Nick Nolte recently opened up to GQ about his infamous mugshot (also an award-winning Twitter persona), taken after he got arrested in 2002 for driving under the influence of GHB and fell asleep while he was being processed (he was trying to date rape himself, basically). An interesting note was that Nolte told GQ that the infamous picture wasn’t actually a mugshot:
The common misconception about the freak-haired-wild-man photo taken that day is that it was Nolte’s police mug shot. It was not. (He did pose for a mug shot, but that has never leaked.) At the hospital where Nolte was taken for a blood test, a young officer asked him if he could take a Polaroid. “I said, ‘Come on, you don’t really want to ask that, do you?’ ” Nolte recalls. But he did. Nolte figured that the officer had been talking to the others about how this might be worth having, and so Nolte made him agree that, if he posed, the young officer would share any proceeds with his colleagues. “And I let him shoot the Polaroid.”
But a few days after that hit, TheSmokingGun, who were the first to publish the original photo, told a different version of the story:




