SYDNEY (AP) – Police do not intent to charge Mel Gibson over an allegation that the Oscar-winning director shoved and abused a newspaper photographer who snapped pictures of him and his new girlfriend in Sydney last month, officials said on Thursday.
The Daily Telegraph staff photographer Kristi Miller, 39, complained to police about the Aug. 23 altercation with Gibson, 59, after he and Rosalind Ross, 24, were photographed leaving an Israeli Film Festival screening of “Matti Caspi – Confession” at the Palace Verona Cinemas in inner-suburban Paddington.
State police said in a statement “the matter was … investigated thoroughly.”
“At this stage, based on the evidence gathered, no formal action will be taken,” New South Wales Police said.
Gibson’s Sydney lawyer, Christopher Murphy, was informed on Thursday of the police decision not to press charges, his publicist Rogers and Cowan said.