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Van Damme Humbled by Rourke Ex-Bodyguard
by Daniel Frankel
Feb 5, 1998, 6:10 PM PT
Word spread quickly through Manhattan about a Wednesday night celebrity barroom
brawl involving action star Jean-Claude Van Damme and a former bodyguard for
not-much-action star Mickey Rourke.
A spokesperson for the upscale topless bar Score's--infamous hangout for the likes of
Howard Stern and his cronies--confirms there were indeed fisticuffs involving the parties.
No police report was taken and no arrests were made. Publicists for both Van Damme and
Rourke refused to return phone calls on Thursday.
However, Friday's New York news tabloids were breathless with details, not to mention
quotes from the I-Decked-Van-Damme man himself.
"He's just a very arrogant and disrespectful person," says Chuck Zito, the ex-bodyguard
(who reportedly also worked for Jean-Claude, as well as Sylvester Stallone, Sean Penn and
Charlie Sheen), sometime stuntman and current president of the Hell's Angels, in the New
York Post. Zito claims responsibility for the Van Damme clocking.
Trouble started when Van Damme walked into Score's with Rourke. Zito walked over to
the table to shoot the breeze with his former bosses.
When Zito and Rourke turned their back on Van Damme, the Street Fighter star reputedly
started dissing Zito.
"He was saying, 'Chuck Zito doesn't have any heart,'" Zito tells the newspaper. "There
are people who will take that kind of abuse. I am not one of them."
So, Zito asked Van Damme to step outside. The way Zito puts it in the Daily News, the
so-called Muscles from Brussels took off his glasses and was "gearing up to come at me."
"I just didn't give him a chance," Zito says.
No, he didn't. Zito floored Mr. Hard Target with a one-two suckerpunch combo.
Rourke played peacemaker: "If I weren't there, Chuck would have killed him," the actor
tells the Daily News.
Van Damme left the club under his own power, reportedly signing autographs on the way
out.
(UPDATED at 5:30 a.m. on 2/6/98)
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by Daniel Frankel
Feb 5, 1998, 6:10 PM PT
Word spread quickly through Manhattan about a Wednesday night celebrity barroom
brawl involving action star Jean-Claude Van Damme and a former bodyguard for
not-much-action star Mickey Rourke.
A spokesperson for the upscale topless bar Score's--infamous hangout for the likes of
Howard Stern and his cronies--confirms there were indeed fisticuffs involving the parties.
No police report was taken and no arrests were made. Publicists for both Van Damme and
Rourke refused to return phone calls on Thursday.
However, Friday's New York news tabloids were breathless with details, not to mention
quotes from the I-Decked-Van-Damme man himself.
"He's just a very arrogant and disrespectful person," says Chuck Zito, the ex-bodyguard
(who reportedly also worked for Jean-Claude, as well as Sylvester Stallone, Sean Penn and
Charlie Sheen), sometime stuntman and current president of the Hell's Angels, in the New
York Post. Zito claims responsibility for the Van Damme clocking.
Trouble started when Van Damme walked into Score's with Rourke. Zito walked over to
the table to shoot the breeze with his former bosses.
When Zito and Rourke turned their back on Van Damme, the Street Fighter star reputedly
started dissing Zito.
"He was saying, 'Chuck Zito doesn't have any heart,'" Zito tells the newspaper. "There
are people who will take that kind of abuse. I am not one of them."
So, Zito asked Van Damme to step outside. The way Zito puts it in the Daily News, the
so-called Muscles from Brussels took off his glasses and was "gearing up to come at me."
"I just didn't give him a chance," Zito says.
No, he didn't. Zito floored Mr. Hard Target with a one-two suckerpunch combo.
Rourke played peacemaker: "If I weren't there, Chuck would have killed him," the actor
tells the Daily News.
Van Damme left the club under his own power, reportedly signing autographs on the way
out.
(UPDATED at 5:30 a.m. on 2/6/98)
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