ACTOR SUES OSCARS BOSSES FOR ALLEGED FALSE IMPRISONMENT
Academy Award bosses have been hit with a $50 million (=C2=A333 million) lawsuit from a Hollywood newcomer, who alleges he and his wife were false ly imprisoned at this year’s (10) Oscars ceremony.
Michael AvMen, who is set to star opposite Kate Bosworth in upcoming fi lm Straw Dogs and in Michelle Rodriguez’s movie Battle: Los Angeles, clai ms he was given two "tentatively confirmed" tickets to the 7 March (10) e vent.
He was allegedly led to believe his passes were being held inside the v enue - but claims he and his wife were "held against their will" for six hours in a "detention centre" upon arriving at Los Angeles’ Kodak Theatre for the big show.
Officials then interrogated the pair about how they managed to get on t he red carpet, accusing them of trespassing, according to the lawsuit fil ed on Thursday (22Apr10) at the Central District Superior Court in Califo rnia.
The couple is said to have been taken to a police station, but no charg es were filed, reports FoxNews.com.
AvMen is now suing executives at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for "illegal false imprisonment" and "intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress".
The document claims the couple "sustained injury to his and her body an d shock and injury to their nervous system" as a result of their treatmen t and have since suffered "humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress".
AvMen is determined to win the legal battle against Oscars organisers, insisting their security efforts were unacceptable.
In a statement, he says, "If I or some ‘regular’ individual acted as Th e Academy did, we would be in prison right now. I want, and I will show t hat these people aren’t above the law. Security is one thing, but this wa s outside the realm of excessive. My wife and I have suffered, and there has been a great injustice enforced."
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