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Article: Rob Lowe: teen heart-throb, the nanny and the $1.5m extortion claim
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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Just a day after the former teen heart-throb penned a remarkably
personal cri de coeur about his difficulties with the former
employee on a prominent blog site, we now learn that he and his
wife, Sheryl Berkoff-Lowe, have filed a suit against the woman,
demanding damages of at least $1m (Pounds 500,000).
His domestic debacle was spelled out in detail by Mr Lowe in a
column submitted to The Huffington Post website.
He alleges that Laura Boyce, who looked after the couple's two
young boys through most of 2007, vanished without explanation a few
weeks ago, only to reappear in recent days demanding money from
them.
More specifically, the young woman allegedly sought to extort
$1.5m from Mr Lowe ...