Wanted: Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes has some celluloid experience playing a wanted man in The Fugitive sequel U.S. Marshals. It may come in handy now that the actor's got the real-life law on his trail.
The New York Post is reporting that a Manhattan Family Court judge has issued an arrest warrant for the action star after Snipes twice failed to submit to a paternity test requested by an Indiana woman who claims the thesp fathered her three-year-old son.
Authorities have been interested in talking to Snipes since July 25, when the judge issued the warrant and set bail at $250,000.
The mama on a mission, Lanise Pettis, is said to be a former cocaine addict and prostitute who claims conception took place during sex with the Blade star in a Chicago crack house in 2000.
A call to Snipes' attorney for comment was not returned.
Pettis, 32, told the Post she's known Snipes "all my life," but the 43-year-old actor has previously denied being little Israel Pettis' daddy.
Snipes has a son and a daughter from two other relationships.
"I don't think he might be the father because he's refused the test," Pettis said in an interview. "It's because he and I had sexual activity."
The single mom said Snipes could easily resolve the dispute by simply complying with the paternity test order.
"I would have thought that anyone who has denied it to the hilt would have done anything to clear his name," Pettis said.
Sources don't expect the police to actively pursue the movie star since the order is a bench warrant in a civil case.
It's not the first outrageous claim lodged against the Bronx native.
Earlier this year, one of Halle Berry's former boyfriends fingered Snipes as the man who busted her eardrum during a particularly violent fight.
R&B singer Christopher Williams said he was setting the record straight because many had assumed that he was the one to hit Berry so hard that she lost most of the hearing in her right ear.
Berry has never divulged the identity her attacker and neither she nor Snipes responded to the startling accusation.
Prior to this, Snipes was sued by a woman who claimed he had broken her leg during a beachside melee in 1996. A spokesman for Snipes said the claim was bogus and an attempt to profit from his celebrity.
Legal woes notwithstanding, Snipes will be hard to miss this year. He's scheduled to star in three upcoming films, including the franchise flick Blade: Trinity due out Aug. 13, as well as Nine Lives and John Doe.





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