Rocker Rod Stewart, son resolve Florida hotel assault case

Rock icon Rod Stewart and his lad person pleaded blameworthy to artillery successful an battle lawsuit stemming from a New Year's Eve 2019 altercation with a information defender astatine an exclusive Florida hotel.

Court records released Friday amusement that the vocalist and his lad Sean Stewart entered blameworthy pleas to misdemeanor charges of elemental battery.

“No 1 was injured successful the incidental and a assemblage did not find Sir Rod Stewart blameworthy of the accusation,” his lawyer Guy Fronstin said successful a statement. “Instead, Sir Rod Stewart decided to participate a plea to debar the inconvenience and unnecessary load connected the tribunal and the nationalist that a precocious illustration proceeding would cause.”

The raspy-voiced Stewart, 76, is simply a British subordinate of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II successful 2016. His hits see “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy,” “You’re In My Heart,” “Hot Legs” and, astir apt his best-known song, “Maggie May.”

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The plea agreement, dated and signed Monday, means that Stewart and his son, 41, won't person to look successful tribunal and ceremonial adjudication of the complaint was withheld. There volition beryllium nary trial.

Neither volition bash immoderate jailhouse clip oregon beryllium required to wage fines and won't beryllium placed connected probation, Fronstin said.

The Stewarts were accused of a carnal altercation with information defender Jessie Dixon astatine the luxury Breakers Hotel successful Palm Beach connected Dec. 31, 2019. The quality progressive Dixon's refusal to let them into a backstage New Year's Eve enactment astatine the hotel.

Dixon said successful tribunal papers that Rod Stewart punched him successful the rib cage with a closed fist and that Sean Stewart shoved him.

A spokesperson for Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg, whose bureau prosecuted the case, said successful an email that Dixon agreed with the result of the case.

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