Steven Seagal In the News

[loopback]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36446224/

"Steven Seagal is accused of hiring young women as personal attendants whose real job was to serve his strange and sometimes violent sexual desires, according to a civil lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles by a 23-year-old former model who describes her experience in harrowing detail."

[FortNinety]

Did anyone watch that reality show of his? I only caught the first episode on YouTube, but it was pretty f'n amazing.

[drozdal]

Friend of a friend worked with Steven Segal on the first season of this show and she said that he was (unsurprisingly) a huge asshole.

[loopback]

Insert the usual story here about Seagal's being choked out by Judo Gene Lebell.

and also the interview with Stephen Quadros talking about working on set with Mr. Seagal...

http://www.steven-seagal.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6673

[Fitz]

Insert the usual story here about Seagal's being choked out by Judo Gene Lebell.

Gene can't legally tell the story any more but you can hear a version of it from his wife at

http://thejudopodcast.com/?p=32

[dhex]

the only good segal story i've heard is from a guy who does set photography. his girlfriend is a costume designer, and she was working on (i think) urban justice, a movie no one has rightfully seen. she's finishing some jacket alterations and knocks on his trailer, he says "come in" and is getting blown by some woman. she goes to leave and he pulls a caligula and says "no, no, we'll look at them now."

that story is a few years old, but this seems to jibe with that.

[isfet]

i dunno, it's fishy to me.  Seagal is way too obviously a rapist to be a rapist

[scratchmonkey]

My friend saw him perform when he was touring in support of his blues album. During the set his guitar player referred to him as "the godfather of the blues" causing an audible and involuntary gasp from the audience.

(Along the same lines, he saw Kevin Spacey tour as Bobby Darin as well and said he was really fucking good.)

[Fitz]

Did he wrist lock anyone during a harmonica solo???