Mel Gibson's Latest Troubles: Going to Court Over a Rubber Conundrum

Oh, Mel. Back in court again? Already? Really?

It looks like Mel Gibson is being once more dragged through the legal system, this time because a private citizen named Nader Sherif claims that Gibson talked him into investing his life savings in Malaysian tire-recycling operation Green Rubber at a 2007 dinner party. Now, Sherif claims he's out $200,000 after a company representative promised to buy his stock back any time Sherif wanted, but never came through.

For that matter, Gibson also promised to buy his stock if the company wouldn't, only to also renege, according to TMZ.

Now, Sherif wants his full $200,000 back with interest from Gibson.

According to the Courthouse News Service, Sherif claims "he met Gibson in Latin America in March 2007 and Gibson told him the company 'was going to be wildly successful and that he should seriously consider investing in it.'"

The company apparently claimed to "have a new technology that devulcanises rubber in tires, to recycle the rubber" and Sherif said he "was reluctant to invest his hard earned money in an unknown company he knew little about."

Sherif says Gibson told him "he should put everything he could into the company."

No comment thus far from Gibson or his reps on this case of rubber wronging.