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Batman writer, girlfriend sued by Filipina beauty queen

Philippine Daily Inquirer
October 12, 2012

This is darkâ€"even for The Dark Knight.

A former local beauty queen-actress who worked for legendary comic-book writer Frank Miller said she was put through hell by the “Batman” scribe’s gal pal, according to a report from The New York Post.

In a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, 41-year-old Joanna Gallardo-Mills, better known as Dindi Gallardo, said Miller’s “Sin City” creator’s girlfriend, Kimberly Cox, smeared her work area with feces, destroyed her printer with a hammer, threw phones at her and even left a used feminine hygiene pad by her desk.


Former Filipino actress and beauty queen Dindi Gallardo

“Nobody should have to work under those conditions,” Gallardo’s lawyer, high-powered employment attorney Matthew Blit, told the Post.

The suit said Gallardo went to work for Millerâ€"whose 1986 Batman comic series “The Dark Knight Returns” is considered revolutionaryâ€"as an executive coordinator in November 2008.

Cox, Miller’s much younger actress girlfriend, soon made it clear she had issues with Gallardo, yelling things like, “I can’t understand your funky accent. Speak fâ€"king English,” according to the suit.

Cox yesterday said she was “shocked” by the suit “because she was offered a very heavy settlement and declined.”

In July 2010, Cox allegedly threw a phone and chair at Gallardoâ€"and “smeared human feces” on a countertop in her work area in the Hell’s Kitchen living/work space that Miller and Cox shared, the suit said.

A year later, Cox went on another rampage, scattering all of Gallardo’s files across the floor and destroying her printer “with a hammer,” the suit added.


Dindi Gallardo
Bb. Pilipinas 1993


Frank Miller and Kimberly Cox

Then, Cox reportedly left her filthy underwear and “used menstrual pad” in her work space.

The Post said Gallardo was seeking unspecified money damages from Miller and Cox for discrimination and “mental anguish.”

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Frank Miller and Kimberly Cox