Gerard Butler: Charged With Misdemeanor Battery

Ok!!!! there were witness’s, the pap was seen harassing Gerry……the only thing wrong here (IMO) is Gerry hit him……not to long ago Keifer head butted someone and is in trouble….lord…… it will all work out I am sure.

Peace.

LW

Rob and Kristen are so ON!

Butler is a moron too. Love for Rob and Kristen to hook up.

This is so fv<ked up, seriously! How do we spell greed? Why’s the lug being charged now? It’s like six month’s later! $$$ I suppo$e. Dumb-fv<k dangerous driving nearly killing people scaring them to death running red lights endangering innocent people car stalking greedy mutterfarter pap guy should go to jail not Gerry! ooOoo this riles me so much I could scream! Oh, I know-I know, the lug shouldn’t have touched the dumb-fv<k dangerous driving nearly killing people scaring them to death running red lights endangering innocent folks car star stalking greedy mutterfarter pap guy ,and once would have been enough, if at all, but the dumb-fv<k dangerous driving nearly killing people scaring them to death running red lights endangering innocent folks car start stalking greedy mutterfarter pap guy most likely was a smart-ass back to Gerry at the window anyway when he asked the dumb-fv<k dangerous driving nearly killing people scaring them to death running red lights endangering innocent people car stalking greedy martherfarter pap guy what the fv<k he was doing! What a waste of my lug’s $$$ over this. He could get that koi pond made instead. I mean didn’t Gerry comment it was “dropped”? What gives?
K

@anyonecansayit:

GFW - Good grief. Take a breath.

The DA is the one who decides whether or not pressing charges is appropriate and most don’t unless they are sure that they have a solid case. The DA can do that with or without the pap’s cooperation. So perhaps your rage should be directed at the DA. Butler is not immune from the justice system just because he is a celebrity or because you think he is a loveable lug.
It has nothing to do with greed. That would be a civil case, not criminal. Gerry will get a slap on the wrist. You care about this more than he probably does. I guarantee he isn’t sweating it.
Relax and go back to writing your Gerry p.orn.

gerard is the man!
my sexiest switches between cheryl cole, megan fox, and jessica alba, right now it’s 1,3,2 respectively
btw i have no idea who the chick that won the hottest 100 for maxim, is

I know when pushed to the limit people do react, but it should never be with violence. Gerry was only lucky in the sense that he didn’t accidentally kill the pap. There have been so many cases of one punch deaths, where the person has punched someone and they have fallen back to their death, that would be terrible, to think you have robbed a mother, a wife, a child of their son, husband or father. The fact that Gerry reacted with violence shows something about his personality, a bit scary, would he when pushed to the limit in a relationship ever hit a girlfriend or his wife. Also the justice system doesn’t help either, it takes months or years for cases to be prosecuted and so the seriousness of the crime is diminished. Like the saying goes, “if you can’t do the time then don’t do the crime.” I know that paps are terrible, they dog a celebrity to death, as in the case of Lady Diana, her life cut short for a couple of photographs. Bottom line, its the need to feed the greed, we are all hungry to an excess for photo’s and news/gossip of our favourite celeb’s, so its a pap frenzy out there, doesn’t matter about the cost, give the people what they want. But how much it enough….we are all responsible in some way, you see, we hit the magazines and sites, the magazines and sites hit the paps and the paps hit the celeb’ s and the celeb’s hit the paps and so on and so on. Just some food for thought.

самый невероятный мужчина

#15- is that norwegian? lol

Hey, the usual commentators are here. #10 Brazilian, no, many people don’t know that paparazzi is plural of paparazzo. You are one of the smart ones.
#13 You said it in a nutshell. The paps are making a (very good) living feeding the public its dose of celebrity news. If the pap was breaking traffic laws he should have been arrested for that, but this doesn’t give Butler license to punch him out. Asault is asault. Come on, Jerry-lovers, “He was provoked” used to be a defense of wife beating. This seems like a case of the true slumdog Jerry he tries to hide coming out.

