The 47-year-old was arrested on September 27 in Santa Barbara after a witness - that turned out to be a paparazzo- called 911 because she was driving erratically.
Locklear was then booked on charges for driving under the influence of drugs and being under the influence of a controlled substance, the second charge was later dropped.
The misdemeanor charge that was filed by the district attorney’s office on Monday specifies that the drugs in question were “prescription medications.”
The arraignment is scheduled for January 26, if convicted she faces anything from a fine to six months in jail, or like most other celebrities will get off with nothing but a tap on the wrist.
Jill Ishkanian, the paparazzo that called 911 took the photos has not been found of any criminal wrongdoing, despite selling the photographs she took.
I’m sure that with her trip to rehab and now this, Denise Richards is loving life right about now.
Talk about déjà vu, Kanye West has been arrested again for allegedly getting into a fight with a photographer, this time outside the Tup Tup club in Newcastle, England.
The rapper was arrested at his hotel by police, they questioned him for a few hours before finally releasing him without charges.
According to TMZ the photographer made the same claims against a British soccer player some months ago but that case was dropped.
The photographer alleges that Kanye smashed his camera into his face, cutting his lip, at around 2AM after he tried to take pictures of the rapper leaving the club with 4 girls.
You might recall Kanye was arrested and released for getting into a scuffle with a photographer while at LAX airport back in September.
I wonder why Kanye didn’t want to be photographed with 4 girls, isn’t that the image rappers aim for?
Lindsey Evans, Miss Louisiana Teen USA, is about a pound lighter, because she just lost her crown.
We just got an advance copy of a statement that will be released from Paula Miles, President of RPM, sponsor of the LA. pageant.
“Lindsey Evans has been part of an organization that believes in opportunities when earned and consequences when warranted.
Due to recent circumstances, Lindsey has been relieved of her duties as Miss Louisiana Teen USA 2008 effective immediately.”
Evans was arrested this weekend after she and a group of friends allegedly tried to dine-and-dash — all over a $46.07 bill. Problem — the pageant queen left her purse at the scene of the crime. She went back to retrieve it, and was busted when cops found pot in the purse.
Here’s the insult to injury. She only had 10 days left on her reign. But pageant officials didn’t have the patience to wait.
An actor with a small but memorable part in the first ‘Austin Powers‘ movie has been charged in connection with an unsolved 1990 gang rape, according to a FOXNews.com report.
Joe Son, who played the shoe-throwing character Random Task (prompting the Mike Myers line “Who throws a shoe?”), was hit with a slew of charges on Oct. 1, including: Five felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible sodomy, two felony counts of sodomy in concert by force, seven felony counts of forcible oral copulations and one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object by force, according to an Orange County District Attorney’s Office release.
Son pleaded guilty to a felony vandalism charge in May, and when he was required to give a DNA sample, he was linked back to the 18-year-old Christmas Eve gang rape.
19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon were both arrested in January 2008 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The twins were arrested for felony aggravated battery but they both received probation and were ordered to pay restitution to the two victims.
TMZ spoke to the a member of the victims family, who said the twins went out after work with one of their Wing House co-workers, Erica Civello, to a house party. Kristina allegedly started arguing with Erica, and Karissa came up behind her and hit Erica over the head with a bottle of beer and they both “jumped her.” Erica suffered a concussion.
Karissa also has a misdemeanor battery charge on her record from 2007.
Nice people.
source: Hef’s Girls Put the Jail in Jailbait [tmz]
Oh dear, another celebrity has been busted for drugs, this time it’s actor Ryan O’Neal and his son, Redmond, were arrested Wednesday at the actor’s Malibu, Calif., home for alleged drug possession, a sheriff’s spokesman confirms.
“This morning, deputies were doing a routine sweep to make sure Redmond was adhering to his probation,” sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said. “Upon searching the premises, the younger O’Neal was found in possession of narcotics. Later, a vial of drugs were found in the elder O’Neal’s bedroom. We believe the drugs found were methamphetamines.”
