Posted on 02/13/2006 1:50:18 PM PST by dead
For Scott Stapp, the honeymoon was over before it even began.
Hours after the former Creed frontman tied the knot with beauty queen Jaclyn Nesheiwat in Miami on Friday, the rocker was rung up for public intoxication in Los Angeles.
Stapp, en route to his Hawaiian honeymoon, was stopped from boarding a plane at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday after airline personnel deemed the rocker "antagonistic" and "boisterous."
A spokesman for the airport police, Lieutenant Tyrone Stallings, said the rocker was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a public place and taken to the Van Nuys station for processing.
According to TMZ.com, which first reported the incident, Stapp demanded a blood-alcohol test at the station, where he registered a 0.18--twice the legal limit.
Stapp, 32, eventually was freed and ordered to report for arraignment on Mar. 8.
There was no immediate comment from his publicist on the arrest--or the nuptials.
What we do know is the singer married Nesheiwat, a 25-year-old former Miss New York 2004, on Friday.
People magazine reported the couple swapped vows at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a European-inspired estate on the city's Biscayne Bay.
Nesheiwat donned a Vera Wang bridal number and walked down a 65-foot-long rose-petal-covered aisle. Stapp's seven-year-old son, Jagger, served as best man, per People.
It was the first trip down the aisle for Nesheiwat and the second for Stapp. He was previously married to Hillaree Burns for 16 months before divorcing in 1999. Stapp retained sole custody of their only child, Jagger.
The two newlyweds met in January 2005 at a fundraising gala for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in New York and got engaged late last year. Stapp issued a press release last month touting the engagement and announcing that Nesheiwat had taken a position as director of public affairs for the Scott Stapp Foundation, an organization aimed at promoting healthy parent-child relationships.
For his part, Stapp definitely has a handle on unhealthy relationships. Aside from his tempestuous first marriage, Stapp's sobriety-challenged behavior led to the collapse of Creed in 2004 and a well publicized bar fight between the singer and members of 311 last Thanksgiving.
On the 311 Website, drummer Chad Sexton claimed an allegedly intoxicated Stapp made a "disrespectful and crude remark" to a bandmate's wife, then "sucker-punched" Sexton.
Stapp admitted to Rolling Stone that he entered rehab shortly after the fight. He also said that he was so disgusted by his booze and pill habit that he nearly killed himself following Creed's disastrous 2003 Weathered tour. (The tour, which turned out to be the band's last, was capped by a lawsuit filed by a group of Chicago fans who demanded their money back because Stapp "was so intoxicated and/or medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song.")
Stapp's debut solo album, The Great Divide, was released in November to little fanfare and even fewer sales--it opened at number 19 with 94,000 copies, a far cry from his dominating days with Creed, which sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Regardless, Stapp will be cutting short his already truncated honeymoon to hit the road once more. He kicks off a club tour Feb. 23 in his hometown of Orlando. The trek wraps up Mar. 18 in Phoenix.
What?!!! California has a law determining the limit to walk on a plane?
And here I kinda liked their/his music!
but what do *I* know.
He's got a good voice,
but he's not the brightest crayon in the box ;)
Train wreck alert!!!!!
Kinda lame in the rock & roll bad boy pantheon.
He could have at least choked on some vomit or defecated on the rug.
Am painfully clueless when it comes to Pop Culture. < |:(~
I don't know what a "Creed" is, but I too, believe I'd be described as "boisterous" and possibly "antagonistic" if I'd just married a dish like that.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Well,
I kinda figured that it was the case when on a VH1 special it came out that he blew all the band's savings on some wackaloon pyramid scheme. I swear, I've seen bird dogs who've lost the scent who've looked less confused.
God help him.
Huh? Stapp's dad was a dentist. Also a born again Christian. Scott did not want to live under his parent's rules so HE left home on his own terms. Rough my ass.
I'm sure his retort was:
"I only want to RIDE in the plane. I don't want to drive the damn thing!"
My guess is that shes more beauty than brains.
ah well...everyone has someone
Taken into custody at LAX.... Booked in at the Van Nuys Station??? They probably passed 3 or 4 other LAPD stations on their drive out the the valley.... What's up/w that?
I guess they couldn't take him higher. He's lucky he didn't end up in his own prison.
Just because one's old man was a "dentist" doesn't mean things were great. I wouldn't pretend to judge what he endured growing up.
Anyone gets my respect when they've fallen into a moral and spiritual abyss, then pick themselves up as he has under the circumstances of "rock-star temptation."
I believe he didn't get through one song before he passed out on stage and the fans demanded a refund.
Not sure how that brouhaha turned out though.
/not a "Creed" fan
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