The Legal Troubles of Teen Mom and Blade

Posted on 11-30-2010 by Rebecca Kelley (Rebecca)
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A couple of "celebrities" have been in legal hot water lately...okay, celebrities are often getting arrested for various odds and ends, but here are two that are sort of worth mentioning. Popular-in-the-nineties actor Wesley Snipes is set to begin his three-year jail sentence for tax evasion, while "reality TV famous" celebrity(?) Amber Portwood has received felony charges of domestic violence for beating on her baby daddy during episodes of MTV's Teen Mom.

Wesley Snipes, who hasn't really had much box office success since Blade Trinity in 2004, was convicted in 2008 for failing to pay taxes on $38 million in earnings from as far back as 1999. He's already unsuccessfully appealed the verdict and was hoping to postpone sentencing pending a retrial hearing. However, the judge, presumably still irritated by the gaping plot holes in Demolition Man (how do you use those three seashells?), rejected Snipes' requests and is demanding that the actor begin serving his sentence.

Another sort-of celebrity facing legal troubles is Amber from the MTV show Teen Mom. A dirt-ass even by 16 and Pregnant standards, the high-school dropout stay-in-bed-because-anything-else-is-too-much-effort mom is facing two felony charges and one misdemeanor charge of domestic violence after police saw a September episode of Teen Mom where Amber shoved, slapped, punched, and choked her on-again, off-again sad sack of a boyfriend, Gary. (The felony charges are because in two of the three instances, Amber abused Gary while their child was present.) If convicted, she could spend up to three years in jail plus up to a $10,000 fine. This is the most riveting case of a portly, poverty-stricken youth being abused by a loved one since Precious.