One Awful Thing Mel Probably Didn't Do

Oksana Grigorieva, you mysterious Russian minx, what are you up to today? The woman with a Volkawagon-clown-car-esque bag of horrifying evidence against Mel Gibson may have dug too deep with today's big reveal.

Radar reported that Mel had wanted to hire a hitman to take a, ahem, "Hollywood figure" out to the desert, break their kneecaps, and leave their bones for vulture snacks. He told her that he wanted "Jew blood on my hands!" as if he was about to be scalped by Brad Pitt's Nazi hunter in Inglourious Basterds.

TMZ reports that "Hollywood figure" was their boss, Harvey Levin, whose site broke the story about Mel Gibson's "sugartits"-peppered drunk-driving speech in 2006. Oksana's lawyer told them this story after they ran some information he felt wasn't sympathetic to the Russian pianist.

After an investigation, TMZ determined the story was a fake. A detective supposedly followed Harvey to the gym at 4 AM, but the gym cited wasn't Harvey's (nevermind that if he goes to the gym at 4 in the morning, he may be a cyborg).

Also, Oksana hadn't mentioned this piece of evidence when she went to a mediator with Mel to discuss custody of their baby daughter, while everything else we've heard (and presumably more) was brought up. And while Oksana had supposedly told the police, they never contacted Harvey about this.

So maybe, just maybe, one of Mel Gibson's unthinkable acts was just a rumour. I wish they all were, but there isn't really a neat explanation for wishing rape on a woman. So, sure, this damages Oksana's credibility, but she just has to be less evil than Mel Gibson, and anyone who is more evil than Mel Gibson probably already has their own horse to ride during the apocalypse (see above).

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