Actor who has made career playing virtuous characters accused in lawsuit of delivering water to 60-acre ranch in defiance of cease-and-desist orders. Helga Esteb/Shutterstock He possesses Hollywood’s lushest mustache – a thick, luxuriant growth which seems to enhance the virtue of the characters he plays on screen. The heroic private detective of Magnum PI, the honest police commissioner of Blue Bloods, the doting father of Three Men and a Baby, all bolstered by Tom Selleck’s facial foliage. But now the actor has been cast as a villain of Hollywood – for stealing truckloads of water to try and maintain a verdant ranch amid California’s drought. He allegedly looted water from a public hydrant to irrigate his 60-acre ranch and avocado farm outside Los Angeles. This is a very personal, literal watergate, and it has made Selleck the new face of celebrity drought-shaming, a term of our times for high-profile people who flout state-mandated efforts to curb water consumption. The Calleguas municipal water district, which serves about three-quarters of Ventura County, said it paid a private investigator $21,685.55 to document the water thefts. The district is suing Selleck, 70, and his wife, Jillie Mack-Selleck, in the superior court for costs associated with the investigation plus legal fees, undetermined damages, plus a preliminary and permanent injunction barring the couple and their contractors or employees from taking more water. Read the rest at the Guardian. Link: Tom Selleck Cast as Villain of California Drought in Lawsuit Alleging Water Theft
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Tom Selleck Cast as Villain of California Drought in Lawsuit Alleging Water Theft
