Crystal Bridges Museum and Walmart Heiress Alice Walton Arrested for DWI

With the hotly anticipated opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art coming in just a few weeks, you’d assume that all eyes would be locked on the building and the collection. However, there was an awkward shift of that gaze this weekend with the news that the museum’s founder, chief benefactor, and heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton, was recently arrested for a DWI in Texas. According to the Weatherford Democrat, Walton was pulled over for speeding and the officer determined that she was intoxicated.

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