A Missouri woman accused in a MySpace hoax that ended in a girl's suicide was convicted Wednesday of three misdemeanor charges by an L.A. jury that rejected more serious felonies. Lori Drew, 49, faces up to three years in prison after the federal jury declined to convict her on three felony charges and couldn't decide on a fourth. The felony counts had carried a maximum 20-year term. Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans on MySpace and participated in what the prosecutor called "an elaborate scheme to inflict massive humiliation" on the emotionally fragile Meier that...
- 11/26/2008
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Trial started Wednesday in a cyber-bullying trial with a federal prosecutor asking a Los Angeles jury to find that a Missouri woman "hatched a plot to prey on the psyche of a 13-year-old girl" that ended in suicide. U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien said Lori Drew posed as a 16-year-old boy in 2006 to flirt with her young neighbor Megan Meier – knowing Megan was both boy-crazy and depressed – then ended the online exchange by writing: "The world would be a better place without you." Megan wrote back, "You are the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over," O'Brien told the jury.
- 11/19/2008
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Jurors in a cyber-hoax trial will hear evidence a Missouri woman's messages on MySpace provoked the suicide of a 13-year-old neighbor, a judge in Los Angeles ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge George H. Wu denied a defense motion to exclude evidence that Megan Meier reacted to Lori Drew's messages in October 2006 by hanging herself. Megan thought she was communicating with a cute 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans, who liked her but then suggested the world would be better off without her. Wu had said he was leaning the other way because Drew is essentially charged with a form of hacking,...
- 11/14/2008
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Los Angeles-based New Films International has completed one of the largest deals to close with the Middle East at the Afm.
Nfi concluded the deal with Lebanon's Falcon Films, which has acquired an eight-title package covering all rights for the Middle East.
The films included in the agreement cover titles in production and completed films, including the relationship drama "Multiple Sarcasms," starring Timothy Hutton; "Serbian Scars," with Michael Madsen; "Frame of Mind," with Chris Noth; and "The Making of Plus One," with Jennifer Tilly and Amanda Plummer.
New Films International president Nesim Hason said this year alone Nfi has closed more than $1 million worth of deals with Falcon.
Other titles included in the package are Mary McGuckan's "Rag Tale," starring Simon Callow and Kerry Fox, and "Palo Alto," with Tom Arnold.
New Films International was formed in 1996 by Hason to bridge the gap between the U.S. and international.
Nfi concluded the deal with Lebanon's Falcon Films, which has acquired an eight-title package covering all rights for the Middle East.
The films included in the agreement cover titles in production and completed films, including the relationship drama "Multiple Sarcasms," starring Timothy Hutton; "Serbian Scars," with Michael Madsen; "Frame of Mind," with Chris Noth; and "The Making of Plus One," with Jennifer Tilly and Amanda Plummer.
New Films International president Nesim Hason said this year alone Nfi has closed more than $1 million worth of deals with Falcon.
Other titles included in the package are Mary McGuckan's "Rag Tale," starring Simon Callow and Kerry Fox, and "Palo Alto," with Tom Arnold.
New Films International was formed in 1996 by Hason to bridge the gap between the U.S. and international.
- 11/9/2008
- by By Liza Foreman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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