The lawsuit against the actress that had been conducted in secret turned out to be a routine dispute over legal fees of 73,793 pounds, reports the Daily Star .
The routine contract dispute was kept from public view after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis "inadvertently" granted both sides'' wish to have the records sealed.
According to a local Californian newspaper, the City News Service , the error and the case was made public on Apr 24 in a hearing with the court system's presiding judge.