The wheels of justice move slowly and I have wondered what happened to that story. I would hate to see Butler do 6 months time, not because I condone what he did but because I think in most offenses, incarceration is a waste of time and money. He’s rich. He could give some big bucks to some cause that supports victims of assault, get some counseling and get on with his movie making.

#13 “a bit scary, would he when pushed to the limit in a relationship ever hit a girlfriend or his wife”

for what it’s worth, it’s never been said that GB is violent towards women. he is snarky and rude behind their backs though.

I agree with you both. “Genuinely” seems to be the keyword here. He obviously “likes” women in the sense of enjoying to f*** them, but it always appears he doesn’t honestly love or at least respect women. He only seems to use and abuse them for his personal needs.

@21, 22, 23 and 24

I’m curious as to what y’all base your assessments on. Just wondering, as I’ve never seen anything in GB’s interviews to suggest he doesn’t LIKE women. Can you cite a particular interview? I’m not criticizing you, just curious. I like to see comments supported by specific evidence. I believe he’s admittted he doesn’t do well in relationships and other people, if anonymously, seem to confirm that. He’s also indicated he was an insecure, nervous, fearful kid, and some kind of profound fear and emotional conflict, never outgrown, can be at the root of inability to maintain a close relationship, no matter how successful he is. I speak from experience as someone who had a very deep and understandable but partly irrational fear of being “owned” by another person, but finally did marry and did the til death do us part bit (sort of).
Someone who seemed to have some personal experience with GB wrote on another site that when he starts feeling trapped he does something that provokes the woman involved to break off with HIM. I read various opinions on these sites ranging from starstruck fans who think he’s Mr. Perfect to those who consider him a crude, neurotic, narcissistic bag of pond scum. It would be interesting to know where the ugly–or not so ugly– truth lies. :) Meanwhile, back to the original issue here, I don’t see the point of locking people up at public expense as punishment except for violent criminals who are a clear and constant danger to society. And I am not the first or by any means the brightest mind to have that opinion. (Read Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” among others and it goes back way farther.) Far better a suitable penalty such as giving a substantial donation to an appropriate cause, maybe community service with victims of violence and maybe some anger management counseling if needed. This is not necessarily getting off easy. It’s just that incarceration may serve no purpose. (I’ ve been in lockdown too and never want to repeat it. It didn’t do anything except make me more angry.) I don’t know if the pap could be convicted of reckless driving after the fact or not. He doesn’t sound blameless and I’d be all for seeing him pay a fine for reckless endangerment or something but, GB, punching people out is just not acceptable.

It’s a misdemeanor. He isn’t going to jail. He will pay a fine and get probation. This isn’t Les Mis.
As for the pug — seriously??? Just because you haven’t seen his dog lately doesn’t mean a thing. FFS, most celebrities aren’t seen with their pets except the tw/ats that carry them around in a purse all the time.

Hi # 26. Yes, Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his family, but contrary to a lot of opinion he did not get 25 years or whatever the final sentence was for that. I believe the sentence was initially 5 years. He just got more added on for additional violations and attempts to escape. Hugo’s thesis was that incarceration just breeds more anger and more effective criminals and the justice system was fauuty. I agree with that. I don’t know what happened to Lolita. I’ve wondered myself how GB manges to jet set all over the world and still keep a dog. I just don’t know.

Well hangglider you managed to work my favorite musical of all time into the Gerry Butler threads here at JJ LOL I must agree with Victor Hugo’s treatment of the issue of crime and punishment in the play. Tell ya what - if GB gets 20 years I promise to fling myself into the sewers of gay Parie’ just like our man Javert - or was it the Sein - in the stage play it was sewer - maybe Sein in the book.
OK so GB’s little doggie - I fear she’s a gonner. I don’t have proof and am just commenting from observations I’ve made. I thought the unconditional love and grounding that kind of responsibility can bring might be a good thing in his life. Well, he’s kicked booze, drugs and cigarettes, maybe giving up things you love is a habit with this guy.

