The mother of Jack Nicholson’s two youngest children, his ex girlfriend Rebecca Broussard, was arrested for DUI on August 26 after causing a four car crash near the LA airport. Thankfully no one was killed, but 13 people were injured and Broussard was arrested.

Now there’s news that not only did Broussard cause a multi-car accident, she also burned down a boat she owned with her sailor husband that same night! The damage to the $400,000 boat, which is totaled like her $80,000 car, was an accident caused by some candles she left burning.

Given Broussard’s problems, Nicholson wants to take over as primary caregiver for his two children with her, Lorraine, 17, and Raymond, 15, and is prepared to if Broussard ends up going to rehab long term. It sounds like Nicholson is just considering it, and is not yet fighting for his kids in court or we would know about it.

Jack Nicholson is more determined than ever to take his two youngest children away from ex-girlfriend Rebecca Broussard after learning she was involved in the torching of a $400,000 boat the same night she crashed her car and was arrested for drunk driving.

“Jack is steaming mad,” a friend told The Enquirer.

The Enquirer reported last week that 44 year-old Rebecca was arrested Aug. 26 following a four-car crash she caused near the Los Angeles International Airport. Thirteen people were injured in the accident, and Rebecca – who has a history of alcohol abuse – was arrested and booked on suspicion of felony DUI. After being held overnight in jail, she posted bail and was released the next morning.

Now, more incredibly details have surfaced from the horrific night – increasing Jack’s resolve to gain full custody of Lorraine, 17, and Raymond, 15, his children with Rebecca.

The Enquirer has uncovered that Rebecca may have been partially responsible for burning down a 57-foot wooden sailboat the same night she caused the car crash…

Rebecca and Dennis [her husband] left candles burning [on the boat] when they left. When they were out, Rebecca crashed the car, ended up in jail and Dennis had to go to the hospital…

“Jack knows that Rebecca might avoid jail time by agreeing to a long-term alcohol rehab – but he’s prepared to step in and take care of the kids.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 24, 2007]

That’s good of him to want to take care of his teenagers, even though the new husband of his ex could probably do it if she needs to go to rehab. Hopefully she will clean up her act and get her life straightened up for her family’s sake.

Jack Nicholson has five acknowledged children by four different women and was married once, according to Wikipedia. He is also said to have slept with 2,000 women, which I’ve already mentioned but couldn’t resist slipping in there.

Jack Nicholson is pretty hot for a 70 year-old guy. I don’t care if he’s not all buff like Jack LaLanne (who is 93 this month by the way) there’s something sexy about his attitude, and unflattering pictures like these don’t deter me. Before I looked up his age I was under the impression he was under 60, and maybe I’m blinded by lust, but the guy is charismatic. Those eyebrows just do it for me.

So it’s kind of amusing and a little sexy to hear that Nicholson once spent three months in the nude. A new biography that’s coming out about him called “Five Easy Decades” claims he was so “obsessed with nudity” in the early 70s that he even refused to put on clothes for interviews promoting a movie he had out at the time.

When I heard that I was still under the impression that he was younger and thought “Oh he must have been in his 20s,” but he was actually in his late 30s in the early 70s so that is much more eccentric than a lot of drugs and youth can excuse. There were a lot of drugs involved though of course, Nicholson was said to be a pothead who tried to get fellow actor Larry Hagman to enjoy the herb with him.

“The book reports that in the early 70s, Jack became obsessed with nudity. He even sat buck naked for interviews for the movie ‘Drive, He Said,’” a publishing source told The Enquirer.

“The previous summer he had lived for three months as a nudist at his home – refusing to wear clothes even for producer Roger Corman.”

The bombshell bio by author Dennis McDougal – to be published in October – also says Jack turned hard-drinking buddy Larry Hagman on to marijuana.

Nicholson and Hagman were in Mexico in 1964 filming “Ensign Pulver.”

“Jack was smoking weed, and when he saw Larry knocking back pina coladas, he suggested something better,” said the publishing source.

“‘Hag, you drink too much,’ he told him. Larry – who eventually lost his liver to alcohol – didn’t think so, but Jack persisted, scored some Acapulco gold and ‘pulverized’ Hagman and the rest of the cast.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 10, 2007]

And in other recent Jack Nicholson news, he described a scene at journalist Hunter S Thompson’s house when he got spooked by Thompson waving a gun around and jumped out a window. He said “One of the first times I met him, he pulled out a gun in the middle of a house. Me and a friend of mine jumped out the window.” [Holymoly.co.uk]

I wonder if he was just paranoid from all the weed and if he tucked it before he went out the window.

There’s also another claim in that upcoming biography that Nicholson is hiding a handicapped son, a story he denies. According to Wikipedia, he has five children by four different women, and is reported to have slept with 2,000 different women.

From The National Enquirer’s Mike Walker comes the story of an hilarious prank Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio played on player Jack Nicholson. Nicholson was in the hospital to get his salivary glands checked out and they posed as masked interns trying to give him a rectal exam!

That’s a great story that would have been made better by news of an accompany Punk’d video, but I’ll have settle for a mental image.

Matt, Leo and Jack star in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed,” which according to Pajiba is a well-crafted and compelling crime drama with an amazing cast.

All I need to know is that Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are in it. Mark Wahlberg is just an added bonus.

Here’s the trailer on YouTube.

And here are some pictures from the film, courtesy of All Movie Photo.

Jack Nicholson and a normal-looking Lara Flynn Boyle were photographed on holiday together in Saint Tropez.

Now I had conveniently forgotten that Lara Flyn Boyle also dated David Spade, but Jack Nicholson was definitely a move up for her at the time.

Now that Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock also reunited in Saint Tropez – and are getting married – exes around the world are going to flock to the French Riveria to get back that certain spark that cheating and fighting put out the last time around.