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Schwarzenegger Spared Suit Grilling
It's good to be the governor.
Arnold Schwarzenegger won't have to give a deposition in a libel suit filed against him by a woman who accused him of sexual assault and was subsequently denounced as a prostitute by his campaign.
But the Terminator star will have to respond to written questions from stuntwoman Rhonda Miller's attorneys, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Hess has ruled.
During a hearing Monday, the judge said he would reconsider his decision to keep Schwarzenegger out of court if Miller's legal team can prove that the movie star was behind the defamatory email sent to reporters in the wake of her accusations.
"If you've got something perhaps a bit more compelling as to why you want to depose him, I think that that ought to be considered," the judge said.
Schwarzenegger's attorney, Martin Singer, said the questions would be answered within 10 days.
Miller went to press last October with claims Schwarzenegger groped her while filming 1991's Terminator 2 and 1994's True Lies--just days before the recall election to replace California's Governor Gray Davis.
Within hours of the allegations, Schwarzenegger's campaign aide Sean Walsh directed reporters via email to a court Website that contained the criminal record of an accused prostitute named Rhonda Miller.
Not, however, the Rhonda Miller in question.
The truth emerged several days after Schwarzenegger's election victory and Miller's briefly tarnished slate was wiped clean but the damage was already done, according to the stuntwoman who claimed "enormous financial and emotion damage" in her suit.
In a press conference discussing her reaction to Schwarzenegger's alleged tactics, the stuntwoman said the "dirty trick" made her sick to her stomach.
Now, Miller's ever-camera-ready attorney, Gloria Allred, told reporters they want to know "what did the governor know and when did he know it."
But according to Walsh's attorney, the former campaign spokesman acted alone. "This case is about one man's thought processes for about six hours on Oct. 6," Neil Shapiro said. "The only person who knows that is Sean Walsh."
Miller was one of 16 women last fall to accuse the Austrian of having groped them in the past. At the time, the gubernatorial candidate moved swiftly to downplay the stories of inappropriate behavior. He copped to having "behaved badly sometimes" and "done things that were not right which I thought then was playful but now I recognize that I have offended people."
But in a December interview with CNN, the governor downplayed his mea culpa. "I've been here for 35 years in this country and I have never had any complaints filed against me nor any complaints made to me," he said. "It was rather odd, I would say that just a few days before the election that all of a sudden there was 16 [women] that had, you know, complaints."
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