Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemer has died at the age of 61

Sizemer was convicted of abusing his ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss in 2003 — the same year he pleaded no contest and was released from prison after evading a personal assault charge. The former Hollywood madam said he punched her in the jaw at a Beverly Hills hotel and beat her up so badly in New York that they couldn’t go on a date. Black Hawk Down first.

The sentencing judge said drug addiction may have been a catalyst, but the testimony showed a man with serious problems with women. Fleiss called Sizemore “zero” in an interview with The Associated Press after the sentencing.

Sizemore apologized in a letter, saying she had been “punished” and that “personal demons” had taken over her life, but she later denied she had been abused and blamed a fake photo showing her bruises.

Fleiss also sued Sizemer, claiming she suffered emotional distress after he threatened to revoke her probation. Fleiss was convicted in 1994 of calling a call girl for high prices. That lawsuit was settled on undisclosed terms.

Sizemore was the subject of two workplace sexual harassment lawsuits in 2002 related to the CBS show. Robbery and Homicide Division, in which he played a police detective. He was arrested in 2016 on another domestic violence charge.

Senmore was jailed from August 2007 to January 2009 for failing numerous drug tests during his probation period, and California authorities found methamphetamine in his car after Bakersfield.

“God is trying to tell me that He doesn’t want me to use drugs because every time I do, I get caught,” Sizemore said. Bakersfield, California in a prison interview.

Sizemore told the AP in 2013 that he believed his addiction was linked to the trappings of success. She tried to maintain her emotional composure as she described a low point while looking in the mirror: “I felt like I was 100 years old. I had no relationship with my children; I had no work to speak of. I lived in a hole.”

He appeared on a reality TV show Celebrity rehabilitation and its decline calm houseHe told the AP that he did the shows to get help and also to pay off millions in accumulated debt.

Most of Senmore’s later films in his career tended to be sci-fi, horror or action: he only appeared in films with titles like 2022. Impurat, Night of Tommyknockers And a vampire. But Sizemore still played several important roles, incl twin peaks revivals and guest spots on popular shows Medium And Five-O from Hawaii.

In 2016, the stuntman sued Sizemore and Paramount Pictures, alleging that he was injured when an intoxicated actor knocked him down during a shoot in the US. Shooter. State records obtained by the AP showed that Sizemore was only supposed to sit in a stationary car and that he “improvised and drove away when the scene ended.”

Sizemer was fired Shooter and the stuntman’s lawsuit ended in undisclosed terms.

In addition to his film and television credits, he was part of the 2002 voice cast Grand Theft Auto Vice City Video game. She also taught at LA West Acting Studio, according to recent ads.

She is survived by her 17-year-old twin sons Jaden and Jagger and her brother Paul, who were by her side at the time of her death.

“I’ve had an interesting life, but I can’t tell you what I’d give to be the guy you know nothing about,” Sizemore wrote in his memoir.

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