Russell Crowe Arrested: Beats Man With Phone

BBC News is reporting that: Actor Russell Crowe has been arrested in New York for allegedly throwing a telephone at a hotel employee. The Gladiator star is said to have struck the man in the face when he threw the telephone during a row at the Mercer Hotel, where he was staying. FULL STORY

Based on a previous report a while back that Crowe went Tyson on his bodyguard and tried to bite off his ear, for telling him he should go home and see his wife, maybe the poor hotel employee just told him his wife was on the line?

*** This just in, looks like my above hypothesis was correct, here's part of the official press release from Crowe's publicist:
“Frustrated by a clerk’s unwillingness to help him put through a phone call to his family in Australia, Russell Crowe was involved in a minor altercation at the Mercer Hotel earlier this morning....FULL Press Release (via Defamer.com)

Here's some pics of him getting locked up.