{"id":533088,"date":"2010-04-18T23:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101001"},"modified":"2010-04-18T23:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:10:45","slug":"abc-working-on-financial-kiss-off-for-nicollette-sheridan-marc-cherry-slap-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533088","title":{"rendered":"ABC Working On Financial Kiss-Off For Nicollette Sheridan-Marc Cherry Slap Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC is putting together a settlement &#8212; a peace package, so to speak &#8212; to pursade actress Nicollette Sheridan to drop her $20 million lawsuit against <em>Desperate Housewives<\/em> creator Marc Cherry.<\/p>\n<p>According London&#8217;s <em>Daily Express<\/em>, network executives can\u2019t stand the idea of a courtroom showdown between Cherry and Sheridan &#8212; who claims her former boss assaulted her on set during a dispute over a script in 2008 &#8212; therefore, ABC is working to come up with a financial \u201ckiss-off\u201d for the actress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/marc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"298\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/nicollette2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-101001\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last month, Nicollete alleges that Cherry, 48, \u201cforcefully hit her with his hand across the face and head\u201d after she suggested a script change. The lawsuit also charges Cherry with <em>\u201cintentional infliction of emotional distress.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur legal team is working to get both sides together to see if they can help broker a compromise. This doesn\u2019t mean that anyone is going to hand Nicollette $20 million to drop her action and walk away, but there are various incentives that might be put on the table.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, the remaining <em>Housewives<\/em>: Eva Longoria-Parker, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, and Marcia Cross: issued a statement firmly planting their support behind Cherry in the dispute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lHZIFqVndgyCl5efyHOpilasp64\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lHZIFqVndgyCl5efyHOpilasp64\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lHZIFqVndgyCl5efyHOpilasp64\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lHZIFqVndgyCl5efyHOpilasp64\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC is putting together a settlement &#8212; a peace package, so to speak &#8212; to pursade actress Nicollette Sheridan to drop her $20 million lawsuit against Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. According London&#8217;s Daily Express, network executives can\u2019t stand the idea of a courtroom showdown between Cherry and Sheridan &#8212; who claims her former boss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}