You’ve got to feel for Tricia Callahan, the Palm Beach socialite whose dad once owned the National Enquirer.
She got rid of one husband, Peter Burt, who was sentenced to 10 years probation for driving to a Lake Worth park to meet cops who posed as underage girls online.
Now her new hubby, lawyer and real estate investor Rick Keitel, has seen the inside of a jail cell!
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The well-liked Keitel, 58, was nabbed by Palm Beach Police after he allegedly left the scene of a 5 p.m. accident in which he hit two parked cars Dec. 13 on Australian Avenue.
He was charged with DUI, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.
Said Keitel: “I had a Xanax that afternoon. It’s unfortunate it affected me like it did.”
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According to the police report, Keitel was at the wheel of a dark-blue Porsche when he struck the two cars. Witnesses told police the Porsche turned into a nearby vacant lot. Once cops got to the Porsche, they reported that Keitel was asleep in the driver’s seat. The Porsche was damaged.
Keitel was allegedly unsteady on his feet when he exited his car then tried to resist police, arguing that the property he turned into was his.
As they say in Palm Beach, Keitel had to be “escorted” to the ground before handcuffs were secured on his wrists. He refused a Breathalyzer test.
Keitel made news in 2000 when his divorce from a previous wife, and the custody battle for a son, beat another historic case in Palm Beach County, Roxanne vs. Pete Pulitzer, in money, time and lawyers used.
More recent drunken incidents:
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