Curse of Diff’rent Strokes strikes again
January 28, 2010
Gary Coleman the star of eighties television series Diff’rent Strokes and once one of televisions highest paid actors has been released on bail after a fan allegedly stumped up the cash to get him out of jail. Coleman was arrested after police were called to his home to investigate a disturbance. At the house police found an arrest warrant for a previous offence and took him into custody.
Coleman played Arnold Jackson in the television show, one of two brothers from Harlem adopted by white millionaire and widower Philip Drummond. Over the years fourty-one-year-old Coleman has had his fair share of run ins with the police. Whilst working as a security guard in a shopping mall he allegedly attacked a woman who was badgering him for his autograph. He also reportedly has a volatile relationship with his twenty-four-year-old wife. Todd Bridges played Arnold’s brother Willis in the show and has also been in trouble with the law. Bridges started to have a problematic relationship with cocaine following the end of Diff’rent strokes and was arrested in 1994 for allegedly ramming a person’s car after an argument. He now tours the U.S. explaining to children the perils of drug abuse. Probably most tragic victim of the curse of Diff’rent Strokes however was the third child star of the show, Dana Plato who played Jackson’s biological daughter, Kimberley. Plato was arrested for armed robbery as well as forging a prescription for valium. She posed for Playboy magazine and just two days after telling radio show host Howard Stern how she planned to turn her life around was found dead due to a drug overdose.
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