Gerry isn’t perfect. He’s just a human beeing with flaws and insecurities as anyone else.
But sometimes I think that maybe the women that cross his way are using him or trying to change his way pushing him too much, or they just don’t like him and dump him… Who knows?
I don’t understand why people always put the blame on him.
I’m doing my best here trying to find the right words to explain myself but sometimes my English doesn’t help. (I love that language).
I don’t see Gerry as a bad person and maybe he doesn’t really want to hurt those girls.Things just happen and who knows whether he’s guilty or not when a relationship doesn’t end well?
You all know that a woman sometimes makes a man suffer…
I love that man… and wish him the best
hugs

The link is off by one page! UUGH! Just click “previous” to see pics from LAC.

Great comments. Brasilian woman, your English is far better than that of a lot of native speakers. Don’t apologize. If I don’t entirely agree with you on every point, I respect your opinion and your way of expressing it. I don’t feel I am blaming GB for everything that happens. Sure, any man who becomes famous and rich has to know, if he has any brains, that women are going to try to use him for their own ends. Truthfully, if GB is F-ing around as much as people say he is, I’m amazed that more stories and maybe secretly taped videos haven’t come out. Sure, women can be shameless users too.

Amen #31, please don’t throw yourself into the Seine or the Paris sewers no matter what. I would miss you. :)

#36 Thank you for telling that story. If true, it’s a sad commentary on GB’s attitude.

That’s what I’ve been thinking as well. Also the Halle Berry comment (even at a time when he admitted to having a girlfriend). He always tries to shrug these comments off as jokes afterwards when he realises how rude they were, but I still think it’s not funny and certainly not the “special Scottish humor” (as his fans always claim) to say these things in the first place. It’s just disgusting and shows how little respect he has for women. Also the thing he said about his then girlfriend from NY. Something like “a nice girl”. I’d smack my boyfriend if all he had to say about me was that I was “nice”. That’s basically an insult to a woman you have a relationship with and are supposed to love. But then, he probably didn’t love her anyway.

I truly doubt he gets stalked day and night..Alot of people don’t even know who he is..In fact, while I was in Glasgow, Scotland recently..no one knew who he was…actor?..from where?…I’m glad that he is living his dream of being an actor and I’m sure at times, he wonders why with all the media and paps at his feet why?…… but only where they hang out..if he wants to go under the radar..he still can do so as proven right at this very moment..

You mean that is what he will look like when he quits coloring his hair. Old has nothing to do with it, unless you consider 40 old. My money is on far greater than 50% grey under all that clairol (sp?).

I really have nothing new to add but felt when I read through the new comments and my last, I went OUCH! because I sounded more abrupt and waspish than I meant to. Sorry folks. This is such a good site to comment on. People express intelligent thoughts, which is fun. Perhaps the object of all this discussion isn’t worth our time, but what the heck. Sometimes great ideas come from seemingly misspent time.
Brazilian woman, I’m sorry I mispelled your name. Your English doesn’t need correcting. Anyone who can speak and write more than one language is to be commended anyway. (But isn’t Brasilia spelled with an s in the middle?)
#34 “old man g” thanks for pointing out that picture on the set of LAC. It was amusing to see all that gray hair on GB’s head, and the glasses. giggle tee hee.
I also didn’t reply properly to “me” #36 and #39. I appreciate you mentioning the interview about “hunting women” and losing interest when he gets them. I never saw or read that. BTW It reminds me of an old joke about a dog that persisted in chasing cars. His owner one day said, “Little dog, what would you do with it if you caught one?”

