Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WILL SMITH SEEKS TO STOP STALKER Will Smith's lawyers have asked a Los Angeles court for a restraining order against an ex-employee he accuses of stalking and harassing him and his family. Advertisement Smith and his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, seek to keep Mike Cooley away from their family, home, workplace, and their kids' school and day-care facility. The 66-year-old Cooley and his wife worked for the Smiths for several years -- he as a caretaker and she as a nanny -- until they were fired for unspecified reasons last year. The Smiths' complaint said Cooley was angered by his dismissal and threatened to take embarrassing information to the tabloids about the family unless the Smiths paid them a large sum of money. When the threats didn't work, the complaint said, Cooley turned to "stalking and harassing (the family) into paying (him) money." SHEEN'S PAY BUMPED TO $300,000 PER EPISODE The man who plays the president on TV makes far more money than the real chief executive, George W. Bush Martin Sheen, who is President Josiah Bartlet on NBC's highly successful "West Wing" drama, just got a raise that triples the size of his paycheck in one year, the New York Post reports. Advertisement Sheen will now make $300,000 an episode for playing the prez in the Emmy-winning series, compared to Bush's annual salary of $400,000. While series producer Warner Bros. Television confirmed that Sheen had secured a new deal, no details were released, although E-Online reported that a source said the Post figures were a bit exaggerated. CAROLINE GOING BACK TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD? Maybe Caroline Kennedy has had it with nosey passersby at her posh home on Long Island. Hamptons Cottages and Gardens magazine says rubbernecking by motorists may have driven Caroline and husband Ed Schlossberg to the Martha's Vineyard home she inherited from her mother. Word is that the Martha's Vineyard compound has undergone a great deal of renovating lately. CHELSEA INTERNING IN SWITZERLAND Chelsea Clinton is spending part of her summer in Geneva, Switzerland, to work on a project designed to help kids. The former first daughter is participating in a monthlong internship with the World Health Organization. The project zeros in on ways to help improve the lives of children.
