Christian Bale Fights Assault Charges With Deny, Deny, Deny.

Christian Bale is seen here attending ‘The Dark Knight’ premiere at Odeon Cinema in Bareclona. And it seems that just getting to the premiere was half the battle for Christian as he has found himself facing some charges in London. Is Christian really a Dark Knight? Or does he have a temper that is a little out of control?

His mom and his sister have a few thoughts on that, particularly since they are the ones that have filed the charges against him. Christian’s mom, Jenny, who is 61 and his loving sister Sharon, who is 40, filed charges against him on Sunday after an incident at the London Dorchester Hotel. Christian was staying at the hotel for a stay to accompany his attendance at the UK premiere of The Dark Knight which was to take place the day following the incident.

According to UK’s, The Sun, Sharon and Jenny filed charges after some incident where Christian allegedly ‘lashed out’ at them and he was immediately charged and arrested. In England, it is a policy to arrest before investigation to protect the victims, so off he went. Christian voluntarily handed himself over to the police and has since been released and as have the charges apparently.

Christian denies the allegations completely, and cooperated with the police on all accounts, providing full details about the incident in question. And since then, no further comments are being made. Even his big mouth sister says:

“There was an incident but the police are dealing with it,” Sharon told the Telegraph newspaper in the U.K. “It is an extremely sensitive situation. There is nothing more I can say.”

A sensitive situation? Even his release was not exactly kept under wraps, as he was released Hollywood style. Considering his charges were ‘minor’ his release was a full out fanfare and included a 10 man police escort while he was driven out in a blacked out Mercedes people carrier.

Um, hello? Does anyone else smell a publicity stunt? Is it just a coincidence this happened the night before a major premiere? Particularly given all the PR that Heath Ledger has been posthumously given about the same film. Maybe Christian just needed to do SOMETHING to stand out a little bit. Time will tell….

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