Being a celebrity (even a has been one) allows you to get away with murder. And once you've done that, there's lots of other lesser crimes you can also get away with. Just ask stubble-faced soccer-mom looking Motley Crüe singer Vince Neil.
Neil will take a plea deal and serve two weeks of jail time, plus two weeks of house arrest, for driving drunk in his Lamborghini last summer near the Las Vegas Strip. But converted into celebrity punishment, that's zero jail time and a fortnight of takeout.
"I have recognized that you can't drink and drive at all," Neil's publicist said on his behalf, underscoring the sincerity of his feelings on the matter. If the charges had been contested, the singer could have faced up to six months. "There's just a point in your life where you kind of stop, that's what happened with me," he once told an AP reporter while promoting his tell-all book. Neil said he hadn't used drugs in 20 years and had stopped abusing alcohol, which clearly stuck. He and his fourth wife live in Las Vegas, where Neil also owns tattoo shops and two bars.
For those who didn't care much for or follow the Crüe back in the day, Neil previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunken driving in a 1984 crash that killed his passenger, Nicholas Dingley, drummer with the shitty glam-rock group Hanoi Rocks. Uninjured, he served 20 days in jail and agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution to victims.
Neil will take a plea deal and serve two weeks of jail time, plus two weeks of house arrest, for driving drunk in his Lamborghini last summer near the Las Vegas Strip. But converted into celebrity punishment, that's zero jail time and a fortnight of takeout.
"I have recognized that you can't drink and drive at all," Neil's publicist said on his behalf, underscoring the sincerity of his feelings on the matter. If the charges had been contested, the singer could have faced up to six months. "There's just a point in your life where you kind of stop, that's what happened with me," he once told an AP reporter while promoting his tell-all book. Neil said he hadn't used drugs in 20 years and had stopped abusing alcohol, which clearly stuck. He and his fourth wife live in Las Vegas, where Neil also owns tattoo shops and two bars.
For those who didn't care much for or follow the Crüe back in the day, Neil previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunken driving in a 1984 crash that killed his passenger, Nicholas Dingley, drummer with the shitty glam-rock group Hanoi Rocks. Uninjured, he served 20 days in jail and agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution to victims.
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