William H. Macy.Photo:Jesse Grant/Getty
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William H. Macyis denying that he had landscapers cut down his next-door neighbor’s trees back.
TheMagnoliastar, 73, is pushing back against accusations that his next-door neighbor in Los Angeles, Pierce Brown, submitted in a $600,000 lawsuit. Brown’s lawsuit, filed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in April, claimed that the Oscar-nominated actor “knowingly and intentionally” instructed a team of landscapers to destroy and remove “several healthy, decades-old mature pine trees and other vegetation from the Brown Property.”
The filing demands that the entire case be dismissed with prejudice, claiming that Brown himself was “careless, reckless, and negligent in and about the matters and things alleged.”
Brown’s initial complaint claimed that “in accessing the Brown Property, Macy’s workers damaged the gate that connected the two properties” and caused “damage to and destabilization of the hillside itself.”
Brown’s lawyers also alleged that Macy admitted to his neighbor that he had allowed his workmen to do this.
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Macy’s new filing argues his actions were “committed due to an immediate and imperative necessity… to protect persons from death or serious bodily injury or to protect land or chattel from destruction or injury.”
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This lawsuit follows the jail sentencing of Macy’s wifeFelicity Huffman, one of several parents entangled in the 2019 “Operation Varsity Blues"college admissions cheating scandal.
Huffman, 60,pled guiltyto conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, resulting in 11 days spent in jail, a year of supervised release and a $30,000 fine.
source: people.com
