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Actress Mel Harris Files for Divorce
Actress Mel Harris, best known for her role as Hope Murdoch Steadman on the hit 1980s TV show thirtysomething, filed for divorce from her investment-banker husband of five years, Mike Toomey, in Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 3, PEOPLE has learned.
In the court filing, Harris, 49, cited irreconcilable differences and requested that the "court's jurisdiction to award spousal support" to her husband be terminated. The couple has been married since 2001.
Harris and Toomey have no children together but the actress (most recently seen in guest-starring roles on House and Cold Case) has a son, Byron, 22, and daughter, Madeline, 16, from previous marriages.
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Wesley Snipes Indicted for Tax Fraud
Wesley Snipes was indicted Tuesday in Tampa, Fla., on conspiracy to defraud the IRS and failing to file income tax returns.
The Blade actor and two other men, Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas P. Rosile, are charged with six counts of failure to file taxes.
Snipes, 44, is also charged with two counts of filing fraudulent tax returns. Prosecutors told the Associated Press that Snipes fraudulently claimed refunds totaling nearly $12 million in 1996 and 1997 on income taxes already paid.
He faces a maximum of five years in jail for each conspiracy charge and up to a year on each failure to file charge.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest, said Steve Cole, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Tampa.
According to the indictment, Kahn was the founder of American Rights Litigators and its successor, Guiding Light of God Ministries, both of which conducted business from an office in Florida. It is alleged that ARL and GLGM were for-profit, commercial businesses that promoted and sold fraudulent tax schemes.
The indictment says Rosile was a CPA whose Florida license had been revoked but who continued to practice, preparing, for a fee, fraudulent tax returns for ARL members and collecting a portion of any tax refunds the returns generated.
Snipes, Kahn and Rosile are accused of trying to make it appear as if Snipes had no liability for federal income taxes, when in fact he did.
Snipes's lawyer has not been reached for comment.
This is not the first time Snipes's involvement with Rosile has been questioned. In 2002, a lawsuit was brought against Rosile claming he filed false refund claims, including a $7.3 million demand for Snipes, though Snipes was not named as a defendant in the suit, the Associated Press reports.
And last year, the actor experienced further legal troubles when he tried to enter South Africa with a forged South African passport. He was allowed to return to the United States but was deemed an "undesirable person" by the African country, meaning he will have to apply for a visa should he wish to visit South Africa again.
Snipes is best known for his role in the trio of action-adventure Blade films and also starred in movies such as Jungle Fever and White Men Can't Jump.
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Paul McCartney Reacts to Heather Mills's Allegations
Lawyers for Paul McCartney said Wednesday he'll defend himself "vigorously" against allegations reportedly made about him in legal papers by his estranged wife, Heather Mills McCartney, and leaked to the British press.
On Wednesday, U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail published charges of bad behavior against the former Beatle in what it claimed were excerpts from Mills's legal filing, which was in response to McCartney's July divorce petition.
McCartney's law firm, Payne Hicks Beach, issued a statement on Wednesday reading, "Our client would very much like to respond in public and in detail to the allegations made recently against him by his wife and published in the press, but he recognizes, on advice, that the only correct forum for his response to the allegations made against him is in the current divorce proceedings. Our client will be defending these allegations vigorously and appropriately."
The statement also says, "Since the breakdown of his marriage, Sir Paul McCartney has maintained his silence in not commenting on the media stories, believing that it was best for all concerned, particularly his children, for there to be some dignity in what is a private matter."
McCartney is represented by Payne Hicks Beach solicitor Fiona Shackleton, who worked for Prince Charles during his 1996 divorce from Princess Diana, while Mills has retained Diana's attorney, Anthony Julius.
Julius's firm, Mishcon de Reya, said in a statement that it "will not comment on leaked or allegedly leaked documents. The law firm can, however, confirm that Lady Heather Mills McCartney stands by everything that has been filed at Court on her behalf and intends to prove its truth in due course, should this be necessary."
Mills's rep, Phil Hall, had no comment, saying the matter was a legal issue and he was referring it to her lawyers.
McCartney and Mills announced their split in May after nearly four years of marriage. They have one daughter, Beatrice, who turns 3 on Oct. 28.Comment
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