In memory of Scott, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward launched the Scott Newman Foundation at the University of Southern California. His sister Susan was in charge of the foundation whose goal was to alert grammar school age children of the danger of drugs.
His dad Paul Newman helped get him a small role as a nervous fireman in the Irwin Allen disaster film The Towering Inferno (1974) but his scenes were primarily with Paul's co-star Steve McQueen (who played the fire chief), and his major scene of dialogue was with actor Felton Perry in a firetruck on the way to the building.
Died from an overdose of Valium, Darvon, Quaaludes and cocaine.