JORJA FOX LEAVING LAS VEGAS!
-Quits #1 Crime Drama, due bad contract talks this summer.

From dixiechik & Media Life Magazine:

"Jorja Fox, who has played Sara Sidle on "CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation" since it first aired in 2000, is leaving the show after
this season's seventh episode in November. Fox's departure comes after a
less-than-promising stretch of negotiations, though her character did
survive last season’s cliffhanger on last week’s season opener."

"THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE DOMINATRIX," EX-O.C.-ER MELINDA CLARKE RETURNS TO CSI.

The CSI: Vegas team will investigate another death linked, to the classiest S&M madam in the Nevada. Grissom (Will Petersen) and Co. will be tracking down clues at a Wild West theme park where Lady Heather (Clarke) is now working.

This is after she nearly whipped to death, the prime suspect in the murder of one of her loved ones. The crew kept a tight lid on the story-only confirming that the neck hanging attack on her-may expose Sara (Jorja Fox) and Gil's relationship and will affect it in a unique way.

On the day of the shoot, Clarke was dressed in a cheesy, "hoe"-down dress, and seemed slickly cool as ice. Big Cheese Will Petersen even had remark directed at our reporter,"When you're done, I gotta job for you. You can shovel horse$*&^ behind George Eads (Nick Stokes.)" The journalist then mumbled back, "Who's George Eads?"