Zac Efron is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The bright-eyed High School Musical heartthrob, according to online reports, was at the receiving end of a punch from a grifter in Los Angeles' grisly Skid Row district, an area notorious for its' booming drug trade.

The 26-year-old star of films like 17 Again and The Lucky One, along with a man identified as his bodyguard, was reportedly involved in a fracas with three other in an area near the underpass of the 110 freeway.

Police camped out in the high-crime territory, investigated the incident, in which Efron said he and his muscle were stranded there after their car ran out of gas. Efron, according to reports, told cops the bad blood be