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Photo: Charlie Sheen Parties With Mayor Villaraigosa In Mexico
This is winning: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa partied it up in Cabo last night, earning some high praise from the eternal party-boy himself, Charlie Sheen.Sheen opened up a bar at the Hotel El Ganzo in Cabo last night named—what else?—The Epic Bar, according to KPCC.
Slash performed, and early this morning around 8 am Sheen sent out a tweet with a picture of himself and the mayor: "From Boyle Heights 2 Mayor of LA..! @hotelelganzo 2 party w/SHEEN at SheenZ..! Antonio Villaraigosa knows how to party!"
And wouldn't Sheen know?
A spokesman for the mayor told KPCC that Villaraigosa would be in Mexico until Jan. 2, but it's not clear if the mayor was planning on mixing business with pleasure.
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UPDATE 12/30: Sheen called everyone at the bar "faggot assholes" but he told TMZ that he meant to say "maggot." Okaaaay:
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