Sheen Named In Adult Film Stars' Lawsuit

Actor And His Bodyguard Say Suit Is Frivolous

Charlie SheenLOS ANGELES, Posted 8:41 a.m. August 4, 1999 -- There's trouble swirling again around actor Charlie Sheen, the Hollywood hotshot with a bad-boy reputation.

Two adult film stars claim in a Superior Court suit they were attacked by Sheen bodyguard Curtis "Zippy" Hunt at the actor's estate.

The suit, filed by attorneys Jeffrey Huron and Andrew Kierstead against Hunt and Sheen, seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for alleged battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.

"Sheen was home at the time and our complaint alleges he was negligent in the hiring of Zippy the bodyguard, who was acting in the scope and course of his employment," Huron said Tuesday. Hunt has allegedly worked for Sheen for two years.

Erin Siemen, whose stage name is Charlisse L'Amour, and Christina Lee Stramaglia, who performs as Teri Star, contend they were roughed up by Hunt on July 26 after they arrived at the door of Sheen's Agoura Hills home.

They were allegedly "frequent guests" at the Sheen home and "intimate friends" with the actor, the suit said.

plaintiff Sheen publicist Jeffrey Ballard referred calls to the actor's attorney, Zia Modabber, who said Tuesday the women "filed a completely frivolous lawsuit" after Sheen obtained a restraining order against them last Thursday.

"Mr. Sheen and Mr. Hunt strongly deny these allegations and plan to vigorously defend themselves in court," Modabber said.

Sieman claimed in the suit that she was summoned to the home by Sheen and she arrived in a taxi cab a short time later with Stramaglia in tow. There was no response at the front gate so she hopped the fence, allegedly as she has done before at the actor's suggestion, the suit said.

The bodyguard opened the front door and allegedly punched Siemen in the face, breaking her nose and cheekbone.

"Charlie does not want to (expletive) see you. Get the (expletive) out of here," Hunt allegedly said.

At this point, according to the suit filed Friday, Stramaglia hopped the fence to help her friend and she was allegedly thrown to the ground and kicked by the bodyguard.

The cab driver then took the women to the nearby Lost Hills sheriff's station, but they refused to sign a criminal complaint "out of loyalty for their longtime and intimate relationship" with Sheen, the lawsuit said.

Sheen's attorney said a restraining order was issued by a judge in Santa Monica Thursday "because two women jumped the security wall at Mr. Sheen's home at 11 p.m. and one of them apparently tried to get into the house."

"The women, and a man apparently married to one of the women, also made a series of threatening and harassing phone calls to Mr. Sheen's house that continued even after the restraining order," Modabber said.

Sheen's life in the fast lane has made headlines before.

He was linked to call girls supplied by Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss and he was placed on two years' probation on a no-contest plea to battery on then-girlfriend Brittany Ashland.

Sheen renounced his drug-taking and boozing three years ago, but last year paramedics responded to a 911 call from Sheen's mansion. He was hospitalized for use of an undisclosed illegal drug.

At that point, his actor-father Martin Sheen asked prosecutors to file the probation violation allegation and issue an arrest warrant for his son. The younger Sheen voluntarily appeared in the court the next day.

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