Soap Star Busted in Drug Deal
Nader was hanging out at the Barber Shop, a seedy East Village haunt indicated only by a cardboard sign, when it was raided in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
Police say Nader, the 56-year-old former Dynasty star, was one of five clubgoers charged with a felony count of selling a controlled substance, in his case a $20 bag of cocaine.
"He was very distraught," an officer told the New York Post. "He told us that his mother had just passed away."
After the arrest, Nader was whisked to Bellevue Hospital where he was treated and released for an undisclosed illness.
Though he plays a dashing count on All My Children, Nader's career started off less than luxuriously in the '60s with bit parts in teen beach flicks like Pajama Party and Muscle Beach Party. He told TV Guide in 1984 that he started using marijuana and psychedelic drugs as a teen as part of his "spiritual quest."
"My friends and I, we all burned the candle of life strongly and early," Nader said, admitting that drugs and alcohol plagued him until he quit in 1980. He said his sobriety prompted him to lecture other users about the toll drugs took on his friends.
Shortly thereafter Nader's career reached an all-time high playing Joan Collins' love interest, Farnsworth "Dex" Dexter, on ABC's hit nighttime soap Dynasty in the '80s. He was so hot he had to be shuttled out the side door after attending Broadway plays so he wouldn't be mobbed.
After Dynasty folded, Nader snared his current role on AMC as the dashing Hungarian count who woos Susan Lucci.
Nader is no stranger to the men in blue. In 1997, he was arrested for fighting with Long Island's finest after allegedly driving drunk with his teenage daughter in the passenger seat.
Nader's publicist declined comment on the matter.





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