Rod Stewart accused of punching hotel security guard at New Year’s Eve party, due in court – USA TODAY

Singer Rod Stewart and his eldest son, Sean, were ordered to appear in court docket after they allegedly purchased into an altercation with a hotel security guard at some stage in a Original Year’s Eve celebration in Palm Seashore.

Both face a price of easy battery and are scheduled to love an arraignment listening to on Feb. 5 sooner than Circuit Clutch Ted Booras, court docket records show. Attempts to reach the talent administration firm that represents Rod Stewart were unsuccessful Friday evening.

Essentially based entirely on a Palm Seashore police portray, the altercation came about at about 11 p.m. Tuesday on the Breakers hotel. A 33-year-historical security guard told police he became working a non-public match on the hotel in a teenagers’s home that evening when he seen a neighborhood of folks causing a scene after they were denied entry.

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The safety guard said that a man, later identified as Sean Stewart, 39, purchased about “face to face” distance from his face. The safety guard establish the wait on of his neutral accurate hand on the younger Stewart’s chest and told him he wanted to wait on up to originate some home, the police portray said.

Sean allegedly spoke back by shoving the protection guard backward. Police declare that Stewart, 74, then approached and threw a punch, striking the protection guard in his left rib cage home.

Two Breakers workers told police they seen Sean push the protection guard and Stewart punch the guard in the chest. Video surveillance showed the Stewarts to be the necessary aggressors, police said.

The father and son acknowledged that they became agitated when the household became denied acquire admission to to the match, in accordance to the arrest portray. Rod Stewart said the household became making an strive to acquire teenagers in their neighborhood into the match.

Stewart said that after they were denied acquire admission to, the protection guard became argumentative along with his household, which in turn precipitated him to change into agitated.

He apologized for his behavior in the incident, the portray said.

Earlier in the day, the British singer wished his Twitter followers a “Happy 2020,” including lyrics from “Auld Lang Syne”: “We are going to take a cup o’ kindness but, for auld lang syne!”

Sean, the singer’s son with first wife Alana Stewart, is idea to be one of Stewart’s eight teenagers.

In 2002, Sean became sentenced to a pair of months in penal complex after going in an bodily altercation with a man exterior a Los Angeles restaurant. He became additionally ordered to encourage nettle administration, drug and alcohol treatment applications, as effectively as to paying compensation. 

Contributing: Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY

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