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Mischa Barton Ordered To Pay $200k After Skipping Movie Role

If you’re planning to bunk off work, maybe don’t appear on social media, living it up in Rome.

This move appears to have cost actress Mischa Barton a cool $200,000 (around £150,000).

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According to court documents obtained by TMZ, a judge has ordered that the party-loving former ‘O.C.’ star pony up the huge sum after she bailed on making a movie, and headed off on a European jaunt instead.

She was reportedly set to appear as the lead in a movie called ‘Promoted’, and will now have to pay screenwriter Daniel Lief for the breach of contract.

It was after Lief, who also produced the movie, spotted Barton abroad that he decided to sue her, and now the $200,000, plus interest, will have to be paid out.

Lief said that the delay in production caused by Barton’s absence, and her consequent re-casting, cost the movie more than $300,000.

The film, directed by Isaac Constein and set in the world of advertising, would have seen Barton playing Marissa, a ‘villainous and manipulative’ executive who will do anything for a promotion.

The ‘sex-comedy’ also features a ‘a gay gangsta rapper, a horny lesbian receptionist, a mentally challenged custodian, a transgender prostitute, and a sexually perverted grandfather’.

In the end, ‘Divergent’ series bit-part actress Justine Wachsberger took the role, the movie emerging in 2015.

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