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May 25, 2017 · Roland Clinton “Wink” Winkler. Roland Winkler was a kind soul. A Dancer and Musician, he was paralyzed from the shoulders down at age 19 due to a car accident in 1979 while riding with pop star Leif Garrett. He was confined to a wheelchair for the next 38 years.
- April 14, 1960
Feb 21, 2023 · Sadly, Roland Winkler died on May 25, 2017, at the age of 57, having dealt with "constant physical problems from the accident which eventually led to his passing," according to his Find a Grave page.
Aug 26, 2017 · But on Monday, a fresh batch of nude photos went live on a series of websites, with the list of impacted celebrities including former Miss England and Miss Great Britain Danielle Lloyd and ...
Garrett’s memoir, Idol Truth, released in November 2019, is a no-holds barred look at the former teen idol’s life crammed with untold personal stories, wild celebrity anecdotes and many rare photos from his private collection.
Jan 25, 2022 · For instance, when he was nearly 18 years old, he got into a car accident while drunk and high that left his friend Roland Winkler paralyzed. More arrests involving drugs came in the years that followed.
Jul 19, 2017 · Many postmortem pictures show parents cradling their children, or wives alongside their deceased husbands. The corpse figures prominently, but so do the shattered expressions of those left...
The accident left his passenger and friend, Roland Winkler, a paraplegic. [28] Garrett had only met Winkler about a month earlier. [29] Neither Garrett nor Winkler was wearing a seatbelt. Garrett was later tried as a juvenile on drunk-driving charges; his driver's license was suspended for a year and he was placed on a year's probation. [30]
