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Victoria Principal, the tightly-pulled former actress who now hawks facial products on QVC, has quite the temper. Her maid was out walking Victoria’s dog, and had the nerve to take more time doing it than Victoria felt acceptable. Reprimanding the maid would have been ridiculous, considering it wasn’t exactly an offense. Most people would say something along the lines of, “You don’t need to spend that long walking Rusty, but thank you for trying to be thorough.”
Instead, Victoria immediately fired the woman, and then pointed a gun at her. She hadn’t even told the woman to leave. She even told another maid to move out of the way so that she could shoot her. Talk about keeping your cool under pressure.
Perhaps Victoria Principal thinks she’s gone from Dallas to Dynasty, because she may have pulled quite the Alexis Carrington. The erstwhile Pamela Ewing is the target of an assault lawsuit brought by a former maid who claims Principal pulled a gun on her after she took too long walking the actress’ dog one evening.
According to the complaint filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, before she allegedly brandished a firearm, Principal fired housekeeper Maribel Banegas and told her to leave after accusing her of staying away from the house for too long with the pooch.
Principal then went upstairs, returning not with her checkbook as Banegas expected but with a gun in her hand, the former maid says. The 59-year-old then aimed the weapon at Banegas and threatened to kill her, even asking another housekeeper who was in the room to step aside so she could shoot Banegas, the lawsuit claims.
Figuring her “death by shooting” was imminent, Banegas locked herself in another room and called 911. Principal stood outside the door the whole time, the lawsuit says, persisting in her threat to kill the plaintiff. Banegas couldn’t leave Principal’s Malibu home until law enforcement arrived, she says.
In alleging assault, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Banegas is suing for lost wages and unspecified damages. She also checked off “malice” and “oppression” in asking for exemplary damages from Principal for showing a “willful and conscious disregard” for her ex-employee’s rights and safety.
[From E! News]
I would have wrestled the gun from Victoria’s hands, just because I would have been so pissed that this woman was so mentally deranged. I’m not saying it’s a smart plan, but I would have gone for it, nonetheless. I cannot even begin to imagine what really went on here. I hope to God lots of details were left out of this story. Going upstairs - ostensibly to pay your just fired maid’s remaining wages – and returning with a gun instead is so insane Principal should be locked up in a nuthouse if it’s true.
Form the maid’s account, it’s not like she told her to get out and she refused, thus a gun was “needed.” It was just “You exist, I’m going to shoot you. Move other maid; you’re getting in the way of my shooting.” Logic would say tons of important details are missing. Though it also seems like logic isn’t at play here.
Update: Victoria’s filed a counter-suit with her version of events. They don’t sound implausible, and if we’d heard her account first more people might side with her. She admits pulling a gun on the maid but has a reasonable explanation. In fact most of what she says fills in many of the holes.
Here’s Victoria Principal at the Publicists Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 2007. Hope her publicist gets an award for cleaning up this mess. Images thanks to WENN.com .
Written by JayBird
Posted in Crazy, Lawsuits, Photos, Victoria Principal
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23 Responses to “Victoria Principal’s maid claims she pulled a gun on her (Update)”
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just crazy.
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She should take the gun and shoot her plastic surgeon instead. Now that is criminal activity!!
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Yea, Victoria’s life has been fraying at the edges for sometime. A while back there were reports of domestic incidents between she and her husband. Sad.
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Good Lord!! What the hell happened to her face?
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OMG.
I think her rage may be caused by a toxic reaction to the high levels of filler that she’s pumped into her face.
But, shooting the plastic surgeon would be spousal abuse as he’s her longtime hubby.
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To Victoria: You can’t fool the man upstairs!
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Why do celebs and wanna-be celebs do that to their faces? Whyyyyy?
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Victoria was a customer at a store I worked for in Palm Springs. She was always very gracious and incredibly sweet. I can’t imagine this store being true.
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Holy Botox!
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I felt bad for the maid, but after reading the link, Victoria’s version sounds more likely and the maid is the nut.
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Team Victoria. The maid sounds like a looney toon.
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I agree, it just doesn’t make sense by the maid’s account. Also, I think she actually looks pretty good for all the plastic surgery she’s had. Not exactly Madame puppet territory yet. She needs to stop there, though!
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You forgot to mention the maid was going through Victoria’s handbag at the time….
Yeah, someone with this much facial surgery hawking skin care products on TV should be set to a laugh track so people watching will know what a joke it is.
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she looks like a cabbage patch kid
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Victoria’s explanation doesn’t wash. If she fired the maid and the maid repeatedly slammed a door, hit another maid and ran off with Victoria’s dog, why wouldn’t Victoria have called the police then and there? Instead she supposedly waits an hour and calls the maid on the cell telling her to return the dog. The maid returns, allegedly mistreats the dog, scares Victoria and V. runs to her bedroom, not to lock the door and call police, but to get a gun and return. And this is a “reasonable explanation” for drawing a gun on someone? I think not. But for all I know, this might count as reasonable behavior in Texas.
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Victoria’s version sounds more plausible to me and there should be evidence to back it up. That said, if it were Naomi Campbell instead of Victoria Principal, I’d believe the maid
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@Jean, your so right, shot him and his texta for that face!
But it seems:
“Whose side are you on?
Victoria 82%
The maid 18%
Total Votes: 12,706″ -
Yeah, after reading VP’s account, it makes much more sense. The fact that the police and DA chose not to arrest her is very telling as well; it’s not as if she is some super powerful media darling that has the influence to get out of legal trouble, after all. I have no doubt that if they thought she had done something illegal, they would have arrested and charged her.
Quite frankly, the maid sounds like a mental case.
But, OMG. Her face, her face. It used to be so pretty, but now she looks like she’s trying to give Joan Rivers a run for her money. I can understand having a little plastic surgery to fix a flaw, if one feels that need. But this overdone face stretching looks hideous! Does she really think she looks younger? She just looks like a sad, aging woman who can’t accept the stage of life she is in.
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I myself often shoo one maid out of the way so I can shoot spit balls at the other. It’s all good.
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OMG she looks like a freak!!!!!!!!!!
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i don’t care if she did try to shoot the maid. i still want some of that wrinkle cream
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lem is funny
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is she a mean drunk? I think i read where Vicky has had alcoholic issues. Or she might have dementia she lies about her age she probably in her late 60’s
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