Daniel Craig. The latest 007
Posted on 02/02/2006 5:59:48 PM PST by BurbankKarl
New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag.
Tamahori, 55, was arrested on January 8 when he allegedly sought sex with an undercover policeman while clad in women's clothes, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
"Mr Tamahori was arrested for soliciting. I can confirm he was dressed in women's clothing at the time of the arrest," Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Prosecutors confirmed they had filed two misdemeanour charges against the Hollywood filmmaker: agreeing to engage in an act of prostitution and unlawfully loitering on Hollywood's Santa Monica Boulevard.
"He was arrested after approaching an undercover officer who was sitting in his car and offering to perform a sex act," Frank Mateljan of the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
"The defendant was dressed in drag, loitering on the sidewalk," the spokesman said.
Tamahori also directed last year's action adventure "XXX: State of the Union" with Samuel L. Jackson and Willem Dafoe and 2001's "Along Came a Spider" with Morgan Freeman.
He is due to appear in court in Los Angeles on February 24 to be arraigned on the two charges. He is free on 2,000 dollars bail, according to the City Attorney's office.
Tamahori's lawyer, celebrity attorney Mark Geragos, did not immediately return calls for comment on the arrest of the filmmaker.
He started out as a commercial artist and photographer in New Zealand, before entering the film industry in the late 1970 as a boom microphone operator, going on to become an assistant director.
Tamahori got his break in Hollywood directing an episode of the hit television series "The Sopranos" in 2000 and went on do "Spider" the following year, before making "Die Another Day" starring Piece Brosnan and Oscar-winning Bond girl Halle Berry in 2002.
The newest Bond has made it clear he hates guns. Maybe he's going to take out his enemies with UN sanctions.
Arrested on January eighth and it makes the news on February second. I guess it's not news when some "celebrities" get arrested.
Can't make this stuff up.
In a kinder world he would picked up Hugh Grant.
haahahhaha that silly lib.
This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for fighting
This is for fun.
Someone could easily do something like this using "drag" and "gag."
Gee. I guess he would qualify as a pervert.
That was three weeks ago. I am surprised we are just now learning of this.
"The name's Bond. Jane Bond."
Daniel Craig. The latest 007
Only if he waxed those caterpillars off his forehead!
Well, I don't even know who that guy who got arrested is. When I saw the words New Zealand Film maker arrested, I was thinking "Not Peter Jackson". He'd look pretty awful in drag.
Hollywood's response: "Give that man an Oscar!"
Goofy..Goofy Bast*rd.
The last good spy movie was 'The Ambushers.' :-)
OK...Utah is not this bad...
#29, If thats the new James Bond I guess this will be the last of that series. Guy looks like a German fag.
This is so hilarious....
Mark Geragos? The guy will get life
That man is into packages
Thank you for not posting pictures :P
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