If GB said something about losing interest after the hunt that it is sad because it’s what you expect from teen-age boys who are just starting to explore girls. That kind of comment should not be coming from a man who is nearing 40. GB has talked a lot about his misspent youth drinking and how his friends were disappointed when he gave it up because he was so entertaining fighting, jumping in front of cars and setting himself on fire, or some such stuff. It almost seems as if he is doing the same thing in a different way. He has millions of mostly besotted female fans who love every outrageous thing he says and does and think he is nonstop hilarious and it seems he plays to them. I wondered if I was the only one in the world who thought the Halle Berry comment was inappropriate and immature. And I’m not a prude. he seems a likable bloke but I can’t help wondering whom he may be antagonizing. He is supposed to be highly intelligent but I have never seen that in any interview he’s given.

@cubedweller You’ve been around these sites for awhile. Thank you for your response. I guess I didn’t see the Leno show you refer to. I was an early admirer after 300 because I thought I saw something unique in him, but then it just seemed to fizzle bubble by bubble. So I am disappointed, not because he is an imperfect human being as we all are, but because he doesn’t seem to have a clue how to behave. There are still enough mentally defective women who adore him to keep his career going for awhile I guess. They are suporting his silly behavior so he keeps it up. I just read somewhere that all men are 14-year-old boys at heart, but I know 18-year-old MEN who are more man than this almost 40-year-old movie star.

I’ve been a fan since I saw him in THE JURY - years ago. He’s had some success since then and gained himself some celebrity. What I think has happened is that the guy is so talented - when he’s good in his films he is undeniable. Watch Dear Frankie and The Jury - he’s brilliant, subtle and intense. But those were small films with no promise of distracting notoriety. By the time 300 came along he was so morphed into a Hollywood guy that he lost his soul. When a nobody is immature or a cad we don’t take much notice. But when we see flashes of greatness we invest and get excited for a life of substance and artistic achievement.
He just couldn’t land it and while he floundered around he spilled his guts and his real, flawed, self-centered personality came to the surface. Had he landed his career he’d be forgiven all this or it would be swept away. I read almost no trash about Clooney or DeCaprio… they’re exalted. So that’s the formula GB - first you get exalted THEN you can be an A*hole.

Thanks Hangglider :-) I’ve enjoyed my long time observation of GB - good entertainment for the most part. There are some great films out there you might want to find - a campy treatment of the Beowulf saga filmed entirely in Iceland - he’s a fab Beowulf….takes your breath away. But though Attila was kind of standard TV movie stuff - he was crazy beautiful as that Hun - yikes.
I’m holding out for Citizen because I feel the role will be a meaty one for him and he can chew away at the scenery…what’s not to like there LOL
But the one that’s fraught with portent for his career is this Aniston collaboration - please Gerry, say it isn’t so. I think for an actor, that might be like ‘filing for bankruptcy’ You get to live, but you damage your career for 7 - 10 years :-)

Hey , how about giving the slander a break? Your disappointment and anger is showing. Interviews don’t mean anything. A lot of times articles are twisted around by the writer for their own selfish purposes-for shock value. Or video interviews are edited on purpose to be entertaining. It sounds like you believe in everything you read and you shouldn’t because a lot of times they’re just a bunch of lies. Question, do you really hate GB that much, or is this what you call pure entertainment? I was just curious to know, not being sarcastic. I’m guessing that you’re disappointed bewildered fans who have been let down one too many times. Maybe the answer is don’t have him on a huge pedestal. Let him be a flawed human and if you don’t like him then don’t watch his movies or read articles about him or watch interviews. That’s just my opinion.

Here’s more proof that G doesn’t care how he’s perceived or maybe he thinks this behavior is o.k. for a man in his mid-30s. His immaturity has been hiding in plain site for a long time, well before 300. I guess his PR team has done a good job, as well as his crazy fans, in diverting attention away from this guy to the more agreeable Gerry most fans want to believe in.
A picture says more than words. Can’t misinterpret this one ~

http://celtic-hearts.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=225&pos=0

Maybe you and his other fans should stop believing all the BS he is saying and take off the rose-colored glasses. What constantly amazes me is how is fans are very quick at saying “I only believe what he says himself” when it’s stuff that fits their fantasy image of him, but as soon as he says something not so favorable it had to be twisted around or edited by mean-spirited journalists… Yeah right…. Dream on…

I haven’t been here in a while. I’m amazed that the same people keep posting these lengthy comments. Where do you get the time?

