Oksana Grigorieva didn't tell doctor Mel Gibson hit Lucia, says pediatrician who says she saw no sign of injury

Just days after Mel Gibson was ordered by a family court judge to pay the back child support he owes Oksana Grigorieva, a sworn declaration has surfaced in which Lucia's pediatrician says she saw no injury on the child during an exam the day after an argument in which Grigorieva alleges Gibson hit them both.

Nor did Grigorieva mention any injury during the Jan. 7 visit, Dr. Linda Nussbaum said in a June 24 document published Friday by TMZ. A picture of an allegedly injured Lucia surfaced at the same time as recordings of the actor ranting at his ex-girlfriend; Team Mel maintains that photo was doctored.

"If I had observed any symptoms that indicated injury or abuse or if Ms. Grigorieva had raised the issue of injury or abuse, I would have certainly noted those details in my records," Nussbaum said. "I would have also reported any allegations of parental abuse to social services."

The judge on Wednesday ordered Gibson to pay three months' worth of child support that he'd been withholding until it was clarified whether $6,000 a month spent on Oksana's rent could be deducted from the $20,000-a-month payment. That was clarified to be a no, according to People.

Dad currently gets Lucia three days a week, with one overnight visit. Whether the baby is left with a nanny on the overnights was reportedly an issue at the Wednesday hearing.

Investigators are still looking into extortion allegations against Grigorieva but have given prosecutors their findings about domestic violence allegations leveled against Gibson.

In other Mel tidbits, he was photographed Thursday smoking a cigarette — and can you blame him, given that all this drama was allegedly transpiring when he was trying to quit back in January?

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— Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson at an event March 4 in Los Angeles. The couple, whose child, Lucia, was born in November 2009, split up in April. Credit: Angela Weiss / Getty Images.

Comments

[jane]

Finally the truth is coming out!!!!!!!

[cdz from the ministry]

Christie D'Zurilla here from MOG with a gentle reminder that in general we don't publish comments that include links. Thanks!

//cdz

[gonesi]

Does Mel Gibson have any rights? Telling the world and a court of law Mr Gibson hit the baby and then the doctor says otherwise, seems to have no consequences for Oksana.

Same for the gag order issued in the beginning by the Judge. She not only ignored it but gave an interview with people magazine and then did a video in a grey nightie playing the piano for them.

When does this man have the right to stop this public defamation?

When do his rights as a concerned Father take on some value and the constant frivolous hiring of lawyer after lawyer by her stop? It has already been made public that he is held responsible for all her legal bills.

Does anyone care that if she is left uncontrolled to publicly persecute this man that he may make seriously bad business decisions and hundreds of people that work for him will loose their jobs?

Not to mention the pain he must feel. So many fathers try to skirt their children. He has done everything to provide for his. None of this seems to matter in a court of law.

[KnightsLady]

Thank you Christie D'Zurilla. I have been so glad to see the LAT take a fair approach to this horrible story. I'm looking foward to seeing Mr. Gibson be fully exonerated of Ms. Grigorieva's claims. Justice may be slow, but its arm is long and I hope it wraps itself right around her scrawny neck.

[Scarlett]

This is a fair view on Mel.. LATimesblog has been very unfair in the past articles towards Mel. Glad they are writing the truth now.

[John Pocino]

As a filmmaker I am a fan of Mel Gibson as an actor. I don't know him or have met himm but it doesn't take much more then common sense to see this is all a set up. Mel Gibson is an excellant actor and the rest of this is just plain distracting for anyone with any common sense or half a brain.

Geeze