I feel sorry for Californians and their drought crisis. I feel sorry for the California firefighters (acres of land are going up like tinder) and farmers especially. Here in Virginia, this is usually the time of the summer that everything starts drying out, but every couple of days we get a crazy downpour (like 2 inches of rain in 90 minutes) and then everything just goes back to being hot and sticky. My yard has never looked more beautiful! But it’s my understanding that many wealthy Californians are having to face the unthinkable: dry, dying lawns. People have been drought-shaming their neighbors if anyone dares to water their lawn, and the authorities have gotten involved too – there are fines involved if you’re using excess water. But this story is next-level. Apparently, Tom Selleck is facing a major municipal lawsuit because he stole a commercial water tank’s worth of public water (from a hydrant!!) to water his 60-acre estate. Whoa.
Has Tom Selleck landed himself in hot water? The Calleguas Municipal Water District has filed a suit against the 70-year-old actor, alleging he used a public hydrant to fill a commercial water tank, which he then brought to this 60-acre ranch in Westlake Village.
E! News has obtained a copy of the complaint filed on Monday in the Ventura County Superior Court, which says that Selleck is barred from using the water in the hydrant because his property is located in Hidden Valley Municipal Water District.
Per the complaint, Calleguas claims it had to pay an investigator $21,685.55 to document the water theft, and a truck was seen transporting water to Selleck’s home a dozen times, as recently as March 2015.
Selleck, whose wife Jillie Mack is also named in the complaint, is also accused of continuing to steal water after the Calleguas Municipal Water District sent him a cease-and-desist letter to two of his Southern California properties in 2013.
California is currently in the midst of one of the most severe droughts on record. Governor Brown declared a drought State of Emergency in January, and residents are being asked to slash their water use by 25 percent. Selleck did not immediately return a request for comment.
This is easily one of the craziest drought stories I’ve read thus far. And it sounds like he’s been doing it for YEARS! I don’t even understand how that works – a giant, commercial water tanker truck pulls up to a public fire hydrant and someone just stands there, working the pipe until the water tank is full (that could take a really long time) and then the truck just drives over to Selleck’s ranch? This is seriously crazy.
Not that this makes the story any less crazy, but the stolen water isn’t being used to just make his yard pretty – apparently, Selleck has an avocado farm on the property. Still, here’s my biggest question: why isn’t this a criminal act? This is grand theft – Selleck has stolen thousands of dollars’ worth of water from Ventura County.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Selfish and self-centered to a mind-boggling degree.
YES!! And just so very dissapointing too! I have no idea why exactly, but I always got the impression he was a decent guy…
Yeah I thought so too but I remember seeing an interview he did with Rosie O’donell (sp?) many years ago , he seems up tight.
I think he presents himself as a decent guy as part of his image but his views over the years have been anything but.
Really? I always thought he was a jerk from his interviews and whatnot.
He should be fined. If he wanted special treatment for his farm, he should’ve made a deal like the fracking – oil – companies made.
@Loopy. In Tom’s defense, he went on Rosie’s show to promote a work project and she ambushed him about gun rights. He used facts to shut her down and made her look like a fool. I was a fan of Rosie’s until that interview and her subsequent bad behavior.
I grew up not far from his home and Tom always was a nice person. I think withholding judgement until there are more facts would be appropriate.
I hear you. It’s actually disheartening that in the middle of such a severe drought, he’s stealing water not because he’s dying of thirst, but because he has 60 acres and eff everyone else.
Hmmm…I’m not passing judgement until I get more facts because I don’t see this as a Tom issue, but more of a wife issue. He may not have been aware. I hope not. And, yes to the Rosie O’Donnell show debacle. He did get pissy, but she deserved it and was made a fool once actual facts were thrown at her.
There have been rumors about him being gay for years.
That combined with his politics and now this make me wonder if he’s not who people have thought he is.
one of the MOST selfish and thoughtless things I’ve heard a celeb do. beside the whole water shortage, this is dangerous to the general public as hydrants are used for…you know…FIGHTING FIRES.
