The other shoe has finally dropped for River Oaks millionaire John Goodman, who was arrested today in Miami on charges of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide, stemming from a car crash in February that killed a 23-year-old Florida man. Goodman was released on $100,000 bond.

While Goodman has had a home in the Palm Beach area in recent years, his Houston friends and family have been anticipating the charges and arrest following the accident that occurred in Wellington, Fla., where Goodman founded the Interrnational Polo Club Palm Beach.

The heir to an air-conditioning manufacturing fortune was driving his Bentley convertible after partying at the club and, according to police reports, ran a stop sign and hit the Hyundia Sonata driven by Scott Wilson. Wilson's car landed upside-down in a canal and the young engineering graduate drowned. Goodman's blood alcohol level was tested at .177, considerably higher than the .08 legal limit.

The Palm Beach Post reported today that Goodman looked "gaunt and tired" at the jail.

It's a long way from the Palm Beach County Jail, where he sat this morning, to the swank polo fields of Goodman's sporting world. His Isla Carroll team, named for his ex-wife, has won numerous competitions including the U.S. Open and the Queen's Cup in England, where he was photographed with Queen Elizabeth.

Goodman's International Polo Club attracted a heady list of stars including Hilary Duff, Madonna and Tommy Lee Jones and placed Goodman at the top rung of the elitist polo world. When the club launched its inaugural polo season in April of 2004, scores of Houston friends and polo fans, many flying in on private jets, joined Carroll and John Goodman in a weekend of parties and polo play.

Houston polo fans will remember seeing Goodman play at the Houston Polo Club, where he was a board member, and at his Isla Carroll Polo Farm in Brookshire, a formal polo enclave carved from an 1,800 -acre ranch that he had inherited from his father. On more than one occasion, the Goodmans hosted polo tournaments there, afternoons that included festive family-oriented Latin American-themed barbecues.

Only last October, Goodman was looking fit and contented at the pre-Halloween costume party held at Gigi's Asian Bistro & Dumpling Bar, where he is business partner with restaurateur Gigi Huang.

John Goodman in a 2008 interview: