The_Hollywood_Reporter__February_07_2018

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D
ykstra appears most solemn when
discussing the summer 2012 death of
Rick Calamaro, Sheen’s recently fired
assistant, as well as the alleged violence
perpetrated against Sheen’s ex-fiancee,
Scottine “Brett” Rossi.
L.A. native Calamaro — known for his years
as the phone-glued-to-his-ear partner at
A-list velvet rope clubs like Holly’s and Ivar —
was discovered July 1 by his maid, lying face
up in his bed beside a bottle of Jack Daniel’s,
in his longtime Fairfax district apartment.
The autopsy report listed “very high” levels of
Fentanyl, the powerful opioid, and noted that
Calamaro, 50, had suffered from depression
and had been taking a mixture of prescription
medication for pain and anxiety. “Based on
the history and circumstances, as currently
“ I have her in my car,
driving to Cedars, flying
down the 405, shaking
her: ‘Don’t die on me!’”
known,” the autopsy concluded, “the manner
of death is accident.”
Calamaro extended his gatekeeping instinct
at times to Sheen’s social circle, eventually
earning the enmity of Dykstra, who grew convinced
that Calamaro was working on a tell-all.
“Before I went [to jail], I said, ‘Dude, this guy, he
is writing a fucking book, you got to fire him,’ ”
recalls Dykstra (while freely admitting he
himself later served as an unnamed source for
the Enquirer).
After he got out of jail, says Dykstra, he asked
Sheen, “What the fuck happened to Calamaro?”
who had overdosed while Dykstra was in
prison. “He said, ‘You mean Dead Rick? What
fucking happened is the motherfucker tried
to blackmail me just like you said — wanted
$5 million. I had him fucking iced.’ He said he
had a hot dose put in there,” using slang for a
lethal intravenous injection prepared for an
unsuspecting victim. (Dykstra again offers no
proof his recollection is accurate, and Sheen’s
current lawyer, Shane Bernard, issued a denial
of the allegations, noting Dykstra’s “laundry
list of crimes” and asserting that his “disturbing,
vile and outright ridiculous claims” are
unreliable.)
Sheen’s close friend, Tony Todd, who lived
with the actor during this period and has
known him since the two attended Santa
Monica High School, laughingly scoffs at the
charge, adding that even if Sheen were to
have done such a thing, “Charlie’s not going
to tell it to Lenny Dykstra!”
Rossi says that while she is unaware of such
an admission pertaining to Calamaro specifically,
it’s certainly possible given her own
history with the actor, which she outlined
in a 2015 lawsuit. According to her filing,
Sheen said “he wanted to murder people that
he was angry with.” The suit also refers to
a “hit” Sheen allegedly took out on Rossi’s
ex-husband. The following year, she obtained
a restraining order against Sheen after the
LAPD began investigating an alleged recording
in which he threatened to pay someone
$20,000 to “kick her head in.”
Since Sheen himself won’t comment, the
likelihood of another scenario — that the star,
while high, simply made a distasteful joke
about having Calamaro killed — is unclear.
Dykstra has a complicated relationship with
Rossi, a porn star who says she met Sheen on
a $10,000 escort date. Early on, as a favor to
Sheen, Dykstra hired “an Armenian buddy to
follow [Rossi] for a few days” to confirm she
wasn’t cheating on him. (Dykstra says he used
to hire private eyes to dig up dirt on umpires,
noting “it wasn’t a coincidence” that he led the
league in walks in 1993.) Dykstra eventually
became Rossi’s confidant, and she divulged
details of Sheen’s sexual kinks. Rossi tells THR:
“He would look at transsexual porn when he
was high and [ask her], ‘Which one is hot?’ ”
Dykstra claims to have seen further proof of
Sheen’s lifestyle. He says that attorney Keith
Davidson, recently in the news for orchestrating
porn actress Stormy Daniels’ alleged $130,000
payment to stay quiet about a 2006 affair with
President Trump, showed him a copy of the
tape that media outlets have reported was circulating
in which Sheen participated in gay
sex. (Over email, Davidson asserts, “This just
never happened.”)
Rossi confirms that once Sheen kicked
her out, it was Dykstra who helped her free up
money by selling off her pricey gifted watch
collection to underground buyers and listened
Dykstra, who last played in the majors in 1986, once served three years for indecent exposure, grand theft auto and filing false financial statements.
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