Unbelievable! What is he thinking? How selfish and irresponsible can you get?!?
Seriously. WHAT. AN. AS*HOLE.
It’s unbelievably selfish. Those of us in California are feeling the effects of this drought every day. It’s not only letting our yards go brown, but trying to cut back our water usage in every way! Every-other-day showers, keeping a bucket in the shower to catch excess water (use that to water vegetables). Keeping our pool covered so we slow down evaporation — the list goes on and on.
I hope they file criminal charges against him so that not only does he get a whopping fine, but potential jail time — he’s stealing our resources! You ba$tard!
It really is, zinjojo. I just drove up and down the 5, it’s tragic. Let’s not forget, it’s not people just watching their lawns die, farmers are forced to kill off livestock because there isn’t enough water for them.
We are at ’77 level crisis, I expected more from Tom Selleck.
j.eyre (hahahah, I love typing your user name) You’re so right, and as challenging as the drought is for residents, I really feel for the farmers — it’s an enormous impact to their livelihood and way of life, and we’ll all see the effect in increasing food prices.
And Tom Selleck, he’s been an outspoken conservative, but doesn’t seem capable of actually conserving. Hypocrite!
I’ve said this before, and i’ll say it again. We are in the worst drought crisis in decades. It boggles my mind that someone would think it is okay to do this. I live in the Sierra Foothills. The King Fire was in my backyard last year. Having friends come and stay with you because their home might have burned down is the one of those things I hope to never see again. The fires have been awful. Everything is so dry. We’ve had four lightning strike started fires in the last week. We need the water for agriculture and farming, but it also has to be there when god forbid a big fire starts. Everybody up here is so paranoid about water usage that the shaming hasn’t really been an issue because we all watched the destruction last year and know how precious our water is. But it makes me so angry when I head down the hill to Sacramento or even worse into So Cal and see these private communities with dark green lush lawns. And up here, us Northern Californians are conserving like crazy, yet we still have to make sure the allotted amount of water is making it down south. We really do need to invest in desalination or seriously think about bringing water in from the north of from the east through a pipeline. Hopefully the forecasts for El Nino are right and we get lots of rain and snow. Although then I get to worry about flooding. But I can salvage from flooding, not from fire.
OK, you had me until the “keep the pool covered” comment. I can’t believe there’s available water for backyard pools? Seriously?
Ye Gad, I hope this is not true. If it is, will have absolutely no respect for this man or his TV show where he PLAYS a man of great integrity
My mom LOVES Blue Bloods- my dad is forced to watch it. I can’t wait to ask my mom if she heard this news.
Accurate.
I also live in VA, Arlington. The DMV, as they call it, has been getting rain for at least 4 out of 7 days for the last month. It’s been unreal. We don’t need all this rain. We can afford to donate some.
Why wouldn’t rich people just import tanks of water from an area not affected by the drought? Stealing from a hydrant is so selfish as well as criminal. Heck, they could invest in desalinalization units and truck in ocean water….. And sell the “sea salt”! I can see it now on the grocery shelves: “Tom Selleck’s Salty Salt from the Sea (no fire hydrants were harmed in manufacture of this product)”.
Guess I won’t complain now about all the rain we’ve been getting the past couple of weeks. We had a drought here in the Midwest one August many years ago that turned all the lawns brown and ditto for bushes. Very unusual for us. Along with it, we had mold storms over the fields that were sending people to allergy clinics in droves, even people who hadn’t had mold problems in years. I lost my voice for a few weeks, it was so bad.
One of the reasons why I’m glad I don’t live in California is the weather, even though the most northern parts of the state probably aren’t like that. I like the rain and snow and cold and would rather keep living in New England; Too much heat makes me sick. But this is a weird story- stealing water from a fire hydrant to water your property.
I suffered through a Texas summer in the late ’90’s where it didn’t rain and hovered around 100 degrees. It messed with my psyche! The sun glaring down like that without a break was too much. So I don’t complain a bit about the rain and humidity we’re having in the Mid Atlantic. Ahhhh, green….
