By M&C People Apr 7, 2008, 22:52 GMT
Rob Lowe says a former employee is trying to extort him for cash — and he's not going to take it laying down. He laid it out preemptively on Arianna Huffington's blog site.
Rob Lowe - Mrs. Lowe... © Lee Roth / RothStock / PR Photos
The actor is responding to the ex babysitter's threats by making them public and blogging about the situation on Huffington Post.
"A former employee is demanding my wife Sheryl and I pay her $1.5 million by the end of the week or she will accuse us both of a vicious laundry list of false terribles," blogged Rob, who employed the woman on and off for seven years. "It is an attempt to damage and humiliate not only my wife and me, but our two young sons as well."
He also posted text emails that the employee allegedly sent Sheryl after she recently quit. In the emails, the employee apologized for abruptly walking out on them and said it had "nothing to do with you or Rob either. I love you guys."
Rob went on about how he would fight the extortion.
"Well I won't go away," he wrote. "No one intimidates my family. My wife and I have many former and long term employees, all of whom know this woman, who can and will refute any claims of anything inappropriate in our home, or anywhere else. We will defend ourselves with vigor and without fear."
The actor muses she may have had misplaced feelings for him.
"Recently, a colleague of hers has come forward to reveal that this young woman had 'a crush' on me and told her on many occasions, "I wish he would get a divorce."
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