Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Bruce Springsteen DWI: Much Ado About Nothing, Driving Around Gateway National Park, Which Is Closed Anyway

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Stop the presses!

Bruce Springsteen was ticketed for a DWI back in November. What was he doing? He was driving around Gateway National Park in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The park is closed.

TMZ is delighting in this scoop. But it’s much ado about nothing. Bruce is human, he probably had cabin fever like everyone else. A closed parking lot is the perfect place to let off steam.

Did Jeep know about it? I’ve no doubt that Springsteen and management told the car marker and ad agency what happened before they taped their Super Bowl commercial. I doubt Jeep cares. What Bruce got caught for sounds like a Jeep thing to do, really.

More importantly, Bruce will be appearing virtually this weekend on Facebook Live for the Light of Day Foundation. He’s joining Joe Grushecky and special guests Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul. The date is Saturday. Here’s the link.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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