Northern and Southern California might as well be different countries. The weather is much milder up in the San Francisco area and farther north it’s very mountainous. Northern California also has water, which has enabled people to exist and build up the giant cities that are in Southern California. Giant pipelines bring water south (which of course is terrible for the source area) and allows people to live in the middle of the desert (LA is a desert) and have water.
Now people are talking about trying to pipe water in from other states but naturally the response has been “lol nope!”
@ Wren – Yep, it’s because neighbouring states are fighting their share of drought. Washington state is projected to have severe water shortages itself within the next few years, so it’s not like California is alone in this.
The problem is that with fracking, illegal dumping and polluting, there simply isn’t very much potable water left anymore in the United States. Ocean water itself is so acidic that even after it’s desalinated, it’s still not drinkable.
Why doesn’t California bail out the north east when they are getting slammed with snow? It may seem like a dumb idea but if fracking is an issue, can taking excess snow from hard hit areas be a solution? If it isn’t a solution can someone explain why not?
Chibi – not a dumb idea at all. I keep wondering, if China can drag iceburgs to their country, why can’t some of our states fly water from one state to another. At the risk of sounding like Henny Youngman, “Take my water! Please!”
When there are hay shortages for livestock, one area will truck it to the other. Why not water for agriculture purposes?
Is that legal? I don’t think you can transport that amount of water over state lines or why wouldn’t California be doing that now?
I’m from the lower peninsula of Michigan and we’ve had rain every other day since spring began. Our rivers and islands are flooded. We have so many mosquitos right now, it’s unbearable outside. I would love to donate some of our water. Apparently we’ve been on a continuous edge of a tropical system for months. Oddly enough, the upper peninsula is dry.
Tom Selleck is 70?!?
I’m seriously old now.
70? He looks younger than he is.
Actually, it’s the make-up that makes him look younger; in person he looks 70.
A few weeks ago I was in physical therapy and he was working out next to me; I hadn’t seen him in person for 20 years.
(The whole time he was next to me I was thinking about the time he hit on me all those years ago …)
Then the “fire hydrant” story came out …
What a super-rich a$$hole!
I have friends who work on Blue Bloods and they all say how shock they were by how old he looks in person. Not only does he look old, his body is bent over and he moves like an old man.
I mean it makes sense because my mom loved him way back when, so he has to be older now. But yeah- that shocked me too! For some reason I’m always shocked when people age! 🙂
The drought has to be awful, but to steal water from a hydrant is just next-level crazy…not to mention dangerous. The hydrants need to have water in them to – I don’t know – help firefighters do their jobs. I don’t care if Selleck does grow avocados, it’s reckless.
If I could send the rain to Cali, I would. We had such a wet and rainy June that we broke records, and I for one will gladly let the west coast have some of the rain.
LadyMTL:
Where do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?
Probably mid Atlantic. I know we’ve been have a rainy June and July.
I think Lady MTL lives in Montreal Canada. I live in Ottawa and we’ve had lots of rain. Plus MTL is the abbreviation for the best city ever!
I came to Philly a few week ago from CA and that was when the severity of the drought hit me. Of course I’ve been living it and it’s in the front of everyone’s mind, but the contrast was shocking! Everything is so green here — I had become so accustomed to the dry brownness, it really struck me. Can’t stop watching the rain!
I live in western PA. Literally along the river. ( not Kim K’s version of literal…the real def. Lol!).. It is raining now. Several of my veggies got water logged and are toast. The water is almost up to our deck. I wish we could send some water to Cali. I feel for them so much. But Tom? Yeah…he can suck it. What an asshat. Like I said elsewhere when I applied it to Ariana Grande and her donut licking… for these rich celebs, they are…… #abovethelaw
This is the best water shaming story I’ve seen so far. I do hope that he gets more than a lawsuit out of this but I’m also willing to bet that he will come out defending his actions because of his farm, suck it up Magnum! Real farmers are losing more than money here.
