Seldom has Glasgow witnessed a celebrity scandal as juicy as the time Hollywood star Charlie Sheen took a taxi to Easterhouse with a prostitute to score drugs.
Twenty-five years ago, the Hot Shots and future Two and a Half Men actor was in Scotland for the filming of the movie Obit when he became embroiled in a night of debauchery that won't quickly be forgotten.
During down-time, Sheen, an actor who has certainly been no stranger to controversy over the years, hit the headlines in August 1997 for all the wrong reasons following a night of clubbing in Glasgow city centre.
As the Daily Record reported at the time, the star's one thousand dollar night of shame began at legendary city night spot Archaos, where Sheen allegedly spent a fortune on booze at the club's VIP lounge.
Keen to keep the party going after closing time, Sheen, who was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and baseball cap, and a friend flagged down a taxi at 2am and demanded to be taken to the city's red light district. After managing to track down a local sex worker, Sheen quizzed the woman about where he could buy drugs.
The taxi driver that night recalled: "The girl got in, and Sheen said he wanted some 'Charlie'. She said she could get it, but had to make a phone call. Then her pimp came across and they went to a phone box."
Sheen then handed over several hundred dollars to the sex worker and the taxi driver was told to take them to a housing scheme in Easterhouse where they were going to pick up some cocaine. It was a world away from the affluence of Malibu, where the son of veteran Hollywood icon Martin Sheen grew up.
"We headed to Easterhouse," the cabbie continued, "and the hooker and the pimp went to some flat.
"Eventually the hooker and pimp came out and handed him a polythene bag with the stuff in it. Charlie dipped his finger in and said it tasted like sugar."
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Parting ways with the sex worker and pimp, Sheen and his friend headed back to to the city centre and the HIlton hotel where they were staying - but not before causing a scene at an all-night supermarket in Argyle Street, where Sheen supposedly stole a pack of biscuits and verbally abused a male shop worker.
The shop assistant told the Daily Record: "He walked in at around 3am and helped himself to a packet of biscuits. I told him to just pay for them and that would be the end of it.
"Then he said: 'Hey man, who the f*** do you think you are?'"
The situated became even more tense when Sheen attempted to pay the shop worker in dollars. When told that the store only accepted British pounds, Sheen got angry and asked if the man didn't think his 'money was good enough'.
Sheen is also said to have tried to purchase materials for making crack cocaine.
The shop assistant added: "Then he threw down his credit card and said: 'F*** you, man. Where we come from we kick s*** out of guys like you."
"He apologised and shook my hand, then said he wanted more stuff and asked me to help him. He told me wanted tinfoil, baking soda and a metal teaspoon."
To make matters worse for Sheen, the whole fracas was captured on the Argyle Street supermarket's CCTV. Fortunately for the Hollywood A-lister, the shop worker decided not to press charges.
A few days later, it was reported that Charlie Sheen had flown back to Los Angeles, where he was recuperating following his decidedly shady exploits in Glasgow.
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