Exorcist Director Sues Security Company After His Bel Air Home Was Burgled

Director of the cult horror flick The Exorcist and former President of Paramount Pictures have sued ADT security services after claiming that the company made them “unwitting targets for home invasion”.

The law suit, filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court has stated that William Friedkin and Sherry Lansing entered into a contract with ADT for their home in Bel-Air. The claim to have made the deal because ADT represented that it “makes your home 3 times less likely to be burglarized.”

While the couple were on holiday outside the country last December, the alarm sounded. The suit claims that it took ADT one hour and forty-five minutes for a patrolman to arrive. Allegedly the patrolman came and went without notifying the police or investigating the scene.

The lawsuit continues to say the following morning the housekeeper arrived and found the alarm still blaring. She found a stepladder perched beneath the second balcony. Broken glass littered the floor. The suit goes on to say “drawers in the bedroom and bathroom (were) left open and their contents strewn about.”

It is claimed that the thieves “stole jewellery that had significant amounts of value. Much of the jewellery was unique and irreplaceable.”

The couple are now seeking unspecified compensation and punitive damages.

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