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Sizemore Arraigned in Fleiss Case

Tom Sizemore has proclaimed he's innocent of Heidi Fleiss harassment.

The actor entered a not guilty plea Friday to 16 misdemeanor counts stemming from some alleged bad behavior toward his onetime fiancée over the past year.

Officially, the charges against Sizemore include domestic violence, threatening to inflict injury to a person or property, corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, intimidation of a witness, vandalism (for smashing dishes during an argument), making obscene phone calls and making repeated harassing phone calls--by prosecutors' count, Sizemore phoned Fleiss nearly 100 times in a one-year period. (The onetime twosome, who publicly gushed about wanting to get hitched and have babies just a year ago, reportedly broke up last fall.)

Sizemore, 41, was also formally served Friday with a restraining order preventing him from any contact with the former Hollywood Madam, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.

If convicted on all the charges, Sizemore could face up to 13 years behind bars.

Sizemore is free on $100,000 bail and is due back in court on June 24.

In a statement released last month, the actor portrayed himself as the victim: "Fleiss, a convicted felon and prostitution madam, is fixated and obsessed" with Sizemore and "her defamatory charges are a pathetic attempt to 'get back' at Mr. Sizemore for ending their relationship," the statement said, calling the charges "false and scurrilous."

No immediate comment from the Fleiss camp.

Sizemore, who recently played an LAPD detective on CBS' now defunct Robbery Homicide Division, was arrested May 8 after reportedly leaving phone messages threatening Fleiss and her family should she testify in a separate domestic violence case pending against him.

The actor has pleaded innocent to charges of punching another, unidentified woman in the face last December. He has claimed he didn't even know the woman. His attorney claimed the accusations were part of a shakedown attempt against Sizemore. He's due in court June 24 in that case, too.

Allegations of violence have dogged Sizemore before. Back in 1997, he was arrested for felony spousal abuse after an argument with his then wife, actress Maeve Quinlan. But Quinlan refused to press charges.

Sizemore has made a career of playing tough guys in such films as Natural Born Killers, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. His stint as Detective Sam Cole on CBS' Robbery Homicide Division came to end in December, just days after his arrest.

Fleiss, meanwhile, has been working to get her life straight. In April, a judge gave her a gold star for good behavior, ruling she had successfully completed the terms of her probation for pandering, money laundering and tax evasion. She recently signed a book deal and also has a big-screen biopic in the works.

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