A Night at the Mercer Hotel Costs Russell Crowe $11 Million

Reports say that Russell Crowe will be settling his June telphone attack on a Mercer Hotel concierge by settling for $11 million. Nestor Estrada, who lives in Greenpoint, suffered injuries to his face in the exchange where Crowe, angry over being unable to dial Australia, went beserk. By settling the incident out of court with Estrada, Crowe probably would not face criminal charges (assault and weapons possession charges) from the Manhattan DA's office; have criminal charges would have prevented Crowe form working in the U.S. Whoa, imagine if Crowe were exiled to beating up hotel employees in Toronto, Sydney, and Prague! We can only imagine that the insurance companies of the productions Crowe is working on demanding that Crowe have an anger management consultant, not to mention restraints at night.