Actor Mel Gibson has been trying to rehab his image and launch a Hollywood comeback lately after his drunken tirade against a Los Angeles cop during a DUI bust ruined his career. But it may be harder for the “Braveheart” star to win back fans now that photos of Gibson and his mistress hugging and cavorting at his Costa Rican estate have hit the internet. While the woman in the new set of photos hasn’t been identified, it sure looks like Oksana, the mystery brunette who was photographed with Gibson last November.

He has explained his way out out of tight spots before, and it looks like he’ll have to again.

Mel Gibson has been pictured embracing a stunning bikini-clad woman in the surf near his estate home in Costa Rica.

And while her identity remains a mystery, it was definitely not 52-year-old Robyn Moore, his wife of 28 years and mother of his seven children.

Our source on the beach said: ‘It was near sunset. The two of them were playing in the surf, ducking into waves.

‘Then Mel sort of took hold of her and she came willingly into his arms. They put their arms around each other and kissed pretty passionately for about four or five seconds. The two of them then wandered down the beach and popped in and out of the surf.’

Gibson, 53, owns a 300-acre retreat on the shores of Costa Rica’s Pacific shoreline. It was there that he apparently entertained Britney Spears to help her recuperate after her recent breakdown.

It is not clear whether his wife, who is seldom seen in public, is with him in Costa Rica or at one of his other homes in California, Connecticut, Fiji and his native Australia.

Last September there were reports that Gibson was becoming close to a glamorous Russian musician known only as Oksana while filming his new movie Edge of Darkness in Boston.

In 2006, with his tongue loosened by tequila, he ranted against Jewish people to a female traffic police officer who had pulled him over for drink driving.

Two years earlier he was forced to issue denials of anti-Semitism when his film, The Passion Of The Christ, was widely condemned for portraying Jews as the villains.

Gibson’s publicist is not available for comment.

[From The Daily Mail]

The Daily Mail has posted the photos of Gibson and the woman hugging and kissing on the beach. Though her face isn’t visible, the woman is most likely Oksana, the dark haired, slender woman who was seen lurking around Gibson’s trailer on the shoot of his new movie, “Edge of Darkness” late last year. A story in The National Enquirer last year claimed that Gibson was divorcing his long-suffering wife to be with the woman, but no statement has come from the Gibson camp to confirm it. It’s long been speculated that the actor’s marriage has been in name only for many years for the sake of their children, and also because Gibson, a devout Catholic, doesn’t want to divorce. I wonder how his wife feels about those pictures?

These photos were the first ones of Gibson and his alleged mistress on the set of his movie last November. It sure looks like the same woman in the new photos. Credits: Fame.