Jay Cutler, the former Chicago Bears quarterback, who has Camden, 13, Jaxon, 11, and Saylor, 9, with his ex-wife, Kristin Cavallari, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor DUI after being arrested in October 2024. According to records obtained by E! News, he reported to the Williamson County Jail in Franklin, Tennessee, on September 29 for his four-day sentence.
Cutler was checked into custody at 5.34 pm local time after arriving at the facility hours earlier. Once he is released from prison, the 42-year-old sportsman must pay a $350 fine and attend a DUI safety class, as well as serve one year of supervised probation.
He was arrested last year following a minor traffic collision. Police arrived at the scene, and were told by another driver that the NFL star had rear-ended him before allegedly offering money and attempting to leave the scene.
A release from the Franklin Police Department revealed at the time: “During their conversation with Cutler, officers noticed a strong odor of alcohol. Cutler was also slurring his words and had bloodshot eyes. Cutler refused field sobriety tests and was taken to a local hospital, where a blood sample was obtained through a blood search warrant. The QB told officers when he was arrested that he hadn’t drunk alcohol before, later admitting he had had “a little bit.”
He eventually pleaded guilty to one charge, but had also faced charges of failure to exercise due care to avoid a collision and implied consent, as well as possession of a handgun while under the influence, after officers found a loaded pistol and rifle in his car.
However, the charge was ultimately dropped once he forfeited the weapon. Meanwhile, Cutler recently hit back at Kristin after the Uncommon James founder claimed she “didn’t get any money” from their divorce, which occurred in 2020.
Speaking on his own Take It Outside podcast, Cutler – who was once the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL – said: “Let’s think about this logically. ‘Not a penny,’ OK. Married for, I don’t know, seven years or so, three kids. You can check how much I made in the NFL. It’s online. You can see the contract from year to year and the total amount at the end of 12 years. So, you go to divorce and each side gets a lawyer and then you go to court and there’s a judge.”
He insisted there is “not a judge in the state of Tennessee” that would have signed an agreement that let him “keep every single dollar” he made throughout their marriage, noting Kristin’s company, Uncommon James was a “marital asset” because the former Laguna Beach star funded it during their relationship.
Cutler added, “I think it’s reckless. I think it’s borderline slander to insinuate that there was zero dollars split during the marriage that each side got. It’s insanity. It’s completely false, completely untrue. It is, it just is. I’ve got a divorce decree. I’ve got something that the judge signs — it’s, like, 67 pages — it says the number breakdown.”
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