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A Rick James Rerun?
If the cops are correct, Rick James may have returned to his super-freaky ways.
The 54-year-old '80s funkster is currently under investigation for possibly sexually assaulting a woman at his Woodland Hills, California, home over the weekend. The police searched his house Monday to hunt for evidence following accusations from an unnamed 26-year-old woman that she was attacked in the James homestead.
"They are allegations of a sexual nature," Captain Jim Tatreau of the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division told the Los Angeles Times.
Tatreau said the onetime chart-topper "was cooperative with police." No charges have been filed. James' rep was not available for comment.
James, of course, has an unsavory history in such matters. In 1993, he was sentenced to time in a California prison stemming from two violent, drug-induced rages.
The first attack occurred in 1991, when he tied up a woman and burned her with a hot crack pipe while on a cocaine binge. Then, in 1993, when he was out on bail for the first incident, he invited a woman into a hotel room for a business meeting, bound her and beat her for 12 hours. He was also high on cocaine at the time.
James was convicted of assault and holding the woman against her will, but he was acquitted on a torture charge that could have sent him to prison for life. James' then-fiancée was also charged with assault and locked up.
When James was released from prison in 1996, it looked like he had turned his life around. He released the Urban Rhapsody album in 1997 and planned a tour. But he suffered a stroke in 1998, derailing his comeback.
This year, he again tried his hand at performing live, this time drug-free. "I have a desire and a purpose now," he told the Times in May. "Before, I was really on drugs [when] I went on stage. Now I can remember the cities I'm in and the songs I'm singing."
Police have not commented on the involvement of drugs in this most recent investigation.
Aside from his infamous Behind the Music-worthy excesses, James is best known for the oft-imitated 1981 hit "Super Freak." MC Hammer borrowed the song's signature riff for 1990's monster hit "U Can't Touch This," and James wound up taking home a trophy when the rap ditty won a Grammy for Best R&B Song. James also helped foist Eddie Murphy's singing career upon the world, producing the sort-of hit "Party All the Time."
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