Photograph by Georges Biard
A musician is amongst four people to have been arrested in connection with the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Saxophonist and keyboard player Robert Vineberg, 57, was one of four people arrested in connection with Hoffman’s death from a heroin overdose during a raid on a New York apartment on 4th February.
Vineberg has pleaded not guilty to the charge of possession of heroin with the intent to supply, and is due back in court next week.
The multi-instrumentalist, who goes under the stage name Robert Aaron, is a veteran musician who has toured with some of the world’s biggest music stars including Wyclef Jean, Tom Jones, and the late Amy Winehouse.
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What are we not really admitting to ourselves when we choose to focus on whether some dealer is arrested or not? Held accountable for the death of an uber celebrity, as if they chose to actively bring that person down?
Where’s the moral culpability on the user, even a celebrated one like Philip Seymour Hoffman (please is the media in denial about his own culpability?) and where’s the culpability on society in general which lacks the courage to make real policy efforts to ‘arrest addiction’….and the trade it stems?
Sure Vineberg may have misbehaved, but where’s due process and is he just a scapegoat, or a hapless washed up musician who got on the wrong side of the scene?
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