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Snipes Commissioned to Pay Up
The Money Train is leaving the station, and Wesley Snipes definitely isn't on it.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered the fading action hero to pony up a $1.7 million default judgment to a Hollywood talent agency that scored him leads in four films.
Per court documents made public Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Workman signed off on the award after Snipes failed to respond to a summons in the breach-of-oral-contract lawsuit filed against him by United Talent Agency.
The July 2006 complaint claimed that the 45-year-old actor verbally agreed in November 2002 to give UTA 10 percent of his salary for any roles the company landed for him. UTA says it negotiated lead parts for Snipes in 2004's Blade: Trinity, the third movie in his popular vampire trilogy, for which he was paid a cool $13 million; the little-seen 2005 crime drama Chaos; and the direct-to-video films, The Shooter and Middle Man.
The agency claims Snipes backpedaled on the deal and failed to pay commissions before he ditched UTA in February 2006.
After UTA's lawyers said they where unable to serve the erstwhile Demolition Man notice of the complaint in person, Superior Court Commissioner Barry D. Kohn gave them the okay to publish a summons informing Snipes of the lawsuit in two newspapers, the Daily Journal of Los Angeles, where Snipes conducts business and The Record in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Snipes owns a residence.
Neither Snipes nor his lawyer addressed the allegations by last Thursday. At that point, Workman was willing to give the actor's camp one more chance, setting a Sept. 26 hearing for the actor to review the case and default request filed by UTA's legal team.
But by the end of the session, the judge reversed himself and signed a document entering the $1.7 million judgment into the record. (Ironically, that amount is also the value of a Florida home Snipes lost in a separate tax-related foreclosure case).
A rep for Snipes was unavailable for comment.Of course, the actor has bigger legal woes staring him down.
Snipes is expected to go to trial Oct. 22 in Ocala, Florida, on an eight-count indictment for tax evasion. He's accused of cheating the Internal Revenue Service out of $12 million by filing fraudulent returns.
The Art of War star has maintained his innocence, claiming he's been unfairly targeted by because of his race. His lawyers have also asked a federal judge to dismiss the charges on those grounds, claiming prosecutors failed to seek similar charges against his two white codefendants.
If convicted, Snipes could face up to 16 years in prison. A status hearing in the case is scheduled for Wednesday.
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