Boca Raton, Fla. – Former Creed frontman Scott Stapp was arrested at his home and charged with assault related to domestic violence.
Stapp was charged with one count of domestic assault with intent to commit a felony Sunday 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.
“We don’t know exactly what occurred here,” said Miller.
It wasn’t immediately known if Stapp had an attorney.
Stapp, 33, was married a year ago last February at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami to former Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat.
Nesheiwat declined to comment Sunday night.
“It’s just a rough time,” she told The Palm Beach Post.
Stapp’s former band, Creed, sold more than 25 million records in the United States. He has since launched a solo singing career.
Miller didn’t immediately respond to phone messages left on his cell phone and at his office after hours by The Associated Press.
Stapp’s manager did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment or a telephone message left at his office after hours.
Cannes, France – Director Roman Polanski walked out of a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday 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.
The shorts were packaged as a feature called “To Each His Own Cinema.” Several questions at the news conference focused on the future of cinema in the digital age. Polanski’s walkout did not seem to be a response to any single question.
When the moderator announced that journalists had just two minutes left, Polanski, 73, took the microphone.
“It’s a shame to have such poor questions, such empty questions,” Polanski 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.
London – Paul McCartney avoids reading media coverage of his difficult divorce because he does not want to see the details of his private life on front pages, he said in an interview.
McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, are in the middle of divorce proceedings. The former Beatle told the Guardian’s Weekend magazine that the situation has brought him closer to his grown children from his marriage to Linda McCartney.
“I’m going through great struggles, but I’m feeling pretty good,” McCartney was quoted as saying. “I have a lot of good support, particularly from my family. In difficult moments like this, it’s when a loving family shines through.” McCartney said it is difficult to see his private life exposed.
“There’s only one real answer to the massive press coverage – don’t look,” he said. “So I don’t read it.” It is estimated that the divorce will cost McCartney $200 million, reducing his fortune to $1.4 billion, according to The Sunday Times’ annual Rich List.
“There is a tunnel and there is a light and I will get there.
In the meantime I really enjoy my work and my family. I see people worse off than me, so I can put it in perspective,” McCartney said.
CANNES, France – Photographers at the Cannes Film Festival booed Pamela Anderson after she showed up late for a photo session last week and only stuck around to pose for a few minutes.
Anderson was in town to promote her new movie, “Blonde and Blonder.” Earlier in the day, she had complained to AP Television News about the paparazzi, saying that Cannes was “a frenzy, it’s crazy, it’s silly.” “Even watching it on television this morning, seeing these people, it’s like the actors are prodded through like cattle, ‘turn this way, turn that way,”‘ she said, adding that Cannes was nonetheless “quite glamorous.” The 39-year-old former “Baywatch” star had said previously that she would not attend Cannes, where her movie is screening on the sidelines of the official lineup, but later changed her mind.
“My kids come first even in my schedule,” said Anderson, who has two young sons with former husband Tommy Lee. “When I schedule anything that I do, it’s around their baseball games or their soccer matches or their … everything.” In “Blonde and Blonder,” Anderson co-stars with Denise Richards in what is being promoted as “Dumb & Dumber” meets “Legally Blonde.”
