The Infamous Arrest in 2002
Nolte was detained on the Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, on September 11 after a California Highway Patrol officer stated he was “weaving and driving erratically.” He was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated and another count of being under the influence of the narcotic gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB.
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This led to his second mugshot in a flower-print Hawaiian shirt. “I needed help,” he wrote in his memoir. After years of sobriety, he finally laughed it off and admitted, “I take full responsibility for that one.”