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Every once in a while, I find myself seeing some remnant of a faddish act from decades gone by on TV and think, “gee, what ever happened to those people?” And alas, long after many b-list celebrities fade into oblivion, their lives often end up taking terrible turns for the worse.<\/p>\n
And so it is with Victor Willis, the former “cop” in the ’70s act The Village People.<\/a> Willis left the group in 1980, and the remaining Village People lived out their slide from b-list to c-list to… z-list? by replacing Willis with a new Cop, Ray Simpson<\/a>. Why Willis left is a mystery. Maybe he thought he could make it on his own… who knows? Whatever the reason, it turned out to be the wrong choice<\/a>:<\/p>\n Victor Willis, who co-wrote some of the band’s hits such as “In the Navy” and “YMCA” has had a number of run-ins with the law since he left the group in 1980 and now faces as much as five years in prison, said Morley Pitt, assistant district attorney in San Mateo County south of San Francisco.<\/p>\n “It’s just sad that his life has spiraled down to the point where in all likelihood he’s going to go to prison,” Pitt, who said he enjoys the song “YMCA”, told Reuters. “You never like to see anybody go to prison, let alone somebody who is 54 years old.”<\/p>\n Willis was arrested last year on charges of possessing a gun and cocaine, but he disappeared after agreeing to a plea deal that set a maximum sentence of 16 months behind bars, Pitt said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They say that cops are dead meat in prison. But does that also hold true for ’70s cop-impersonator gay icons?\u00a0 It looks like soon enough, we’ll find out.<\/p>\n Every once in a while, I find myself seeing some remnant of a faddish act from decades gone by on TV and think, “gee, what ever happened to those people?” And alas, long after many b-list celebrities fade into oblivion, their lives often end up taking terrible turns for the worse. And so it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}