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Burt's Ex Strikes Back
The other shoe has dropped on Burt Reynolds' toes courtesy an ex-lover who claims the former box-office star stomped all over hers.
A threatened lawsuit by Pamela Seals became reality Tuesday, one day after Reynolds filed a preemptive lawsuit accusing the women he left wife Loni Anderson for of extortion.
Seals' 10-page complaint was obtained by TV's Celebrity Justice, and posted on its Website. Most of the allegations contained in the suit are a rehash of those contained in Reynolds'.
As the 68-year-old Reynolds warned, Seals paints him as a brute who terrorized her during their nearly 10-year relationship.
From 1998-2000, the Seals lawsuit alleges, Reynolds yelled, beat, hit, strangled, shoved and "stomp[ed] on her toes." The assaults caused Seals "extreme and severe mental anguish and physical pain."
The Reynolds who courted her in 1993, at the beginning of their relationship, and at the end of his five-year marriage to Anderson, promised in words, if not writing, to share his movie-star wealth, financially look after her and her mother for the rest of their lives, and give her a 50-50 share in his Florida home, the Seals lawsuit says.
In return, the document says, Seals agreed to become Reynolds' everything: Companion, homemaker, organizer, assistant, consultant, "social and business partner," "confidant and advisor" and step-mother to his young son with Anderson.
According to Seals' suit, she did her job well, earning at least three marriage proposals from the 1970s-era sex symbol. The couple never did, however, wed.
The complaint seeks unspecified damages, monthly support payments for Seals and her mother, a 50-percent cut in the Florida home, and half of all Reynolds' assets acquired during their years together.
The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County, which happens to be in California, which happens to be governed by community-property laws, which don't happen to exist in Florida, where Reynolds and Seals cohabitated and Reynolds filed his lawsuit. (Seals maintains the couple also lived in California.)
Reynolds' attorney Robert Montgomery could not be reached for comment late Tuesday. On Monday, he beat Seals to the news-cycle punch, categorizing her allegations as "absolutely absurd" and "ridiculous."
Reynolds' camp alleges Seals threatened to air her "slanderous and false" claims unless the actor ponied up "more money" following their breakup earlier this year.
When Reynolds and Seals met, he was a onetime box-office king making do on a sitcom, Evening Shade; she was a cocktail-lounge manager. Their affair prompted a nasty split between Reynolds and Anderson--a bust-up played out in the tabloids and documented with pictures of Reynolds and Seals' hot-tubbing activities.
During his time with Seals, Reynolds' earned his first Academy Award nomination, for Boogie Nights, and settled into character parts. He also filed for bankruptcy in 1996.
Reynolds will be seen next year in two major releases, The Longest Yard, an Adam Sandler-led remake of the elder actor's 1970s hit movie, and The Dukes of Hazzard, a big-screen take on the 1970s little-screen series.
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