Amy’s Hubby Offered Pounds for Pounding Pete?
Looks like the British media weren’t the only ones suspicious of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty’s palling around.
Winehouse’s incarcerated hubby, Blake Fielder-Civil, apparently was, too. And as a British court heard today, he was willing to put his money where his suspicions were.
A recently freed inmate from Pentonville Prison, where Fielder-Civil is currently locked up, testified in a separate case that he was offered roughly $40,000 by the Winehouse’s jealous mister to “smash to pieces” the Babyshambles rocker.
Richard Lyttle testified in Old Bailey Court Monday that Fielder-Civil made known “he would give £20,000 to anyone who done himcause him injuryhe was quite annoyed at the time,” after hearing that Doherty had paid a visit to Winehouse’s Camden home in the early morning hours.
When attorney Sir Desmond de Silva asked whether Fielder-Civil suspected infidelity, Lyttle replied, “Yeah.”
“Did he say ’smash him to pieces’?” the lawyers asked.
“That’s what he said,” Lyttle answered.
Lyttle made the damning revelation while testifying in the unconnected murder trial of two men. He claimed he befriended Fielder-Civil during their overlapping sentences, but admitted that he attempted to sell the story to the British tabloids for $10,000.
In addition to the Babyshambles beatdown, Fielder-Civil also allegedly disclosed, per Lyttle, that he had received several threats behind bars that there was a plot to abduct Winehouse.
Fielder-Civil pleaded guilty last week to causing grievous bodily injury and perverting the course of justice in his witness-tampering trial. He remains jailed pending sentencing on the charges.
Winehouse, meanwhile, is currently undergoing tests in a London hospital after suffering a brief fainting spell at her home earlier today.
Nick Hogan Gives Up Solitaire
Nick Hogan’s got himself some company.
Two days after a judge denied his request to be transferred out of solitary confinement, Hulk Hogan’s son, who’s serving time for a DUI crash that seriously injured his friend, was moved into a communal cell after a routine assessment of the ever-in-flux jail population, according to a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Hogan, whose real last name is Bollea, was cooling his heels in an isolated maximum-security cell because, at 17 years of age, he was considered too young to live among the jail’s general population.
Attorney Kevin Hayslett argued in a motion filed Friday that his client was undergoing “cruel and unusual punishment” that didn’t fit the crime by being housed in those conditions. He requested Hogan either be granted house arrest until his 18th birthday or at least moved out of the concrete block he’d been calling home to be with other nonviolent inmates.
A judge refused a transfer but, according to the jail rep, a spot for Hogan opened up following a review of current housing assignments. The teen is now sharing space with three other juvenile offenders.
Hogan, who will turn 18 on July 27, was sentenced in an adult court to eight months behind bars after pleading no contest to reckless driving involving serious bodily injury.
Nick Hogan Requests Change of Scene
Hulk Hogan’s son has had about enough of himself for now.
Nick Hogan, who, after being sentenced to eight months in jail, has been cooling his heels in solitary confinement because he’s too young to join the general population, filed a motion asking that he be placed on house arrest until July 27, his 18th birthday, or moved into the minimum-security lockup.
Because Hogan, whose real last name is Bollea, is a minor, he has been isolated in a maximum-security cell at Pinellas County Jail, according to his attorney, Kevin Hayslett, who says the teen has lost at least 10 pounds and has no access to a telephone or TV, privileges enjoyed by inmates serving time for similar offenses.
“Understandably, this situation creates an unbearable anxiety for a minor in solitary confinement,” Hayslett wrote in court documents filed Friday. “This sort of confinement “substantially amounts to cruel and unusual punishment for a juvenile and is not warranted for a non-violent first offender serving a probation sentence.”
Hayslett also groused about Bollea’s telephone calls being recorded and disseminated to the press. The 26 hours of taped conversations included “deeply personal communications” and their release “caused unspeakable harm,” wrote Hayslett.
In a letter filed last week, counsel for the Pinella County Sheriff’s Office wrote that Hogan’s “current classification, housing and treatment…are proper.”
Hogan was sentenced May 9 after pleading no contest to one count of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury, punishment for a DUI crash that left his passenger severely injured.
The son of wrestling royalty also received five years’ probation (starting when he reported to jail), 500 hours of community service and a strict order to steer clear of alcohol throughout. He also had his license revoked for three years and was ordered to attend DUI school.