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Maher Sued in Real Time
Bill Maher is being sued for some alleged politically incorrect behavior.
An ex-flame of the talk-show host filed a $9 million lawsuit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging Maher promised her marriage and a house after she quit her job to be his fulltime partner. She also accuses Maher of threatening and abusive behavior as their relationship soured.
The woman at the center of Maher's new nightmare, Coco Johnsen, claimed in the filing that she and Maher began dating in January 2003. While Maher has never been married, and is on record as loving his playboy lifestyle, she says that Maher wanted to marry her and, in the parlance of her lawsuit, "produce" children.
Maher's attorney, Adam Streisand, refuted Johnsen's claims. "This is a completely frivolous lawsuit filled with false allegations that is part of a pattern by Ms. Johnsen to seek retribution since the end of their short relationship," he said in a written statement to E! Online.
"Mr. Maher is looking forward to having this dismissed by the court."
Johnsen, a former flight attendant and model, says the host of HBO's Real Time and former purveyor of Politically Incorrect on ABC encouraged her for several months to quit her gig with Delta Airlines and devote her time to him. She eventually left Delta in October 2003 to move in with Maher.
Per the suit, Johnsen claims she relented to the requests for her time and companionship, saying she "repeatedly sought assurances from Maher regarding the sincerity of his feelings for her, as well as the reliability of his promises to her," just to be sure.
However, according to the suit, the 48-year-old Maher failed to deliver on several promises after she left her job, including buying her a Beverly Hills home (specifically, the one formerly inhabited by relationship role models Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, she says).
While the aforementioned house takes up most of the $9 million she's seeking, the North Carolina-born beauty is also tossing in "un-reimbursed costs of clothing and makeup" and "loss of income from her modeling career" on Maher's tab, per the suit.
Among the nastiest allegations in the spurned lover's claim is that Maher abused Johnsen. According to her claim, Maher made "insulting, humiliating and degrading racial comments" about her, as a black woman, and physically threatened and abused her. Citing one specific incident at a party, Johnsen says Maher once pulled her arm and shook her, causing "injuries to her back and neck." Further, she says later that same night Maher threatened to strike her head with a hammer if she was unfaithful.
This is the second nasty breakup suit to be filed this week. Earlier, Burt Reynolds and his ex, Pamela Seals, traded lawsuits: hers asking for palimony and accusing him of abuse; his suggesting her claims were part of an extortion attempt.
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