It’s been 3 years since Mac Miller was found, no longer alive in the bedroom of his mansion, kneeling with his hands on the the bed in a praying position Cameron Pettit and 2 other men were arrested and charged with various crimes relating to Mac Millers untimely demise.
And finally, this week, the trials against them are finally set to begin.
Along with Cameron Pettit, two guys named Andrew Walter and Ryan Reavis are, as of now, going to trial. While you may be surprised none of them has turned informant, sometimes there is nothing to inform on and sometimes the prosecutors want to slam everybody involved and make an example out of people.
Cameron James Pettit, 28, of West Hollywood; Stephen Andrew Walter, 46, of Westwood; and Ryan Michael Reavis, 36, a former West Los Angeles resident who relocated to Lake Havasu, Arizona earlier this year, were charged in a three-count indictment.
This story is not simply a gossip piece about yet another overdose of a famous musician… being on a low rung of fame and actually moving around in LA/Hollywood myself I have something more interesting to explain.
Out here there is a type of social structure that doesn’t exist anywhere else, the only historical precedent I can see is that of royal courts during the heyday of European power. The royal courts and families were the celebrities of the day. They had the money & the power, but like modern celebrities they also had an abundance of free time. And so arose the system of courtiers - people that lived amongst the royals -some of them were actually useful like tutors and military advisors and scientists and artists..Leonardo da Vinci was a sometimes courtier… but some were just there to keep the Princes company or to facilitate their bad habits. For those of you familiar with Shakespeare the characters of Rosenkranz and Guildenstern from Hamlet should come to mind. And then you had the courtesans. The women who “kept the company” of the royal men. So that’s what you have in Hollywood, all these worthless people, many of whom came to LA from other places thinking that they were going to be celebrities, but now they just supply the drugs and sex, or perhaps just keep the lonely rich people company. Even if you’re not looking for them they appear in your lives… I temporarily got into the bad habit of trolling them when I realized what was going on. Most of them come and go like the Super Bowl as there really is nothing to them. But Mac Miller crossed paths with one that sold him some F pills and now hes dead. Same thing happened to Prince, and probably to Rock legend Tom Petty.
Now Mac Miller, as we will see from his text messages, had built up quite a poly-drug habit and one of the questions I want you to think about is this: is it kind of arbitrary to charge drug dealers with killing people when, in fact, celebrities have a whole court full of courtesans and courtiers who let them become dopefiends and, in most cases, actively facilitate and promote their addictions so they can maintain their own personal lifestyle of the rich and famous which they are incapable of earning on their own?
