Judge grants Hayek a restraining order against 2 women

Judge grants Hayek a restraining order against 2 women

LOS ANGELES

A judge on Friday ordered two women to stay away from Salma Hayek and not attempt to contact the Oscar-nominated actress for the next three years.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson granted Hayek’s request for a restraining order against Liana Philippon and Odette Bodagh, who the actress stated in court filings impersonated her and made a veiled threat to kidnap her daughter.

The order also covers Hayek’s husband and 7-year-old daughter.

Bodagh said during Friday’s hearing that she thought she had a relationship with Hayek but didn’t realize she was scaring the actress until the temporary restraining order was granted. Philippon did not attend the hearing.

“I thought there was a relationship,” Bodagh said. “I was under the impression I was talking to Salma.”

Bodagh tearfully apologized for scaring Hayek.

“I am so sorry I did it,” Bodagh said. She urged the judge to reject entering the order against her, saying it would affect her career.

“You have, even by mistake, become a stalker,” Goodson said.

“This case arised out of a bizarre pattern of behavior by two apparently mentally disturbed individuals,” Hayek’s court filings stated. “Their actions include, among others, concocting ruses to meet Hayek’s family members to obtain Hayek’s contact information, impersonating Hayek to another celebrity, attempting to directly contact Hayek herself, and impersonating Hayek in contacting Hayek’s minor child.

“In one communication while posing as Hayek, Philippon made a veiled threat regarding kidnapping and ransoming Hayek’s minor child,” the filing stated.

Tyler Perry posts tribute video for Bobbi Kristina

ATLANTA

Filmmaker Tyler Perry paid homage to the late Bobbi Kristina Brown through a tribute video that was shown during her private funeral in August.

Perry wrote in a Facebook post Friday that the Houston estate asked him to share the 3-minute-plus video featuring the 22-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston. Bobbi Kristina died in hospice care July 26 after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta town home Jan. 31.

Bobbi Kristina was the only child between Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown. She was buried in New Jersey next to Houston.

Houston died in a similar fashion. She was found face-down in a foot of water in her bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before the 2012 Grammy Awards. Authorities found prescription drugs in the suite and evidence of heart disease and cocaine in her body but determined her death was an accidental drowning.

Bobbi Kristina was found in the town home she shared with Nick Gordon, an orphan three years older than her, whom Houston had raised as her own. Bobbi Kristina referred to him as her husband.

A police report earlier this year described the incident as a drowning, and authorities are investigating her death.

Associated Press