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His cool was glacial: vintage cars, bespoke suits and shirts, and diamonds too classy to call bling. Offstage, mercurial hardly begins to describe a complicated, easily detonated individual who offered, by way of explanation, "I came up hard. Damn hard." Pickett's later-life brushes with the law -- everything from driving over the mayor's lawn in his New Jersey town to shooting off his motel-room lock in the Adirondacks (the Isley Brothers had locked it as a joke on a hunting trip) -- made minor headlines and police dockets.
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