{"id":202758,"date":"2016-03-30T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=202758"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:33:10","slug":"actor-sued-for-170million-by-man-claiming-to-be-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=202758","title":{"rendered":"Actor sued for $170million by man claiming to be his son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor William Shatner is being sued for $170 million by a man claiming to be his son.<\/p>\n

Peter Sloan insists the Star Trek actor is his dad after he had a brief fling with his mother, late Canadian actress Kathy McNeil, who gave him up for adoption aged five, but the 85-year-old star insists he is nothing to do with the radio host.<\/p>\n

The 59 year old has demanded William to have a DNA test, stop saying he isn’t his dad and the lawsuit claims the actor “admitted he was the plaintiff’s father”, according to New York Post’s Page Six column.<\/p>\n

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Peter claims in the lawsuit, filed in Florida, that William’s comment came when they met on the set of police drama TV series T.J. Hooker, but shortly afterwards a representative for the star contacted him and said he was “totally denying paternity at this point”.<\/p>\n

He alleges the rep also told him: “Don’t go public … [as it] could be horrendous for [William].”<\/p>\n

Peter added to the publication: “I am William Shatner’s son, and I just wish he would acknowledge me.”<\/p>\n

But a rep for William insisted: “Mr. Shatner has three lovely daughters, but no sons … Mr. Shatner is aware of the lawsuit, but there’s nothing there because he isn’t his father.”<\/p>\n

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William’s lawyer Erik Hyman has also been in touch with Peter after he registered the internet domain petershatner.com<\/span>, started hosting a radio show on CBS under the name Peter Shatner in 2011 and turned up to see William at a meet-and-greet.<\/p>\n

The attorney wrote to Peter, telling him that William is “not interested” in talking over his claims.<\/p>\n

He wrote: “Bill … confirmed to me once again that he is not your father. There have been many people over the years who have claimed to be his children or other relatives.<\/p>\n

“He is an incredibly busy, 80-year-old man, and is not interested in spending time discussing this issue with you.”<\/p>\n

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Last month, William – who has three daughters, Leslie, 57, Lisabeth, 55, and 51-year-old Melanie from his first marriage to Gloria Rand – insisted he didn’t have any regrets about his life.<\/p>\n

Asked what he would change about his life, he said: “Nothing. I’ve got a beautiful wife, three beautiful children and I’ve raised a large amount of money for charity [a 2,400-mile motorbike ride across country for the American Legion].<\/p>\n

“Everything that has gone on before has made me one of the luckiest men on Earth.”<\/p>\n

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Source: Mirror\/UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actor William Shatner is being sued for $170 million by a man claiming to be his son. Peter Sloan insists the Star Trek actor is his dad after he had a brief fling with his mother, late Canadian actress Kathy McNeil, who gave him up for adoption aged five, but the 85-year-old star insists he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":202759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}