`SLING BLADE' ACTOR'S WIFE CONTENDS ABUSE, GETS RESTRAINING ORDER.Byline: Janet Gilmore Daily News Staff Writer The fourth wife of ``Sling Blade'' star Billy Bob Thornton Robert George (Bob) Thornton (born July 10 1962, in Los Angeles, California) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA whose career lasted from 1985 to 1996. He was a 6'10" 225 forward. He holds career averages of 3.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in 283 total games. has won a temporary restraining order temporary restraining order: see injunction. against the Oscar winner, after claiming he has beaten her repeatedly and threatened to kill her. Just last month, Thornton appeared at the Academy Awards show with his wife of four years to pick up his golden statuette for the year's best screenplay based on material previously produced or published. But now 27-year-old Pietra Dawn Thornton contends in court papers supporting the restraining order restraining order: see injunction. that Thornton has punched, shoved, bitten and choked her, once even vowing to kill her. The Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). man could not be reached for comment. His publicist said Thornton is in Arkansas filming a music video for the band Widespread Panic Widespread Panic is a southern rock band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring. . ``Nobody knew she was going to do this, let alone him,'' said Thornton's spokesman, Tony Angelloti. ``This is all done while he was out of town.'' Thornton won the temporary restraining order Monday in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court. She filed for divorce Friday, based on her allegations of abuse. They have two sons, William, 3, and Harry James Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was a popular United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a traveling circus. , 2. In a statement released through his publicist, Thornton said: ``I'm sorry that Pietra's advisers have convinced her to take this malicious and untruthful course of action by making these false accusations of physical and mental abuse. ``Our marriage was not perfect, but I never exhibited the behavior she's accused me of. Our concerns right now should be about our sons who will suffer the most as a result of her advisers' conduct.'' Thornton rose from relative obscurity to direct, write and star in the smash hit ``Sling Blade,'' a movie about a retarded ex-convict who was abused and neglected as a child. Now his wife claims that Thornton's own mental problems and physical abuse from his father are responsible for his unpredictable acts of violence against her. Pietra Thornton contends that physical abuse began several years ago, when she was four or five months' pregnant with their first child and Billy Bob Thornton allegedly began pushing and shoving her. |
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