Roy Black (right) has a word with Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, after Black worked out a plea deal in a bribery case. (Click on the photo for more famous Black clients)

The justice system, says former prosecutor Paula Russell, already has treated Wellington polo boss John Goodman differently than the Average Joe.

Goodman, 46, the founder of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, was at the wheel of his $250,000-Bentley convertible early Friday in rural Wellington when he slammed the car into a Hyundai operated by 23-year-old Scott Wilson. The recent University of Central Florida grad’s car ended up on upside down in a canal and he died. Goodman suffered minor injuries.

But with Palm Beach Sheriff’s deputies investigating alcohol use as a factor in the deadly accident, Russell says they’ve already done more thorough a job on this one than many others.

“They won’t admit it, of course,” said Russell, who unsuccessfully ran for state attorney in 2008, “but when deputies saw a Bentley, they told themselves they’d better dot every i and cross every t. That’s human nature.”

Scott Wilson's car after Goodman's Bentley plowed into it (Click on the photo for more)

Although PBSO officials, who kept the Lake Worth Road closed for nearly 10 hours,  say they’re just following procedures, the victim’s family and the rest of the public know little about the crash four days later. PBSO has declined to release a tape of the 911 call, details about the accident or the results of the blood test administered to Goodman. Goodman hasn’t been cited for any traffic violation as of today. And the medical examiner this morning wouldn’t release the victim’s autopsy report.

Whats’ more, Goodman’s hiring of high-profile Miami attorney Roy Black could expose yet again the state attorney’s office as “accommodating” to rich defendants, Russell added.

And she should know.

She worked there for 23 years.

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Embattled golfer Tiger Woods supposedly checked himself into sex rehab at a swanky Arizona clinic two weeks ago, and ironically, is expected to remain there until St. Valentine’s Day.

People magazine today reports that Woods arrived by chopper into tiny Wickenburg shortly after New Year’s Day and checked himself into The Meadows. The upscale facility treats substance abuse but also compulsions like gambling and obsessive sexual behaviors.

In the wake of the golfer’s middle-of-the-night accident at Thanksgiving, women claiming to have had affairs with the married father of two have come out of the woodwork. They were at least 13 at last count.

The $1,000-a-day facility is used to celebrity clients. That’s where Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh was treated for a pain-pill addiction that knocked him off the air for several weeks in 2003. Supermodel Kate Moss, British crooner Robbie Williams and R&B singer Eric Benet, actress Halle Berry’s allegedly sex-addicted ex-husband, are believed to have frequented the desert clinic.

The soon-to-be-Jupiter Island resident Woods, meanwhile, has been out-of-sight for nearly two months as his yacht remains docked this morning at the Old Port Cove Marina in North Palm Beach.

(Courtesy Second City)

Here comes Rush Limbaugh! The Musical.

The famed comedy theater Second City, in Prez Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, is preparing for a seven-week run of a new musical based on the humble radio beginnings of conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh.

Although few details are known, it’s fair to assume that it won’t be too kind to the radio star. Already, the actor who portrays Rush, Chicago thespian Mark Sutton, blogged that he hasn’t played a character with as much following since he did serial killer Charles Manson in Manson: The Musical.

Mark Sutton

Palm Beacher Limbaugh, who returned last week after chest pains sent him to a hospital in Hawaii, seemed cranky this morning when Page2Live e-mailed him about it.

“First I’ve heard of it (the show),” Limbaugh wrote back. “I have no comment or reaction. It’s like asking me to comment on an article about me in the (defunct alien-loving tabloid) Weekly World News.”

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Alone in his Kahala Hotel suite at nap time last Wednesday, an obviously stressed out Rush Limbaugh called his longtime girlfriend and told her: “Kate, I think I’m having a heart attack!”

In a gripping, exclusive e-mail from Hawaii, the radio talker’s lady love, West Palm Beach resident Kathryn Rogers, gave Page2Live a dramatic play-by-play of what really happened before Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital.

And while Limbaugh told the media at his release from the hospital on New Year’s Day that doctors didn’t find anything wrong, Rogers’ intimate account indicates that, without the proper response, the outcome could have been different.

Rush Limbaugh and Kate Rogers last summer.

Rogers, 33, a VIP manager for the upcoming Super Bowl, said she was having her nails done with her mother downstairs at the chi-chi Kahala when she received an unusual phone call from the conservative voice.

“At lunch, Rush was in a fantastic, upbeat mood,” Rogers wrote, adding that she and Limbaugh traveled to Hawaii to visit her family. “I sent a text to him in the spa to tell him it was great to see him so relaxed and happy. He wrote back ‘thank you’.

“Later, I received another text from Rush. I didn’t look at it . . . Within two minutes he called.

“Due to Rush’s (hearing loss), we don’t often speak over the phone, more via e-mail and text,” Rogers continued. “When I saw that he was calling, I thought that’s weird he never calls. I answered with my one free hand. Rush said ‘Kate, I think I’m having a heart attack!’ in a very stressed tone. I hung up, pushed back the nail table and yelled to my mom: ‘Rush is having a heart attack! Call 911!’”

Rogers ran up to Limbaugh’s suite.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh may have experienced a heart attack yesterday in Hawaii when he was overcome by chest pains.

Stepping in for Limbaugh on the radio at noon today, economist Walter E. Williams said Limbaugh felt the symptoms of a coronary before admitted in an Honolulu hospital.

“Those pains were the kind of pains that makes one feel like he has a heart attack coming on,” Williams said as he opened the show. “But it’s not been confirmed that it was a heart attack.

“Today he’ll have a complete examination and we’ll know more.”

Meanwhile, Williams said, Limbaugh is in good and stable condition.

“Rush continues to rest comfortably,” Williams said, “as comfortable as one can be in a hospital while on vacation.”

Limbaugh — who lost one third of his body weight, 100 pounds, while on a strict diet this year — turns 59 Jan. 12.

Page2Live last ran into El Rushbo three months ago at Pistache French restaurant on Clematis in West Palm Beach. He said at the time he felt great. He had a small portion of organic chicken and onion soup.

But there’s little doubt that his ouster from a group of investors considering the purchase of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams in October took its toll on Limbaugh, a friend of  Limbaugh’s told me. At times sounding stressed out, football nut Limbaugh railed against the football league throughout the fall, calling Commissioner Roger Goodell “a weasel” for opposing his bid. Last week, Limbaugh was still at it, picking up on this story about The Who’s Pete Townshend performing at the upcoming Super Bowl’s half-time show to illustrate the league’s double standards.

Take a look at Rush Limbaugh’s breathtaking Palm Beach mansion here