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May 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/05/2010 6:15 PM Page 4 4 From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom 'Psychic healer' Grabovoi Psychic: I didn’t see scam report hints of religious persecution. Druella said the public can be unkind to to terminate public The Scottish Sun people who have gone through his experience. "Don't be embarrassed," he suggests to activity - wife others who fell into his situation. "This is a culture that I think quite frankly treat people who go through these kinds of things kind of like the way women used to be treated for being raped. They get blamed. 'You were stupid. You let this happen. You asked for this. That's what you get for not using your noggin." "But these people (like him) who walk through doors like this," he said, "are in really tough places in life." Portland Police Bureau detectives believe there are other victims, said spokeswoman Detective Mary Wheat. They should contact Detective Andrew Madden at Russian "psychic healer" Grigory (503) 823-0450. Grabovoi, released from jail on Friday midway A SHAKEN psychic told yesterday how through an eight-year sentence on fraud she was "terrorised" into carrying out a £16,000 charges, will not get involved in public bank scam after crooks threatened to kill her activities again, his wife said Wednesday. children if she refused. Leonard Nimoy grateful "He is going to get a legal education, Mum-of-three Lynne MacNeill didn't bring up his children, do family work and wait see the con coming as she held a clairvoyant for the opportunities his for his grandchildren," Yelena Grabovoi told session for the gangsters' girlfriends - not 60-year career has given journalists. realising who their partners were. A statement on the website of When she told them she was in debt, the him Grabovoi's "social and political" organization - men offered her £1,200 to walk into the bank Drugg - said he would only issue statements with fake ID and take out huge loans for them. through his lawyers, following "slanderous" But the 41-year-old claimed when she media reports. tried to back out of the con, the thugs threatened After 60 years, Leonard Nimoy will say In 2005, Kazakh-born Grabovoi made to hurt her children. goodbye to film and television for good headlines all over the world when he promised She said: "I mentioned I was in debt and Thursday night with a final guest-star to resurrect the children killed as Russian forces they pounced on that. I did agree to it at first, but appearance on Fox’s science-fiction drama stormed a school that had been seized by when I tried to walk away they terrorised me." "Fringe.” Chechen militants in the North Caucasus town At Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday No more Mr. Spock from the original of Beslan. A total of 331 people, including 186 she wept as she was spared a jail sentence after 1960s "Star Trek” series, where Nimoy first children, died in what has been referred to as admitting the fraud. The court heard she had gave us the Vulcan phrase "Live long and Russia's 9/11. managed to get £5,000 from the Natwest in prosper.” No more from "Fringe’s” William In May 2008 Grabovoi was arrested on Edinburgh last June. But when she went back Bell, the morally ambiguous scientist Nimoy fraud charges after a sting operation by a later for £11,000, cops arrived and arrested portrays who can travel between alternate Moscow journalist. He was subsequently found MacNeill. universes. guilty of 11 counts of fraudulently obtaining Police took £850 from her Glasgow And though he’s retired before and was money "under the guise of resurrecting the home and yesterday she was ordered to pay the compelled to return to acting in the 2009 "Star victims' dead relatives or curing them of serious bank £750 and got 180 hours' community Trek” movie as the older Spock, he’s adamant illnesses." He was sentenced to 11 years behind service. Sheriff Derrick McInytre told her: "You that his decision this time is final. He’s ready to bars, later cut to eight on appeal. should be careful of the company you keep." turn his most famous character over to Zachary Grabovoi, who once declared his Quinto, who portrayed the younger Spock in the intention to run for president ("my first act will latest film, and move onto other ventures. be to ban death") denied all the charges, saying Man says Portland "Sixty years, I think, is long enough,” he had pursued political, public, religious and Nimoy said during a recent conference call with scientific activities in order to "benefit people". psychic duped him reporters. "I decided some time ago that I didn’t The day before his release, Grabovoi want to do this anymore.” offered his "services" in the search for miners by Katherine Cook Nimoy, 79, isn’t slowing down. A missing after a recent accident in a Siberian longtime photographer, he is making prints for coalmine. The mayor of the nearby town of Drakar Druella went to see a psychic on his first solo exhibition at a major museum, the Mezhdurechensk responded by saying if Hawthorne Boulevard to deal with childhood Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Grabovoi arrived "we will grab him by the abuse issues last fall. The exhibit, "Secret Selves,” will open July 31. scruff of the neck and chuck him out of here." He claims that psychic Cathy Stevens Nimoy said he acted in "Fringe” as a took advantage of his emotional vulnerability favor to J.J. Abrams, who directed the latest "Star Trek” movie and who is creator of the Fox with gender identity issues from childhood, his television show about paranormal phenomena, upbringing as Roman Catholic and personal now in its second season. details of his life to sway him into providing "He did a great job with the ‘Star Trek’ cash, Rolex watches, even a Hummer. movie and treated me extremely well,” Nimoy She said she needed a component within said. "The work on ‘Fringe’ has turned out to be the Rolex for her treatments and the Hummer to excited and interesting.” conduct her work in remote areas. He added, "I’m very grateful for all the Police arrested Stevens last January on great opportunities I’ve had and the people I’ve aggravated theft accusations, but dropped the met and the people I’ve worked with. The ‘Star NOW AVAILABLE AT charges to look further into the case. Trek’ character has been a blessing to me www.xzonestore.com Stevens attorney said his client is only in because I find it very dignified and a positive the business of helping people and suggested character and a great role model for a lot of that a police reference to gypsies in a prior people.” []