Stars or even d-listers believed to have been involved in crimes

The guy that played Baretta.

Andrew Prine was a suspect in the murder of starlet Karen Kupcinet in the early 60s. Evidence pointed to him, but it was not conclusive.

Kirk Douglas is widely believed to have raped a fifteen-year-old Natalie Wood.

Great subject for a thread, OP.

Michael Landon

Shifty, a rapper turned reality drug addict tv star recently subject to his own thread here, used to be a part of a group that planned and executed substantial robberies around Los Angeles.

Was there a music producer who was supposed to have hung someone out a window?

This memory is so fuzzy, I'm honestly not sure whether I read an allegation in a magazine or I saw this on some cop show.

who r5

Denise Richards = one of Heidi Fleiss's girls

Joan Allen = drug dealer

Tim Allen and Marky Mark were both convicted.

Crimes against acting? Too many to say.

Daniel Baldwin was arrested for grand theft auto. Charges were finally dropped, and wouldn't you know, the rascal was arrested for auto theft again a year later.

I've been around too long, we've done this before. ...I recognize some of these responses, or is it deja vu?

Ozzy Osbourne was arrested for urinating on The Alamo.

Gary Glitter

Louise lasser, bad checks. Armand Assante attempted murder.

Kirk Douglas was suspected in the disappearance of starlet, Jean Spangler. (I learned that here btw.)

What was the deal with Rip Torn and illegal entry at a bank?

WTF, R8? Joan Allen as a drug dealer?!?!? Seriously?

Armand Assante attempted murder?

When? Where? Who?

r17, she's very open about it, says she had the time of her life. ...feels lucky she made it out relatively unscathed.

The story I heard about Joan Allen is that she was a big-time coke dealer in Chicago, and that opened connections in LA.

Diane Keaton battery, late 60's living with another couple in a 3 way relationship, did not end well.

Tyler Perry used to suck dick behind the 7-11.

John Holmes and the Wonderland murders

Are you thinking of Suge Knight, R6? That thug has been tied up in almost any kind of criminal activity you could name.

I think it was Suge Knight who did that to Vanilla Ice.

Phil Spector - convicted of murder

Jerry Lee Lewis had a bunch of wives who died mysteriously. Don't know if he was ever investigated.

I seem to recall suspicion around the death of William Shatner's third wife.

Pete Townsend was busted for kiddie porn but claimed he was only visiting sites to report them to authorities.

Thanks, R25 and R24. It was Suge Knight.

[quote]Ozzy Osbourne was arrested for urinating on The Alamo.

There's a big mens room in the basement.

Snoop Dogg tried to carry a collapsible baton onto a plane. Someone else tried to carry a gun on, but it's not coming to me right now.

[r29] Katt Williams tried bringing a gun on a plane. Rapper T.I. Got arrested for having machine guns with him. Pretty much all rappers have a criminal history.

Michael Landon? For what?

What about that Power Ranger kid that lured the couple to their yaught, tied them to the anchors on their yought, and threw them overboard so he could rob them? Awful awful story. they seemed like wonderful people.

Lots of stories about frank Sinatra.

Christian Slater R29.

Pre-stardom, wasn't Brad Pitt was arrested for indecent exposure?

[quote] What about that Power Ranger kid that lured the couple to their yaught, tied them to the anchors on their yought, and threw them overboard so he could rob them?

Third time's the charm.

How soon you queens forget...

Weekend bump

Rip Torn broke a window and got into a bank late one night thinking it was his home.(The bank was a remodeled house, and Rip Torn was very drunk.

That wasn't his problem, but the fact that he was packing was a big problem. He went into rehab and it will probably all work out in the end.

[quote]Tyler Perry used to suck dick behind the 7-11.

Omg, where did you hear that?

Corey Monteith of Glee has talked about his petty crime & druggie past in interviews.

The rumor that Ted Healy, the original manager of the Three Stooges was beaten to death in the parking lot of the Trocedero nightclub on Sunset Strip has been around for years, see link.

Supposedly Wallace Beery, Albert R. Broccoli (later producer of James Bond films), and notorious gangster (and Broccoli's cousin) Pat DiCicco were the perps.

