If a picture is worth a thousand words, this picture is the first thousand words of Guy Ritchie’s next film treatment. Sure, it’s got boxing (a November 2008 light-welterweight fight in Las Vegas), and it’s got foulmouthed Brits (at least, it has Liam Gallagher in his natural state, i.e. flipping off a camera). But see the redhead over Liam’s left shoulder, sternly looking off-camera? That’s Steve Allen, Gallagher’s bodyguard, business partner, and, according to Sunday’s Mirror, alleged death-threat sender.
Sam Berry and his girlfriend Claire Humphries both received letters in the mail containing bullets, the paper reports. The letters allegedly referred to one of several civil disputes in which former business associates Berry and Allen are entangled. The first of four such disputes ended with Allen forced to pay Berry ?54,000. On Sunday, Allen was arrested in connection with the death threats, then released on bail.
Allen is not only Gallagher’s bodyguard, but also managing director of the singer’s fashion brand Pretty Green, film company Savile Row Films, and production company In 1 Productions. Gallagher described Allen as a “constant companion,” according to The Guardian. He has not yet been alleged to have hung any recording artists out of hotel windows, but he was present at the 2002 brawl in which Gallagher got his front teeth knocked out.
At the time of this writing, his life rights are still available.
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