June 2, 2008
Tatum O'Neal Busted on LES's Clinton Street
Actress Tatum O'Neal hasn't kept her battles with addiction a secret, but just when things in her life seem to be on the straight and narrow, the NY Post is reporting she got busted buying crack and cocaine on the Lower East Side. Seems the neighborhood still has its drug roots, the addicts just have Oscars on their mantles now.
Last year O'Neal landed a role on Rescue Me playing Denis Leary's alcoholic sister, and reportedly nailed down some other on-screen work as well; she credited her turn-around to leaving Los Angeles. So when she was caught just blocks from her Lower East Side luxury condo buying drugs at 7:30 p.m. last night, she told the officers "I'm researching a part - I'm doing this for a part."
"The source said detectives found a pipe on O'Neal, daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal. The pipe and screen were clean.Hauled off from Clinton and Grand Streets to the Seventh Precinct, she was reportedly held overnight in custody and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, as her dealer was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance."Then she said she'd been clean for two years, and that she'd just came out today," the source said.
"Can't we just forget about this?" the sources said she begged detectives.
The now 44-year-old O'Neal first burst onto the scene in her Oscar-winning role in Paper Moon at just 10 years old, but was also being raised in a chaotic, drug-fueled atmosphere. After her divorce from John McEnroe in 1992, he received custody of their three children as O'Neal developed a heroin problem.
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cocaine is one thing, but crack?
Hollywood stars caught doing DRUGS??? I am shocked, SHOCKED I say!
If the pipe was unused then maybe this really was the first time for her in a while. If so, the cops did her a favor by busting her.
I'm sure all the media coverage of this will help her get her life back on track.
Happy Birthday Addie.
Good to hear the LES still hasn't changed that much.
next time, befriend some of the locals.
no different than a white collar professional buying some coke monthly to keep his contacts.
You've got to be kidding me!
Well, maybe she should count herself lucky she never got a chance to fall off the wagon as far as the crack goes, anyway. Sad, though.
I am glad to see that she is at least supporting the local economy which can not be said for some of the people who move to the LES.
Poor lady. Paper Moon is one of my favorite movies.
@jaja007: Jaja, New York loves Tatum. Please save that kind of derogatory comment for Gawker.
I want to be bored and filthy rich so I can screw up my life too!
A lot of screwed up things are happening on "Clinton Street" these days.
She began work on Rescue Me way before last year.
Another "famous" person in Hollywood who thinks laws don't apply to them and then can whatever they feel like doing without worrying about the consequences.
This is very sad. she's really nice looking in that photo; not crack-worn looking at all!
See, old timers? The LES is still old-school! Woo!
I've never understood why people get so freaked out by crack over cocaine-except for the fact that crack is what poor black people do, so it's terrible, and cocaine is what rich white people do, so it's OK. They're both evil drugs.
"Then she said, 'I'm researching a part - I'm doing this for a part' " as a junkie
She's been meticulous in getting the role down cold.