James Barbour Arrested

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:05am

"A 19-year-old aspiring actress has accused a veteran Broadway actor of luring her into performing sex acts offstage when she was just a star-struck kid visiting the Great White Way.

The 40-year-old actor, James Barbour, who appeared in the Broadway musical "Assassins" three years ago, was arrested yesterday by Los Angeles police on a New York warrant charging sex abuse and sodomy, sources here said.

The unidentified woman came forward in February and told NYPD cops she first met Barbour through her high-school drama coach in 2001 when she was 15.

She met the handsome hoofer again that year on a trip with her parents.

Barbour, who was appearing in the Tony-Award winning "Jane Eyre" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, promised the star-struck out-of-towner a personal backstage tour.

Instead, she claims, Barbour took her to his dressing room where they had a sexual encounter.

A few weeks later, on July 21, the awe-struck teenager returned, this time without her parents, and met Barbour again.

Later, the woman said she went to his Upper West Side apartment where they had a sexual encounter. It was not clear why the woman, now an aspiring actress, waited so long to come forward."


http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/64112.htm

Updated On: 4/6/06 at 10:05 AM

[Magdalene]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:09am

Oh...my...

[SamIAm]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:14am

I saw this in the Post today. ACCCK. Really bad.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:16am

The whole thing sounds fishy to me. I didn't even know Scientologists could maintain an erection.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:21am

Yes, Namo, they can. They just can't make any noise while having sex.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:22am

Well, gawd forbid he's convicted but if he is here's hoping he goes to Criminon, another Scientology group.

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:24am

Oh Dear! How do we know he's a scientologist?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:26am

Aren't all pedophiles scientologists? Or is it the other way around?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:27am

True, true...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:28am

Visit his website, JamesBarbour.com and scroll over to the right. Each link is a Scientology front group. First time I ever went to his site, after seeing Assassins, there was an URGENT pop up letter from Our James urging us to work against The Evil Psychiatrists who want to DRUG people. Sound familiar? Incidentally, it was months before Tom berated Matt Lauer because he, Tom, had "researched the history of psychiatry."

James was sooooo far ahead of his time. Apparently so far that he thought the age of consent thing had passed.

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:30am

He should've been in Tarzan. Right across the street from the Church of Scientology and daily access to all the fangirls! Heaven.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:36am

The song of the day is "Hey Nineteen" by Steely Dan!

[junglered]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:43am

'The Cuervo Gold...The Fine Co-lum-bi-an...'

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:45am

Well, since she was 14 when all this happened, she's probably WAY too old for him now.

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:46am

How old is he?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:48am

Is he one of those "reformed" scientologists like Tom Cruise and John Travolta?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:48am

Do you mean the total from all his lifetimes?

[EganFan2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:48am

If this is true, what a real shame.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:49am

MB, I think for that to be true, the "aspiring actress" would also have been a Scientologist and they would have met at a celebrity center in sort of an arranged way. I'm sure more details will emerge.

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:50am

James Barbour
Found this on IBDB

( b. Apr 25, 1966 Mount Holly, NJ, USA ) Male
Performer, Writer
Also known as:
Marje Bubrosa [Pseudonym]

Comments:
Hofstra University graduate.


What is this Marje Bubrosa? Is that his REAL name?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:52am

Wow, that's quite a pseudonym.

"Tell 'em Large Marje sent ya!"

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:52am

I was always taught when you are an "aspiring actor or actress" to sleep with the producers not actors.
Updated On: 4/6/06 at 10:52 AM

[Craig]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:55am

Marje Bubrosa

rearrange the letters.. james barbour

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 11:00am

Wasn't that the pseudonym for the gypsy character in Jane Eyre?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 11:01am

Anna Madrigal?