WTF!!??

Post by **Smokey H** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:31 pm

IF THIS WEEK GETS any WORSE, I'M GONNA PACK UP AND RUN!!!
-SMOKEY
(bailing out in San Antonio)
~~~

Comic actor charged with rape in Tennessee

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Posted: 7:59 PM EDT (2359 GMT)

Anthony Anderson was charged Wednesday with aggravated rape while in Memphis, Tennessee.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Actor Anthony Anderson, who appeared in the films "Me, Myself and Irene" and "Barbershop," was charged Wednesday with aggravated rape after a woman told authorities she was assaulted on the set of a movie.

Anderson, 33, and Wayne Witherspoon, 42, both of Los Angeles, California, were taken into custody Tuesday night after the woman reported the assault, said Steve Shular, Shelby County Sheriff's Department public affairs officer.

Anderson was in Memphis shooting a movie titled "Hustle & Flow." Witherspoon was working on the film's crew.

Charges were filed against both men Wednesday afternoon. Shular said bond was expected to be set at $20,000 for each man.

They will be arraigned in General Sessions Court Thursday morning, according to Jennifer Donnals, communications director for the Shelby County district attorney's office.

Shular said the crew had been shooting at the Shelby County Correctional Center, a "work farm" for jail inmates, and the assault allegedly occurred at the site after production ended Tuesday.

Shular said an extra told deputies that she was "lured into a production trailer" by Witherspoon. She told authorities that Anderson was already in the trailer and that both men sexually assaulted her, Shular said.

"Witnesses reported seeing the woman leave the trailer screaming and without her clothes," Shular said.

The woman was taken to a hospital, but authorities would not say Wednesday if she had been released.

A spokesman for Anderson in Los Angeles released a brief statement Wednesday saying that the actor "absolutely denies the heinous charges that have been made against him."

"Anthony is a happily married family man who has never been accused of -- no less involved in -- anything remotely like this, and we are confident that when all the facts come out, he will be completely exonerated," the statement said.

In addition to 19 movie credits, Anderson has co-created and starred in the TV sitcom "All About The Andersons" on the WB channel. The WB is a Time Warner company as is CNN.com.

Post by **Jennifer** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:46 pm

Smokey H,
wtf is right???

YouTube · Post by **bingolong** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:56 pm

Smokey H,
Aw c'mon that is so fucked up!!!
Moral to the story:
No hanger-ons or strange women in the trailer.No people around who don't have as much to lose as you do because noone knows who the hell a Wayne Witherspoon is......

YouTube · Post by **bingolong** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:30 pm

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14612,00.html - Here's another link about it.'

Post by **Jennifer** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:07 pm

bingolong,
damn...i hope it's not true---but running naked from a trailer?

YouTube · Post by **bingolong** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:10 pm

Jennifer,
Doesn't look good does it.....

Post by **Jennifer** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 5:30 am

bingolong,
doesn't look good...hope there is an explanation...

Post by **JTF** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:48 am

bingolong,

The saddest part is that if this IS for real, her story automatically loses credibility because of the women out there who pull this stuff for a buck.

Look at Jerome Bettis. Luckily, the woman's story didn't check out and a witnes came forward who was a former boyfriend of hers who she told she was gonna run a scam.

Divine Sounds put it best: "It might be sad, it might be funny. But that's what people do for money..."

Hopefully she's just pulling a scam, but it is sad that this sort of thing does happen and we can't even believe her because of women like the Kobe Bryant girl.

YouTube · Post by **bingolong** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:57 am

JTF,
True dat!!!I'm going to have to start bringing paperwork with me on dates....

Post by **JTF** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:16 pm

bingolong,

You don't have the kind of fame of cash to get into that position. Just watch yourself because they can still catch you with the age-old version of the money pit: child support!