LOS ANGELES — Twilight star and teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid “drop house” in South Los Angeles, where one woman was beaten and others say they were threatened with assault, authorities said Tuesday.
Lautner, 17, was charged with harboring illegal immigrants at the two-story home that immigration agents raided Monday, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Nancy Hilbrich.
Lautner was arrested along with 57 immigrants, including teenagers and toddlers from Central and South America. An agent involved in the raid described conditions in the house as “utter squalor with trash and food piled up two to three feet high.”
Inside the home agents found a pistol and a stun gun that Lautner allegedly used to threaten the immigrants. They also found over 4000 pirated DVD copies of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
According to an affidavit filed in the case, Lautner repeatedly beat a woman who had been at the house since last summer because she was not a fan of Twilight. The woman, now seven months pregnant, said Lautner threatened her with a gun when she could not name her favorite character from the film.
Several other female immigrants said Lautner tried to beat them with a wooden plank, relenting only when the women’s young children began to cry, according to the affidavit.
Drop houses are commonly used to hold illegal immigrants until they are transported to their ultimate destination, the set of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, where they will be forced to work as grips and caterers.
Depressed about his recent breakup with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson has taken to humping pillows.
According to sources, Pattinson checked himself in to a Motel 6 in Valencia, CA on Friday. Since then, other motel guests have been complaining about the loud sobbing that comes from Pattinson’s room at all hours of the night. The only time the crying seems to stop is during one of Pattinson’s vigorous pillow-humping sessions, which happen three-to-four times a day, and last for about five-to-seven minutes each.
During the hump sessions, guests and staff members can clearly hear Pattinson’s bed creaking violently while the star yells out at the top of his lungs, “I am humping a pillow.”
Pattinson reportedly comes out of his room for 10 minutes each day in order to allow the housekeeping staff to replace his soiled pillowcases, and to stock up on Lipton Cup O Soups from the motel vending machine.
Motel workers who have seem the inside of the room say it looks like a war zone, with empty Cup O Soups strewn about and the palpable stench of semen and tears lingering in the air.
It is also reported that the walls of the room are covered in Kristen Stewart’s Twilight posters, with the exception of the space on the ceiling directly above the bed, which is reserved for a poster of Pattinson’s shirtless Twilight co-star, Taylor Lautner.
Friends of Pattinson say the star needs to pull himself together, and suggest that he should find fat girl to use as a “slump buster,” adding that there is no shortage of eager fat girls among his “Twihard” fanbase.
