LOS ANGELES – Leonardo DiCaprio was smacked upside the head by a bottle-wielding animal rights activist while leaving a party in the pre-dawn Hollywood hours yesterday. As DiCaprio, who was wearing a leopardskin codpiece at the time, was walking toward his car, a woman raced up behind him yelling, “Death to animal abusers.”
When the startled DiCaprio turned around, the woman clocked him with the bottle. Unidentified friends drove DiCaprio to the emergency room of a nearby hospital, where a dozen stitches were reqjuired to close a wound near DiCaprio’s ear.
According to People magazine’s website, DiCaprio had partied until nearly 4 a.m. at the home of Rick Salomon, who was once linked to Paris Hilton romantically. In their zeal to attend to DiCaprio, none of the guests thought to apprehend the woman—or even to get a good description of her. She was variously described as “a short, blond middle-age woman,” a tall statuesque brunette in her early twenties who obviously wasn’t wearing a bra,” and “a butch-looking chick with a buzzcut wearing a Jennifer Lopez mask and the letters ‘ALF’ tattooed on her arm.”
A unidentified source close to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed that the last observation may be the most accurate.
“The LAPD received an e-mail yesterday afternoon from someone claiming to represent the Animal Liberation Front,” said the source. “In addition to containing details that only the attacker and those at the party would know, the e-mail warned of additional attacks if ‘the whores and pimps’ in Hollywood don’t stop wearing fur.
A call to DiCaprio’s spokesman, Ken Sunshine, was not returned immediately, but a senior editor at People said the spokesman had confirmed the assault.
The attack was not expected to affect DiCaprio’s work on the Martin Scorsese movie, “The Departed,” which is shooting in Boston and New York, People said. Nor was the attack expected to have any effect on the movie’s Oscar chances.
In other news, Las Vegas oddsmakers say it’s even money that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will have a baby in 2006—and better than even money that Katie will have the baby herself.
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