Sheen Slapped with New Lawsuit

These days, even the fictional women in Charlie Sheen's life are giving him grief.

The actor, in the midst of a messy divorce from Denise Richards, has been sued by a reputed former flame who alleges Sheen ripped off her life for a "crazy" female neighbor on his CBS sitcom, Two and a Half Men.

The lawsuit by Ursula Auburn was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles.

In it, Auburn claims she had a "series of romantic encounters" with Sheen from 1992-98. Of the two parties, the complaint says, Auburn was more into Sheen than vice versa. Later, the suit alleges, Auburn's devotion was used as the basis for Two and a Half Men's Rose, a "crazy female with no life except for stalking [Sheen's character] every day of her life." (CBS' description of the character isn't much more flattering: "a brilliantly manipulative and vaguely crazy neighbor who had a brief fling with Charlie, is obsessed with him and is determined to stay in his life by whatever means necessary.")

According to the lawsuit, Rose and Auburn, like The Patty Duke Show's identical cousins before them, talk alike, dress alike, look alike and date alike (Rose went out with a man named Baldwin; Auburn went out with a Baldwin named Daniel). Actress Melanie Lynskey, who plays Auburn's alleged doppelgänger, is not named as a defendant.

"It is undeniable that Rose is based on Auburn, and people who watch the show and know Auburn can see the resemblance," the lawsuit says. "It is also clear that the events based on Auburn's own experiences as depicted through Rose are clearly meant to serve as some warped and twisted joke between Sheen and those who know Auburn."

The lawsuit cites three specific instances where Auburn's life allegedly was repurposed for Two and a Half Men gags, including an episode where Rose created a Website calling out the womanizing ways of Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, much as Auburn says she once created a Website tattling on Sheen.

Describing Auburn as "highly offended and mortified" by her alleged TV self, the lawsuit alleges invasion of privacy, negligence and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. It seeks "not less than" $1 million in damages.

There was no comment from Sheen's camp. In a statement, Warner Bros. Television, which produces Two and a Half Men, essentially denied Sheen had any hand in the development of the show, currently TV's most-watched comedy series.

"The character of Rose...was conceived and created by executive producers Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn," the statement said. "Any similarities to any actual person or any actual events is coincidental and unintentional."

CBS has already renewed Two and a Half Men for next fall.

A call seeking comment from Auburn's attorney was not returned Thursday.

An Internet search of Auburn reveals a few references to a late 1990s Web venture in which she posed nude and dished on reputed dalliances with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Nicolas Cage, Beverly Hills, 90210's Ian Ziering and Sheen.

Last week, Sheen, 40, was accused by Richards in a court declaration of ogling "very young girls" and "very young men" on the Internet and threatening to harm the actress and her parents. Sheen blasted the allegations as a "transparent smear campaign."

Richards, 35, filed for divorce from Sheen in March 2005 after not quite three years of marriage. Following a brief détente, following the birth of the couple's second child, the war was revived last January.