Irvine's Henry Samueli School of Engineering to explore the application of technology to enhance learning. In addition, Nicholas provided St. Margaret scholarships to students from Santa Ana. Nicholas also supports Oakland Military Institute. Nicholas has financially supported South Coast Repertory, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and Orange County Performing Arts Center. Personal life In 1987, Nicholas married Stacey, a former electrical engineer, with whom he had three children. Nicholas is now divorced and separated from his later girlfriends Melissa Montero and Ashley Christine Fargo. He lives in Newport Coast, California. In April 2008, he admitted himself to an alcohol rehabilitation program of the Betty Ford Center and completed his treatment at Cliffside Malibu. Criminal charges In June 2008, Nicholas and other Broadcom executives were indicted for stock fraud and options backdating. At the same time, Nicholas was also indicted on drug charges. The charges caused considerable scandal, and were the subject of much speculation in the press. Judge Cormac J. Carney threw out the stock fraud and options backdating charges in December 2009. The drug charges were dropped in January 2010. The judge, in dismissing the charges, accused the prosecution of a "shameful" campaign of witness intimidation aimed at securing unjustified convictions. In August 2018, Nicholas was arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of drug trafficking after a variety of drugs, including marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy were found in his hotel suite. In August 2019, he entered an Alford plea to two felony drug-possession charges; he agreed to donate $1 million to a drug treatment-and-rehabilitation program, to perform 250 hours of community service, and to go to drug counseling. In exchange, the prosecution dismissed five more-serious drug trafficking charges and did not seek a prison sentence. The case was later dismissed. References American billionaires American male criminals University of California, Irvine faculty UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Businesspeople from Cincinnati 1959 births Living people 21st-century American criminals American businesspeople convicted of crimes American people convicted of drug offenses People from Glendale, Ohio People with dyslexia 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople Victims' rights