John Mayer Busted!
So … some sort of bet went down yesterday between John Mayer and TMZ on Twitter over a little matter of Mayer’s arrest in 2001. From what I can surmise, Mayer bet TMZ $25,000 (to be donated to charity) that they couldn’t find his mugshot from an arrest that took place many years ago (his actual tweet challenge read thusly, “Challenge: if Harvey Levin at TMZ can produce my mug shot, I will donate 25k to the charity of his choice.”. TMZ took the bet and started searching … altho TheSmokingGun.com posted the mug shot about 5 minutes before TMZ did, TMZ claimed victory that they did “find” the mug and Mayer agreed to pay up. Here is the infamous John Mayer mug shot:
It turns out that Mayer was arrested on May 26, 2001 in Atlanta, GA for driving with a suspended license (see what I mean about those traffic violations piling up and becoming serious offenses?) and was booked and mug shotted. Because TMZ won the bet, Mayer agreed to pay the $25k which will be split between 2 animal charities. I dunno why Mayer thought that TMZ wouldn’t find the mug shot … even if TheSmokingGun.com beat them to the punch, he should’ve known that TMZ is really good at sniffing out mug shots. At least the money is going to a good cause … so it’s the needy animals that really come out the winners here.
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August 28th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Suspended license? He’s such a loser.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:48 am
americans are weird. people don’t get arrested in Europe for driving with a suspended licence, at least not the first time, you have to pay a lot of money as penalty though.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:56 am
yay animals!
August 28th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Maybe that’s why the money went to charity. Because Mayer “knew” they would find it. Can’t believe he’d bet $25K on something so easy to find in this day and age. Could it be a publicity thing between him and TMZ. John does like the tabloids.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am
It’s pretty bad when you have to pay up to stay in the tabloids.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
@Meowzer – i was thinking they same…he had to know tmz would find it.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Would be uncharacteristic of him to just donate to charity WITHOUT any fanfare. He needed a controversy surrounding the donation.
-meream
August 28th, 2009 at 10:30 am
why not just donate the money to the charity?
because that doesnt get him any press…what a loser
August 28th, 2009 at 11:14 am
It does make him look like a attention whore. Mayer has been so douchey lately. I can’t believe Britney’s mugshot has never surfaced. She must’ve paid BIG money to keep that underwraps.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Trent – If you look at Harvey and John’s twitter, you’ll notice TMZ couldn’t find it until John gave them a HUGE clue…
August 28th, 2009 at 11:45 am
John Mayer has nice man-lips.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
That’s cool! So love John…
August 28th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Oh, Johnny…I love ya!
August 29th, 2009 at 6:37 am
I didn’t think about that but it is true, it is pretty bad when you have to pay to get in the tabloids!! What the hell John why doesn’t he make some new music instead of having someone dig up dirt on you, that just seems crazy to me but he paid up and there will be some happy animals great charity.