Friday was not a good day for Oscar-nominated director John Singleton.
According to police reports, 39-year-old Singleton killed a female jaywalker who stepped in front of his Lexus SUV as he was driving it down a street in L.A.’s Jefferson Park neighborhood.
The 57-year-old victim was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead shortly after the incident.
Singleton, meanwhile, was questioned by police and later released. According to officers on the scene, the director waved down squad cars responding to the accident and identified himself. Police say Singleton (who made his film debut in 1991’s “Boyz N The Hood”) was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Actress Kirsten Dunst isn’t having the best month either.
The New York Post Two is reporting that the 25-year-old “Spider-Man” star was the victim of a thief who allegedly snuck into her Big Apple hotel penthouse suite and made off with at least two handbags (one valued at $13,000), wallets containing IDs, credit cards and cash, two digital cameras, a cell phone and an iPod.
The rip-off reportedly occurred at about 5 a.m. on August 9—-right after the Dunst left her suite to shoot scenes for her new film. Hotel surveillance cameras caught one of the suspects (a plumber who the Post says served more than three years in prison for his role in a cocaine-distribution ring) entering a guest elevator, and then switching to a freight elevator to reach Dunst’s suite. According to police reports, the plumber turned thief simply walked through an open door into the penthouse and made off with Dunst’s goods.
Police have since recovered the credit cards and the cell phone. But here’s the part that I find telling. The alleged thief was arrested a few days after taking Dunst’s stuff as he was leaving Brooklyn Supreme Court, where he was facing a charge for another crime. When he was questioned about why he was at the actress’ hotel the thief told a judge that he had heard a movie was shooting there, and he wanted “to check out what was going on.”
Oh, and one more tidbit filed under the “weird” column: According to the Post, the burglar’s personal MySpace page showed he last logged in on Monday – the day before he was arrested. His “mood” setting on the page indicated he was “worried.”
Makes you wonder how many other convicted felons have MySpace pages?