Report: In The Face Of Driving Concerns, VINCE NEIL Says Not To Worry

March 23, 2011, 13 years ago

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Las Vegas Weekly's John Katsilometes reports:

Ever since he was released from house arrest after serving his sentence for a DUI offense, how VINCE NEIL gets from Point A to Point B has become something of a point of interest.

He’s been getting to those points, that much is certain, and the buggy he’s been driving has been his famous black Lamborghini with the vanity plate TATUUD. The vehicle has been spotted parked prominently at the valet of a couple of Neil’s favorite hotels, the Las Vegas Hilton and the Palms, on nights Neil has been reportedly enjoying a seemingly limitless flow of champagne and his return to freedom.

Guests at both hotels have reported via Twitter, email and text messages that they spotted the MÖTLEY CRÜE vocalist partying on numerous occasions in the week after he returned to civilian life.

Neil, a resident of Las Vegas, served 10 days of a 15-day sentence in Clark County Detention Center. He was released February 25th and served the balance of the sentence under house arrest, which ended March 8th.

Neil impressed jail officials with his humility and willingness to work hard for early release, performing menial cleanup tasks in the detention center. But he swiftly returned to celebratory mode after he turned in his ankle bracelet to Metro Police officers upon release. His first stop was the hotel where he was drinking the night of his arrest, the Hilton. He was later spotted at the Palms.

It bears reminding, of course, that hanging out in Vegas hotels and enjoying some bubbly is not in and of itself against the law, and the reports about Neil’s activity have not at all proven that Neil has been driving after drinking alcoholic beverages. Also, valet attendants at the Hilton and the Palms (and across Las Vegas, in fact) are trained not to return keys to drivers who appear to be impaired. But it is true that Neil’s Lamborghini has wound up at hotel-casinos where he has been seen drinking champagne, and his driver’s license was revoked in October as part of his DUI charge.

This is what makes Neil’s friends and fans, well aware of his history with DUI, a little nervous. But the 50-year-old rock vocalist says not to worry.

Saturday afternoon, Neil responded to text and phone messages left this week by saying he was OK, that “insinuations of me drinking and driving are completely false.”

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