COREY CLARK ATTACKS WOMAN IN HOTEL ROOM WITH HIS BREAKFAST SAUSAGE

Corey Clark - off of American Idol, so not really a proper pop star - has gotten himself into quite serious trouble after attacking Laura Kathleen Troy. Troy is a music industry executive, but that doesn't mean she doesn't deserve to be treated with almost the same degree of respect as merchant bankers, telesales people who won't take no for an answer and people who drop litter in conservation areas. It seems that Troy was in Clark's hotel room, brekafast was delivered, and all hell broke loose:

A guest in the room next door told police she could hear glass shattering and "a woman screaming over and over, 'Please stop.' She thought she was in mortal danger," Risley said.

When a hotel security guard responded, Clark denied there was a woman in the room but the guard could see Troy's reflection in a mirror, Risley said. The guard reported that Clark became confrontational until Troy emerged and Clark went to another room.

Troy told police that Clark knocked over several items and threw others, including a filled cereal bowl that shattered against a wall, Risley said. She said Clark yelled at her and grabbed her, leaving marks on her arm.

Police said Clark also had marks on his arms, which Clark said he may have received when he bumped a wall trying to squeeze past Troy to leave the room.

Clark's publicist, Jed Wallace, said police "got there at the tail end of a free-for-all in which everyone was involved." About five people were "letting off steam," Wallace said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "It started in fun and it got more serious."

How much damage can you do with a breakfast tray?

More puzzling is that Clark's people have denied that there's any romantic connection between Clark and Troy, although she apparently told police that they'd been dating since 2003. Clark, you'll recall, was the bloke who claimed he was also sharing his breakfast tray with Paula Abdul, and was originally kicked off American Idol for not having mentioned that he had been arrested for assaulting his own sister. (Clearly, a man who takes "You always hurt the one you love" as advice rather than a warning). Now, though, he's accepted a battery charge, and seems to be rather contrite.

It's not in any way a publicity stunt.

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