Troubled Hollywood star Mel Gibson will miss his daughter Lucia’s first birthday as a request for the baby to be allowed to stay with her father overnight has been turned down by a judge.
The Brave Heart star is currently embroiled in a custody battle with Lucia’s mother, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, who alleged that Gibson threatened to kill her.
The 54-year-old star has asked a court to extend his visitation rights this weekend so that he could be with his daughter on her birthday, October 30 , because a nanny responsible for returning Lucia to Grigorieva has fallen ill.
If officials had agreed to the request, the actor would have spent some time with his daughter on her first birthday, but the plea was turned down because Gibson has more than one aide he can call on, reported TMZ.
Grigorieva, who split from Gibson earlier in 2010, alleged in legal papers that she believes the actor already has too much access to their baby and that he once hit her while she was holding Lucia.
—PTI