As if this was the last thing that Mel Gibson needed right now, and especially at this time of year, he is about to be hit with a paternity lawsuit this week. It's been only days since the anti-Semite DUI scandal died down and Mel was on his way to being accepted in Hollywood again as a serious, significant movie maker.

Now, Carmel Sloane, a painter, is filing a suit against him, saying that she wants him to undergo a paternity test, to prove that she is his long lost daughter. Sloane claims her mother met the actor/director in 1976, before he was even famous and that the two spent a night together, on a mattress, in the back of his truck. The result was Carmel who, in her turn, is now the mother of ten-year-old Jordan, whom she wants Mel to meet and accept as his grandson.

Carmel made it a point of saying that she is not doing this for the money that she might get, but because she wants to have the man about whom she always knew he was her father to recognize her and her child. Apparently, her mother Marilyn didn't even want her to know about her night of canoodling on the mattress with a perfect stranger, but her grandmother let it all out into the open.

'I would never have told Carmel who her father was but my mother blurted it out one day. From then on she would cut out pictures of him and we went to see all his movies together.', Marilyn says. And then Carmel adds: 'I'm not doing it for his money. I just want to meet the man I've always known was my dad - and for him to get to know his grandson. I'd love it if he recognized us as family. I'm not looking for a meal ticket. I am happy with my life.

I would love to meet him but I wouldn't expect to be part of his life. I'm not looking for a piece of the pie or that lifestyle. I would like him to know he has a grandson who is a great kid. He is very bright and creative. He would be proud of him. We have no choice but to go legal so that we can get to the bottom of this once and for all. A simple DNA test will sort it out.'.

Mel Gibson's publicist could not be found to comment on the situation.