© ACTRESS SHARON STONE in legal battle for a trip to Cuba (Photos) * * SHARON STONE presenta batalla legal contra productor por un viaje a Cuba (Fotos).Sharon Stone and producer Bob Yari in legal battle over Ernest Hemingway movie.
Blond bombshell suing Yarin for $500,000, claiming he pressured her to falsify travel document to Communist nation. Yari says he’s countersuing for breach of contract
Sharon Stone claims producer Bob Yari is recasting her role in “Papa,” where she agreed to play Ernest Hemingway’s wife. (Paul Archuleta/ Filmmagic)
Sharon Stone is suing a Hollywood producer for $500,000 claiming he pressured her to ignore her instincts and falsify travel documents for Cuba for a movie about Ernest Hemingway.
The mogul, meanwhile, told the Daily News Wednesday that he’s filing a counter lawsuit against Stone Thursday for breach of contract.
“I’m very disappointed,” producer Bob Yari told The News. “It’s a situation where she gave me her word, and we shut a film down in December 2012 to accommodate her and then two months away from the shooting date, she demanded almost double the amount agreed to.”
Yari says Stone demanded more money for her role in “Papa,” a movie about Ernest Hemingway. (Dan Gorder / Filmagic)
Stone, 55, states in her lawsuit filed in Los Angeles that she agreed to play Ernest Hemingway’s wife Mary in the new movie “Papa,” also starring Giovanni Ribisi and Minka Kelly, and had every intention of following through with her contract.
The blond bombshell claims Yari reneged on her payment of $500,000 because she refused to say her travel was for a “cultural endeavor.”
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Author Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh, in Havana, Cuba, in 1946.
“NO ONE has EVER been jailed for travel to Cuba,” Yari reportedly told Stone in an email, according to the lawsuit first obtained by TMZ.com.
Stone and her lawyer Marty Singer claim Yari is recasting the role and wants the actress to return a custom wig that was commissioned for the part.
It has not been recast,” Yari told The News Wednesday.
“It was a difference in opinion: we claimed she could travel, she didn’t feel comfortable. However, that’s irrelevant because we ultimately said fine, and we shut down at great cost, came back to the U.S. and got the license she wanted, all in coordination with her schedule,” he claimed.
Yari said Stone later demanded that her contract — which was $200,000 in fixed compensation and $300,000 for publicity — get bumped up by another $250,000.
“Our breach of contract lawsuit is prepared. I guess we have to file it now,” he said.
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ACTRESS SHARON STONE legal battle for a trip to Cuba
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ACTRIZ SHARON STONE PRESENTA BATALLA LEGAL CONTRA PRODUCTOR POR UN VIAJE A CUBA.
La actriz acusa al productor de pedirle mentir en documentos para el viaje.
La actriz estadounidense Sharon Stone ha presentado una demanda al productor Bob Yari asegurando que la presionó para que viajara a Cuba pese a la prohibición que existe en ese sentido sobre ciudadanos de Estados Unidos.
Según el portal TMZ, Stone afirma que Yari le pidió que mintiera en documentos para presentar el viaje como parte de los intercambios culturales autorizados por el Gobierno de Barack Obama.
La actriz de 55 años iba a participar en el rodaje en la Isla de una película sobre la vida de Ernest Hemingway, en la cual debía interpretar a la esposa del escritor, Mary.
En su demanda pide al productor una compensación de 500.000 dólares, según el New York Daily News.
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Escritor Ernest Hemingway y su cuarta esposa, Mary Welsh, en la Havana en 1946.
Yari dijo que presentaría una contrademanda por incumplimiento de contrato.
“Estoy muy decepcionado”, afirmó. Stone “me dio su palabra y paramos el rodaje en diciembre de 2012 para acomodarla a ella”, añadió.
“Dos meses antes del comienzo de la producción pidió casi el doble de lo acordado inicialmente”, se quejó.
“Nunca nadie ha sido encarcelado por los viajes a Cuba”, habría dicho Yari a Stone en un correo electrónico, según TMZ.com.
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ACTRESS SHARON STONE legal battle for a trip to Cuba
The Cuban History, Hollywood.
Arnoldo Varona, Editor