DOUGLAS’ EX-WIFE FIGHTS FOR WALL STREET 2 MONEY
MICHAEL DOUGLAS is facing a legal battle over his pay cheque from the upc oming WALL STREET sequel - his ex-wife has filed a lawsuit alleging she i s owed a share of his salary.
The Hollywood star has reprised his role as greedy Gordon Gekko for a f ollow-up to the 1987 movie, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, which is d ue for release later this year (10).
But Douglas is facing a fight to keep hold of his payment for the film after his former partner, Diandra Douglas, who he divorced in 2000, filed papers demanding 50 per cent of his pay cheque and royalties from the ne w picture.
The lawsuit, filed in New York City earlier this month (Jun10), claims Diandra’s divorce deal entitled her to half her ex-husband’s earnings fro m projects he worked on during their 20 years of marriage - including the original Wall Street movie and any possible "spin-offs".
At a hearing in a Manhattan court on Wednesday (23Jun10), Diandra’s law yer Nancy Chemtob said, "It’s the same character, the same title, just ye ars later." Douglas’ attorney insisted the sequel is "not the same thing" as a "spi n-off" and urged Judge Cooper to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that it should be heard in California, where the couple divorced in 2000, and because it has no merit, according to the New York Post.
The judge decided not to rule on the case until a decision is made on t ransferring it to the West Coast.
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