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21 Jun 2023 · “There was no opportunity there. There was only threats.” Downey Jr.’s brushes with the law have been well documented. He was arrested in 1996 for possession of heroin, cocaine and an unloaded...
21 Jun 2023 · Robert Downey Jr. is opening up about his year in prison — and why it was the “worst thing” that ever happened to him.
20 Jun 2023 · Robert Downey Jr. says being sent to prison in 1999 was “the worst thing that happened to me.” The Iron Man star opened up about his time in a California state prison during a Monday...
12 Okt 2023 · On August 2, 2000, Downey was released from prison after a successful appeal. It would be a rocky recovery, but the actor managed to get his career going again, and today is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. It would take two decades for his 1996 conviction to be expunged.
11 Jun 2024 · Why was Robert Downey Jr. in jail? The short answer: substance abuse. In the early 1990s, Downey was tipped for superstardom; he had even been nominated for an Oscar for his starring role in Chaplin .
31 Mac 2022 · The Robert Downey Jr. we know today has come a long way from the Oscar-nominated actor who once spent years in and out of rehab programs and was sentenced to three years in prison. While...
22 Jun 2023 · Robert Downey Jr has looked back on his stint in prison in the 1990s, calling it the “worst thing that happened” to him. The 58-year-old actor has been a Hollywood mainstay since the 1980s,...
