Baldwin Basinger Battle: Court Orders Silence
Baldwin Stays Home, Basinger in Court
Many speculated that the topic to be reviewed during the hearing was the phone call caught on tape where Alec lashed out at his daughter. Kim Basinger and her attorney Neal Hersh were present for the hearing. Attorney Dianna Gould-Saltman attended as a on behalf of Ireland.
Alec Baldwin was not present. His attorney Vicki Greene appeared on his behalf. Attorney Greene said Alec was not present because he feared that any comments he might make would be leaked to the media. Attorney Vicki Greene, who represents Baldwin, refused to discuss reports that the hearing dealt with a change in Baldwin's visitation rights after he left the phone message for his daughter. "It's not appropriate, and it's not in Ireland's best interest, and it will be with her for the rest of her life," Greene said, referring to the leaking of the voicemail.
She did say a June 5 hearing would look at who leaked the tape to the media. After the hearing, Basinger's attorney Neal Hersh gave this general statement, "We are very, very pleased with the judge's thoughtful decision about what happened here today". He did not go into detail.
Alec Baldwin's attorney declined to a comment.
Ever since the taped phone call was leaked to the media, a few weeks ago; Alec has been out there trying to set things straight. He issued an apology on his website. He sat for an interview with Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters. Even though Alec did not appear in court, about a dozen people from a parental rights group stood outside of the courthouse holding signs in support of Baldwin.
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Post a CommentAlec Baldwin was wrong. He has nobody to blame but himself. All he is doing now is trying to protect his ego and his reputation so he doesn't lose that cushy life he has today. As for stefanovitch's petition, it is total bunk. Statistics prove (look them up) that women with children are the poorest of the poor in this country. Not all single parents have access to child credits, free daycare, and all the other things mentioned in that petition. I raised a child as a single parent and I can tell you that we lost our home twice because of an ex who refused to pay support while he went out partying, impregnating not only his wife but his mistress who happened to be married to his best friend as well. Many problems brought about by divorce are terrible but we cannot arbitrarily blame the mothers for divorce. Men stray too. They are not the holy grail of the family and sometimes they do wrong and should have someone call them on it. Baldwin was simply called on his misdeed. End of discussio
How about everyone mind there own business, no one has the right to cast judgement. You don't know what you would have done in the same situation or what the whole story is.Divorce is an awful thing to live thru for just about everyone, but there is usually ONE party that will make thing much more difficult than they need to be. How about we live our own lives and not make this worse than it is by feeding into it.
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Ireland should go to Kim. If Alec does not proffer more than the settlement the Judge decides on, he should go to jail. `AHH HAS SPOKUHNN!
Let's hope by the time you have children you'll have realized that parents should be mature enough not to throw temper tantrums and love their children enough not to demean them by calling them names. That it wasn't "that" vulgar doesn't mean it wasn't still damaging to the self-esteem of that 11-year-old girl.
I can understand why Baldwin was mad. Nothing he said on the voice mail was THAT vulgar nor demeaning towards the child, it was merely psychological punishment and enmpty threats. I think the voicemail leak was a stunt by the mom, personally.