Sean Connery sues Sherwood Country Club

Academy Award-winning actor Sean Connery is suing the ultra-exclusive Sherwood Country Club for $1 million, according to court papers filed Monday with the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Connery is asking for $500,000 in membership reimbursement fees and another $500,000 because his celebrity status was used to help promote the country club and the surrounding multimillion-dollar homes.

According to the lawsuit, Connery was invited to join the Thousand Oaks-based country club in 1990 for an "original initiation fee price of $35,000."

When Connery opted out of his membership in 2004, he asked the club to pay him 80 percent of the membership's going rate- approximately $500,000-which was allegedly promised to him when he agreed to become a member of the country club. Connery said that "despite repeated requests" he never received the money.

Connery also said his name was used in the early 1990s to promote the newly built club and surrounding homes.

"(Connery) is one of the most well-known and successful actors in the world, appearing in numerous motion pictures attended by hundreds of millions of people and generating invaluable publicity and image for (Sherwood Country Club) in their business," according to court documents.

Phone calls made by The Acorn to Karen Jacobs, the country club's membership manager, were not returned.

The Scottish-born actor may best be known for his role as British super spy James Bond. Connery has appeared in over 80 films and in 1987 won an Academy Award for best supporting actor in "The Untouchables."

Connery is being represented by Louis "Skip" Miller of the Los Angeles law firm Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil and Shapiro.

Sherwood Country Club opened in 1989 and hosts the annual Target World Challenge featuring Tiger Woods.