Both Ryan, 67, and Redmond, 23, are being held at a local sheriff’s station in lieu of $10,000 bail each.
Redmond O’Neal’s mother is Farrah Fawcett and his half-sister is Tatum O’Neal, who was arrested July 1 in New York City for trying to buy drugs.
Reps for Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett weren’t immediately available for comment.
Redmond has a history of drug abuse, having entered rehab in 2004 for heroin abuse. This past June, he pleaded guilty to drug possession and one misdemeanor DUI charge.
It must run in the family.
source: Ryan O’Neal and Son Arrested for Alleged Drug Possession [people]
Kanye West has just been arrested at LAX for felony vandalism.
A still photographer was trying to take pics of Kanye at the American Airlines terminal. According to our guy on the scene, Kanye allegedly confronted the photog and smashed his camera to the ground.
Our photog then began videotaping the scene when Kanye’s assistant grabbed our camera — a struggle ensued and the assistant threw the video camera to the ground, breaking it.
When Kanye realized our camera guy had videotaped the incident, he rushed our guy and yelled, “Gimme that f**king tape!”
Both Kanye and his assistant have been arrested and will be booked.
A man in Los Angeles really wants to get into the Playboy Mansion after he tried to ram the front gates twice in one week.
One man appears determined to crash the party at the Playboy Mansion. Los Angeles police say a Ventura County man rammed his vehicle into the gates at Hugh Hefner’s legendary home twice in the past week.Detectives believe both incidents involve an “ongoing dispute,” Lt. John Romero told the Los Angeles Times, without offering details.
Jason Lee, a police spokesman, said no one was injured in either incident. The unnamed suspect was arrested and released after the first crash last Thursday night, Lee said. He slammed his car into the gates again Tuesday, but fled before police arrived. The gates sustained some damage. Police did not know if Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, or his three girlfriends were at home at the time.
Officials at Playboy’s corporate offices in Los Angeles and Chicago could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
source: Man rams into Playboy Mansion gates — twice [msnbc]
Of all the places not to carry drugs, airport’s are right up there on the top of that list, next to a police station.
But One Day at a Time actress Mackenzie Phillips has been busted at LAX for allegedly possessing heroin and cocaine. She’s in custody right now.
At 10:00 AM, officers responded to Terminal 4, where 48-year-old Phillips was being screened by TSA. During the screening process, some baggies and balloons believed to contain heroin and cocaine were recovered.
The former “One Day at a Time” star has had a long history of drug abuse.
Hayden Panettiere’s father, Alan “Skip” Panettiere, has been released from jail on $50,000 bail following an arrest for felony domestic violence — and he claims the whole thing is “a misunderstanding.”
“Nothing actually happened. In fact, Lesley wasn’t even aware that I had been arrested. Hayden found out about the arrest when I called her from jail. We love each other very much and want everyone to know that the matter was completely blown out of proportion.”
Alan was busted at their home for allegedly hitting Lesley on the cheek and leaving a visible mark. It’s been reported that they had quarreled earlier in the evening at an event at Eva Longoria’s restaurant, Beso.
“Nothing actually happened.” Famous last words from an abuser. How could Lesley not know he was arrested, she was there wasn’t she?
What others said:
Dlisted says, “First of all, AC Slater needs to put on a unitard and go prance around in the corner. Second of all, a misunderstanding? I can picture Lesley telling the cops in the morning, “He didn’t actually hit me. I ran into his hand several times.”
Pink is the New Blog says, “I suppose we are to assume that things got out of hand and all is forgiven, altho I would have a bit of a hard time sweeping a matter like this under the rug if I were somehow involved.”
Evil Beet Gossip says, “Oh, man, my hopes and dreams are coming true: it’s looking like this whole good girl act Hayden’s got going on is just because she’s too damn young to have developed a drinking or drug problem. I mean, now we know that she’s got some genetic tendency to get completely wasted and do really dumb shit, so, at this point, we sit patiently and wait for her life to spin wildly out of control. Then we blog about it. Hooray!”
