Arnold Accuser Preparing Lawsuit

Just three days before Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to be inaugurated as governor of California, the lawyer for one of the women who went public with groping allegations against him on the eve of October's recall election says she's preparing to take legal action.

"I think there will be a lawsuit," Venice, Calif., lawyer Paul Hoffman told the New York Sun on Friday. Hoffman represents former actress Rhonda Miller, who worked as a stunt double on the sets of two of the former action star's films in the 1990s.

Hoffman said he was in the process of drawing up papers for a libel claim that he expects to file with the court "pretty soon."

Miller claims that the actor-turned-politician took pictures after lifting her shirt, then pinned her to a makeup chair.

But Hoffman told the Sun that her legal complaint will be based instead on Schwarzenegger's denial of the charge, which included several e-mails sent to the press by his campaign. The messages alluded to online court records which claimed Miller had an arrest record that included prostitution and theft charges.

Miller, however, has denied the allegations. "It's not rocket science, from a legal standpoint," her lawyer said. "They basically accused her of being a criminal. That's slander, or in this case, libel, per se."

Asked about the impending lawsuit, Karen Hanretty, a spokeswoman for Governor-elect Schwarzenegger, told the Sun, "We're not commenting on any of it."

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