Baldwin and his wife Hilaria, 38, who is pregnant with their seventh child, have been seen in the upscale Long Island community several times since he has come under fire for shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his western, Rust, last October.
The actor, who was out for lunch Saturday, returned to his vehicle to find the dreaded bright yellow parking ticket on his windshield. He grabs it, gets into his car and looks at it before driving away.
The parking ticket comes just days after Baldwin said he was exonerated over Halyna Hutchins’ death in a new report Wednesday that blasted producers of the film.
The actor issued the statement shortly after New Mexican Occupational Health and Safety Bureau officials levied the maximum fine against the producers of Rust, the film on which Hutchins was shot and killed by Baldwin in October 2021.
Executive producers were hit with a $136,793 film – the maximum available. Baldwin himself was a producer, but highlighted a passage in the investigation which said that he was involved in the script and casting – but not safety procedures.
Since the incident, Baldwin has been slowly emerging back into the public view. Baldwin and his wife Hilaria put on a loved-up display while attending the opening night of the dark comedy Hangmen on Broadway, by the British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, in New York City on Thursday evening.
The couple had recently announced that they are expecting their seventh child to add to their brood of children, including daughters Carmen Gabriela, eight, Lucia, one, and sons Romeo Alejandro David, three, Leonardo Ángel Charles, five, and Rafael Thomas, six.
But on Saturday, Baldwin once again looked defeated as he grabbed the yellow parking ticket from his car’s windshield.
In the summer of 2021, both Sag Harbor and East Hampton villages made deals with online companies to electronically monitor parked cars and issue violations to those that stay in their spots too long, Dan’s Papers reported.
This involves license plate recognition software and overhead surveillance cameras.
Mayor Brian Figaro of Hampton Village told Dan’s Papers that he was very happy with and hopes to make additions to it.
‘We will give 10% off to people who continuously lived in the Hamptons for more than five years, 20% off for people who’ve lived here more than 10 years and 30% off for people who’ve lived here for a generation,’ he said. ‘Those who can trace their residency back to the early settlers would be totally exempt from parking fines. They can park wherever they want and for however long they want.’
The fee for Baldwin’s parking ticket he received on Saturday is unknown, but the actor didn’t look too happy about it.
Just days earlier, on Wednesday afternoon, Baldwin, who has argued that he did not know the gun was loaded when it was handed to him by the film’s assistant director David Halls, resulting in the death of Hutchins last October, issued a statement that touted the scathing report as a victory.
Baldwin’s statement read: ‘We are grateful to the New Mexico Occupational and Safety Bureau for investigating this matter. We appreciate that the report exonerates Mr. Baldwin by making clear that he believed the gun held only dummy rounds.
‘Additionally, the report recognizes that Mr. Baldwin’s authority on the production was limited to approving script changes and creative casting. Mr. Baldwin had no authority over the matters that were the subject of the Bureau’s findings of violations, and we are pleased that the New Mexico officials have clarified these critical issues.’
The statement concluded: ‘We are confident that the individuals identified in the report will be held accountable for this tragedy.’
In their report, officials cited a slew of ‘willful and serious’ safety violations that led them to dishing out the fine – the maximum sum for such safety infractions – and criticized film brass for failing to follow industry safety guidelines.
Baldwin has since claimed that he did not pull the trigger of the gun that fired, and that it went off by accident in his hand.
In Baldwin’s statement, his PR team cited how Halls and another staffer, property master Sarah Zachary – two of three employees to handle the gun before it was passed to Baldwin – were responsible for safety slip-ups that resulted in Hutchins’ death, ignoring assertions that the company as a whole should be held ‘fully accountable’ for the failures.
The fine comes after a six-month investigation by the bureau into the circumstances leading up to the shooting, which saw Baldwin fire a round at Hutchins with a prop gun that inexplicably contained live ammunition on October 21.
The actor, who was also a producer on the unfinished film, has argued that he did not pull the trigger and has no idea how a live bullet made its way onto the Santa Fe set.
In the filing, officials wrote that the makers of Rust – a group which includes Baldwin – showed ‘plain indifference to recognized hazards associated with use of firearms on set,’ revealing that film brass ignored complaints from staffers regarding gun safety following ‘two firearms-related incidents’ five days before the fatal shooting.
The report described the incidents as ‘misfires,’ which reportedly occurred on the film set October 16.
Officials revealed that Rust Movie Productions failed to follow up on those claims, circumventing industry-implemented safety procedures ‘which likely would have prevented the accident from occurring,’ the filing states.
The report concluded that management for Rust Movie Productions – which would include Baldwin – ‘knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety by failing to review work practices and take corrective action.’
The agency went on to declare that because of those infractions and shortcuts by staff – including those by assistant director Halls, whom regulators noted handed Baldwin the loaded gun without consulting with on-set weapons specialists – the production company must be held ‘fully accountable’ for Hutchins’ death.
Property master Zachary also failed to ‘work in conjunction with the production’s designated Safety Representative to assure that the following standards,’ the report revealed.
The report also said that weapons specialists were barred from making decisions about additional firearm safety training.