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Michelle Williams' dad loses challenge to extradition from Australia
(AFP)
Updated: 2007-08-03 18:31
SYDNEY - The father of Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress Michelle
Williams on Friday lost a round in his court battle to prevent US
authorities extraditing him from Australia on tax evasion charges.
Stock market high-flyer Larry Williams, 64, whose daughter was nominated
for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in "Brokeback Mountain"
and is the fiance of Australian star Heath Ledger, was arrested in Sydney
in May 2006.
The US Internal Revenue Service alleges that the Virgin Islands' resident
-- grandfather of Ledger's baby daughter with Michelle Williams -- evaded
more than 1.5 million dollars in tax between 1999 and 2001.
Three Federal Court judges Friday dismissed Williams' attempt to restrain
the US and Australian magistrates from taking further steps to extradite
him.
Williams had successfully applied to the Federal Court earlier this year
to have the original extradition application against him ruled invalid.
But the government started fresh extradition proceedings, which will now
continue after Friday's ruling.
Williams has remained in Sydney on a million dollars (800,000 US) bail
since his arrest, with his movements restricted to certain parts of the
city where he had been due to begin a 24-day lecture tour of Australia
and New Zealand.
His daughter Michelle and Australian heart-throb Ledger fell in love
while filming Ang Lee's Oscar-winning 2005 gay cowboy movie and had a
daughter, Matilda, last year.
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