I used to defend him a little after that Rosie debacle because I liked him but no pity here, he’s an inconsiderate a_hole who just demonstrated how he thinks he’s above the law and the citizens of California. Ugh too early for this rant!
criminal And selfish. The actions of someone who doesn’t believe that the law applies to him. i hope they prosecute him or give him a huge fine.
If true, what a total douche.
It is true.
One of the things he is being sued for is reimbursement of the $22k it cost to hire a private detective to monitor what he was doing. And they have proof he did it at least FOUR times in March alone.
He was served with a cease and desist order in 2013 but apparently feels he is a King and entitled to anything he wants.
Criminal charges should apply. What an entitled asswipe. I never cared for him, and this solidifies my opinion.
Yeah he always struck me as an arrogant douche.
Must be the moustache. Villians always have a moustache. Hmmmmmm…
It’s true … and it’s disgusting. All over the city people are letting their lawns die or they’re installing artificial turf. In the City of Thousand Oaks (where he lives) you can only water your lawn twice a week, after the sun goes down, and for only 10 minutes a section. If you water by hand or wash your car you have to use an “auto stop” nozzle. Any water seen running down the street or hitting a sidewalk will get you a violation.
If you use more than your allotted water you hit the next tier of cost and it’s very expensive.
If he has avocado (or citrus) orchards (and his land is agricultural) he can use more water (which is where most of the water is going in CA, to grow a lot of the fruits and veggies that the country eats.)
Residential customers have all cut down and results show that we’re taking it seriously.
At least everyone except Tom Selleck.
My uncle lives in Hidden Valley (about a mile from Slleck’s place) and he has to ship in water too. They get their house water from wells, which are all dried up. He said Selleck’s avocado trees died years ago because of the drought. My uncle’s trees are all dead too. But they need water for their homes (showering, etc). Most people don’t realize that they don’t get water the way most of us do. No one’s trees in Hidden Valley are alive anymore. That area has always been known for the horse properties, but almost all the horses have been shipped out of state. It’s really sad to see that area so empty. Check out how many of their homes are up for sale. No one can live without running water. I wonder how the other neighbors get their water.
I can’t believe anyone would think this is OK. There needs to be some serious fines for this.
I’ve never understood the obsession with having a green lawn, especially if there’s a drought.
I wish municipalities would embrace native grasses instead of sod. It’s a waste of resources, even in places that are not currently in a drought.
Here in Northern Ca, we’ve been ripping out lots of lawns and going to rock or bark with drought resistant plants thrown in. Quite a few of the cities are giving incentives for it now as well. My parents are in the process of ripping out their lawn as their neighbors already have. It’s been a change. But a good one. We have a very Mediterranean Climate in Sacramento and the foothills and were never meant to have the white picket fence and lush lawn. Thankfully, people are starting to become aware and aren’t doing so much sod anymore.
Fines? He needs to be arrested.
He didn’t even steal from his own county. He went the next one over.
It is criminal, but I’d be 100% shocked if he was actually arrested. Wouldn’t they have done that instead of filing a lawsuit? They want the money, and should get it.
Wow, I can’t even understand why he would think this is okay…and the government spent $21K on a PI to document it? Crazy.
Magnum PI…..he is so pretty. Nom nom nom sigh
Ps: I know this is a serious accusation, questionable ethics, entitlement issues, theft, BUT SQUIRRELL….MAgnum PI….he is so pretty. Sigh
He is….
Tom Selleck is my forever dong. I’ve had the most wicked crush on him since I was just a girl and Magnum PI was such a babe. He may be 70 but I will love him forever.
I’m disappointed he stole water but I just can’t dislike him. Sorry.
Ditto.
Sorry but he should go to jail! This is the most disgusting absurd thing I have ever heard. California has a serious problem and he is stealing a valuable resource that could be going to fighting FIRES!!!
What a jerk! Also is he defending the charge? Doesn’t sound like it. Pay the fines and apologize Selleck, maybe you’ll still have a fan or two left.
