NATION : Part of Rob Lowe Sex Case Dropped
A federal judge today dismissed part of a lawsuit accusing Rob Lowe of enticing a teen-age girl into sexual antics on videotape.
The girl’s mother, Lena Arlene Wilson, had sued the actor under a Georgia law involving the seduction of a minor daughter, and she also alleged that Lowe intentionally inflicted emotional distress on her family.
U.S. District Judge G. Ernest Tidwell, who heard arguments last week on Lowe’s request that the lawsuit be thrown out, agreed to dismiss the claim of emotional distress, saying the suit did not offer enough facts to warrant the allegation. But the judge refused to dismiss the claim for damages for seduction.
The lawsuit stems from a videotape Lowe purportedly made in his hotel suite while in Atlanta last summer for the Democratic National Convention. The tape--widely circulated on Atlanta’s party circuit and shown electronically censored on TV news--apparently shows Lowe, Wilson’s daughter and another woman in sexual escapades.
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