What a waste of talent....
According to Wikipedia...
Vincent battled alcoholism and intravenous drug use for much of his life. In 1977, 1978 and 1979 he was arrested for possession of cocaine and in 1984 and 1985 he was arrested after two bar brawls.
He also received a felony assault charge in 1986, of which he was acquitted, after his attorney argued that the woman tripped and fell on a telephone cord in his home.
He then was arrested for drunk driving but avoided jail by entering rehab in 1988. In 2000 a $374,000 default judgment was made against him after his former girlfriend alleged he had physically assaulted her after their breakup and caused her to miscarry their child.
I didn’t know he was still around. I thought he was the actor that accidentally shot himself in the head with a blank round from a pistol.
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UPI May 14, 1985
Actor Jan-Michael Vincent was found innocent Tuesday of a...
MALIBU, Calif. -- Actor Jan-Michael Vincent was found innocent Tuesday of a misdemeanor battery charge involving a barroom brawl with an intoxicated man who was seriously injured in the fight.
A Municipal Court jury deliberated only a few hours before acquitting Vincent, 40, star of the CBS adventure series 'Airwolf.' The trial lasted three days.
Sheriff's deputies said the fight broke out last June in the Trancas Restaurant in Malibu when John Bogosian, 43, of South Pasadena, who was intoxicated, approached Vincent. Bogosian was knocked unconscious when his head struck the floor.
Vincent, speaking outside court, said he hit the man in self-defense after Bogosian pulled on the back of his T-shirt.
'The guy came up to me and grabbed me from the back,' he said. 'I was scared.'
Vincent is 5-foot-10 and weighs 160 pounds, while Bogosian is 6-foot-2 and reportedly weighed 215 pounds at the time of the dispute.
Bogosian's date that night, Marlana Huter, 24, testified he drank eight or more tequilas, each followed by a beer, in less than an hour.
'He was pretty drunk,' she added.
Another member of Bogosian's party also testified he was intoxicated.
Bogosian said he was hospitalized for two weeks in intensive care and does not remember the incident.
Sheriff's detective Richard Schilling testified that battery charge against Vincent would not have been filed had Bogosian's injuries not been so serious."