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Stars Victimized By Psycho Surgeon?

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Stars Victimized By Psycho Surgeon?

Dr. Steven Hoefflin may be one of Hollywood's favorite nip-and-tuck specialists, but four former employees allege that the plastic surgeon was a drug-addled kook who enjoyed humiliating his anesthetized celebrity patients.

In this excerpt from a defamation/breach of contract lawsuit filed in late-October in Los Angeles Superior Court, Barbara Maywood, Hoefflin's former operating room coordinator, details some bizarre bedside manners.

While celeb names have been replaced with pseudonyms, it's not hard to figure out the identity of poor "John Roe 2." Sure sounds like Wacko Jacko to us. (4 pages)