HOLLYWOOD - The judge overseeing actor Jim Belushi's bitter legal battle with neighborJulie Newmar is urging the couple to sort out their differences outside court.
Belushi is suing former TV Batman star Newmar for $4 million,
claiming harassment and defamation, to end a 10-year long neighborhood battle
between the two over noise pollution and development.
But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Collins insists the couple
should do whatever they can to avoid a lengthy, messy trial.
In court yesterday Belushi's lawyer, Evan Spiegel, insisted the
abuse his client has taken during the ongoing battle with his angry neighbor
is too extreme for him to sit down and talk terms with Newmar.
Spiegel told Collins, "It goes to harassment, vandalism, the defendant
vandalizing my client's house with eggs. It goes on and on."
In court documents obtained by news show Celebrity Justice, Belushi accuses Newmar of destroying landscaping and a fence that separates her property from his. She's also accused of maliciously telling tabloid the National Enquirer that Belushi is a "peeping Tom," a "voyeur" and "sick".
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