Category: Hollywood Crime

Actor Sean Penn Regrets El Chapo Interview

A picture of Sean Penn and “El Chapo” displayed on Rolling Stone’s website after the magazine published an interview by the actor after the drug lord’s arrest.

“Let me be clear. My article has failed.” -Sean Penn 

Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn on Friday rejected Mexico’s claim that his secret meeting with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was crucial to the drug kingpin’s recapture, saying officials were trying to put him in the crosshairs of the feared cartel.

Penn also told talk show host Charlie Rose that he regrets the fallout from the Rolling Stone article based on his interview with Guzman. 

Their meeting in a jungle hideout was the first interview anyone scored with the fugitive drug lord, and Penn said he had hoped it would spur a broader discussion on the drug war.

In Penn’s first major television interview about the meeting, Rose asked the actor whether he believed Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government had deliberately sought to credit him with Guzman’s capture to put him at risk from the Sinaloa Cartel.

“Yes. There is this myth about the visit that we made, my colleagues and I with El Chapo, that it was… ‘essential’ to his capture. We know the Mexican government, they clearly were humiliated by the notion that someone found him before they did.” 

Read more about Sean Penn’s controversial meeting that may have taken down Mexico’s most powerful cartel boss on Fortune. 

Ex NFL Player Lawrence Phillips Found Dead In His Prison Cell 

  

TMZ Sports has obtained the Lawrence Phillips’ 911 call — in which a prison staffer tells the operator to send help because the ex-NFL star “has attempted suicide right now.”

During the call, the staffer says he’s in the dark about Lawrence’s condition or how he tried to take his own life … but says he was instructed by other Kern Valley State Prison staffers to call for an ambulance asap.  

By the way, officials say the call came in to 911 at 12:14 AM — 9 MINUTES after prison officials say they found Phillips unresponsive in his cell.

As per TMZ,  Phillips’ next of kin — along with his biological mother and his lawyer — do NOT believe Lawrence committed suicide … and are demanding an investigation into the death. 

Prison officials say Phillips was found unresponsive in his cell early Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead 90 minutes later after he was transported to a nearby hospital.

April 2015 Phillips’ cell mate turned up dead and Phillips was charged with his murder. Check out the story. 

According to a USA Today report: Phillips wrote a letter to his mother in March 2015, one month before his cell mate ended up dead. 

I feel myself very close to snapping. My anger grows daily as I have become fed up with prison. I feel my anger is near bursting and that will result in my death or the death of someone else.

Check out the video of the 911 suicide call obtained by TMZ.


$188 Million NC Powerball Winner Given Summons For Harassment 

  
Marie Holmes, the North Carolina mom who won a $188 million Powerball lottery jackpot last year and has spent millions bailing her boyfriend out of jail, now has legal issues of her own.

Holmes, 26, was given a criminal summons this week on charges of making threatening and harassing phone calls to a woman named Lorna Marlowe, according to WECT news.

The phone calls allegedly occurred on Jan. 10, and Marlowe filed a complaint the same day.

According to MyFox8: the summons alleges “Holmes threatened to inflict bodily harm on Marlowe and repeatedly called her for the purpose of harassing her.”

After winning the lottery last year, Holmes has become almost a mainstay in the headlines thanks to her efforts to support her boyfriend, Lamarr McDow, the father of her youngest child. 

  

He recently spoke to The Daily Mail about Holmes and why she has no qualms with spending millions to bail him out of jail. McDow is an alleged heroin dealer who has been arrested on charges of illegal drug possession and illegal street racing.

Read more of his interview with The Daily Mail

Holmes, a former McDonald’s employee, is expected to appear in court on Feb. 12.