Bodyguard's allegations against Liza include sex

Bodyguard's allegationsagainst Liza include sex
NEW YORK -- Liza Minnelli's bodyguard claims the Oscar-winning actress made him have sex with her to keep his job, according to recently unsealed court documents.
The allegations are detailed in M'Hammed Soumayah's $100 million lawsuit against the entertainer. Minnelli's lawyers did not return calls to comment Wednesday. But in a court document, one of her lawyers said Soumayah had "commenced this action in a quick sand of untruths and misstatements" and accused him of a "shakedown" of her client.
In the lawsuit, Soumayah, 56, accused Minnelli of assault and battery, breach of contract, withholding payment for services rendered and sexual harassment.
Although the suit was filed Sept. 30 in Manhattan's state Supreme Court and sealed by Justice Barbara Kapnick, she unsealed it late Tuesday over the objections of Minnelli's lawyers.
Also Tuesday, Minnelli, 58, sued Soumayah for $250,000, alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty. The two-page filing contained no details.
In the newly unsealed court papers, Soumayah, married and the father of two, says he began working for Minnelli in 1994 and was paid $238,000 a year.
Love thy neighbor?Not Belushi, Newmar
LOS ANGELES -- Actor Jim Belushi and actress Julie Newmar are starring in a real-life drama about feuding neighbors, and they're not playing it for laughs.
He's suing her for $4 million, accusing her of spying on him and trying to force him out of his home in the posh Brentwood neighborhood. She says Belushi is loud, "sick" and a peeping Tom.
Newmar, 71, who played Catwoman in the "Batman" television series, and Belushi, 50, the Chicago-born star of the "K-9" movies, have been fighting like cats and dogs for years.
Police were once called to Belushi's house after he complained that Newmar threw an egg at his house. She explained that she was aiming at his noisy air conditioner and missed.
Newmar also finds his voice too loud.
In court papers, the 50-year-old Belushi claims that Newmar has mounted a coordinated campaign to destroy the actor's peaceful home life to force him out of the neighborhood. He also charges that Newmar vandalized his home and told neighbors that Belushi was a peeping Tom and that he is "sick."
Man charged in stalkingsingers Morgan, Kershaw
GALLATIN, Tenn. -- Police arrested a man Wednesday on charges of harassing and stalking country singers Lorrie Morgan and Sammy Kershaw, who said the suspect threatened to kill him and his family.
Adrian K. Washington, 20, of Nashville, was jailed on $10,000 bond, authorities said.
Kershaw said the suspect worked at his and his wife's chicken restaurant in Nashville for about two months, and that his family received threatening phone calls at their home in Gallatin on Monday night and called police. The caller disguised his voice and threatened to kill the couple and their four daughters, Kershaw said. The caller also threatened to rape the daughters.
Notable death
Iris Chang, the best-selling author of "The Rape of Nanking" and one of the United States' leading young historians and a human-rights activist who became a role model for young American students of Chinese descent, has died. She was 36. Chang took her own life Tuesday morning near San Jose, Calif., where she and her husband and young son lived, her literary agent Susan Rabiner said Wednesday.
Today's birthdays
Former Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., is 89. Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is 82. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is 64. Rock singer-musician Vince Martell (Vanilla Fudge) is 59. Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is 53. Pop singer-musician Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 52. Rock singer-musician Andy Partridge (XTC) is 51. Actor Stanley Tucci is 44. Actress Demi Moore is 42. Actress Calista Flockhart is 40. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 30.