SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Basketball legend Julius Erving has filed a lawsuit against a security company and a developer he partially blames for the death of his son.

Corey Erving, 19, died two years ago after driving his car into a retention pond a half-mile from his home in an exclusive neighborhood northeast of Orlando. His body was found five weeks later after a nationwide manhunt.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Seminole County Circuit Court seeks unspecified damages.

In his lawsuit, Erving blames the security firm that provided guards at the entrance to Alaqua Lakes, the neighborhood under construction where Corey Erving’s body was found, for allowing his son into a restricted area. The dirt road that Corey Erving was driving on was used by construction crews for Alaqua Lakes.

U.S. Security Associates Inc., the company that provided security guards, knew Erving was on the property that day, never should have let him on the property and, once he went missing, never told anyone he’d been there, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also alleges that developer Taylor Woodrow Communities GP didn’t have adequate fences or other barricades to keep people out and failed to post warnings that its property was dangerous.

Keith Bass, president of Taylor Woodrow Homes of Florida Inc., a partner in the development company, would not comment, saying he hadn’t seen the lawsuit.

Vincent Farrell, local operations manager for U.S. Security, said guards never suspected that Corey Erving was on the property.

Calling it quits

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The husband of red carpet fashion maven Melissa Rivers has filed for divorce.

John Endicott, who married Rivers in 1998, is seeking to dissolve the marriage because of irreconcilable differences, according to May 24 Superior Court filings.

The couple has a 1-year-old son, Edgar, named for Rivers’ deceased father. Endicott seeks joint custody of the child.

Rivers, the 34-year-old daughter of television personality Joan Rivers, is half of the mother-daughter team covering celebrity style at Hollywood galas for E! Entertainment Television.

Third child

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Kaczmarek, who plays a manic mother to four scheming boys on the Fox sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle,” is expecting a third child with her husband, actor Bradley Whitford.

The baby is due in November, publicist Melissa Kates said.

“We have been blessed with two extraordinary children and we anxiously await the arrival of our newest family member,” the couple said in a statement Wednesday.

Kaczmarek, 46, has been married since 1992 to Whitford, who plays Deputy White House Chief of Staff Joshua Lyman on NBC’s political drama “The West Wing.” The couple are parents to a daughter and a son.

Both Kaczmarek and Whitford, 42, are expected to return to their television shows in the fall.

Rock a dad

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Rock and his wife, Malaak, are expecting a baby girl in July. This is a huge relief to the comedian.

“I think I’d be too hard on a boy — every day, trying to make him a man, getting him ready for white people,” Rock, 36, says in the June issue of GQ magazine. “Girls don’t punch each other in the face. Girls are pretty nice to each other, even, like, on a grassroots level.”

If he can talk his wife into it, the child — their first — will be named Holiday Rock. He acknowledges that this sounds like the title of a Flintstones movie, “but everything does with Rock after it. Holiday Rock! It seems like a smiley name to me. How can you get mad at Holidayfi”

Rock co-stars with Anthony Hopkins in “Bad Company,” an action-comedy directed by Joel Schumacher, which opens June 7.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page E6.