From the comments, this seems to be accepted as 100% true but I only see an accusation and having been the victim to a similar false neighbour accusation – I’ll wait before I judge too harshly.
Funny how the water tanker ended up on his property.
A formal complaint has been filed. A private detective documented what was happening.
You think they filed the complaint against someone as high profile as Selleck without proof? Not to mention that the man was already sitting on a cease and desist order issued by the courts in 2013 for doing the same thing.
Yeah, the facts seem pretty well gathered and presented. I’ll be curious to see if he offers any kind of defense.
This is criminal activity. I’m in farming, and we just spent $20,000 drilling 2 wells on our property to provide water access for crops. It’s our land, and our responsibility. Now I’m sure all his wells are dry. So he either needs to pay for water to be brought in or lose the crop. He’s running an avocado farm, which is a business. He should have insurance that will help cover the losses. What if he stole thousands of dollars of farm equipment from the city to pick his avocados? Wouldn’t he be arrested? But because it’s water he’s not?
This is especially annoying to me since I recently had someone in our operation steal over 50k worth of grain from us (over 2 years) and we just caught it. We went to the sheriff, but people don’t understand that theft of certain items is still grand larceny (diamonds, etc. vs. grain)! We couldn’t even really get the guy arrested, finally brought in lawyers to threaten arrest and got him to pay us back the cost. It’s all so frustrating!
He is the Cliven Bundy of avocados.
Goodness that sucks! I live in high wheat production area and I’m guessing that your complaint would be taken very seriously here. Everybody’s a farmer or knows a farmer or was a farmer.
Wow. This level of douche-baggery is rare. I’m no tree-hugger (I drive an SUV and I keep my thermostat at 69) but C’MON MAN!!!! Stealing water from a hydrant?!?!?! And notice that it wasn’t even in his own municipality. I guess he wants to make sure that HIS hydrants have water just in case his lush green lawn catches on fire.
Just think, he’s walking around free but Kalief Browder spent three years in Riker’s Island for allegedly stealing a book bag.
#justice
I remember him on Ellen a few years ago (possibly this year) and they were talking about being neighbours and the effect that the water crisis is having on landscaping in California. He seemed so contrite about having a big property, and aware of the severity of the drought. What a douche. And I say that having been a #1 fan for life of Dr. Richard Burke.
Oh man, this is disappointing! I used to be a neighbor of his and ran by his estate almost every weekend and it’s beautiful. I understand it’s hard to lose your beloved trees because of the drought, but it sounds like he’s been doing this for years. Shame on you Tom and Jillie.
The municipality allegedly sent letters to both his properties, yet they claim the white truck returned several more times to haul water back to the same place (his house/farm).
He and his wife will probably claim they personally had no knowledge of where the water was sourced and just didn’t see the letters. Blame it on the postal service, an assistant or a full moon. As handsome and nice as Tom appears to be, his silence suggests he’s likely going to come up with an excuse for the public.
I think they would send him the letters through registered mail or something so as to have evidence that the letters were sent and arrived at the residences.
*insert a slew of expletives that would get me banned*
What I’d like to know is if he authorized this, or did he hire a company to,provide water and they took the illegal shortcut? I hired a company several years ago to clear some property and dispose of it legally; they even provided me dump receipts to show what they’d done. Turns out that they dumped my stuff in an empty field out by the airport and kept the fees. I didn’t know about it until they were caught and my stuff was found along with a bunch of others. Could be a similar situation.
I can see Selleck hiring a water company; I have a hard time believing that Selleck went from decent guy to total d-bag with no previous signs.
By the way, don’t feel badly for the firefighters. Three of my brothers are firefighters and they wait all year for actual fires to fight. They spend nine months of the year picking up grandma from where she’s fallen, and then summer comes here in California and they get to go fight fires. Huge overtime, too. My brothers make more in OT during the dry months than they make the rest of the year.
I was just thinking along those lines as well. He likely has a property manager who hired the water company. Tom is probably very far removed from what happened. This makes sense to me. Thanks for helping me restore my faith in his ‘good guy-ness’. 🙂 It will be interesting to see how he responds.
