The Academy Award-winning Screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction,” Roger Avary has been arrested for manslaughter and DUI, after crashing his car in Ojai Sunday, killing a passenger.

That’s according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s department, who say the single-vehicle crash happened around 12:30 Sunday morning on the 19-hundred block of East Ojai Avenue.

Sheriff’s deputies say Avary’s wife was ejected from the car.She’s said to be in stable condition, another passenger, 42-year-old Andreas Zini of Italy was killed.

Avary, a 42-year-old Ojai resident was released from jail on $50,000 bail.

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