Trial Date Set For Tawny Kitaen's Fraud Allegations
 Monday, February 25th, 2008

Poor Tawny Kitaen.  Things haven't gone so well in the past few years for the actress Julie "Tawny" Kitaen, who is perhaps best known for her role in a popular Whitesnake music video, followed up by TV appearances from Seinfeld to the Surreal Life (in which she told off Florence Henderson - bad move!).

In the past decade, she's been arrested for alleged vandalization, charged with domestic abuse and battery against former husband Chuck Finley, charged with possession of cocaine; and now, in her latest battle, Tawny is still in and out of court for fraud allegations she is placing against the former "man of her dreams," Philip Cyburt.

In a lawsuit filed against Philip W. Cyburt in the summer of 2007, Tawny alleges that Cyburt drained funds from her accounts without permission.  According to CourthouseNews.com, Kitaen first noticed "significant funds" missing from her Merrill Lynch brokerage account, and a "bizarre" chain of title on her real estate holdings; she also alleges that Cyburt charged about $135,000 on her credit cards, used her airline miles, forged her name on checks, and robbed her of more than $3 million in the course of their four-year relationship.

Now over six months since the lawsuit began, a trial date has been set for October 1st, 2008.  The last motion, which was a lot of legal jargon, was filed by Cyburt's defense team, requesting that the court require Tawny to provide further documentation of her allegations to all parties involved in the suit.

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