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Updated at 12:39 p.m., Thursday, February 22, 2007

Jailed former soap opera actress to be released today

Jim Dooley
Advertiser Staff Writer

Hollywood actress Brenda Dickson's 16-day stay in jail here is scheduled to end this afternoon, following a lively Family Court hearing this morning in which Dickson protested that her divorce settlement is "a fraud" and delivered mock-Nazi salutes to her ex-husband's lawyer.

But Dickson also agreed to call off a team of California lawyers fighting the $1.2 million sale of a Los Angeles condo and agreed to swear under oath to remove her belongings from the condo and otherwise cooperate in the sale.

Those agreements were what attorneys for Dickson's ex-husband, local lawyer Jan Weinberg, and Family Court per-diem judge Darryl Choy wanted to hear from Dickson, who was jailed for contempt of court Feb. 6 for refusing to vacate the condo and disobeying court orders that the property be sold.

Wearing a green velour track suit and shackled at the wrists and ankles, Dickson, a featured player in the "The Young and the Restless" soap opera series in the 1970s and 1980s, was brought before Choy to resolve the contempt charge that landed her in O'ahu Community Correctional Center for more than two weeks.

She said her divorce settlement will leave her homeless and penniless, assertions that Weinberg's lawyer, Charles Kleintop, disputed in this morning's hearing.

She responded by saying to Kleintop, "I have no where to go. I'm indigent and homeless. Heil Hitler. Third Reich."

At the urging of her lawyer, Peter Esser, Dickson agreed to call her lawyers in California this morning and instruct them to withdraw court papers blocking the sale of the condo, which she jointly owns with Weinberg. And she agreed to sign an affidavit, to be prepared today, to vacate the condo and assist in its sale.

Then she will be released from jail to travel back to California to move out of the condo, then return here for another court hearing March 8.