Actor’s camp is leading a smear campaign in the media

Jul 19, 2010 08:07 GMT  ·  By
Mel Gibson and his reps are leading a smear campaign against Oksana Grigorieva in the media, her spokesperson believes
   Mel Gibson and his reps are leading a smear campaign against Oksana Grigorieva in the media, her spokesperson believes

After the first tape that Oksana Grigorieva made of ex-boyfriend Mel Gibson hurling insults at her and even threatening her leaked, four others followed. As the Russian singer continues to insist she has nothing to do with their release, a photo showing the extent of the injuries she sustained during one particular altercation with Gibson has also surfaced. Saying she staged all this just to get the media on her side in the bitter custody battle is wrong, her representatives say for TMZ.

It all started with a few rumors making the rounds saying that Oksana was not exactly as innocent as she claimed to be. In other words, she had taped her conversations with her ex not because she was afraid for her life as she said, but because she wanted leverage in a blackmail situation she was thinking of orchestrating. Moreover, after the photo of her with two front teeth chipped emerged, word got out that she may have injured herself in this way, just to have the upper hand on Mel in the custody case.

This is an absurd claim to make – and one that camp Gibson has not failed to make because they’re leading a smear campaign against her. “While Mr. Gibson’s camp has floated a variety of false claims in the press to try to distract the public from the true facts at hand, it is telling that his camp has not once denied that it is Mr. Gibson’s voice on the published recordings. It is common in such cases for those who perpetrate domestic violence to vilify the victim of that domestic violence. One would hope that those who are close to Mr. Gibson would take a more constructive approach,” Oksana’s spokesperson Stephen Jaffe tells TMZ.

The paparazzi agency also got in touch with an expert working on the case, and he too can confirm the photo now circulating online is the real deal. “It is obvious not only from the photograph of Ms. Grigorieva, but from other evidence, including Mr. Gibson’s own admission, that he struck her in the mouth and temple, that she sustained injuries as a result of his blows. The notion that her wounds were ‘self-inflicted’ is ridiculous and not credible. No legitimate, independent expert photo analyst could reasonably draw such a conclusion. Her injuries are consistent with her account,” the expert explains.

As we also noted on several occasions, Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva are now tangled in a very bitter custody battle around their daughter Lucia, who was born approximately 8 months ago. Initially, the two had a “superb” agreement drawn that settled both financial matters and visiting rights, but, somewhere along the way, things between the two got very explosive and it’s come to this.

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