14 DAY TRIAL // Singer and actress Pia Zadora was arrested at her Las Vegas home in the early hours of Saturday, after a fight started on Friday night escalated into violence. A SWAT team was also summoned on the scene but did not intervene, it has emerged.
The 61-year-old star was charged with violence battery and coercion after she allegedly attacked her 16-year-old son Jordan for refusing to go to bed at a timely hour.
TMZ reports that the fight started at around 11 o’clock on Friday night, when Jordan went outside the house to talk to his stepmom. When Pia urged him to come inside and go to bed, he asked for leave to be a while longer because it was a weekend night.
CNN says that the singer-actress had been drinking that night.
When Jordan refused to get back in the house, Zadora got a hose and started sprinkling them, hoping that she would make the unwanted guests leave.
Her adult stepson intervened, but did not manage to get her to calm down.
“Jordan told cops his stepbrother tried to calm Pia down and she attacked him, punching him and scratching his face. An hour or 2 passed, and – according to the police report – Jordan tried calling 911. He claims Pia tried to take his phone away, choking him in the process,” TMZ writes.
A SWAT team was summoned on the scene when police got there.
“When cops arrived, they say everyone in the house – Pia, her son and stepson, as well as her husband – refused to come out to speak to them, so SWAT formed a perimeter around the house,” the celebrity e-zine says.
“Pia and her son Jordan eventually came out and spoke to police, and, according to the police report, Pia admitted she may have injured/scratched Jordan and her stepson during the scuffle... but only by accident,” adds the same media outlet.
Pia Zadora was released on $4,000 (€3,059) bail.