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Winona Ryder — who was convicted of shoplifting more than $5000 worth of clothing and accessories from Beverly Hills' Saks Fifth Avenue in 2002 — is in the middle of yet another accessories crisis. Winona rocked a Bulgari diamond bracelet and ring worth more than $125,000 at the Marie Claire awards in Madrid last week. The problem is, the jewels were on loan — and Winona's set was not returned, according to Voici, a French celebrity gossip magazine. Winona said she put the jewelry in an envelope and handed it to the front desk at the hotel before she flew...

"I was producing a movie called Square Dance in Texas. It was a starring part for Winona Ryder, who was fourteen or fifteen. She said, "Aren't the Monkees gonna play in Arlington?" which was just up the road from where we were filming. I said, "Yeah." And she said, "Do you think you could get me tickets?" And I said, "Well, yeah, I probably could." And she said, "I'd really like to go -- would you take me?" And I said "No, I won't take you. I can't possibly do that." She said, "Why not?" I said, "Nonie, I am...

<p>August 13, 2003 -- CELEBRITY shoplifter Winona Ryder is taking up the cause of the West Memphis Three, a trio of death-row inmates convicted of murdering a young boy in a Satanic ritual. On Sept. 6, Ryder will host "Cruel and Unusual Punishment," an art show benefiting the killers' legal defense fund, at the Sixspace Gallery in L.A. The exhibition includes artwork by Marilyn Manson and a lecture by former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. The trio will be the focus of an upcoming movie starring Michael Pitt, Ricki Lake, Jason Lee and Michael Madsen.</p>

Courtney Love's and Winona Ryder's Physician Loses License for Improperly Writing PrescriptionsCourtney Love doesn't want you to read these documents. Lawyers for the rock star yesterday (12/10) sent TSG a four-page letter threatening legal action if the site did not immediately remove excerpts from an explosive investigative report by the California Medical Board. "My client, who is not shy about asserting her legal rights, has authorized the commencement of all necessary litigation if the Story is not immediately removed from your website," wrote attorney Paul Karl Lukacs. "You have been warned. This is a matter of the utmost seriousness. Govern...

“The Director Made Me Do It”: The “Winona” Defense By Henry Mark Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com | November 15, 2002 Criminal defense lawyers are constantly trying to find new ways to acquit their clients. Remember the "twinkies" defense, when a criminal defendant claimed he killed because the confection’s ingredients affected his mind? In the just-concluded Winona Ryder trial, her lawyer propounded yet another spurious defense. The jury didn’t buy it. Ryder was charged with three crimes: burglary, vandalism, and felony grand theft (the latter sometimes euphemistically called "shoplifting"), for helping herself to over five- thousand dollars’ worth of designer-expensive clothes and accessories...

<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Winona Ryder was observed three times by security at stores in New York and Beverly Hills and videotaped twice in suspected shoplifting incidents before her arrest at Saks Fifth Avenue, according to secret court transcripts released Friday.</p>

L.A. Prosecutor: Winona Ryder Came to Steal Mon Oct 28, 4:03 PM ET By Jill Serjeant BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Actress Winona Ryder (news) went on her ill-fated shopping spree last December with intent to steal, even bringing scissors to clip security tags from purloined items and wads of tissue to conceal them, a prosecutor said at her shoplifting trial on Monday. Photo Reuters Photo Reuters Photo Reuters Slideshow Slideshow: Winona Ryder Ryder went to the posh Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills with cash and a credit card, in addition to "her own two-for-one bonus program --...

<p>A judge dismissed a drug charge Wednesday against actress Winona Ryder and scheduled an Oct. 24 trial on three remaining felony counts stemming from her alleged shoplifting of $6,000 worth of merchandise.</p> <p>Superior Court Judge Elden Fox ruled in favor of a prosecution motion to dismiss the charge that Ryder illegally possessed painkillers when she was arrested last Dec. 12 outside a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills.</p>

Justice, Interrupted: Why Winona Ryder will do time for O.J.'s crimesBy Dahlia Lithwick Ryder: She fought the law If Winona Ryder hadn't been cast in this movie, it would have gone straight to video. Scratch that. It would never even have made it to Lifetime, Television for Women. "Doe-eyed girl shoplifts at Saks, spends three years in prison"? Please. There are only two possible reasons that an alleged Beverly Hills shoplifting incident has launched a felony prosecution, complete with press conferences, photo ops, and a spin campaign worthy of a summer blockbuster: Either the Los Angeles district attorney's office is...

Winona Ryder’s Bum Rap Actress targeted by zealous prosecutors.Facing a trial in less than a week, movie actress Winona Ryder is trying to overcome ten months of unrelenting media scrutiny and public humiliation, all of it operating on the assumption that she is guilty of shoplifting charges. Maybe she did steal some clothes and a few purses, and maybe she didn't. But that's become irrelevant. In a town infamous for granting celebrities free passes, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office has pursued its case against the actress with a tenacity typically reserved for high-profile murderers. Stung by a long string...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Lawyers for actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue, met with prosecutors and a judge on Friday behind closed doors amid speculation that a plea deal was in the works to settle the high-profile case. Participants in the hastily arranged meeting were not immediately available for comment. A spokeswoman for the District Attorney's office said that plea negotiations had been ongoing for some time but did not know if that was the subject of the hearing in the chambers of Superior Court Judge Elden Fox. Spokeswoman Jane Robison said her...

LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder has poked fun at her shoplifting arrest on Saturday Night Live, the MTV Movie Awards and the cover of W magazine, which featured her wearing a "Free Winona" T-shirt. Her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said the actress - who has pleaded innocent to shoplifting and drug charges - has only been trying to be self-deprecating. "The jokes that were made were self-mocking," Buxbaum said. "She was trying to joke about herself and at no level was she trying to be disrespectful to the courts and legal system." Prosecutors aren't amused. "This is a criminal case, these...

A court hearing into shoplifting charges against Winona Ryder that began with an irked judge ordering the Oscar-nominated actress to court was interrupted on Monday when she was apparently injured during a media scrum outside the courthouse. In a bizarre twist to an already strange day, Ryder's attorney told Superior Court Judge Elden Fox that his famous client could not go on with the hearing, which had already been postponed four times, because she needed medical attention. Attorney Mark Geragos told Fox that Ryder, in trying to return to court amid a crush of television cameras and reporters, was struck...

Winona Foreverby John Powers LET ME BEGIN WITH A CONFESSION. WINONA RYDER ONCE leaned over a table and said to me, "Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like Steve McQueen?" In that moment I grasped why Ryder has such a reputation as a man-killer. Not only was she flirtatious, she was shrewd: If you want to win the loyalty of a bookish interviewer, tell him he resembles an actor famed for riding motorcycles into barbed wire and knowing how to hot-wire a car. I've been on her side ever since. Over the last few years, though, Ryder's...

<p>It's been a helluva few days for actress Winona Ryder. Subjected to ridicule in every form since her arrest for allegedly shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Ryder has nevertheless comported herself like a champ. She's held her head high, made her court appearances, and did not stoop to the level of so many tabloid celebrities.</p>