‘Wonder Years’ actor sues LV wedding chapel

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 1999 | 10:58 a.m.

Former child actor Jason Hervey and his wife have filed a lawsuit against Las Vegas' Little White Wedding Chapel and four individuals claiming that their privacy was invaded when pictures of their wedding ceremony were sold to the National Enquirer.

Hervey, 27, appeared as Wayne Arnold in the television series "The Wonder Years" from 1988 to 1993.

The Herveys were married on Feb. 6, 1998, at the Little White Wedding Chapel, 1301 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and had photographs taken of the ceremony. They claim the defendants kept copies of the photos and sold them to the National Enquirer for $20,000. They appeared in the tabloid on March 10, 1998.

Attorney Dean Kajioka said the Herveys are not seeking to punish the chapel, but they don't want it to profit from the sale of the photographs. He said his clients never received a copy of the pictures.

Named in the suit along with the chapel are Charlotte Richards, Ronald Wright, Debra Wright and Merle Richards Jr.

"We never, never put any photographs out there," Charlotte Richards, president of the corporation that owns the chapel said. "I don't know how they got there but we didn't do that."

The Herveys took the only roll of film used during the ceremony with them, leaving the chapel without any negatives or copies, Richards said.

Thousands of celebrities have been married at the Little White Wedding Chapel in the past 40 years and no pictures have ever been sold to the media nor has an accusation like this ever been made, Richards said.