Creed frontman Scott Stapp was arrested at his home in Boca Raton, Fla., yesterday and charged with assault related to domestic violence, authorities said.
Stapp, 33, was charged with one count of domestic assault with intent to commit a felony and was being held without bond, according to a Palm Beach County Jail official who was reached by telephone and would not give her name.
No one was injured and no one was taken to the hospital, said Paul Miller, a Sheriff's Office spokesman.
Miller declined to identify the victim and said he had no information about any physical violence.
STALLONE FINED IN AUSTRALIA
Actor Sylvester Stallone was formally convicted today of importing restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and ordered to pay $10,651 in fines and court costs.
New South Wales state Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran said the “Rocky” and “Rambo” star failed to show he had a valid prescription for dozens of vials of human growth hormone found in his luggage when he arrived in Sydney for a promotional tour in February.
Stallone had also failed to declare the male hormone testosterone on a customs entry form, although prosecutors said he had legitimate medical reasons for carrying the drug.
Cloran fined Stallone, who was not present in court and had previously pleaded guilty, a total of $2,451 on both charges and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of $8,200.
POLANSKI IN A SNIT
Director Roman Polanski walked out of a news conference at Cannes yesterday after berating journalists for asking “empty” questions.
Polanski, whose film “The Pianist” won the top prize at Cannes in 2002, was onstage with nearly 30 major directors – from Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to Germany's Wim Wenders to China's Wong Kar-wai – who were showing short films in homage to cinema.
“It's a shame to have such poor questions, such empty questions,” Polanski, 73, said. “And I think that it's really the computer which has brought you down to this level. You're no longer interested in what's going on in the cinema.
“Frankly, let's all go and have lunch,” he suggested, before walking out.
None of the other directors followed.
FATS DOMINO IS BACK
Some of Fats Domino's friends and fans thought he may never return to the stage.
The 79-year-old rock legend's last public performance came Memorial Day 2004, more than a year before Hurricane Katrina washed away his home, his pianos and his gold and platinum records. He had to be rescued by boat from his Ninth Ward home after the August 2005 storm.
But Fats is back. And when he took to the stage at a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, his fans and friends were pleased and relieved.
“It was emotional. There were a lot of people crying, people close to him,” said Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. “It wasn't that the music was living again for us. It wasn't about us. It was about Fats. Fats himself got to experience it again.”
– COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
