Oscar-winning director Steven
Soderbergh is being sued by an Australian
woman who wants him to acknowledge he's the daddy of her five-month-old
daughter - and pay up.
The "Ocean's 11" and
"Sex Lies and Videotape" hitmaker, who is married to former E!
television personality Jules Asner and lives in New York, was hit with the
paternity suit by Frances
Lawrencina Anderson Thursday.
While working in Australia,
Anderson and Soderbergh "had sexual intercouse," the suit says,
"on many occasions covering all possible dates of conception, including
but not limited to December 2009, and as a result thereof (Anderson) became
pregnant."
Pearl Button Anderson was born Aug. 30, 2010.
"(Soderbergh) has
acknowledged that he is the father of the child verbally and by offering to pay
various medical and other expenses incurred by (Anderson) in relation to the
pregnancy," says the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The suit seeks to have
Soderbergh be legally declared the child's father and to have him pay Pearl's
health insurance and child support.
"(Anderson) is without
sufficient resources to provide for the child," the suit says.
Raoul Felder, a lawyer for Anderson declined
comment. A lawyer for Soderbergh did not return calls.
Soderbergh, 48, won a Best
Director Academy Award for "Traffic" in 2000.
In May 2003, he married Asner,
a former model who was once a fixture on FHM's "100 Sexiest Women"
listings. It was the second marriage for both of them.
Soderbergh was in Australia in
2009 to direct "Tot Mom", a play he wrote about how Nancy Grace
helped turn a Florida toddler's disappearance into a "24-hour news
spectacle," according to the play's website. The play, written by
Soderbergh, premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company in December 2009.
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