For what it is worth, it has been verified that Wallace Beery immediately took off to Europe for four months.

Dennis Farrino tried to take a gun on a plane

Don't know if you want just Hollywood or entertainment in general, but Spade Cooley, the Western Swing band leader stomped his wife to death.

James Caan discovered a guy fucking his then-17 year old son Scott, and threw him out an eight-story window to his death.

gypsy rose lee shot a lesbian lover.

That's juicy R43.

Randy Quaid and his wife are wanted in several states.

In the late 1930s, Shirley Temple would urinate into the "soup du jour" at the Fox Studios Cafe de Paris Commissary at least twice a week.

When the kitchen staff complained, Darryl Zanuck is said to have shrugged his shoulders and replied, "She helped build this place, let the little bitch piss where she wants."

Zac Efron got a ticket this week for parking in a handicapped parking zone. Who's a badass now?

Mark Wahlberg owns this thread. AND put out its eye and fractured its cheekbone.

Wow, that James Caan story at R43's link is so convoluted it makes the San Diego Asian girl who hanged herself while tied-up seem logical.

Thanks, R43.

Long rumored that Dean Marton when a boxer would throw matches, also rumored that he was mob muscle

Lots of C- d actors dealt/deal drugs in between a ting jobs.

The Joan Alen rumor has been around a long time, think it even got printed andshe didn't go after the publication, leading most people to believe it's true.

Interesting, R43. It sounds like it's possible that the guy was trying to get into the apartment (to see Scott?) and may have slipped and fallen to his death. There was something more going on there than what they were saying, it's obvious, but I agree that you don't kill someone and then go back to sleep. And you don't watch your dad kill your lover and then go take a nap.

Sarah Miles killed somebody while making a movie. Supposedly Burt Reynolds helped her cover it up.

Burt Reynolds is rumoured to have done it, r53.

The guy was creepy and apparently harassing her.

Ron Rosenbaum wrote an incredible piece on it: The Corpse as Big as The Ritz.

William Shatner's third wife drowned in their swimming pool under mysterious circumstances, but I don't think Shatner was ever accused of anything.

Didn't Louise Lasser get arrested for attempting to shoplift a dollhouse?

Speaking of shoplifting: Winona Rider.

Dana Plato robbed a video store at gunpoint.

Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking pot.

Bob Crane was beaten to death by a "friend" who apparently had a crush on him (Bob himself was a notorious pussyhound who liked to make sex videos).

Ann Prentiss pistol whipped her elderly father and was taken to jail for it. While in jail, she tried to place a hit out on her father, Richard Benjamin, and her nephew. She was sentenced to well over twenty years for the crimes.

She died in prison just two years ago.

OMG you guys are grasping at straws again. The James Caan story doesn't even remotely indicated Scott Caan was even nearby when the incident happened.

Burt Reynolds has another cloud hanging over him--the death of Inger Stevens.

Inger Stevens was an alcoholic and suffered from depression. I think she just OD'd by accident.

In Japan rumour has it that it was Godzilla who fucked up Fukushima

Didn't Robert Mitchum serve time for something?

Lana Turner

Robert Wagner if the rumours are true

Robert Mitchum served some fifty days for marijuana possession in 1948. He described his week at the county jail "like Palm Springs, but without the riff-raff." Mitchum then spent 43 days on a California prison farm.

He got a bit of heat from the studio, but the guilty pleas was set aside and the case dismissed -- it was a set-up designed to catch Hollywood stars, but he and his date didn't catch the tip-off.

Oh please! Where did you get that theory regarding Scott Caan?

It just seems like the dead guy was James Caans dealer or drug-buddy and being totally high, thought it would be a great idea to scale up to the 8th floor.

[quote]James Caan discovered a guy fucking his then-17 year old son Scott, and threw him out an eight-story window to his death.

James Caan is gay or at least bi. Had a long-term relationship with a man before he became famous. The apartment was probably his love nest to hook up with guys and the dead guy was his lover.

