Jesse James and his porn star ex, Janine Lindemulder, have reached a custody agreement where Lindemulder will be allowed two supervised visits with her daughter Sunny, 6, with presumably more to come. Sunny has been under James’ custody since Lindemulder was jailed for tax evasion early last year. Lindemulder was denied all visitation starting in February after James claimed in court that her parenting was “erratic” and that she missed scheduled visits.
Sunny was most recently cared for by James’ estranged wife, Sandra Bullock, and things have got to be confusing for the little girl with all the changes in her life. James’ mom and his other ex, the mother of his two older children, have been caring for the girl after Sandra moved out with her adopted infant son. Now Sunny will get a chance to spend time with her biological mom again, as James has agreed to allow visitation. Additional arrangements will be made at a future hearing, and it’s worth noting that James’ lawyers called an “emergency” hearing yesterday to arrange for visits for Lindemulder. More on that in a moment:
Jesse James has agreed to let his ex-wife Janine Lindemulder have a supervised visit with their daughter Sunny, RadarOnline.com can exclusively report.
The deal was struck Thursday in an Orange County, CA court where Jesse’s attorneys met with former porn star Janine and her legal team. Jesse was in a Los Angeles courtroom at the same time, on an unrelated civil lawsuit.
“I am so pleased I will get to see my daughter,” Lindemulder tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
The visit will take place Friday, June 11. [Editor’s note: TMZ reports she will also get to see Sunny on Sunday]
All parties will be back in court on June 15 to discuss how visitation will be handled going forward.
Last Friday, Lindemulder petitioned the court for visitations with her daughter but was rebuffed pending a future hearing. Jesse later decided it was in everybody’s best interests to work something out, a source tells RadarOnline.com, and his legal team requested Thursday’s emergency hearing.
[From Radar Online]
So James initially tried to block visitation last week, then this “emergency” hearing just happened to be scheduled right after Lindemulder granted an interview to In Touch about the women James is keeping on the side while he’s trying to weasel his way back into Bullock’s good graces. It’s not the first time she’s talked to the tabloids, either. I would bet that Lindemulder has a lot more dirt on him and that he’s making this visitation agreement happen so that she’ll keep her mouth shut.
Lindemulder talked to TMZ outside the hearing (James was not there as he had to be at another court for an unrelated civil matter) and she seemed pleased as punch that she’ll get to see Sunny. She also talked about how people and the press have judged her based on superficial details about her life, and how that’s hurt her. (You can watch the video on TMZ here.) She said “I know I’m going to have my daughter in my life. I know it will at least be 50/50 [custody]. I know the person I am on the inside.
“It’s easy to pick me apart when you don’t know me and… read it on paper ‘porn star,’ ‘tattoos,’ ‘had a run in with drugs.’ Ok, then you’ve got me all figured out, but that’s not the case. That’s not the person I am. At least not now.”
“A lot of this stuff has hurt, but it’s also helped me grow… I know how to weed through the B.S. and I have a better sense of myself and what I need to give Jesse and Sandra as a co-parent and how we’re going to protect Sunny all together.”
I have to say that she sounds together and that it seems like a good thing she’s going to see her daughter again. It’s hard to tell though, and she is married to a convicted felon and has a history of drug abuse. She was also in federal prison. It’s not like people are judging her just for being a porn star and having tattoos. Maybe she’s changed, though.
If you don’t want to be judged, it might help to not act and look like a piece of trash.
The porn movies and tatts I have no problem with, but if you can’t be bothered to see your daughter when the opportunity presents itself, you get messed up with drugs and you don’t pay your taxes like everyone else has to, then you’ll have to accept that people are going to judge you harshly.
As a wise woman (erm… Rachel in Batman) once said, “It’s not who you are inside, it’s what you do that defines you”!
Know what else hurts? Tatts to the jugular. And I assume they hurt more than your precious feelings.
I think it’s great that she wants to be a good co-parent and she sounds like her attitude has changed.
If you don’t want to be judged by others, don’t conduct yourself in ways that lead to being judged. It’s really not that complicated.
Yeah, let’s all sit on our lofty perch and judge her. Sure she is who she is, and James is no better in my book. As long as she stays away from the drugs and doesn’t expose her daughter to the former seedy aspects of her life, then she has a right to get gradual visitation.
It’s not like the father is a cut above. He was a druggie once upon a time, he married the porn star, he has tats. So lets be real, as long as they are good parents to the child, that is all that should matter.
“If you don’t want to be judged, it might help to not act and look like a piece of trash”
Didn’t realize tattoos equal trash. I hear there is something in the ink that drove her to drug addiction.
Her actions made her trash, not her appearance.
something tells me she won’t be winning “mother of the year” award any time soon.
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This is the same woman who stood Sunny up for a visit, just last Christmas. Who never bother to call and say she would not be there.