It’s been reported that in 2013, he received C&D letters at three different addresses, including one in West LA. So I doubt the property manager was able to scoop up all the mail at the three different locations before he could see them.
From the LA Times, his people have been using the SAME fire hydrant for years, even after his receiving the C&D letters back in 2013. Even after first receiving them, his people’s truck was seen at the hydrant again in less than a month. Then as recently as this past March, his water guys were back at the SAME hydrant four times.
The LA Times quoted residents who live near the hydrant and who’ve witnessed the SAME TRUCK at the SAME hydrant with the SAME GUY getting the water and have called it a common sight.
It also states that in 2013, he was sent the C&Ds to two residences as well as an Avenue of the Stars location that is connected to the property. So I think it would be hard for him to plead ignorance.
So in comparing your situation to his, it would be the same as his if after you received the notices, you continued your business with the same company who used the same trucks, the same guys, and the same dumping location.
I understand your point. It’s just that the whole thing is so egregious that there just seems like there has to be more to the story. Who gets multiple cease and desist letters and keeps going back to the exact same hydrant? Wouldn’t you at least change hydrants, spread it around a bit so as to not raise suspicion?
As somebody who just tore out their lawn and put in drought resistant plants, I am very interested to see what becomes of this story.
Arrogance, sheer arrogance.
Even though I think he will have an excuse, my personal take is that he and his wife should have been aware. If they are not aware of cease and desist letters sent to their multiple residences, then they are too far removed from reality.
I realize there are entitled people who want an underling to handle things, but correspondence of that nature should have been directly delivered to them.
@ RobN
It wasn’t the truck driver who got the C&D letters (from what is reported so far). It was Selleck.
I was thinking the same. Maybe he just bought the water from the guy with the truck who stole it from where ever he thought he could get away with it.
At least I hope… I always had a crush on Tom Sellack and don’t wish for him to turn out to be a water thief.
But I sure wish he’d stop dying his mustache so dark, it looks just awful.
When I read ‘fire hydrant’ in the title all I could think about is Tom playing the fireman in The Love Letter.
I’ve always liked Tom Selleck and am surprised and disappointed that he did this. Just falls into the “above the laws of the masses” delusion that so many celebs seem to suffer from. They don’t seem to comprehend that laws and restrictions apply to them as well. But then again so many have gotten away with so much with little or no consequence so they’re used to it, and assume it’s always the way for them. Throwing side eye at you Magnum.
Complete pig. (s c r a t c h) that’s the sound of me taking him off my list of people to watch.
What if he hired someone that said they can truck the water in for a fee and unbeknownst to him..it was stolen? I mean my first thought was that he hired someone to water his crops..has the means to hire a water service from a non-drought area…he’s well known so someone took advantage of omg..im fixin ta get PAID..and stole it without them knowing?
I just have a hard time believing that if he was throwing dollars to this company for water he would figure it was coming from a legit source rather than an elaborate heist. I mean he could have went and stole it from the hydrant if thats the way he rolls..
If the property manager was at fault its really not that far fetched the man didnt see his letters. I work for a very minor celebrity..far removed from hollywood..and honestly..that man never sees his mail. We get it at the corp ofc and delegate it to the right personnel who handles it. If there is a problem he might get involved to resolve it, but thats really far and few between.
Im hoping it’s a property manager too. Celebrities with side businesses often don’t see correspondence linked to it. We hear stories all he time about celebs swindled out of money, etc….because they aren’t hands on. Does anyone know his level of involvement? Especially with Blue Bloods filming so many months per year.
Mmmmmmm…….Avocados.
WRONG! WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS! I can’t even begin to speak to the entitlement and greed this speaks to. It’s cold and overcast and still drip dry here in the bay. We’re at serious drought levels. I’m getting emails and updates every week on it. I can’t even believe some of the people that feel entitled to a green lawn. Jesus. Move if it you want it that bad you can afford to.
