Christian Bale’s sister asked him for $200K?
Legal sources told The Sun the women said sister Sharon needed $200,000 to help her bring up her three children.
They said Bale, 34, snubbed the plea and a row flared in his suite at the Dorchester Hotel in London’s West End.
Welsh-born Bale was alleged to have “pushed and shoved” mum Jenny, 61, and Sharon, 41.
But sources close to 6ft 2in Bale, who has another sister called Louise, said Jenny inflamed the situation by hurling insults about his wife Sibi, 38.
A source close to the case said:
“Christian is a very wealthy young man and was asked to help his sister out financially.
He was asked to loan her $200,000 but he refused and that caused an almighty row.
During that row, the women claim, he assaulted them by pushing and shoving them. Both Jenny and Sharon are terribly upset over what happened.They did not want any publicity and the last thing they wanted to do was wreck his premiere evening. But they say he bullied them.
They are both devastated that it has come to this but want him to be taught a lesson. “
Sharon and Jenny, a part-time clown from Bournemouth, left the hotel on Monday morning and, on the way to their Dorset home, stopped at a Hampshire police station and reported Bale for assault.
He was arrested when he attended Belgravia police station, Central London, on Tuesday.
Bale, who denies all assault claims, flew back to his Los Angeles home later that day but must return to Britain in September to answer bail and learn whether he will be charged.
Sharon, who works in computer programming, has two daughters — aged ten and 12 — from a previous marriage and a baby from a new relationship.
Bale is said to be undergoing difficulties with wife Sibi Blazic.
And he was alleged to have exploded on the set of a movie in the US last week.
He has taken over the role of sci-fi hero John Connor in the fourth of the Terminator series.
