10-6-2010 UPDATE: Make that Gibson Ex CANCELS Oprah interview, on advice of counsel. (Hat tip: Kelley Green.)Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators are widening their investigation into whether Mel Gibson was the target of an extortion plot, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
"Sheriff's officials have spent weeks probing suggestions that someone close to Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his child, Oksana Grigorieva, was attempting to extort money from Gibson. No suspect has been formally named, but detectives have interviewed people involved in the couple's messy separation.Read the Los Angeles Times story here.
"Now detectives plan to interview two lawyers who represented Grigorieva. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said that one of the attorneys is Eric George, who formerly represented Grigorieva in her child custody case with Gibson. George did not immediately return a message on his voice mail seeking comment. The other attorney was not named."
Meanwhile, entertainment website UsMagazine.com reports that Grigorieva will open up about the troubled relationship in an upcoming TV interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
She certainly is milking her 15 minutes of fame, but it is hard to see a monetary settlement from Gibson at this point—or a shot in the arm to her singing “career” which was pretty much DOA despite Gibson sinking big bucks to produce her CD that sold all of about 300 copies.
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