Reports that controversial Hollywood star Mel Gibson will come to Australia are untrue, according to his publicist.

In a report yesterday by London's Daily Mail, it said that Gibson had plans to leave for Australia to escape the storm surrounding allegations that he verbally and physically abused his Russian ex-girlfriend and baby mama Oksana Grigorieva.

"There's no truth to the Mail story," Gibson's representative Alan Nierob told The Today Show in the US.

The Mail had said the actor sold his Old Mill Farm mansion in New York for $17 million less than the asking price. His Malibu home was also put up for sale.

The report also adds that unnamed friends said that Gibson's soon-to-be-ex-wife Robyn had convinced him to abandon Hollywood.

"She has persuaded him that he needs to get away from Hollywood and find peace on his ranch and she will go with him along with some of the children," the "friend" said.

However, Mr Nierob said that Gibson is in New York filming a project with Jodie Foster.

The project, a film called The Beaver which will star Gibson and directed by Foster, has no scheduled release yet, according to the Today Show.

In the meantime, Grigorieva's camp has criticised the "smear campaign" that was aimed to discredit the mother of Gibson's eighth child.

Stephen Jaffe, spokesperson for Grigorieva, slammed TMZ.com for saying that the singer's injuries were self-inflicted.

"While Mr Gibson's camp has floated a variety of false claims in the press to try to distract the public from the true facts at hand, it is telling that his camp has not once denied that it is Mr Gibson's voice on the published recordings," Mr Jaffe told the site.

"It is common in such cases for those who perpetrate domestic violence to vilify the victim of that domestic violence.

"One would hope that those who are close to Mr Gibson would take a more constructive approach."

Gibson and Grigorieva are battling for the custody of their eight-month-old daughter, Lucia.

For the past two weeks, a series of recordings of an enraged and abusive Gibson have come out. There were also photos showing Grigorieva's injuries following arguments with the actor.