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‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ star Shannen Doherty faces new cancer battle

From Wire Reports

Shannen Doherty is battling breast cancer that worsened during a lapse in her health insurance caused by her former business managers, the actress claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star claims her former business managers and accountants mismanaged her money and allowed her health insurance to lapse last year.

Because of that, she said she didn’t go to the doctor until she had insurance and there was a delay in diagnosing her cancer, which will likely require more drastic treatments, including a possible mastectomy and chemotherapy.

Doherty, 44, received the diagnosis in March, and her doctors have said earlier treatment might have stopped its spread, the lawsuit states.

An attorney for the accounting firm Tanner Mainstain Glynn & Johnson denied the company caused Doherty’s health insurance to lapse.

Doherty’s husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko, also is suing the firm, accusing them of mismanaging the couple’s money and leading to other financial troubles, including tax audits and liens.

O’Donnell’s daughter located, safe

Rosie O’Donnell’s teenage daughter was “of sound mind and body” when she was found in New Jersey after she left home for a week, police in New York said Wednesday.

Sgt. Daniel Wilson said Chelsea O’Donnell was found by South Nyack police a day earlier in Barnegat, New Jersey, at the house of a male she was “recently acquainted with.” He didn’t describe the relationship further.

Chelsea “did not appear to be in any mental distress,” he said.

She had left the family’s home Aug. 11 with a therapy dog, and her mother’s concern was intensified because she had not been taking needed medication. Chelsea suffers from mental illness, according to her mother’s spokeswoman, Cindi Berger.

Rosie O’Donnell lives in South Nyack, about 25 miles north of New York City, and police there had been involved in searching for Chelsea since Aug. 16. In the interim, Chelsea made contact with third parties, so police “didn’t believe that there was any immediate danger,” Wilson said. He didn’t say who the parties were.

South Nyack police informed Barnegat police on Tuesday that they believed Chelsea was there. Police went to the residence, and although the person answering the door initially did not want to reveal Chelsea’s presence, police said they would not leave until she came out. She then appeared and willingly left with police.

“Chelsea, like millions of people, lives with mental illness. It has been a difficult road for Chelsea and her family and they just want her back safe,” Berger had said.

The birthday bunch

Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is 80. TV weatherman Al Roker is 61. Jazz/pop singer-pianist Jamie Cullum is 36. Actor Andrew Garfield is 32. Actress-singer Demi Lovato is 23.