Actress-beauty queen Dindi Gallardo sues 'Dark Knight' creator, girlfriend over abuse

Filipina actress and beauty queen Dindi Gallardo has filed a lawsuit against her boss — celebrated United States producer-director-writer Frank Miller and his girlfriend Kimberly Cox over alleged abuse that included the rubbing of human excrement on her work desk.

 

According to a report of television host Howie Severino in GMA Network's “News to Go” program, Gallardo sued the couple over racist treatment as well as physical and mental abuse. 

Gallardo, 41, whose official married name is Joanna Gallardo-Mills, alleged that Cox threw a mobile phone and chair at her. Gallardo also accused Cox of hitting the printer she was using with a hammer and spreading feces on her desk.

 

According to a report of GMA Network's "Balitanghali" newscast on Friday, the couple has yet to give an official response about the lawsuit filed against them.

 

The report also said Gallardo also chose to keep silent about details of the lawsuit but expressed her gratitude towards those who have supported her. Wants a normal life According to an earlier report of the newsmagazine site The FilAm, Gallardo went to school in San Francisco in 1989 to study fashion design and merchandising and met her future husband Eric Mills there. She traveled to Europe for a bit of “soul searching” before settling down in New York in 2003. The FilAm noted that Gallardo was "still working in films, but more on the business side of the industry. Without disclosing details – a condition of her contract – Dindi works for a famous artist whose blockbuster movies many of us are familiar with." Gallardo said  her boss had no clue about her celebrity status in the Philippines. Once, many people recognized and greeted her when she attended a festival with her boss, who gasped, “Who are you?” Without mentioning in The FilAm story what company she was employed, Gallardo said she experienced racial discrimination at work. "In one of the companies I worked for, my boss wanted me to work on Thanksgiving and this person said, why should you get a holiday? You don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the Philippines," she said.  Gallardo also said the world of film was her first love and passion. She dreams of giving back to the film community. "I want to help filmmakers, especially the indie ones, to support them as they attend international festivals," she said. Frank Miller   Miller was one of the most famous comics artists from the 1970s to the 1980s because of his unique style which portrayed "dark" heroes thrown into sinful surroundings.   He has worked for both top comic book rivals DC and Marvel comics.   According to his profile on the entertainment information site “Internet Movie Database,”  he has worked on or created the following:

  His best comic book work was “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” published in 1986 by DC Comics.   Batman tells the tale of a superhero who does not have special powers, acting as a playboy-billionaire by day and vigilante crimefighting-hero by night.     He uses physical strength, sharp wits, and expensive gadgets only a billionaire could afford to subdue criminals and super villains.   “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” is set in an alternate history where the Batman is pitted against a bleak future.   One of Miller's personal quotes defined the formula of how he creates his characters.   “You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people,” he said.  - VVP, GMA News