Phil Bronstein Wants $1 Million From Sharon Stone


Phil Bronstein, aka, Mr. Sharon Stone is not a himbo; he's just a macho editor in need of some of his wife's financial, uh, ahem, scrilla. *coughs*"wussy"*coughs*

Star Magazine's Jennifer Pearson reports that the preferred snack of Komodo Dragons everywhere, Phil Bronstein, "executive vice president and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle -- is reportedly demanding $1 million in spousal support, as is reportedly stipulated in their 1998 prenuptial agreement. (At the time, Sharon was worth $11 million.)"

The article continues:

"'Sharon thinks it's really pathetic of Phil and believes he just wants to assert some sort of control,' says one close friend. 'It's become a power play. But I don't think Sharon is going to give Phil anything willingly.'"

And concludes:

"According to another source, Phil has tried to reach a truce with Sharon, even going so far as to buy her an antique necklace for Christmas. 'It was his way of saying a divorce doesn't have to mean the end of civility. I don't think Sharon got Phil anything.'"

Mmm-hmmm. Odd and interesting as all that is, The Corsair is still reeling from that wierd Komodo Dragon incident where Stone watched in horror as her hubby's toe was mangled by the man-eating reptile.
Here is an account taken from the Japan Today (of all places) dated June 25, 2001:


"The reptile keeper's version of the dragon attack differs from accounts offered by Bronstein and Stone, which credited Bronstein with besting the 4-year-old, 24 kg Indonesian monitor lizard.

"Bronstein's own newspaper, in its June 14 account of the incident, said the editor 'slammed his foot down, anchoring the dragon's lower jaw to the ground .... Bronstein pried the dragon's upper jaw off his foot, hobbled away and dived for the door.'

"The official zoo report also gave a slightly )ed note: italics mine) different version of Stone's role. While crediting the movie star with using a sock tourniquet to staunch the bleeding from her husband's toe, they said she then stepped out of the enclosure to make cell phone calls to relatives.

"'She was hysterical,' Genie Vasels, an official from the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, the fund-raising arm of the zoo, said in her written account. 'I tried to calm her down. She said that the bite was bad, down to the bone.'

"The zoo said the general curator, Michael Dee, then called for an ambulance as zoo workers applied ice packs.

"'He looked scared and pale,' Vasels said of Bronstein."

And now he wants alimony? *coughs*wuss*coughs*

Wasn't the tourniquet enough, tough guy?