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David Bar Katz — who discovered Philip Seymour Hoffmanan after his apparent overdose — pays his respects Tuesday to Mimi O’Donnell. Katz apparently plans to take legal action against the National Enquirer over reports that he and the actor were lovers.
The screenwriter who found Philip Seymour Hoffman dead slammed a supermarket tabloid’s claim that he and the doomed actor were lovers as a “vulgar and disgusting lie.”
Speaking for an outraged David Bar Katz, a friend said the National Enquirer ginned-up a bogus interview and the screenwriter intends to take legal action.
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“This is a categorical, 100%, vulgar and disgusting lie,” the friend, who asked not to identified, told the Daily News on Wednesday. “Even the National Enquirer should be ashamed. It’s just disgusting. There will be legal action.”
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Philip Seymour Hoffman lived with girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell, the mother of his children, before his death.
Katz, a close friend and creative collaborator, did not do any interview with the Enquirer, the friend insisted.
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“He never spoke to them,” he said. “This is so far off from reality. We’re calling lawyers now to threaten them appropriately.”
In their story, the National Enquirer claimed Hoffman, who won a leading actor Oscar for “Capote,” fell off the wagon and began shooting up heroin because he was confused over his sexual identity.
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Philip Seymour Hoffmann was found dead Sunday in an apartment he was renting. He and Katz were ‘like brothers,’ a friend says.
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“We were homosexual lovers,” Katz said, according to the tab. “We had a relationship.”
Katz, according to the tabloid, then stated that he saw Hoffman shoot-up several times, “But I never thought his addiction had reached that level.”
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David Bar Katz plans to take legal action over allegations that he and the Oscar winner were anything more than friends.
“We were planning to go to the Super Bowl together and have a really nice day,” he supposedly said. “This is so terrible.”
It was Katz who discovered Hoffman dead of an apparent drug overdose on Sunday.
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He had gone to Hoffman’s rented West Village apartment to check up on his friend when the actor didn’t show up at a nearby playground to see his three kids.
Katz, who has four kids of his own, was “like brothers” with Hoffman, the friend said.
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There was no immediate comment from the National Enquirer.
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