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The son of New York author Paul Auster has been arrested on charges of manslaughter after his 10-month-old baby girl died from a drug overdose last November.
Daniel Auster’s daughter, Ruby, was found lifeless in his Park Slope home.
The infant was taken to Methodist Hospital but there was nothing that could be done to save her life.
An autopsy found the child had died from a fentanyl and heroin overdose.
Police have so far been unable to say how the little girl was exposed to drugs while in the care of her 44-year-old father, but Auster was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide on Friday night.
He it currently awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Auster’s Instagram page is full of pictures of his daughter and her mother.
In many of the photos he can be seen posing with his little girl, or cuddling her.
Daniel Auster, 44, was arrested on Friday night on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide
Auster’s Instagram page is full of pictures of his daughter and her mother
Daniel Auster’s daughter, Ruby, was found lifeless in his Park Slope home
In many of the photos, Auster can be seen posing with his little girl, or cuddling her
It is not the first time Daniel Auster has had a brush with the law.
During his teenage years, Daniel started going to clubs in New York City and became heavily involved with drugs according to The New Yorker.
At the age of 18, in 1996, when he was eighteen, Daniel was present in the apartment when a drug dealer by the name of Andre ‘Angel’ Melendez was famously murdered by Club Kid Killer’ Michael Alig, who was a former nightclub promoter, and his roommate, Robert Riggs.
Daniel was given $3,000 of Melendez’s money in exchange for his silence.
He later pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property and was given five years probation.
Daniel Auster is pictured in a photo with his father Paul, in a shot from his teenage years
He also has a string of other arrests including several drug possession in 2008 and 2010.
In 2009 he was charged with petit larceny and possession of stolen property.
Daniel’s father, Paul Auster, is probably America’s best-known postmodern novelist known for The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions and Moon Palace, but the pair’s relationship appears to be estranged.
Daniel’s mother, Paul Auster’s first wife, is writer Lydia Davis.
During Auster’s 1995 film, Smoke, which starred Harvey Keitel and William Hurt, about the lives of people who frequented a Brooklyn tobacconist shop, Paul’s son Daniel played the role of a book thief.
Author, Paul, has won numerous international awards and been on the shortlist for the prestigious Booker Prize and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His own life has not been without controversy.
In 2009, Auster signed a petition supporting of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after his arrest in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
Auster has described his politics as being ‘far to the left of the Democratic Party’ but in an interview with the BBC explained how he votes Democratic because he doubts a socialist candidate could win.
He has described right-wing Republicans as ‘jihadists’ and told The Guardian how the election of Donald Trump as president was ‘the most appalling thing I’ve seen in politics in my life.’
Paul Auster, pictured, is probably America’s best-known postmodern novelist known for The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions and Moon Palace
Source: DailyMail
