Public Bathroom where Pop singer George Michael was arrested in 1998 Demolished

The incident led the formar Wham! singer to come out as a homosexual three days after the arrest, during an interview with CNN. During the interview he didn't provide details of the incident, but said, "I put myself in an extremely stupid and vulnerable position".

Michael later pleaded "no contest" to the charge and was fined $810 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service.

Soon afterwards, Michael released a music video for his single "Outside", which satirised the public toilet incident and featured men dressed as policemen kissing. In 1999, the arresting officer Rodríguez filed a $10 million lawsuit against the singer claiming the video "mocked" him, and also that Michael had slandered him in interviews. The court dismissed the case, and later ruled that Rodríguez, as a public official, could not legally recover damages for emotional distress.

In 2002, Michael said of the arrest in an interview with BBC Radio 1 that , at the time of the arrest, he was distraught over the deaths of his mother and Feleppa, and by getting himself arrested, it might have been his way of bringing his sexuality into the open. "With hindsight, I did it to myself and I tried to work out why," he says. "It was a way of making my life about me".

George Michael died in 2016 at the age of 53.

The public restroom where George Michael was famously arrested in 1998 was demolished earlier this week. The restroom was located at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, California.

The arrest occurred after Michael was busted by undercover policeman Marcelo Rodríguez who was conducting a sting operation.