This was all released in the court records, that Janine would insist on seeing Sunny but would never show up or bother to cancel.
If anything I have always seen Jesse need to keep Janine from continually hurting Sunny feelings. To stop her from the continual need to be selfish and never show up when she was suppose to.
There was a very good reason the court cut her off. And as big as idiot that Jesse may be, he has never shown to be anything but a decent man with his children.
It is unfortunate that he can’t leave the skanky women alone.
But at least he has never been proven a complete drug addle parent, who places their small children in the car stoned and drive them around town.
Or pass out from a all night bender and leave a very small daughter to roam around freely in a apartment complex looking for someone to feed her.
Yea… Janine has been so misunderstood. **huge eyeroll**
Just because someone has tattoos does not make them trash! In these days you would think people would be over tattoos snd labeling people with them. I have several( in many places that I can hide them when I want and I can show them when I want) but, just because I have tattoos doesn’t make me a bad mother,white trash or a drug addict. Your actions make your trash not your body art.
If this convicted felon actually cared about her kid, she wouldn’t be yapping to media every week. All she’s looking for is some fat child support and publicity to revive her “career”.
I think she’s being sincere. Whether she can actually deliver on what she’s saying is another story.
And maybe not marrying someone with a criminal record, ie. – an ex-felon, might help your case.
I don’t think anyone claimed a “tramp stamp” makes a person trash when they labeled this woman trash.
Thank you, Wisteria, for clearing up a little of the hysteria surrounding tattoos.
The fact of the matter is, tattoos are body art to some, and graffiti to others. Self expression is important, but so is maintaining professionalism. It is not professional to have tattoos on body parts that cannot be covered (like the neck). And like it or not, tattoos DO convey a certain image, which may or may not be negative, depending on what the tattoo is or says [see Bombshell McGee].
If you wish to be respected for self-expression, then you must accept, and respect, that others may not agree with your opinion.
Janine Lindemulder did not get those tattoos to be a better parent and her behavior has been appalling in regards to her daughter (see Hautie above who provides a synopsis).
I’d just like to clarify that I wrote nothing about her “look”; I wrote about how she conducts herself.
Tattoos do not specifically make a person trash: being a porn actress, being a parent and using drugs, selling out your child’s privacy for interviews to stay in the limelight, marrying an ex-felon – those things make you trash. Standing up your daughter on Christmas Day makes you someone who lives UNDER the trailer, with the rats and other vermin.
Anyone else think the Ex white gorillette looks like a bleached McGee Bomb-shell? Just saying.
NEVER GO BACK SANDY_ NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hard not to judge people who have those hideous neck tattoos…
it certainly has always been a sign of lack of foresight/intellect to me.
And I am talking about people I know with those silly tats.
Grow up. Everybody gets judged, you’re just getting it delivered right to your face by reading about it. Don’t like it? Don’t read about it. Like having a facebook friend who constantly talks crap, you have the option of deleting whatever input you don’t like. Or learn from it. Crying to the media about it is the second-worst way you could’ve reacted. Screaming slander/libel and grabbing the nearest lawyer would be the worst… :p
Like so many have said before me, you could’ve thought about that before making it easy for some people with drugs, tatts, and a criminal record. Even people IRL would’ve judged you had the rest of us never even seen your face or heard about your drama. Snooze!
famewhore – why does she feel the need to talk to the media??? Like this poor kid hasn’t had enough paparazzi in her life because of her dad. If she were sincere she wouldn’t be selling stories to the rags. She’s a washed up junkie pornstar whose using her custody battle to drum up attention for herself, go crawl back into the hole you slithered out of
A mother has a right to see her daughter even if she has made a mess out of her life. As long as the girl is going to be safe.
Also very few women can pull off short hair and she is NOT one of them.
I’m confused because those pictures look nothing like Janine. She is really beautiful and if those are pics of her then she has changed a lot. I knew she really liked her sleeve tattoos but I didn’t realize she has gotten her neck done.
Never heard about her standing up her daughter. I hope she doesn’t pull those stunts now that Sandy is now around. I bet it was Sandy who protected that little girl. I hope Janine has cleaned up her act and start to step up for her little girl.
My friend was a teen mother who managed to pull herself up and she has a good life, happy, married, 3rd kiddie about to come. But her oldest – he’s 10 now and apart from paying no child support the dunce biodad stands the child up and it’s just devastating. He’ll be supposed to pick up on Saturday morn for his soccer game and take him out for the weekend and he just doesn’t show up. It’s awful for the child and the whole family.
Take a look in the mirror and if you can tell yourself you have been perfect then judge. You don’t know Janine or what is really going on. She loves her children!
If she cared so much about other people’s judging, she should never have gotten so many tattoos, especially all over her neck. Some even look “scratched out” or covered by a big square. It’s definitely not attractive to about 99% of the people out there whose opinions “hurt her” so much. So, too late, lady.