He's just co-starred in a biopic about the porn-making Mitchell Brothers, and he is due, reportedly, to replace the ailing Michael J. Fox in television's Spin City. Now a judge here says Charlie Sheen is free from the remaining 71 days of probation he got for attacking porn actress and girlfriend Brittany Ashland in 1996.
Malibu's district attorney wanted Sheen to finish out his probation, which Sheen violated with a drug overdose. Judge Lawrence Mira had spared Sheen a stint in jail over that violation last September, and in suspending the rest of Sheen's probation praised the actor's apparent victory over substance abuse.
Interviewed by Los Angeles CBS radio affiliate KNX, Sheen said it was "nice to have a second shot. They say that success, tasted the second time around, is so much sweeter. I find I'm tasting that."
The incident with Ashland - whose porn films include Girls and Guns and Behind the Blinds - wasn't the last time Sheen + porn stars = violence. He was sued last year over an incident involving his bodyguard's alleged assault on Charlese L'Amour and Teri Starr. Sheen reportedly settled the action quietly earlier this year; his attorneys claimed the two women entered his grounds unlawfully.
