Uncle Kracker slammed with One Year Probation for Assault charge
More sordid news from the rather disfunctional world of entertainment, lol……
Aren’t I a smug blogger? According to several online entertainment news sources including the E! News network,
a Wake County judge today sentenced the entertainer known as Uncle Kracker to one year’s probation, fined him $1,500 and also ordered him to undergo an alcohol assessment.
Authorilyties claimed that Matthew Shafer (his real name), put his hand up a female patron’s skirt at a nightclub. She then slapped him, he slapped her back, and she later reported his behavior to an off-duty cop, apparently.
The Authorities then hunted him down to his hotel where they proceeded to arrest him.
He initial achieved fame working the turntables for childhood friend and Rocker Kid Rock. Then in 2000 he released his own album called Double Wide which had a hit and sold over two million copies.
His attorney fees should cut into a lot of those profits, I would imagine.
In any event, Kracker eventually left Rock’s group in 2002 and then released the country & blues tinged ‘No Stranger to Shame’, which was followed by ‘Seventy Two and Sunny’. In addition, he managed to score a country hit with “When the Sun Goes Down”.
That particular duet also featured singer Kenny Chesney.