QUICK TAKES - June 25, 2009

Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton filed suit Wednesday against the Black Eyed Peas’ manager over an altercation outside a Toronto nightclub that left the gossip maven bloodied and turning to Twitter to summon police help.

In the L.A. Superior Court suit for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Hilton’s lawyer alleged that a “brutal physical assault” by manager Liborio “Polo” Molina capped repeated verbal attacks by the Black Eyed Peas’ members Fergie and will.i.am. The performers, he wrote, were angry that Hilton panned their latest album. He charged that Molina punched Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, three or four times in the face, causing an injury to his eye. Toronto police charged Molina with assault.

The suit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, also contends that Molina and the band have “a long history of violence,” including a brawl in a German nightclub and an incident in which Molina struck an off-duty police officer during filming of an episode of the TV show “Punk’d.”

Molina could not be reached for comment. Will.i.am’s publicist did not immediately return a message.

-- Harriet Ryan