27-year-old Kevin McEnroe the son of former tennis champ John McEnroe and actress Tatum O’Neal, was arrested Tuesday night in New York City and accused of possessing multiple drugs.
Major media outlets are going at it about the story, who would have thought, the son of a major athlete is a major drug dealer?
The drugs reportedly included six clear glassine bags of cocaine, one blue pill, 20 white loose pills of Oxycontin and 10 orange unidentified narcotic pills. That means he was carrying six glassine envelopes of cocaine and more than two dozen prescription pills!
Kevin who now looks like the picture below, is one of his father’s five children.
His famous dad, married at an early age to Tatum O’Neal daughter of Ryan O’Neal and the two had three children together; Kevin born in 1986, Sean born in 1987 and Emily born in 1991. His parents split in 1994 and his father was described as an abusive man in Tatum’s autobiography.
His dad married second and current wife rock star, Patty Smith with whom he had two daughters; Kevin’s’ half younger sisters, Anna and Ava. He also has a stepsister named Ruby who is Patty Smith’s child from previous relationship.
According to his Facebook page, the New York native attended Trinity School graduating in 2004. He followed onto Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2012 he graduated from Columbia University.
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According to pagesix, he was busted in the East Village when uniformed cops observed him buying drugs from 22-year-old Niro Meneses, law enforcement sources said.
The tennis champion’s son was charged with felony drug possession, sources said. Meneses, an Upper West Side resident, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.
As they say, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, his own mom was arrested for buying crack cocaine in Manhattan back in 08.
If we take a walk down to memory lane Kevin’s mom O’Neal –who won an Oscar as a ten-year-old for her role alongside her father Ryan in Paper Moon –has battled a drug addiction since the age of 14.
John McEnroe took custody of their three children in 1995, when O’Neal was addicted to heroin. And things got pretty ugly between the former couple, a decade later after their split John McEnroe banned his former wife Tatum O’Neal from seeing their children after she accused him of drugtaking, bullying and sexual manipulation.
You can find Kevin on Facebook here. His arraignment is scheduled for later today.
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