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Jerry Lewis on Gun Charges

August 29th, 2008

In a few days Jerry Lewis will be back in his familiar role hosting the 43rd Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, but earlier this summer he made headlines for a different reason.

 

Police confiscated a gun from his bag at the Las Vegas Airport in late July, but Jerry says it was all a big mistake.

 

"I had a gun in my briefcase and I didn’t remember," he tells Extra. "It was made as a gift to me by a gunmaker in Ohio. He gave it to me as a gift and I put it in my case." however Jerry will most likely not be facing jail time, saying, "I got fined and I have to go to court."

 

Although he’s a familiar face on TV due to his annual telethon, Jerry says he still might return to the big screen.

 

"If I get the right material," he says.

 

Don’t expect to see Jerry on anything like Dancing With the Stars or other reality TV, he’s definitely not a fan. "I keep [it]in the toilet where it belongs," he says of the phenomenon.

 

Check out th rest of Jerry’s interview tonight on Extra.

Jerry Lewis Caught With Gun at Airport

July 29th, 2008

Someone might want to tell Jerry Lewis to stop watching those Oceans films.

On Tuesday, the 82-year old entertainer and one time professional sidekick to Dean Martin (who starred in the original Oceans 11) was cited for trying to take a gun onto a plane headed from Las Vegas to Detroit.

Las Vegas police say they confiscated a gun belonging to Lewis from his carry-on luggage. Lewis was cited for carrying an unloaded concealed weapon at the Las Vegas Airport.

The actor’s manager says the handgun is a hollowed-out prop gun that Lewis sometimes twirls during his show. She told the AP that the gun couldn’t fire.

 

The rep adds that Lewis didn’t know that the gun was in his bag along with other props. However Vegas police officer Bill Cassell said, "it wouldn’t be a weapon and we couldn’t cite him for carrying a weapon," if the gun had been merely a prop.

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