O J Simpson Self-Monitors His BAC

O. J. Simpson likes to relax at this bar even though he’s shackled to a strict drinking limit. That is one of the terms of his parole: not to drink “to excess,” defined as a .08-or-higher blood-alcohol content level. Simpson monitors his blood with a personal Breathalyzer day and night, since a parole officer could burst into either bar or bedroom to test him at any moment. 

Gee, I guess he got "drunk" on a very low BAC.

‘Drunk’ OJ Simpson kicked out of Las Vegas hotel

Simpson had been frequenting bars at the hotel since his release from prison. Hotel staff tells TMZ ... at around midnight last night, Simpson was drunk and became disruptive at the Clique bar. We're told

Simpson was angry at hotel staff and glasses broke at the bar. 
Check out the pic below of Simpson strolling through the hotel Wednesday night.

Johnny Depp

Star appears "drunk" at premiere.

O J Simpson

In 1996 a paperback version of my book was published in the United Kingdom with the title The Secret History of Alcoholism. This re-publication of my 1992 book gave me the opportunity to update some of the chapters, to include other famous people who I had reason to suspect were alcoholics. One person I added was O J Simpson,the American football player who was found "not guilty" of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a famous trial. I included (in Chapter Eight, Alcoholism Kills) the following, with emphasis now added:

Years later, another husband (and possible alcoholic) stood accused of murder.  Over many months of 1994 and 1995 O.J. Simpson was tried for the brutal knife-slaying of  Nicole Simpson, his  former wife and Ronald Goldman, a young male acquaintance.  Admitted to evidence during the lengthy trial was a note Simpson had written in 1989 to his then wife, in which he apologized for punching her: "... I'm not going to blame being drunk thats [sic] no excuse.  (But I have decided to stop drinking and will go to  A.A.)"  While  testifying, Denise Brown, Nicole's sister, was asked if Simpson had a drinking problem.  Because of Simpson's lawyers' objections, Denise (a recovering alcoholic) was not allowed to respond.  O.J. Simpson was acquitted, but opinion polls showed that most Americans were convinced that  this charming, dapper, over-achieving ex-football star was indeed the killer.

Although he was acquitted in the murder trial, O J Simpson was convicted for another crime and sentenced to prison. In October 2017 he will be released on parole.

Karl Marx

I writing my book I considered the possibility that Karl Marx ought to be included but felt there was insufficient evidence.

If I were writing it today I'd include him.
 
Some excerpts from this article.

The money that his father sent to him for tuition at the University was spent on food and drink, with many of his nights spent at coffee houses and taverns getting drunk and arguing about Hegelian philosophy with other students.

 Other telling behavior:
  
Marx’s Mean and Mendacious Manner

In temperament, Marx could be cruel and authoritarian. He treated people with whom he disagreed in a crude and mean way, often ridiculing them in public gatherings. Marx had no hesitation about being a hypocrite; when he wanted something from someone he would flatter them in letters or conversation, but then attack them in nasty language behind their backs to others. He often used racial slurs and insulting words to describe the mannerisms or appearance of his opponents in the socialist movement.   

For instance, in an 1862 letter to Frederick Engels, Marx described leading nineteenth-century German socialist, Ferdinand Lassalle, in the following way:

The Jewish Nigger Lassalle ... fortunately departs at the end of this week ... It is now absolutely clear to me that, as both the shape of his head and his hair texture shows – he descends from the Negros who joined Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or grandmother on the paternal side hybridized with a nigger). Now this combination of Germanness and Jewishness with a primarily Negro substance creates a strange product. The pushiness of the fellow is also nigger-like.

I recommend reading the entire article.

Mary Tyler Moore, R.I.P.

"Her father, George Tyler Moore, a clerk, and her mother, the former Margery Hackett, were both alcoholics... "

"In the 1980s, Ms. Moore admitted to having a drinking problem. It had started, she said, when she was starring in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and had finally reached untenable levels. (In 2000, Mr. Van Dyke told Larry King that he was also an alcoholic and that he had also started drinking heavily while working on the show.) Ms. Moore entered the Betty Ford Center for treatment in 1984."
                                                                                                            
            
LINK to The New York Times obituary
 

John Hurt, R.I.P.

From Hollywood bad boy to national treasure: The notorious hell-raiser who drank up to seven bottles of wine a NIGHT

• Sir John once boasted he drank seven bottles of wine a night during wilder days
• He gave up alcohol in later years and became one of world's most beloved actors

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4166682/John-Hurt-drank-heavily-fiancee-died-accident.html#ixzz4X4RssPR9
 

 

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