Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, July 24, 1995 TAG: 9507250032
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Cesar Santos'' $550,000 suit claims he was kidnapped, assaulted and harassed.
Singer Whitney Houston has won a legal fight against a man who claimed to have fathered two children with the singer. The defendant, Charles Gilberg, has been permanently barred from contacting her.
Gilberg was ``manipulative and broadly intimidating,'' Superior Court Judge Reginald Stanton in Morristown, N.J., said Friday as he issued a permanent injunction.
Gilberg, 37, was accused of sending messages to Houston, getting into an argument with her mother, Cissy, and writing postcards to Cissy Houston's church about his alleged love affair with Houston.
Gilberg claimed to be the father of the singer's daughter, Bobbi Brown, and said the singer bore him a son named Little Charlie, court documents said.
Houston's lawyer said Gilberg has a record of assault convictions, tried to buy two handguns in Detroit last summer and was discharged from the Marines and fired from a job because of violence.
Singer John Denver may stand trial on a drunken-driving charge after all, and if convicted, he would spend a week in the Pitkin County jail in Colorado.
The singer's blood-alcohol content was measured at .128 - above the legal limit of .10 - after he crashed his Porsche into a tree last August. But his lawyer got drunken driving charges thrown out in March, arguing that Denver also faced the loss of his driver's license in a civil hearing, so prosecuting him in criminal court would constitute double jeopardy.
A district judge overruled the first judge on Thursday, and the assistant district attorney said he was prepared to prosecute unless Denver appeals.
The ceremony was Jewish and the colors were raspberry and black when Tom Arnold married a 22-year-old ex-cheerleader on Saturday.
Hollywood notables such as Arnold Schwarzeneggerand Bruce Willis were among the 600 to 700 invited guests and at least 100 guards were handling gawkers at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Arnold's best man was Chris Farley of ``Saturday Night Live.''
Bride Julie Lynne Champnella studied elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. Arnold, 36, was formerly married to comedienne Roseanne., co-starred in ``Nine Months'' with Hugh Grant.
Val Kilmer, 35, basking in the success of Batman Forever, has trouble on the home front. Wife Joanne Whalley Kilmer, 30, fed up with their ``irreconcilable differences,'' filed for divorce Friday - two months after giving birth to their second child.
In a recent interview, the actor lamented: ``It's a darn shame that as a species we've convinced ourselves love should be fun. ... Love is hard.''
by CNB