Holy, handcuffs!! "Batman" arrested by police for assaulting sister and mom
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LONDON - Batman star Christian Bale was arrested Tuesday over allegations of assaulting his mother and sister, police and British media said.
The 34-year-old actor spent four hours at a London police station before being released on bail.
British media had reported that Bale's mother and sister complained he had assaulted them at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before the European premiere of his latest film, "The Dark Knight."
The Sun newspaper said police did not question the actor Monday because they did not want to interfere with the premiere of the movie.
Asked Tuesday whether Bale had been arrested, a London police spokesman did not refer to him by name but said: "A 34-year-old man attended a central London police station this morning by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault."
The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity because force policy did not authorize him to be identified. British police do not name suspects before they are formally charged.
The force later said in a statement that the man had been released on bail pending further inquiries and told to return on an unspecified date in September.
U.S.-based representatives for Bale didn't immediately return messages seeking comment. Repeated phone calls to Bale's London representative went unanswered.
Wales-born Bale first made a splash as the child star of Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" in 1987. His screen credits also include "American Psycho," "The Machinist" and "Batman Begins."
In "The Dark Knight," Bale reprises the role of wealthy playboy Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman, a brooding vigilante superhero still scarred by the murder of his parents.
The Warner Bros. film, which stars the late Heath Ledger as Batman's nemesis The Joker, took in a record $158.4 million at the box office in its opening weekend in the U.S. last week.
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The Sun is not a newspaper, it's a tabloid."He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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From BBC, with photo of Bale in police custody....Batman star Christian Bale has been bailed by police after being questioned about allegations he assaulted his mother and sister.
The star, 34, was arrested and held for more than four hours after attending a London police station by appointment.
Mr Bale is alleged to have lashed out at his mother and sister in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel on Sunday.
The actor, who denies the allegation, has been released on bail until September pending further inquiries.
The Welsh-born actor is in the UK to promote the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight.
The actor was questioned at Belgravia police station for four hours
"A 34-year-old man attended a police station in central London by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault," a police spokesman said.
A statement released by Mr Bale's solicitors said the actor "co-operated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question, and left the station without any charge".
"At this time, there will be no further comment by Mr Bale," the statement continued.
The Hollywood star attended the European premiere of The Dark Knight last night in London's Leicester Square.
While he was being questioned at Belgravia police station, radio journalists were waiting to meet him at the Dorchester for interviews.
It had been reported that the assault allegation was originally filed at a police station in Hampshire.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed it had received an allegation from another force.
Mr Bale's sister sister Sharon, 40, shouted "it's a family matter" through a window when approached by reporters at her home in Corfe Mullen, near Wimborne, Dorset.
A man who answered the door at the home of his mother Jenny, 61, in Bournemouth, said she did not want to comment.
Mr Bale rose to fame as the child star of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.
He went on to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, and had leading roles in Shaft and Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
In 2005, he took on the role of the Caped Crusader in Batman Begins and reprised the role in The Dark Knight.
