Alec Baldwin's Scandals and Arrests: See All His Bad Behavior

Happy birthday? Alec Baldwin is 61 years young on April 3, and in honor of his big day, we took the liberty of coming through his history to find the biggest scandals of his career. Because that’s what everyone wants for their birthday, right? Check out our gallery below to see which scandals Baldwin has weathered that we deemed the most egregious.

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October 1995

In October 1995, Baldwin was placed under citizen’s arrest after he allegedly punched a cameraman who was videotaping the actor’s wife at the time, actress Kim Basinger, and their daughter, 3-day-old Ireland Baldwin, arriving home, The Los Angeles Times reported. Baldwin was later acquitted of misdemeanor battery charges for the incident.

December 2011

In 2011, Baldwin was removed from an American Airlines flight after he refused to stop playing the game “Words With Friends” on his phone. Yes, you read that right. Baldwin tweeted at the time, “Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 [sic] playing WORDS [WITH] FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving. #nowonderamericaairisbankrupt.” The company said in a statement posted on its Facebook page at the time, “The passenger was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language,” People reported.

June 2013

When speculation arose that Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria Baldwin, tweeted during James Gandolfini’s funeral, Baldwin went off on Twitter. “Someone wrote that my wife was tweeting at a funeral,” in a now-deleted post. “Hey. That’s not true. But I’m gonna tweet at your funeral.” Yikes! He later reportedly continued with the threatening tweets, with messages like “I am gonna f–k you up,” Today reported. Put down the social media, Baldwin.

November 2013

Baldwin allegedly used a homophobic slur during a confrontation with a photographer in November 2013 that was captured on video by TMZ. The outlet claimed that the actor called a reporter a “c–ksucking f-g,” but Baldwin later claimed he actually said “c–ksucking fathead.” Production of his MSNBC talk show was halted in the wake of the incident, E! News reported, and it was eventually totally shut down.

February 2014

After Dylan Farrow released an open letter in the New York Times claiming director Woody Allen had sexually assaulted her at age 7, someone tweeted at Baldwin, “@ABFalecbaldwin don’t you think maybe you owe #DylanFarrow an apology?” They likely targeted the actor because he had starred in some of Allen’s movies, Us Weekly reported at the time. Baldwin replied, “What the f&@% [sic] is wrong [with you] that [you] think we all need to [be] commenting on this family’s personal struggle?” He continued to lash out at others for appearing to support the director in other deleted tweets.

May 2014

In 2014, Baldwin was arrested and placed in handcuffs after becoming “belligerent” with a police officer who stopped him for riding his bicycle in the wrong direction in New York City. He later tweeted, “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.” Not the best look.

October 2018

In an interview published in The Hollywood Reporter in October 2018, Baldwin said, “I don’t know how to say this and I don’t want to get it wrong either, because everything is a minefield of bombs going off. But ever since I played Trump, black people love me.” He faced quite a bit of backlash for the comments, especially on social media, Us Weekly reported.

November 2018

Baldwin was charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment after being arrested on November 2 after he allegedly struck a 49-year-old man outside his apartment in New York City, Us Weekly reported. “There was a dispute over a parking spot,” a press agent from the NYPD told the outlet. “The injured individual was taken to a local hospital for observations. We have no notes of Alec resisting arrest.”