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"Oksana Grigorieva has fired the legal team that was representing her in an ongoing extortion investigation. Grigorieva is now without representation as she faces potential criminal charges for allegedly trying to extort her ex-partner Mel Gibson in order to keep the couple&amp;#039;s taped phone conversations private. TMZ reports that the separation between the singer-songwriter and her former criminal defence lawyers Mary Fulginiti and James Spertus was &amp;quot;ugly&amp;quot;. Earlier this week, Grigorieva hired attorney Sorrell Trope&amp;#039;s high-profile firm to represent her in a separate child custody case involving Gibson. It was previously reported that she is seeking an increase in monthly child support payments from the Braveheart star. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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