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LOS ANGELES - Sharon Stone has finally revealed the identity of the producer who pressured her to have sex with a co-star for the first time - as well as the actor she was pushed to get intimate with in order to improve their on-screen chemistry.
The actress (66), previously discussed the situation in her 2021 memoir - without disclosing identities - but has now divulged that the producer was Robert Evans, the actor was Alec Baldwin’s brother Billy and the film was Sliver in 1993.
Evans, who died in 2019, was also a producer on Chinatown and The Cotton Club, and headed production at Paramount
LOS ANGELES - The battle over the estate of the late Michael Jackson rages on, nearly 15 years after the June 25, 2009 death of the King of Pop. In legal docs obtained by Dailymail.com, the two executors of the estate, John Branca and John McClain, filed paperwork in Los Angeles Superior Court asking it to stop Katherine in her pursuit of US$561 548 from them over a legal dispute tied to the late Thriller singer’s catalog. Katherine (93), filed court documents requesting the six-figure sum in a motion, as she said she spent the total on legal fees seeking to prevent Branca and McClain from selling her late son’s work.
Approval
Branca and McClain sought court approval in 2022 to sell Michael Jackson’s catalog, leading his mother to file documents objecting to the potential sale. Katherine told the court in a hearing on the topic that her late son - who famously feuded with Paul McCartney in the mid-1980s over his purchase of publishing rights of a chunk of Beatles
for The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby.
Sliver was Sharon’s next movie after achieving huge success and megastardom in the previous year’s hit Basic Instinct.
Hit
Speaking on Louis Theroux’s podcast, she said: ‘‘They expected me to bring home another giant smash hit and they gave me casting approval and they gave me all these approvals, but then when time came for me to do it, they told me it was a vanity deal and I couldn’t have my approvals.’’
‘‘Then they started to try to blame me for their mistakes, and they made terrible mistakes in the way that they material - made clear he never wanted his catalog to be sold, as he felt it was his lifeline, Radar reported Tuesday.
Branca and McClain told the court that Katherine has an established track record of opposing business transactions that would be profitable for the estate. Branca and McClain cited hired directors and cast.’’
She said former actor turned producer Evans summoned her from filming to his office to make the request for her to sleep with leading man William Baldwin - one of four acting brothers, and more widely known as Billy - off set.
She said: ‘He called me to his office. He had these very low seventies, eighties couches, so I’m essentially sitting on the floor, when I should have been on set.
‘‘And he’s running around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better.’’ the timing was right to put Jackson’s work for sale, as it would command maximum value amid current market conditions. Branca and McClain told the court that Jackson’s estate badly needed the cash infusion, as it ‘was teetering on the verge of collapse,’ Radar reported after reviewing legal docs.