Let’s see how this story pans out, because my understanding is that it wasn’t his company or trucks getting the water out of the hydrants. Also apparently they didn’t get enough evidence to go criminally so this is civil. I am wondering with his wealth if he paid someone for water, and this is how this company worked. I know it still isn’t good with the rationing of water, but better than stealing it. Who knows maybe he thought it was being imported from other not drought places. I am wondering why can’t we import large quantities of water to California? Maybe not and he is a douche, but until this is settled I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and let it proceed. Also, I live in the DMV area too, the Maryland part of this area and trucks come all the time and fill from fire hydrants for pool water, the trucks say pool water on them I didn’t follow them circa this P.I. I asked someone about this and they said the companies pay for the water access. Obviously, this wouldn’t be happening in a drought stricken place, but wondering if some company circumvented the law. Now I know people are thinking why wouldn’t they go after the company, but I will tell you they always go after the deeper pockets and Tom Selleck is the deeper pockets.
I can only hope this selfish @ss and his wife get jail time for this . . . but I don’t think they will.
Was Tom driving the water truck? I mean…celebrities do nothing for themselves, including opening their mail. I imagine that he has gardeners, property managers, etc to care for his lawn and trees and never questioned where the water was coming from. It really is conceivable that he had no idea this was going on.
This takes entitlement to a new level. And let’s not blame this on the wife. I just watched Tom in Coma and he was so hot back in the day. He had a Clark Gable breezy charm about him, too. I never cared for his politics, but I guess this is the ultimate political act: ” No one in California matters except me, Tom Selleck. As long as we’re clear on that. Bring on your pathetic fines. You think that will stop me?” That’s my imaginary bubble thought of what’s going on in Tom’s head. He does look well-preserved. Maybe that stolen water is also necessary for his beauty regimen. He seriously sucks. And so does Arnold Schwarzennegger (sp.?) for pardoning his crony’s murderous kid the last day of his tenure as governor. Outrageous!
Ugh. The apologists! He was warned! The reason the city hired a detective was because he was warned…then sent a cease letter..in what, 2013? If he didn’t know he SHOULD have. You are responsible for YOU! Tough shizznit! So sick of excuses by these celebs! Not buying it. Any of OUR asses would be in jail, and we all know it. ” Oh! My manager/assistant/lackey did it..not ME!” Spare me…Really?
I wonder why he didn’t think to dig his own well on his property? It’s not that expensive if you can afford it. we paid to have a well dug up on our property. Pretty easy to do in Texas. I wonder if water well right laws in ca are different.
It is criminal! We are struggling here and many of us have been fined! Praying that the weather reports are true about an El Nino winter
Do you have water restrictions like we do? Just like Cali, we get bush fires every summer, every year here in Victoria, Australia
I was recently in Santa Barbara – fairly close to Selleck Ranch – and I noted that most property owners had very yellow lawns and things look quite dry. As a native Californian now in the northwest, it was sad to see. However I had lunch at two high-end resorts in which the grounds were incredibly lush given the state of emergency and drought. It’s clear that the big resorts and wealthy property owners are not seemingly “affected” by the drought. I find this pretty reprehensible and has left a very bad taste in my mouth. I will not only not watch nor support anything this fool is in but it makes you wonder why law-abiding citizens continually take it in the shorts while others feel the laws or rules don’t apply to them.
I’m assuming the theft was to put out a wild fire, in order to save baby deer & baby humans? Shesh.
Ahem, apparently this issue has been settled:
http://time.com/3952331/tom-selleck-water-theft-claims-settled/
If he settled then it’s most likely true that he stole the water, otherwise he would have denied it completely in the media.
I am sick and tired of these so called movie stars always and I mean always getting special treatment and feeling they are entitled to whatever they get. How about you find a cure for cancer or some other horrible disease and then you can have the water. Tom you and your wife are disgusting people and should be ashamed of what you did, but I am sure you won’t think twice about doing it again.
What if your house was on fire and there was no water. That would be a just punishment.