Rush Guitarist Charged in Hotel Fight
NAPLES, Fla. – The lead guitarist for the rock band Rush was charged Monday with two counts of battery, more than three months after a New Year’s Eve scuffle with sheriff’s deputies at a Naples hotel.
Deputies said the fight started when the guitarist’s son refused to get off the stage at The Ritz-Carlton, where the house band was performing.
Alex Zivojinovich, whose stage name is Alex Lifeson, tried to intervene when deputies escorted his son off the property, deputies said. They accused Rush’s founding member of pushing a female deputy down a stairwell and spitting in another deputy’s face.
Justin Zivojinovich, 33, was charged with one count of resisting with violence, and Alex Zivojinovich’s wife was later charged with resisting arrest.
After his arrest that night, Alex Zivojinovich, 50, left jail with a bloodstained shirt and told reporters his nose was broken in the altercation. The two charges he faces are each punishable by up to five years in prison if he is convicted.
Zivojinovich’s attorney declined to comment Monday.
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