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"&lt;img alt=\"1001_billy-corgan-and-rebecca-gayheart_getty2\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/10/01/1001-billy-corgan-and-rebecca-gayheart-getty2-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\"&lt;strong&gt;Grey's Anatomy&lt;/strong&gt;\" star &lt;strong&gt;Eric Dane&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160;has declared legal war on his \"&lt;strong&gt;Smashing Pumpkins&lt;/strong&gt;\" neighbor &lt;strong&gt;Billy Corgan&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;#160;claiming a falling tree nearly KILLED Eric's pregnant wife ... and it's all Billy's fault -- but Billy tells TMZ, he's innocent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eric and his wife &lt;strong&gt;Rebecca Gayheart&lt;/strong&gt; filed the lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court -- claiming one of Billy's trees came crashing through their Beverly Hills home during a nasty storm last year ... flooding the house ... and breaking a giant power line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to the fallen tree, Eric claims Rebecca -- nine months pregnant at the time -- had to evacuate a \"quickly flooding\" home while dodging live high-voltage wires. TMZ &lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/01/california-winds-eric-dane-rebecca-gayheart/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posted pics of the damage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2011/12/01/4179-eric-dane-and-rebecca-gayhearts-treehouse\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"1201_rebecca_tree_launch\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/12/01/1201-rebecca-tree-launch.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eric claims Billy had been warned about the dangerous eucalyptus trees on his property and failed to take action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Billy tells TMZ, that's \"patently untrue\" ... insisting he was never warned about his dangerous trees and didn't realize they posed a threat until it was too late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Billy says, \"I was horrified when I learned about the tree falling during what was a massive storm, a storm with winds strong enough to uproot a 50 ft tree by its base! Thankfully no one was injured.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as the accident happened, Billy says he called an expert to have similarly dangerous trees removed from his property. Billy calls the lawsuit \"a shame ... because [Eric and Rebecca] are nice people.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eric and Rebecca are suing for nuisance, negligence, and injunctive relief -- demanding unspecified damages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world is a vampire."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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