#60
yeah, he got plenty of practice making his “home movies”.

@Swansong: I can bang out 10 lines in about 3 minutes. From reading the lengthy comments, as you call them, I doubt there’s more than 5 minutes devoted to a post. Perhaps it’s not the length of the posts, but the moderate and well reasoned commentary that you question.
Cheers tho. ;-)

Swansong is a devoted Gerry loon. Everyone knows that. Just ignore her. If Gerry sawed a baby in two and ate it, she’d blame the infant. Some of those whackadoodle GALS think he reads these sites and they don’t want to upset him because they’re praying they have a chance with him. Sorry if that thought made you barf.

Faux Swansong is much more fun. Where’s she hiding?

That photo is from a role he was playing, not real life. In his real life, his tongue would probably be elsewhere on all those women. He’s allegedlly done more “kitty licking” than a cat with a new litter.

why the hell would anyone be in a 5 minute movie? oh yeah, there’s orgy scenes in it.
didn’t want to miss being in that cinematic masterpiece, huh ger?

@amen

I don’t look for historically accurate treatment, I just go to see the films and figure out for fun how accurate they are. I missed “Troy” until I saw part of it on TV recently. In “300″ I feel reasonably sure the Persian army didn’t have monsters on the payroll , and “Attila” was so riddled with historical inaccuracies and made-up mystical crap it was absurd. Actors work with the material they get, unless they get enough power to call the shots and make great, honest movies, which is what we wanted and expected from GB, isn’t it? And anyone who says we had no right to expect that is fudging around making excuses. We have a right to expect greatness from people who seem to offer it. If they don”t deliver, we have a right to be disappointed.
You have it right about the films you mention. Also “The Right Stuff” was pretty good I think. Also, “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” the U.S. Japan collaboration about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. When former enemies can collaborate and face their common guilt that’s strong stuff. Perhaps one of the greatest last movie lines of all times is Admiral Yamamoto, surrounded by people celebrating their great victory over the U.S., looking troubled and saying something like, “I fear we have just awakened a sleeping tiger.”
Another historical note, the aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor later became an American citizen and a Christian minister and lived in Oregon for the rest of his life. History is endlessly fascinating. True stories to me are much more fascinating than Batman.

@hangglider:
OK HG I’ll bite: “…the world may construe by it’s wits, this Court must construe by the llllaaaaawwwwwwww…” (as only Sir Paul Schofield could say “law” :-) ) I remember your quote by Adm. Yamamoto but in the “pear Harbor” film of Affleck et all…cute little romp thru WWII :-)
I recently enjoyed an interesting historic double header. I saw THE READER on a Friday and VALKYRIE the next day. While non-reader says “what could I do, the dead are still dead…” our boy Klaus and his noble crew of saboteurs saw evil and risked all to confront it. I give Tom C. full credit for taking on this important historic event. Did you see it?

@amen. Sorry. correction. Yamamoto was quoted in TTT! as saying, “I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping GIANT and fill him with a terrible resolve.” I understand the second part of the sentence after GIANT was dropped in PH, and that Yamamoto may never have actually SAID this aloud or on that occasion anyway. There is some evidence that he wrote it to someone in a letter, but it seems the people involved with the film never actually saw the letter and so it’s anecdotal. So much for historical accuracy. I stand humbled. Hell, it’s small potatoes compared with men who turn into bats, talking, flying cars and Persian soldiers riding elephants and rhinocereses into Thermopylae. It’s a damn good quote anyway, and at least based on SOMETHING. :) If the Admiral didn’t say it aloud, he should have! Screenwriters need SOME dramatic license to condense events and move the story forward so I don’t quarrel with it, just feel sorry to say I told ya wrong. I hang again and glide away.