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Adult film actress to sue Charlie Sheen for assault

NEW YORK - A porn star who locked herself in the bathroom last month in the midst of a drunken rampage by actor Charlie Sheen at New York’s Plaza Hotel said on Monday she will file civil charges against the actor for assault.

Capri Anderson accused the “Two and a Half Men” star of grabbing her around the neck and throwing things at her.

“I never expected that the night would unfold the way it did,” Anderson told TV chat show “Good Morning America” on Monday. She said would file a lawsuit in Los Angeles civil court later on Monday for false imprisonment and assault.

In October, Sheen was found by police acting drunk and incoherent in a hotel suite that had broken furniture. He was taken to a hospital but was not arrested and no criminal charges were filed against him.

A spokesman for Sheen said last month the actor had reacted badly to an unspecified medication.

Anderson told the morning show on Monday she was promised $3500 to make a “dinner appearance” at a New York restaurant, where Sheen’s ex-wife Denise Richards was also in attendance.

She said the 45-year-old actor became increasingly intoxicated at the restaurant, speaking in a “vulgar” way while making several trips to the bathroom.

When they returned to the hotel, she said he snorted a “white powdery substance,” before she initially, willingly began to have “a little bit of romance”.

“When I became really uncomfortable was when he put his hands around my neck, but at that point things began to very rapidly, kind of fall apart, and just really get out of hand,” Anderson said.

Anderson said Sheen began to throw things at her, including a lamp, and she locked herself in the bathroom and called a friend.

Asked why she did not initially report what happened to the police, she said she was “shaken up.”

“I was crying, I was embarrassed that I was in my underwear when they came in, initially,” she said.

She said she never discussed payment for sex, and never received any payment.

Sheen’s manager Mark Burg on Monday suggested Anderson was concocting a story for money, noting that she had not filed a police report. “This is a woman who, for the right amount of money, sleeps with a stranger,” Burg told celebrity website TMZ.com.

Sheen, whose “Two and a Half Men” is the top-rated comedy on U.S. television, pleaded guilty in August to assaulting his third wife, Brooke Mueller, in December 2009, and was sentenced to drug and alcohol rehab and three months probation.

Sheen filed for divorce from Mueller on Nov. 1.