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40- YEAR-OLD VIRGIN actor Shelley Malil’s bail set at $10 million

August 14th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Kendra Beebe & Shelley Malil

Kendra Beebe & Shelley Malil

During his Wednesday afternoon arraignment before a Vista courtroom packed with entertainment reporters, Shelley Malil pleaded not guilty to charges that he stabbed his ex-girlfriend Kendra Beebe more than 20 times during an attack in her San Marcos home.

Bail had originally been set at $2 million, but Judge Marshall Y. Hockett upped it to $10 million, more than double the $4 million that prosecutors had requested. Malil, 43, of Sherman Oaks. He is charged with attempted murder and allegedly using a knife to cause great bodily injury.

Prosecutor Steven Carver told the court that there is evidence that the assault was willful and premeditated. The Union-Tribune reports that the violence erupted on the back patio of Ms. Beebe’s home and continued through the house. A companion of Ms. Beebe’s managed to wrestle the weapon from the crazed Malil who had a second knife, and continued to attack his ex on the front patio. A heroic neighbor came to Ms. Beebe’s rescue and put an end to the assault.

Maili fled the scene as soon as he heard police sirens blaring in the distance. He was later apprehended at the Oceanside Amtrack station while en route to meet his lawyer.

Ms. Beebe, a 35-year-old mother of two, was transported to a hospital where she was treated for, among other things, a punctured right lung; a penetrated left lung; and a stab in her throat that just missed an artery. She is expected to survive.

Courtroom observers gasped when Judge Hockett announced that he had set bail at $10 million. Hockett said that in light of the gravity of the offense, he considered Malil “a danger to public safety and a danger to Malil himself.”

No motive has been given for Malil’s violent attack. If convicted, he faces life in prison where he will undoubtedly be nicknamed “the 40-Second Virgin.”

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