Article: OH BROTHER!

Karen Tay on Rob Lowe's off-screen dramas. -------------------- ROB LOWE'S private life is worthy of its own primetime slot.

The actor and his wife of 17 years, Sheryl Berkoff, have this month sued their former nanny, 24-year-old Jessica Gibson, for spreading "a vicious laundry list of false terribles" - including claims of sexual abuse and mistreatment.

She made her claims in an 18-page lawsuit filed in a California court on April 14.

Lowe then claimed Gibson had demanded he and his wife Sheryl pay her $US1.5 million by April 11 or she would go to the press with allegations of harassment.

Lowe called the alleged extortion '"an attempt to damage and humiliate not only my wife and me, ...

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