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De Niro Defrauded by Maid?
Good help is hard to find. Just ask Robert De Niro.
The usually publicity-shy Raging Bull star has been dragged into a made-for-the-tabloids scandal involving his allegedly felonious maid.
The woman, Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz, 35, was charged Tuesday with swiping several items from the well-heeled likes of De Niro--including earrings belonging to his wife valued at nearly $100,000--and, per published reports, Isabella Rossellini and Candice Bergen.
According to a New York Daily News report, Bergen told cops "stuff had gone missing" while Turyk-Wawrynowicz worked for the Murphy Brown star in 2002, but Bergen reportedly never filed charges because she could never prove Turyk-Wawrynowicz actually stole from her.
Officials declined to confirm the identities of Turyk-Wawrynowicz's alleged victims. The woman was arraigned on charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, forgery and coercion involving at least three people in the past four years.
Per reports, a teary-eyed Turyk-Wawrynowicz denied the crimes via an interpreter at the hearing. She is currently being held in lieu of $150,000 and is due back in court Friday.
Police investigators believe more former employers may come forward with tales of missing items. New York's finest reportedly found a veritable treasure trove when they busted the Polish immigrant at her home in Queens.
But her lawyer, Jeffrey Berman, contends that Turyk-Wawrynowicz has worked as a nanny, cook and housekeeper over the past few years for different "high-profile celebrity individuals" and has good references to back up her assertion that she is not a thief.
De Niro declined to comment on the incident.
However, his publicist released a statement regarding the media swarm that descended upon the actor's home on Tuesday. Apparently, a reporter approached De Niro's young neighbor looking for some kind of scoop on the housekeeper's arrest.
"[De Niro] feels that a member of the media committed a reprehensible act today trying to interview a nine-year-old boy outside his residence in Manhattan," publicist Stan Rosenfield said in a statement. "To approach a nine-year-old is outrageous, and someone in the news business deserves to lose their press card over this one."
Last seen in this year's thriller Hide and Seek, the two-time Oscar winner will next appear in Chaos, a remake of a Japanese film, followed by a part opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the spy flick The Good Shepherd.
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