The coming weeks are going to be mighty busy for the old guard of Hollywood's bad boys.
On Monday, at 2:15 p.m., the day before he returns to work on "Two and a Half Men" after a stint in rehab, Carlos Estevez (Charlie Sheen’s real name) will be in Aspen facing domestic violence charges. They stem from a Christmas Day confrontation between the actor and his wife, Brooke Mueller. If found guilty, he could face up to five years in jail.
Then, on March 18, Tom Sizemore goes on trial in downtown L.A. on domestic battery charges as the result of an incident near downtown on Aug. 5. Sizemore was on the last season of “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” and appears in the new season of VH1’s “Sober House,” which debuts Thursday night.
Sean Penn -- who starred in 1983's reform-school drama "Bad Boys" -- was scheduled to be arraigned on March 22 on misdemeanor charges of battery and vandalism from a heated encounter with paparazzi last October. On Tuesday, his lawyers were granted a continuance to have that arraignment pushed back to April 22 at the Airport courthouse near LAX.
Each is a repeat offender.
CHARLIE SHEEN
The Court Date: March 15 in Aspen.
The Charge: Felony menacing and misdemeanors of 3rd degree assault and criminal mischief.
The Circumstances: Aspen Police received a 911 call on Christmas Day from a crying and intoxicated Brooke Mueller, claiming that her 44-year old husband was trying to kill her. The cops went to the couple’s vacation home and arrested the actor, who allegedly was waving a knife around and holding her down.
Mueller, who police said had red marks on her neck, reportedly had said she was going to divorce Sheen and take the couple’s year old twins. Sheen, who admitted in his statement to police that the couple had been slapping each other, was booked and released on $8,500 bond.
The couple, who were temporarily court ordered to stay apart, have since reconciled, with Mueller entering rehab and refusing to participate in the prosecution against her husband.
On Feb. 23, Sheen entered a rehab facility as a “preventative measure,” and production on his show, which had several episodes left to film this season, shut down.
On Tuesday, Sheen's publicist said the actor would be leaving rehab and getting back to work the day after appearing in court in Aspen.
The Priors: Well known for his past love of hookers, drugs and booze, Sheen has also had at least two accounts of violence against women. There was a two-year probation in the late '90s for his assault of then-girlfriend Brittany Ashland in 1996. A year before, he settled out of court with a woman who said he struck her after she wouldn't have sex with him.
Sheen’s second wife, actress Denise Richards, with whom he has two daughters, has claimed the actor threatened to kill her when they were together.
The Consequences: The domestic violence charges against Sheen carry a combined sentence of up to five years, with the most serous charge, the felony of menacing, coming with three years in prison.
The Court Date: March 15 in Aspen.
