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# Carly Simon anticipates Forte's release
- URL: https://www.jewsrock.org/carly-simon-anticipates-fortes-release/
- Published: 2005-08-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-20T22:08:44.000Z
- Author: JewsRock
- Tags: Blog

*by Kara Baskin*

Carly Simon has been linked with many high-profile men over the years: Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, James Taylor...and now John Forte. Forte was an up-and-coming young musician (he can be heard singing alongside Wyclef Jean on the hit remake "Stayin' Alive") when his career was derailed by a drug-trafficking charge in July 2000\. Forte insists that he was [tricked](http://www.carlysimon.com/forte/forte.shtml?ref=jewsrock.org) into transporting a package containing narcotics. Rejecting a plea bargain and maintaining his innocence, Forte was convicted. The first-time offender was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. He's now incarcerated in Fort Dix, New Jersey, where he has formed a jazz band with fellow inmates.

It's a long way from Fort Dix to Simon's manse on Martha's Vineyard, but Forte is a close friend of Simon's son Ben Taylor. Simon befriended Forte as well, and is his fiercest--and most powerful--advocate. The singer, who suffers from intense stage fright, has made it her mission to get Forte a new trial. This article in the [Boston Globe](http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2005/07/13/the%5Fconvict%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fsinger/?ref=jewsrock.org) offers an in-depth chronicle of the unlikely friendship between the dreadlocked, Brooklyn-bred Forte and the nice Jewish publishing heiress from Manhattan.