Sandra Bullock in child custody battle with husband’s porn star ex

Sandra Bullock and former motorcycle mechanic and television star, Jesse James, are embroiled in a child custody battle with her husband’s ex-wife.

According to the Daily Telegraph, since January this year, they have been bringing up Sunny, James’s five-year-old daughter, while the girl’s mother, Janine Lindemulder, was serving a six-month sentence for tax evasion.

James and Janine had a daughter when they were married in 2002. Since 2003, James left Lindemulder and started dating Bullock, whom he in turn married in 2005.

Lindemulder, the star of over 100 adult films including Where The Boys Aren’t, Sleeping Booty and Janine’s Got Male, had previously shared custody of the child with James but is currently in a halfway house in Los Angeles. She has been ordered to pay $294,000 to the government.

Supported by Bullock, James, has launched a a pre-emptive legal strike asking a judge in Orange County, near Los Angeles, to rule on whether Lindemulder is a fit mother.

In a statement to court, James suggested Sunny may not be safe with his ex-wife, adding that she should be “restrained from allowing the child around pornographers, drug addicts, guns and firearms, felons and other unsafe environments”.

The judge has yet to rule whether either of the parents or Bullock will have to give evidence in court.

Bullock, 45, recently admitted it “hurts” that she doesn’t have children of her own — but insists one doesn’t need to “breed” in order to be a parent.