 Basinger hires security for daughter | |
Actress Kim Basinger has hired a bodyguard for her 11-year-old daughter after a voice-mail tirade by her father, actor Alec Baldwin, was made public last week.
The divorced couple's bitter six-year custody battle over their only daughter, Ireland, burst into the open last Thursday when the celebrity Web site TMZ.com posted a recording of a blistering phone message Baldwin had left the child, calling her a "rude, thoughtless little pig."
Baldwin later apologized for his temper with a statement on his own Web site, and accused his ex-wife of leaking the voice mail tape to the media in defiance of a court order sealing material related to their custody proceedings.
But Basinger's spokeswoman, Annett Wolf, issued a statement on Monday denying the actress released the voice mail and said the recording was "not sealed under a court order."
"Kim did hire security in response to the media attention on her daughter in order to allow Ireland to maintain her regular routine and activities uninterrupted. Her statement added that Basinger hoped Baldwin would "finally address his unstable and irrational behavior so he, at some point, can potentially create a relationship with his daughter. | 
