Latest news on the Rocky trip Sly Stallone experienced in Australia continues. This story found in the West Australian.
Stallone is cleverly denying he possessed steroids. Reports earlier said officials were concerned about a 'growth hormone' substance. HGH is not a steroid; HGH is a protein peptide.
The Hollywood actor had already denied bringing steroids into the country when he was questioned on arrival at Sydney Airport last Friday.
A customs spokesman said last night he could not confirm the nature of the latest developments, but it is understood customs officers visited the 60-year-old about 3pm (1pm WA time), when they issued him with a summons relating to prohibited substances. The summons would normally require him or his lawyer to appear in court.
Here to promote his new film, Rocky Balboa, Stallone flew out of the country last night with the blessing of customs, but not before its officers searched his private jet...
On Friday Stallone and five attendants were held until after midnight after X-rays of his luggage found suspicious items, rumoured to be a body building drug outlawed in Australia.
Laboratory tests will identify the seized material before any further action is taken.
Stallone's minders warned yesterday that if journalists raised the subject, interviews would be terminated. But the actor-director insisted the items were not steroids. He would not identify them other than to say "it's something that I've taken for years" and "it's not dangerous".
Stallone said the problem was the result of a clerical mistake...
Stallone is heading to Thailand to make Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra. The other revived action hero deals with Christianity, atheism and genocide in Burma.
The 2 photos presented here are several decades apart. One is probably from Rocky 3, and the other taken within the past year. Is it possible for a 60 year-old to be leaner, and more vascular, and more muscular than he was in his 20s and 30s; that is without hormonal help?
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