Article: Rob Lowe: teen heart-throb, the nanny and the $1.5m extortion claim

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 ...

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