Kim Basinger Public Battle With Ex Alec Baldwin

Kim Basinger has hired a bodyguard for her daughter after an angry voicemail sent by her father, Alec Baldwin, was made public.

The divorced couple's bitter six-year custody battle over their only daughter, Ireland, went public last week when the website TMZ posted a recorded phone message by Baldwin in which he called her a "rude, thoughtless little pig."

The 49-year-old actor said on the tape that he was furious at not being able to reach his daughter for a prearranged telephone conversation.

He also threatened to fly out from New York "to straighten your ass out."

Baldwin later apologised for his temper with a statement on his website and accused his ex-wife of leaking the voice mail tape to the media in defiance of a court order sealing material related to their custody proceedings.

But Basinger's spokeswoman, Annett Wolf, issued a statement denying the actress released the voicemail and said the recording was "not sealed under a court order."

Obviously they need to hire security for their weekly garbage they put to the curb.

Wolf said: "Kim did hire security in response to the media attention on her daughter in order to allow Ireland to maintain her regular routine and activities uninterrupted."

The couple married in 1993, and she filed for divorce in 2001. The divorce was granted the following year, but they have continued to fight in court over custody and other issues.

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