Iconic supermodel Stephanie Seymour is scheduled to enter an alcohol rehabilitation center in Greenwich, Connecticut, her attorney claimed.
The 47-year-old former Sports Illustrated model, who was facing DUI charges appeared in court on Tuesday. She declined to comment on the case, but her lawyer Phillip Russell, confirmed that she has applied for an "accelerated alcohol education program" generally available to first-time offenders that could possibly lead to the dismissal of her Jan. 15 arrest for driving while intoxicated, National Post reports. Seymour's Land Rover in reverse accidentally bumped with a Mercedes-Benz.
"This is an ordinary first-offender drunk driving case where our experience is that most first offenders do not drive drunk again," Russell said, according to New York Daily News. "Ms. Seymour has been appropriate throughout this whole process and is behaving like a first offender."
PEOPLE says that Seymour is also facing charges for hitting a telephone pole in Greenwich before the collision happened. She is also facing multiple charges including evading responsibility and failure to drive in the proper lane. According to the police officer, who investigated the former Victoria's Secret model during the DUI arrest, Seymour smelled like alcohol and was unsteady. She resisted to take a sobriety test.
It wasn't the first time that Seymour was involved in an alcohol arrest. In 2010, during a divorce battle with her husband, she and Peter Brant had a drug test to prove that she's not a drug user. The 5-foot-10 mother-of-three is still married to billionaire real estate developer Brant after calling off their divorce. She rose to fame when she started modeling and became one of the supermodels during the era of the 80's and 90's. Seymour was seen in the Guns N' Roses music video, "November Rain," during the time she dated Axl Rose.
Seymour is expected to be back in court on April 4 for her to know of the judges will allow her to enter an alcohol rehabilitation program.
