, 'Memba Them?!
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 1:48PM by TMZ Staff
Just what the world needs... little annoying, blonde, jobless kiddies running around.
Right after the vomit-inducing twosome returned home from their elope-a-dope in Cabo San Lucas, they confirmed the rumor -- they're going to start a family.
Filed under: The Hills
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 1:31PM by TMZ Staff
No, Larry King wasn't doing the Macarena in the middle of a Beverly Hills street yesterday -- but he did stop to drop his best "Zoolander" pose for the paparazzi.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Beauty, Nurse!
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 1:25PM by TMZ Staff
First he hung 11 on the big screen ... and now "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" star Jason Segel is cruisin' around Hollywood on a scooter. Dude's gotta pair of brass ones -- but if you saw the movie, you knew that already.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 12:28PM by TMZ Staff
This former stick figure showed off her perky bottom in a pair of black leggings this weekend. Can you guess who the curvaceous hot mama is?!
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Hot Bodies, Hot Mamas
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 11:36AM by TMZ Staff
Shauna Sand claims she was choked, punched and thrown across a room in front of her children -- and the bastard behind the alleged beatings is her very own husband.
The former Playmate received a temporary restraining order against Romain Chavent yesterday, after she filed documents in L.A. County Superior Court alleging that this weekend, her French hubby "hit me in the breasts, which i just had reconstructive surgery." It's the latest in a string of alleged violent abuse.
Among the claims, Shauna says Romain once "threatened to sell nude photos of my children that he took of them when he was babysitting." How could she say with this guy?
In the documents, Shauna also claims in March 2008, Chavent punched her in the stomach and threw her into a wall. And in 2007, Romain allegedly strangled, punched and threw Sand across the room. Shauna says she was granted a restraining order for the 2007 incident, but had it dismissed "because he promised to change."
But Romain has made accusations of his own -- once filing for a restraining order against Shauna in April because he claimed she threatened to ruin his life. Romain's claim was later dismissed.
Now, with the most recent accusations of abuse, Shauna has been granted another TRO that will remain in effect until the next hearing on December 22.
Attempts to contact Romain were unsuccessful.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
