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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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Shelley Milil, 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN actor and Bob Hope fan, arrested for stabbing girlfriend 20 times

August 12th, 2008 by Scott Marks

A veteran TV and movie character actor featured in The 40-Year-Old Virgin was arrested in San Diego County Monday night in connection with an attack that left his former girlfriend in critical condition with 20 stab wounds. Shelley Malil, 43, of Sherman Oaks, California was stopped by the authorities as he stepped off an Amtrack train at the Oceanside station. Malil was en route to meet his lawyer to make arrangements for turning himself in. The actor was later booked on suspicion of attempted murder, mayhem and burglary and is being held in lieu of $2-million bail at the Vista Detention Center. Police responded to neighbors’ calls that they heard the victim, who was not identified, screaming and the sound of glass breaking. Malil’s ex-girlfriend was taken to a local hospital where she is in critical condition and being treated for stab wounds and cuts to her face. Her two small children slept through the attack. Originally I wasn’t going to write this up, but a strong wind from Toluca Lake came whipping through my bedroom window when I awoke this morning. In the second paragraph of his imdb biography, Malil is described as someone who “had dreams of becoming a comedic actor like his idol Bob Hope.” While the late comedian never resorted to physical violence, his violently insane ability to brutally interfere with other peoples’ thought patterns have been documented for the ages by the brave Sally Fox. Poor Shelley Malil must have been seated too close to the family television set during Bob’s NBC specials.

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