Right at the intersection of rich and famous is a zone that excuses the worst behavior of rock and roll stars.
In 1989, Izzy Stradlin, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist couldn’t wait any longer for an airline bathroom to open up, so he took a leak in the alley. Incidentally, Ozzy Osbourne was arrested for doing the same thing on the side of the Alamo in San Antonio.
Kid Rock is famous for getting into a brawl with Motley Crue’s drummer Tommy Lee during the MTV awards a few years ago. Peter Buck of R.E.M. got loaded on an international flight and caused a scene when they cut him off, being arrested.
The guy who had the worst day of all was none other than Eminem, boasting two incidents with a gun in less than three hours in 2000. His first brush with the law came at a gathering where he got into a verbal spat with Douglas Dail of the music group ‘Insane Clown Posse.’ He pulled out a gun and threatened the dude. A few hours later Eminem saw his ex-wife at a nightclub getting too friendly with a bouncer, so he steps up in the guy’s face with an unloaded gun and threatened to kill him. Needless to say, Eminem takes the award here.
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