Sharon Stone's Top-Secret Case Unsealed
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Despite her big-screen penchant for revealing all, Sharon Stone apparently still feels the need to keep some things on the down-low. Her court records, for example.
A lawsuit filed against the actress was made public today after the court was unable to justify the national security-like levels of secrecy employed to hide the case's very existence.
The suit brought in November by attorney William P. Jacobson over $107,000 in disputed fees was eventually settled, but not before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis ordered the whole shebang sealed. That meant no record of the case was made available to either the public or court staff.
The Stone affair would likely have entered the court archive undetected, were it not for a reported for the Los Angeles-based City News Service, who stumbled upon the Stone case while covering an unrelated court proceeding. Soon after, other media outlets clamored for full disclosure.
As a result of the demands, Duffy-Lewis released two documents to the public—one, the order to seal the case's documents, and the other a mailing label bearing the note "conditionally under seal"—which only further fueled calls for the complete unsealing.
Stone has yet to comment on the unsealing.
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