Batman Christian Bale was arrested and taken to a London police station for four hours of questioning on Tuesday, before being released on bail. He was accused of assaulting his mother and sister on Sunday night.

“Mr Bale, who denies the allegation, cooperated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question, and has left the station without any charge being made against him by the police,” the actor’s lawyers said in a statement. “At this time, there will be no further comment by Mr. Bale.”

Woah.

Christian is due back for further questioning in September, pending further investigation.

Oh, wow.

I can’t wait to see how this pans out.

Christian Bale’s mother and sister approached the London police yesterday to file an assault complaint against the actor. They’re accusing him of “lashing out” at a London hotel on Sunday night, where he’s staying.

Police decided not to bring Christian in for questioning on Sunday, because he was scheduled to attend The Dark Knight premiere.

Said a source: “It was a very difficult situation but it would have been wrong to have wrecked the premiere over a complaint which we don’t yet know is founded in truth. But Mr. Bale will be contacted at the earliest opportunity and be asked to provide an account of anything that happened.”

The earliest opportunity???

WTF is going on???

He was a Hollywood Golden Boy for all of twenty seconds before his first scandal hit!

I want the details! I’m sure they’ll be forthcoming …

Christian Bale may be back on our radar big time with the astounding success of The Dark Knight, but, in the second major tragedy of the day, the hottie British actor is way, way off the market.

He’s been married for over eight years to Sandra Blazic, who was once Winona Ryder’s personal assistant. And to make the homewrecking even more difficult, they have an adorable three-year-old daughter, Emmeline, who Christian was carrying around at LAX on Saturday.

Dude, that little girl has an actress’s eyes. I’m calling it right now. She’ll be on the big screen in no time at all.

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