Tag: Legal

By Beth Kleid
Originally printed in The Los Angeles Times
Friday, February 16, 1990

Comedian Sam Kinison’s ex-wife is still waiting for the minister-turned-comic to make a $50,000 alimony payment, prompting a contempt-of-court claim, her attorney Marvin Mitchelson said. Mitchelson said on Wednesday that the comedian was scheduled to pay Terry Kinison $50,000, covering his alimony obligation for 1990, by Jan. 5. Mitchelson said he planned to ask a Superior Court judge to require Kinison to pay $10,000 in fines at a hearing scheduled for March 9.

By Daniel Cerone
Originally printed in The Los Angeles Times
Thursday, January 11, 1990

Police were seeking comedian Sam Kinison Wednesday for questioning in connection with a sports car found abandoned after it crashed on a winding Mount Olympus street. The black 1986 Chevrolet Corvette, bearing the personalized license plate EX REV, was discovered smashed into a power pole off Nichols Canyon Road at Astral Drive, said Los Angeles police officer S.B. Jaramillo of the West Traffic Division. The Corvette apparently had been leased to the controversial stand-up comedian and former Pentecostal minister, police determined. Police confiscated the abandoned Corvette for their follow-up investigation.