Pee Wee Herman Has A Handy Excuse For His Adult Theater Arrest
Posted on Aug 13, 2010 @ 12:50PM
Nineteen years after being arrested on indecent exposure charges in an adult theater, Paul Reubens is publicly handing out what he says is definitive proof that he was not guilty.
Police said that Reubens was masturbating in an adult theater in Sarasota, Florida. The actor’s career as Pee-Wee Herman was soaring at the time and he eventually pled no contest to avoid trial.
But in a new Playboy interview Reubens reveals for the first time how he would have proved his innocence at trial.
“Had we gone to trial, we had ready an expert from the Masters and Johnson Institute who was going to testify that in 30 years of research on masturbation the institute had never found one person who masturbated with his or her nondominant hand,” Reubens tells Playboy.
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“I’m right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn’t have been me.”
Reubens also talks about the disproportionate media attention his arrest received.
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“Keep in mind I got arrested at the same time the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s story was breaking – and yet my story led the news for five days in a row,” he tells Playboy.
What really hurt, he says, is being the butt of jokes from show biz colleagues who he thought were friends.
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“I turned on the TV and saw people I mistakenly and naively thought were my friends making jokes about me. That was really painful. I knew Arsenio Hall, and his guests were Patti LaBelle and Luther Vandross, who were also my friends,” Reubens says.
“I was just sitting there going, Oh, they’re making jokes about me. I turned the channel to Jay Leno, who was also saying some snarky things. I get that it’s their job, but I had already said the allegations weren’t true and felt I deserved the benefit of the doubt from them.”
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The Daily Juice
The guilty plea to possession of obscene materials of kids was in 2005. The arrest was years before. He pleaded to avoid trial. He was convicted.
Posted Sun, 08/15/2010 - 5:01am
Sounds like Dina Lohan is helping him come up with excuses!
Posted Sun, 08/15/2010 - 1:58am
Yes, he's strange, and I wouldn't put my kids alone in a room with him, just saying-get your facts straight.
Posted Sat, 08/14/2010 - 9:08am
ok.. I've never been to an "adult" theater but uh... do people really sit TOGETHER eating popcorn and acting like it's McBeth or something? Don't you watch "adult" things to get.. uh frisky? I can't imagine how comfrtable that would be in a theater
Posted Sat, 08/14/2010 - 7:18am
I use my non-dominant hand.
Posted Sat, 08/14/2010 - 12:47am
Huh.... ??
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Guys jerk with both hands.
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They switch off from one hand to the other.
Posted Fri, 08/13/2010 - 10:03pm
Like any jury would believe THAT. What a liar. How about his child porn conviction in 2005? That was worse than jerkin off in a porn theater.
Posted Fri, 08/13/2010 - 9:48pm
Gig, it was an arrest in 2002, and the charges were dropped after he plead not guilty.
Posted Sat, 08/14/2010 - 9:07am
That happened almost 20 years ago, the man was punished publicly for all those years. Its time to forgive and forget, this man has never done anything to a child but make them laugh. People in glass houses......
Posted Fri, 08/13/2010 - 8:51pm
His career centered on kids. So, it's understandable that he was ruined 4 masturbating in a public place. He was dumb! Keep your sh*t @ home! BTW, he was very annoying. I never liked him. Now, we got "reality tv" punks even more annoying than he was!
Posted Fri, 08/13/2010 - 8:50pm