Anne Heche Battles Ex for Son
Actress and ex have started casting accusations in bid for custody.
In the latest high profile custody battle, Anne Heche is duking it out with ex-hubby Coleman Laffoon. The couple's five-year-old son, Homer, is the top prize. The embittered exes have begun to take the Alec Baldwin-Kim Basinger approach to the matter: bashing each other's credibility as a parent. Heche has flung accusations at Laffoon that he made "heinous false statements" in trying to wrongfully depict her as a bad mother. Laffoon accused his actress ex of leaving their son in the hands of a procession of nannies while she traipsed off to Vancouver, where her new TV show, Men in Trees, films.
In retaliation, the actress has done the only sensible thing: sling mud right back. She accuses her ex of carting the boy off to preschool or dropping him into the hands of nannies and babysitters, so that his busy hands are freed up to take up ping-pong, poker, backgammon, and the occasional internet porn site. She goes so far as to say that her ex-hubby allows the five-year-old boy to join in when he hosts his weekly poker game.
Laffoon filed for divorce on February 2, and is asking for $30,000+ monthly in spousal support and joint custody. Heche is not asking for spousal support if she wins, and demands sole custody.
