July 23, 2010 10:44 AM

Gibson in Radical Anti-Semitic Threat: Report

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(CBS)  Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend told authorities probing the actor for alleged domestic abuse that he said to her at one point, "I want Jew blood on my hands."

Gossip website RadarOnline.com quotes sources as saying the former girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, said Gibson was furious at the time at a leading Hollywood figure he felt had humiliated him, and hired a team of private eyes to follow the person around in 2009.

RadarOnline says Grigorieva told investigators Gibson, as the website puts it, "wanted the person taken to the desert, stripped naked, knee capped and left in the heat," but never had it done.

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The website has posted a series of audiotapes of a man who sounds very much like Gibson in livid, curse-filled rants at a woman it identifies as Grigorieva. She apparently made the tapes. She's in a bitter custody battle with Gibson over their 8-month-old daughter. Allegations by her led to the domestic violence investigation. The tapes include slurs aimed at African-Americans and Hispanics.

Meanwhile, fellow celebrity website says it's learned Grigorieva "had a civil lawsuit prepared and ready to file against Gibson in May, in the event Gibson failed to negotiate a custody and financial deal she considered fair." The site says lawyers for the parties agreed on a $15 million package for her that she ultimately didn't sign.

In January, Gibson allegedly punched Grigorieva twice in the head and tried to choke her while she was holding their baby, an incident the man on the tape appears to confirm happened.

The woman says, "Hitting a woman when she is holding a child in her hands, hitting her twice in the face? What kind of a man is that?" The man is heard responding, "You know what? You f****** deserved it."

And text messages said to be between them the next day and just posted by RadarOnline seem to show Gibson apologizing. In one, the sender who's supposedly him says, "Oksana, I wasn't safe for you last night," adding he "would like to come by and make amends."

Lawyers for Gibson deny the actor has ever hit Grigorieva, and accuse the Russian-born singer of trying to extort him.

"The text and emails exist that show there were either ulterior motives or additional motives beyond those that she stated in making those tape recordings," Allison Hope Weiner of The Hollywood Reporter told CBS News, "and some of those motives might be evidence of extortion."

On "The Early Show" Friday, CBS News legal analyst Jack Ford said there are so many angles of this case, it reminds him of a law school final exam in which students are asked to figure out what's going on. He offered his take on where things stand between Gibson and Grigorieva:

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by catety July 24, 2010 9:41 AM EDT
The racist comments are not surprising but they are so ugly and small. It is interesting how this whole business with Gibson has brought out some of America's underlying colors, the whole sexist, racist palette. Of course, with stories like the one this morning on yet another twist to the tapes, the whole domestic violence end of things got short shrift. The statement that Oksana's actions are going to look bad for her imply that they should. This just feeds into the ignorance about domestic violence, and another abusive, white, Christian male can make a case so that he can just go feeling entitled to be a bully.
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by voxpopulus July 23, 2010 7:28 PM EDT
I see Mel's fellow anti-Semites are out. I must have had a charmed childhood. I didn't even know there was such a thing as anti-Semitism until I was in my twenties. Mad Mel is not a nice piece of work. With her, he found his own level.
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by babooph July 23, 2010 5:37 PM EDT
Hard to understand the anti Jew behavior in Christians-Jewish religion does not try to convert their suckers.many of the Christian sects are always sending out teams to grab from the others-massive wars & shed blood came from this behavior...but why worry about the Jews who do not do this?
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by kamsack50 July 23, 2010 5:12 PM EDT
On one of these rants, Mel says he's out of money. That's really something if that's true, because a while back it was said he had the highest yearly gross earnings of any entertainer next to Oprah Winfrey.
Anyway, I'd like for Mel to make a personal appearance somewhere and speak up for his side. He'd help his career a lot more. Tiger hid himself away and it has severely damaged his career.
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by us_1776 July 23, 2010 3:18 PM EDT
Looks like Mel is starting to come a little unhinged. It will be up to the court to ferret out the whole story.






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by Weezy54 July 23, 2010 2:46 PM EDT
I was shocked this morning to see CBS News repeating totally unverified gossip from a sketchy Web site as fact. And now, to see that this story is still up even though it's been proven FALSE, well...it's a sad day for journalism. I predict Mel will be winning some huge defamation cases in the future.
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by wyodutch July 23, 2010 2:46 PM EDT
So Mel Gibson isn't particularly fond of those of the jewish pursuasion. So what? Is that a crime these days?
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I'm a bit tired of all the whining and moaning everytime someone of note doesn't get on their knees to kiss the collective jewish gluttus maximus.
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I think old Harry Truman knew what he was talking about when he wrote... "The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog."
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by ObamasGulf July 23, 2010 2:15 PM EDT
He may very well ice himself. No loss.
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by ise4250 July 23, 2010 2:02 PM EDT
I once liked Mel Gibson....But in light of his anti-semitic remarks I have now begun an anti Mel Gibson club....This man feels that he's above everything....Can say and do just about anything to anybody and nothing will happen to him...Well Mr. Gibson you are very wrong about that....Your whole world is about to come crashing down on you....You will be blackballed from the film industry and will lose everything you've worked so hard to get...Your children must be very proud of you....Or did you teach them your anti-semitic ways already...Here's a thought....Why don't you just take your pathetic self and go back to Australia....I don't even think they would want you...You are lower than scum....
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by mixeal July 23, 2010 2:04 PM EDT
Go to TMZ and read this story.
It is not true.
by voxpopulus July 23, 2010 7:31 PM EDT
Of course, TMZ is also saying the extortion claim by Mel's camp is bs. So I guess if you believe them on one thing you have to believe them on both.
by mixeal July 23, 2010 1:59 PM EDT
This was proven by TMZ to be a lie.
She had the wrong gym and she never told the cops, which she claimed she did tell the police.
TMZ is calling bs on this one.
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by voxpopulus July 23, 2010 7:31 PM EDT
Of course, TMZ is also saying the extortion claim by Mel's camp is bs. So I guess if you believe them on one thing you have to believe them on both.
by mixeal July 23, 2010 8:56 PM EDT
tmz is claiming the jew they are talking about is their ceo.
they looked into it and say it's not true. They claim Jaffe told the ceo blah blah blah. go read it.
Anyways, this women is full of horse shyt right now. She can be sued over saying something like that without fact. It's called slander. Saying someone punched you is one thing if you have proof, saying they were plotting to murder someone because they are a jew without proof is something else.
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