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Village People Cop Avoids Abuse Charges
Victor Willis has admitted to abusing drugs. As for abusing his girlfriend—no way, he says.
San Diego prosecutors decided last week not to press charges against the former Village People singer, who was arrested last month on suspicion of roughing up his live-in girlfriend.
City Attorney's Office spokeswoman Maria Velasquez said that her office would not be pursuing the case for "evidentiary reasons." Willis, a recovering drug addict who's currently on probation for drug-related infractions, was looking at possible charges of battery, criminal threat and domestic violence battery with no injury.
"There was simply a minor disagreement between Victor and his fiancée who are residing together in a penthouse apartment in San Diego's La Jolla area. Victor loves her very much and she loves Victor," Willis' publicist, Alice Wolf, said in a statement posted on the artist's Website. "As such, the authorities have decided not to prosecute because his fiancée was not the victim of domestic violence by him as was recently reported."
The site also states that Willis and his paramour are still planning to tie the knot later this year.
Willis was arrested at about 4 a.m. on Mar. 23 after his girlfriend called police to report that a man had choked her, put a knife to her throat and intended to kill her, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. When officers arrived at the scene, Willis was sitting in his car and the woman, who told the police that her man was being abusive, was standing outside the vehicle and did not appear hurt.
"Our officers recognized him," San Diego Police Sergeant Jim Schorr told the newspaper, referring to the man who helped pen the disco classics "Y.M.C.A." and "Macho Man." "We knew we had the cop from Village People."
So the ruse that Willis tried in San Francisco in July 2005, when real-life cops pulled him over during a routine traffic stop and found a loaded gun, crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia in his car, wouldn't have worked down south. According to the Bay Area police, Willis wasn't carrying a valid form of I.D. at the time and initially tried to lie about who he was, before switching tactics and hoping that his celebrity would help him out of the sticky situation.
The six felony counts of driving with a suspended license, possessing a firearm and transporting cocaine eventually merged with charges that resulted from a Mar. 26, 2006, arrest for coke possession and earned the '70s-era hitmaker a stay in rehab and probation. Willis was lucky enough to escape a two-year stay in state prison.
Per his Website, he has since completed a seven-month treatment program and is back on track.
"It's too bad that Victor is so hounded by the media, especially the tabloids, that sometimes things are quickly printed about him before the facts are fully known," Wolf stated in a press release posted on the site. "But he would like Village People fans to know that he is not in violation of his probation and he is not facing prison. Unfortunately there are those who want to be able to say they arrested or detained the Village People cop, albeit for frivolous reasons. And people wonder why Victor Willis is so reclusive."
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