Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Heroin Peddler Arrested And Thrown In Jail


Philip Seymour Hoffman’s drug dealer was arrested on Tuesday for getting caught peddling heroin again. Since this was yet another arrest, the drug dealer, Max Rosenblum, 24, was tossed in jail for violating his probation.

His violation happened because prior to his second arrest, Rosenblum was busted in a drug bust that was related to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. According to the NY Post, Rosenblum appeared teary-eyed with his parents while waiting for his case to come up.

Justice Edward McLaughlin addressed Rosenblum, “[Rosenblum] purportedly sold heroin while he was on probation. He’s trying to scam the system. I’ve had enough, he’s remanded.”

He was cuffed by court officers, and looked at his parents who were sitting there looking distressed by the events that were taking place.

Back in 2014, Rosenblum took a no-jail plea after he was busted with two baggies of cocaine once he was raided after Hoffman’s death. In that bust, cops seized 250 bags of heroin.

In May, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s partner, Mimi O’Donnell, spoke out for the first time since the actor’s death. Visibly still in mourning over the death of her partner, she said that grief had overtook her and she had stopped working as a director in the wake of Hoffman’s death. In an interview with the New York Times, Hoffman’s partner revealed what life was like without the actor. At the time the interview took place it had been fifteen months since Hoffman was found dead due to a drug overdose.

At the time, the theater director said that she was “wearing her emotions on her sleeve while coping.”

“I was pretty stubborn in my falling apart. And my kids saw all of it, because they should. What, am I going to hide it from them? I don’t want them to hide it from me. And, even as the artistic director, there were times when I was like, ‘I can’t do this right now, and I’m not going to pretend I can.'”

After Hoffman’s death, the theater director said that she struggled to find work and to make it “somewhat human” again, but she finally made it through to the other side of her grief, thanks to her friend, actress Cate Blanchett. During her time of healing, O’Donnell saw Blanchett in the play The Maids at City Center in the summer of 2014, and was touched so deeply that it jump-started her career again.

“That was the first play that I saw after Phil had died, and she did that thing you want every actress in theater to do: she left her heart on the stage. And I knew enough in that moment to go: ‘I love theater. I love it. I love what it can do.'”

As for how she deals with grief, Mimi didn’t seem to have a straight answer, but she admitted that people have written “beautiful” books about the subject. For Mimi, she said that after a year had passed she started to be able to function, and is in the world “a little bit differently.”

After his death we had learned that Hoffman didn’t leave his estate to his children. For Hoffman, his decision was based on not wanting his kids, Cooper, 10; Tallulah, 7; and Willa, 5, to become trust fund kids. According to his accountant, the actor left his $35 million fortune to Mimi, so in the event that he died, she can take the money and raise them on it. That said, at the time of his death, Philip and Mimi were on the outs due to his drug addiction.

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