SHORT TAKES : Tabloid Drops Don Johnson Suit

Star magazine is dropping a lawsuit accusing Don Johnson’s bodyguard of shooting at a helicopter that flew overhead as the former “Miami Vice” star married Melanie Griffith last year.

Attorneys for the tabloid asked for the dismissal Monday, three months after the district attorney’s office refused to file charges against Johnson or bodyguard Greg Isaacs.

“It was an economic business decision,” said Jonathan Hellman, attorney for the Star’s new owner, News America.

Johnson’s attorney, H. Keith Jarvis, said the actor feels vindicated. “But he’s still very upset his wedding was interrupted and he was harassed with this lawsuit,” Jarvis said.

The lawsuit, filed in 1989, claimed the lives of those aboard the helicopter were endangered when a shotgun was fired as the copter flew overhead in an unauthorized effort to photograph the wedding.

Johnson said some people had been shooting at clay pigeons and a shot may have come close to the helicopter.