Veteran performer Cyndi Lauper rose to international prominence four decades by releasing a series of classic pop music hits.

However, Lauper was in the headlines this week for an altogether different reason after new details emerged about her son's arrest. 

Declyn "Dex" Lauper mentioned mom's name to police

According to the New York Post, aspiring rapper Declyn "Dex" Lauper was taken into custody this past February after New York City police found a handgun in his fanny pack.

While being arrested, Mr. Lauper allegedly referenced his mother's 1983 hit single, saying, "I grew up, my mom is Cyndi Lauper, 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'"

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The Post noted how Mr. Lauper was able to avoid going to jail after $20,000 in bail was posted by his father, actor David Thornton. Thornton is best known for playing the character of Lionel Granger on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

Shooting left one man wounded

Prosecutors claim that Mr. Lauper's friend was struck in the leg by a bullet after five armed individuals swarmed the Uber car he had been riding in.

They further assert that officers recovered an additional firearm from the scene of the shooting. Police sources told the Post that drugs were also found but the discovery did not lead to any charges being laid.

"The defendant and the separately apprehended individual drove to the location both with firearms to engage in what appears to be illicit activity," Assistant District Attorney Harriet Jiranek was quoted as saying.

While the district attorney's office had initially sought a $50,000 cash bail, defense attorney Steven Brill succeeded at getting the figure reduced.

Singer son is working with a life coach

Brill pointed out to Judge Pamela Goldsmith that Mr. Lauper has begun working with a life coach as part of an effort to reorient his life in the right "direction."

"My point of bringing that out is that you have another layer of supervision that he’s privately engaged to have him seen and be there for him given when he’s released during the pendency with this case," Brill said in court.

The lawyer further insisted that his client was the "victim of a crime not a perpetrator of one" and had simply been "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

This is not the first time Mr. Lauper has had trouble, as the Post reported in April that he was kicked out of his $7,200-a-month apartment over loud noise and drug use.