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Police: Man punches ‘NCIS’ actress near her Hollywood home
LOS ANGELES (AP) — head and graphically told
“NCIS” actress Pauley Per- her how he was going to
rette says she felt “alone, kill her.
terrified and trapped” The Los Angeles Police De-
when a man attacked her partment confirmed the
and threatened to kill her attack. Sgt. Mark Cohan
as she walked in front of said Friday that no addi-
her Hollywood home. tional information would
The actress tweeted that be released. In her tweets
she thought she was go- about the attack, Perrette
ing to die during the 5 p.m. said the attacker kept tell-
Thursday attack. Perrette, ing her that his name was
46, says the man grabbed William.
her, punched her repeat- “There was an empty ga-
edly in the nose and fore- rage behind me and I
This 2010 photo shows actress Pauley Perrette from the television show NCIS in West Hollywood,
Calif. Authorities say a man attacked Perrette in front of her Hollywood home, punching her
in the face several times. The actress tweeted that she thought she was going to die Thursday
night, Nov. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
knew if he got me in there tack, police arrested a popular television drama.
I knew I was dead. I knew man a few blocks away.
I couldn’t overcome him, I David Merck was booked She is also a singer and
prayed my heart out (and) for investigation of aggra-
then finally said, ‘William is vated battery. Bail was set songwriter and an avid vol-
a beautiful name, I have a at $100,000. Police say re-
little nephew named Wil- cords don’t list an attorney unteer for a large number
liam.’” The man started to for Merck, who turned 45
punch her again and then on Thursday. Sgt. Bob Ward of causes, including civil
told her to leave. told the Los Angeles Times
“And I did. I went into that Merck was a known rights, animals and home-
shock. Collapsed on transient with a history of
the sidewalk. Some guy run-ins with the depart- lessness. “I am shaken and
walked right past me with ment. Cohan said as far as
a dog that licked my face. he knew, Perrette did not traumatized,” Perrette
He was on his phone, an- need hospitalization.
noyed. Did nothing.” Perrette plays forensic sci- wrote. “My house, my be-
Within an hour of the at- entist Abby Sciuto on the
loved Hollywood. My be-
loved homeless people
that I spend my life protect-
ing. My life changed to-
night. My ... I don’t know.”
She ended her tweet: “We
need to not walk alone. I
need to heal. I almost died
tonight.”q
4 more women join suit against Bill Cosby
DENISE LAVOIE sentatives tarnished their was a 17-year-old aspiring
PHILIP MARCELO reputations and made it actress in 1985, then sexu-
Associated Press hard for them to lead nor- ally assaulted her multiple
BOSTON (AP) — Four more mal lives. times. Tarshis, who alleges
women joined a federal They are among dozens of Cosby drugged and as-
lawsuit against Bill Cosby women who have alleged saulted her in 1969 when
Friday, claiming the come- that Cosby, now 78, mo- she was 19 years old,
dian sexually abused them lested them decades ago. agreed, adding that she’s
and later defamed them Cosby has denied some been publicly ridiculed for
by letting his representa- of the allegations and has coming forward. This past
tives publicly label their never been charged with spring, she says, a woman
stories lies. a crime. drove by in car and spat at
Barbara Bowman, Joan “There’s no reason that her and called her a liar.
Tarshis, Louisa Moritz and any of the victims of this sit- “I was incredibly shaken
Angela Leslie join three uation should have to live by that,” Tarshis, a New
women already named with a scarlet letter in their York resident, said Friday.
in the civil suit —Tamara lives,” Bowman, an Arizona “I don’t want to sound
Green, Therese Serignese, resident, said in a confer- like Richard Nixon, but
and Linda Traitz. ence call Friday. “I am not I’m not a liar. Why would
The women say they want a liar. I am a truth-teller.” anybody lie about some-
compensation after they Bowman alleges Cosby thing like this? This is not my
say Cosby and his repre- won her trust when she legacy.”q
