The leader of the Pack, now a divorced dad, has had a Mighty mixed career
While his '80s pals partied late into the night, Emilio Estevez, now 36, was usually the first Brat to Pack it in. "He used to say"-presumably with a straight face-"'My body is a temple,'" recalls actress Melissa Gilbert, Rob Lowe's girlfriend at the time. "He would be the first to stop [drinking]. He seemed to have the best head on his shoulders of all of us."
Dubbed "unofficial president of the Brat Pack" by writer David Blum, Estevez (who kept father Martin Sheen's original last name) also seemed the most versatile. During breaks on the St. Elmo's Fire set, the actor scribbled screenplays "that were remarkably proficient for a 22-year-old kid," says St. Elmo's co-screenwriter Carl Kurlander.
"It's how you handle the valley that determines how you climb the next peak," Estevez told a reporter last year.
Estevez also delivered solid performances in The Outsiders (1983), Repo Man ('84) and Young Guns ('88). In the '90s, however, his highest-profile role has been the hockey coach in the lightweight Mighty Ducks trilogy. His directing forays -- 1986's Wisdom, 1990's Men at Work (with brother Charlie Sheen, 33) and '96's The War at Home -- all flopped.
His love life has been equally inconsistent. With model Carey Salley, his mid-'80s girlfriend, he fathered Taylor, 14, and Paloma, 13 (both live with Salley). When that relationship ended, he began romancing St. Elmo's costar Demi Moore, to whom he later got engaged ("I was deeply in love with her," he told PEOPLE in '96). He married singer Paula Abdul in '92; they divorced in '94 when he balked at having more children. Despite his romantic escapades, Estevez, who lives in a four-bedroom Malibu house and costars in the upcoming thriller Killer's Head, maintains his nice-guy rep. "I'm kind of known as the good guy," he told the Denver Rocky Mountain News last year, "dependable in my work and as a father. And those things are true."

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