Keanu Reeves paternity claim “Bogus”

In his Weird Cases column for The Times, Gary Slapper reports today (“the paternity matrix”) on the Canadian paternity suit brought against Keanu Reeves by Karen Sala.

In a case full of cringeworthy allegations Sala said she had known Reeves since she was a child as Marty Spencer, that over 25 years he had fathered her 4 adult children (whilst disguised as her husband) and should pay her C$150,000 a month child support, backdated to 1988.  Aside from this involvement in her life, Sala swore Reeves/Spencer had helped her move house and that she had recently seen him in her local McDonald’s and No Frills grocery store.

Reeves, ever the reasonable man, apparently agreed to DNA testing, the results of which confirmed – guess what? Not the father.  Sala’s response? Faked results. The Ontario Court judge, Fred Graham, felt it safe, at this somewhat advanced stage, to dismisss Sala’s case!

Could such a thing happen here? Hopefully not. Sala’s evidence bears all the hallmarks of a mentally troubled person, whose case might better have been dealt with, on these facts, by a psychiatric report and some basic diary cross-referencing.