Randy Quaid Busted Again, Capital One Credit Card Commercials Mystery
Randy Quaid Lawsuit: Quaid claims he's not being paid for past work. Does this include Capital One Card commercials?
On September 24, 2009, Randy and Evi Quaid were arrested in Texas for allegedly failing to pay a $10,000 bill for a hotel stay in Santa Barbara County, California. Almost a year later, the news Randy Quaid and Evi Quaid, busted in their former home in Santa Barbara County on burglary charges. Randy and Evi claiming they owned the home ‘since the 1990′s’ after the owner reported squatters at the property. Proof the Quaids had sold the home, years ago. When Randy and Evi were arrested last year for not paying a hotel bill I recall thinking, Randy Quaid does the voiceovers for Capital One commercials. Voiceovers for commercials, a pretty good gig for celebrities.
Capital One commercials with Randy Quaid voiceovers, played, what, hundreds of times a day? Based on the amount of times Capital One airs their commercials, Randy should have had enough dough to pay for Randy and Evi’s $10,000 stay at a Santa Barbara hotel? Why were Randy and Evi, after the recent arrest, squatting in their old home, a home they sold years ago, after Randy starred in the 2009 film, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach and the 2008 film, Real Time?
In 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported Randy Quaid ‘mysteriously’ dropped a $10 million lawsuit against Universal in a dispute over the amount of money Universal paid Randy to star in Brokeback Mountain.
On December 22, 2009, Randy and Evi finally showed up court, pleading not guilty to stiffing the hotel.
The couple, who are accused of charges of burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy, were ordered back to court March 1 for a preliminary hearing.
“A lot of things can happen between now and then,” Santa Barbara Detective Rod Forney, who worked on the case, tells PEOPLE. “It could be dropped to a misdemeanor or there could be some kind of plea.”
On January 28, 2010, Radar reported EXCLUSIVE: PI Files Restraining Order Against Randy & Evi Quaid: “They’re Bullies”.
On April 28, 2010, Radar reported EXCLUSIVE: Charges Dropped Against Randy Quaid – Evi Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor:
After hours huddled together in Judge’s chambers with their attorneys and the DA on Wednesday morning, Randy and Evi Quaid hashed out a deal, with charges dropped against Randy and Evi copping a misdemeanor guilty plea, RadarOnline.com has learned.
RadarOnline.com was there in the Santa Barbara courtroom as Evi was sentenced to 3 years probation and 240 hours of community service, which she plans to do in Los Angeles, working with the homeless.
On August 23rd, a new report from Radar, Randy Quaid Claims There Was A Conspiracy To Take His Money, a report which seemed to contain info related to why Randy and Evi are ‘homeless’. The report Randy Quaid filed a lawsuit claiming his old manager, lawyer, bank, and Randy’s brother, actor Dennis Quaid had ‘conspired’ to defraud Randy out of ‘millions of dollars’.
Radar:
In new court documents, Randy Quaid claims that his old manager, lawyer, and even his bank conspired to defraud him of millions of dollars.
Quaid wrote his own legal claim, which he filed on Monday with the Los Angeles County Superior Court. In it he says, “Over the past 40 years I have earned over approximately 40 million dollars.” He and and his wife Evi “trusted the wrong attorney, the wrong estate manager and the wrong bank.”
Quaid believes his lawyer and business manager made a series of real estate deals and conspired with his bank to defraud him of millions.
The actor also says his brother Dennis is involved in the scam to steal his money and that his own manager and other people tried to cheat him out of royalty checks that he deserved.
Randy filing the lawsuit doesn’t imply the allegations are true.
Randy also claimed in the lawsuit he wasn’t ‘being paid for his work’. Was the ‘work’ Randy claims he’s not being paid for, the voiceovers from the Capital One commercials? Commercials which still air with Randy Quaid voiceovers?
On December 18, 1989, People magazine published an article on Randy Quaid. Randy, then 39, was newly married to Evi. In the People article, how Randy met Evi:
Then last December, he met Evi on the set of Bloodhounds of Broadway (Madonna’s gangster farce, which had a brief release this fall), where she was a production assistant assigned to run errands, make coffee—and drive Randy to and from the set. The first night they went to dinner, Randy told her he loved her. Two weeks later, he proposed. “I was sort of expecting it, actually,” Evi says. “It was just so obvious that’s where it was going.”
From Evi Quaid’s IMBD bio:
Evi was born in 1963 in Vermont, of Spartan and Russian descent. At age 12, Evi left home permanently. Her Greek grandfather financed her education at five different New England boarding schools, all of which she was summarily expelled from for intentionally altering the interpretation of school regulations such as bedtime curfews, dress codes, and for escaping campus boundaries after dark. After four years of attendance at five schools, her high school diploma was withheld for bad behavior. While pursuing her film and visual arts projects, Evi met actor Randy Quaid whom she married in 1989. While working to create diverse characters for photographers, Evi developed a penchant for imprinting humor and immediate gratification on the viewer. In her early work, she experiments with stereotypes of the nude to such an extreme, photographers found their own work unrecognizable, even somewhat vulgar. She sought to push boundaries to create nudes that reverse the traditional focus away from the breast, while exposing elements bare to penetrate in a confrontational and liberal manner, both inviting and repelling. Nude portraits of Evi have been prominently featured in Helmut Newton’s exhibitions, including “Sex and Landscapes”, which appeared at the Mary Boone Gallery in the United States, and at the De Pury Luxembourg Gallery in Europe.
Also mentioned in the People article, the feud between Randy and Dennis Quaid:
As for his relationship with his brother, Dennis, 35, Randy says any resentment the two harbored against each other is gone—perhaps played out when they co-starred as the battling True West brothers in a 1983 off-Broadway production of the Sam Shepard play. “It was probably more me than him, anyway,” Randy admits. “I might have resented it, struggling and then my name opens the door for him. But I got over that a long time ago.” “I don’t believe there are two brothers in this world who are closer,” says their mother, Nita. Recent events seem to back up that rosy maternal view. Randy asked Dennis to serve as best man at his Oct. 5 wedding in Montecito, and the whole family spent Thanksgiving with Dennis and his fiancée, Meg Ryan, in Montana.
Also mentioned in the article, Randy and Evi’s new home in Montecito, California.
Montecito, located in Santa Barbara County. The hotel Randy and Evi skipped out on the bill using an invalid credit card, the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito.
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