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Gibson’s Ex Rejected $15M Settlement

Mad Mel

After initially signing to keep tapes secret.

How close were the Mel Gibson tapes to never seeing the light of day? TMZ says that Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva signed a $15 million deal to keep the tapes of the actor’s threatening rants quiet before eventually rejecting the settlement. The deal was worked out during child-custody mediation in May and included child support and a house—in return, Grigorieva would promise to keep her tapes secret. She played some of the tapes for Gibson’s lawyers, but not the ones with racial slurs. Both Gibson and Grigorieva signed a “short form agreement,” an outline of the deal, but then Grigovieva refused to sign the long detailed version because she felt coerced.

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