EXCLUSIVE: Oksana Hires New Lawyer -- Criminal & Forensic Expert
Posted on Aug 11, 2010 @ 05:31PM
Oksana Grigorieva has beefed up her legal team with a top criminal and civil attorney, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
With no settlement looming in the bitter fight with Mel Gibson, Oksana is digging in for a fight and appointed James W. Spertus, a former federal prosecutor and an experienced trial attorney who specializes in civil and criminal litigation, to her growing team.
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As we revealed, Oksana had been lawyer shopping and previously met with civil rights campaigner Lisa Bloom and Mark Lane, who wrote the JFK conspiracy book Rush to Judgment.
She also met with two other firms, we understand.
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Spertus joins power lawyers Manley Freid and Marci Levine in the Russian musician's corner.
He previously served for seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California.
According to his law firm biography, Spertus helped found the office's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section and tried criminal cases involving trade secret theft, computer intrusions and intellectual property theft.
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He also served as Vice President at the Motion Picture Association of America.
Oksana, 40, has told investigators Mel, 54, exploded in rage January 6 at his Malibu mansion and punched her more than once as she held their infant daughter Lucia, before threatening to kill both of them.
She has told cops a blow to her mouth knocked one veneer off a front tooth and cracked another, while the fist left her bloodied and bruised.
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On Tuesday, Team Oksana met at Freid and Levine's Los Angeles office after two successive days of hearings before a Los Angeles judge overseeing the case.
Oksana is considering filing a possible civil complaint against the Lethal Weapon star, who has accused Oksana of trying to extort money from him after recording vile and abusive telephone conversations he made.
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In an interview with RadarOnline.com, Oksana denied the claim and said her ex-lover was "trivializing" domestic violence.
"What is unfair is that by standing up to somebody and speaking up, I'm being victimized all over again," she told us, in an emphatic denial that she tried to blackmail the Oscar-winning actor/director.
"I have never extorted anything from him... There's no proof of any kind. It's all false information that he's feeding the press. It's a smear campaign."
Mel's camp had also claimed Oksana edited the now infamous rants - an allegation she has also denied.
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Oct 07, 2010 @ 07:46
How are you going to explain to all your "investors", Oksana, that the scam failed? The millions anticipated from Mel are not pouring in & the public now sees you for what you are. You keep choosing the wrong path--try kindness next time.
Posted Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:41pm
Oksana can lawyer up but she can't change the fact that her lies are now being picked over by legal pros. She is desperate and her daily postings/sharings here on ROL are getting wackier as the pressure mounts.
Posted Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:37pm
Let the games begin and may the best lawyer win.
Posted Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:25am
What a clusterfck their lives are!
Posted Thu, 08/12/2010 - 5:23am
If she don't win a hugh settlement, she'll have to go back to the Ukraine to escape her mounting legal bills.
Posted Thu, 08/12/2010 - 1:45am
MEL'S PET DINGO TRIED TO EAT MY BABY! ROL new morning headline..from Oksana?.
wish I could claim credit ...but already posted on TMZ board.
Posted Thu, 08/12/2010 - 12:11am
when is this ALL gonna be over? when's the TRIAL of EVIL Mel? will OX be prosecuted for theft.? who gets the BABY? who GETS Mel's cash to live a great life? there are NO answers. its taking TOO LONG!! only the attorneys are getting wealthy!!
Posted Wed, 08/11/2010 - 11:43pm
hey this time Gloria Allred is missing how come she did not grab her
Posted Wed, 08/11/2010 - 10:50pm
Article shows Oksana's real teeth w/chipped front tooth circa 1989.
Posted Wed, 08/11/2010 - 10:34pm
Oksana's 1st husband, now a lawyer..not a drug addict like Osk/mother called him, his mother a DOCTOR
has given interviews about Oskana and her mother. I believe the word "beasts" was used. Sounds like Oksana
and her mama were scammers.
Posted Wed, 08/11/2010 - 9:34pm