Boxer Has a Domestic Bout

Mr. Johnnie’s Ulysses . . . Family Affair . . . How derivative . . . Bent spoons, Nazis and Pokemonsters.

Singing pugilist Oscar De La Hoya might have a CD of Latin pop songs climbing the music charts, but his personal life more closely resembles a corny country and western song. Goes something like this: I got you out of my heart--but I can’t I get you out of my house.

The Golden Boy is suing his former love, Shanna Moakler, her parents and her friend in Superior Court in Santa Monica, charging that they have taken over his gated Bel-Air estate and locked him out.

In his own home, the Olympic gold medalist is persona non grata. A regular Oscar De La Who-ya.

According to court papers, Oscar and Shanna broke up in August. She allegedly refuses to leave the six-bedroom house De La Hoya bought in 1997 and recently put on the market for $5.5 million.

The suit charges that Shanna, the mother of De La Hoya’s 18-month-old daughter, Atiana, changed the locks and sent Julio the handyman and Lupe the housekeeper packing. Then she threw herself a giant bash, calling it “Shanna’s Freedom Party,” and invited the great unwashed public, says the suit.

Shanna and her mother, Gail, smoke cigarettes in the house, De La Hoya charges: “Smoke, odor and ashes are everywhere, from plaintiff’s bedroom to the laundry room.”

Shanna’s mother follows one of De La Hoya’s assistants around “in a hostile and belligerent manner, making rude comments” and slamming doors, the suit charges.

The pro boxer/balladeer is asking Judge Lorna Parnell to boot out the ex-gal pal, et al. He also seeks more than $500,000 in damages.

PICKETING MR. JOHNNIE: Johnnie L. Cochran also has an unwanted visitor: one Ulysses Tory, a disgruntled former client who has been picketing the famed lawyer’s Wilshire Boulevard offices since January. Cochran is suing Tory in Los Angeles Superior Court for defamation and invasion of privacy.

Cochran understands that Tory has the constitutional right to free speech. So he’s not asking the judge to make him go away.

But, Cochran’s suit points out, if Tory wants to tarnish his reputation by telling passersby that Cochran owes him money, is unfit to practice law and acted dishonestly while representing Tory--well, those are fighting words. He wants damages. The unspecified general and punitive kind.

TV DOLL: We thought we’d seen it all when Barbie got litigious. Now they’re suing over who owns the rights to Mrs. Beasley, the doll from the 1960s television show “Family Affair.”

We say Mrs. Beasley belongs to Buffy, the little girl with the blond corkscrew pigtails. But that would be too easy and would leave all those marketing people out in the cold.

The Family Affair Co.--yes, there really is such a thing--has asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to sort it out. The company sued Viacom Consumer Products, which claims it acquired the rights to Mrs. Beasley from CBS. Au contraire, says the Family Affair. The company says those rights died when the show went off the air in 1971 after a five-year run.

For those of you who missed this contribution to the culture, “Family Affair” starred the late Brian Keith as a gruff bachelor raising his orphaned nieces and nephew: Sissy, Buffy and Jody. The show put Mrs. Beasley dolls on every little girl’s wish list.

TALKIE COPYCAT? Back in 1924, silent film comedian Harold Lloyd starred in “The Freshman,” which told the story of a nerd who became the waterboy for his college football team, achieved gridiron greatness by imagining the faces of his enemies on his opponents, and won the heart of the woman of his dreams.

Some 75 years later, Adam Sandler starred in the Disney film “The Waterboy,” which had the same basic story line.

Coincidence? Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter thinks not.

Suzanne Lloyd Hayes is suing the Walt Disney Co. in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming the Sandler flick infringes on the Lloyd original’s copyright. Court papers state that the similarity between the two films was immediately recognized by film critics. Except, of course, for that loopy Sandler dialogue. She seeks damages of $50 million on behalf of the Harold Lloyd Trust.

HEIL, POKEMON? Famed psychic Uri Geller is asking a federal judge in Los Angeles to order Nintendo to stop using his likeness on Pokemon cards he says are anti-Semitic.

Geller, known for his alleged ability to bend spoons with his mind, charges that the Japanese company is using his name and bent spoon symbol without permission. His lawyer, Marshall B. Grossman, says Geller never would have agreed to lend his image to the little Pokemonsters because he finds Pokemon’s symbolism anti-Semitic and offensive.

The Pokemon card in question shows a character based on Geller with a star on its forehead and lighting bolts on its chest, the suit states. The lighting bolts resemble the Nazi SS insignia. In an unrelated case, Nintendo recently agreed to remove a symbol that looked like a Nazi swastika from a Pokemon card.

What could they be thinking?

Geller is seeking a permanent injunction, compensatory and punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.