Tom Sizemore had a huge problem though he was a famous star. He was heavily addicted to drugs and was caught several times with heroin and methamphetamine. Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. had battled with his health since he was 15 years old as he struggled with doing away with drugs.
Tom had always admitted he had drug-related problems and had tried to work on them. He had gone to rehab in 1998 and was sober for a while until he came into contact with drugs again a few years down the line.
Tom Sizemore scandals: What did Tom Sizemore do? Who was Tom Sizemore’s attorney?
Aside from having drug-related problems, Tom Sizemore had trouble with the law. He was convicted in 2003 of domestic violence against his girlfriend, the former “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss. Sizemore was sentenced to seven months in jail and four months in drug treatment for repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation on March 25, 2005.
In February 2017, Sizemore pleaded no contest to two charges of domestic abuse for assaulting his girlfriend, for which he was sentenced to 36 months of summary probation, 30 days of community service, and a year-long domestic violence program; he was also subject to two protective orders associated with the charges, and ordered to pay various fees. The deal was made by Sizemore to avoid spending 210 days in jail.
In 2003 Tom Sizemore was accused of allegedly sexually molesting an 11-year-old actress when the film was in production near Salt Lake City, Utah and Sizemore denied all the allegations. The Salt Lake County prosecutor’s office decided against going forward with the case “due to witness and evidence problems.”
In May 2018, the same actress, by then 26 years old, filed a lawsuit against Sizemore, claiming that his alleged abuse caused longstanding emotional problems and seeking at least $3 million.
And on August 27, 2020, it was reported that a Utah judge had dismissed the lawsuit. Sizemore again denied her claims, stating: “Beyond the loss of work and the pain and humiliation this has caused me and my family, the thought that an 11-year-old girl would think I violated her, whether it be because she misconstrued some inadvertent touching when the director placed her upon my lap for the photo shoot or someone else instilled this idea in her head for whatever malicious, self-serving reasons, is what devastates me most.”
Through the years of his career, Tom Sizemore had one attorney who had his back throughout tough times. Charles Lago. Charles was the one who issued a statement on February 27, 2023, that doctors had determined there was “no further hope and have recommended end-of-life decision” to Sizemore’s family. Sizemore died on March 3, 2023, at the age of 61.