The delusion on this thread is excessive, even for DL. James Caan was/is famously a douchebag pussy hound. Hes also notoriously homophobic which may have closeted Scott.

FYI, people dont seem to be aware that Scott dated Kim Stewart in his 20s, before the Oceans 11 films (while he was focused on making it as a professional photographer). If hes closeted, its not for the acting career, its to make his dad happy.

My mother was friends with his boyfriend, R66.

Look again at the facts of that article. My explanation makes the most sense.

leif garrett got his friend paralyzed in a car accident.

vince neil of motley crue killed a drummer friend in a wasted accident -- got 30 days because a lot of money was riding on the band's tour (?!). admits today he got off easy.

R40, I have no trouble believing that Beery would be involved in such a thing. He routinely beat Gloria Swanson, and even tricked her into taking an abortifacient after she told him she was pregnant. A real charming fellow.

Burt Reynolds supposedly beat his wife Judy Carne and it was bad enough to land her in the hospital. Rona Barrett had it in her book. Rona was a gossip reporter who wasn't known for making things up like so many alleged gossip writers do today. She was just willing to report on unsavory events about celebs which wasn't considered respectable back in the day.

Not sure if anyone posted this but Reynolds was also rumored to be involved in a death of his co-star's manager while they were in Arizona shooting The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing. The manager allegedly accosted Sarah Miles when she returned late from a birthday party for Reynolds and Reynolds was said to have whisked her away to safety in his room. The manager was found dead the next day. Though he was found with a gash to the back of his head his death was ruled a suicide. I suppose he could have cut his head while falling. Don't know any other details but it did cast a shadow over Reynold's career which was red hot at the time.

Brad Pitt's charge came from a prank when he mooned some passing cars on the highway. It's not listed as indecent exposure on the record though.

There were rumors that Michael Madsen did something or tried to do something to Jennifer Connelly during the filming of The Hot Spot. May have been coming on too strong & the rumors took off from there. I do seem to remember rumors of Madsen being a violent drunk.

The article I read about Mickey Rooney's ex-wife's death said that she had just come from visiting Rooney in the hospital. She came home where her friends and the guy involved were waiting and played them a tape she made of her conversation with Rooney in the hospital. On the tape she said she would stop seeing the guy even as a friend if it bothered Rooney. Rooney and she had 4 children together so Rooney may have felt uneasy about this guy for whatever reasons.

After they listened to the tape Rooney's ex-wife and this guy went into a bedroom and locked the door. The friends later called out to them asking to use her car and got no reply. They borrowed the car anyway and left and later returned. That's when the bodies were found. Three of the children were in the house at the time of the killings and had to be removed. I think it would have been noticed had Rooney left his hospital bed to go to her house (which he owned) to shoot them.

And, of course, we KNOW John Landis was involved in crimes.

I'm still here!

Robert Mitchum used to tell a story about being on a chain gang somewhere down south and escaping. I heard him tell it on Carson once.

He admitted it wasn't exactly Cool Hand Luke, more like picking up trash wearing an orange vest and he didn't escape so much as just wander off, but he made a big deal out of the fact that technically he was still a wanted man.

Was that bullshit?

Franklin Pangborn would steal props from the films he worked on by shoving them up his ass and walking through the front gate.

Matthew Broderick hit someone with his car in Ireland.

Rex Reed - shoplifting

Rebecca Gayheart killed a child jaywalker, was sued by the parents and paid for the child's hospital expenses and funeral. Sentenced to probation, a fine, and 750 hours community service.

From the old days: actress Helen Walker (Nightmare Alley) picked up three servicemen hitchhiking on New Year's in 1946. There was an awful accident killing one of the soldiers and badly injuring the other two. The surviving soldiers said she was drunk and she was brought to trial. She was acquitted but it was just post-WW II and involved our fighting men so it wrecked her career.

Tom Neal of "Detour" - beat the hell out of Franchot Tone and was blackballed. He killed his wife Gale and went to trial, got ten years for involuntary manslaughter.

The Thomas Ince scandal - rumor that W. R. Hearst shot him, Luella Parsons saw him and got her column by blackmailing him.

Jeffrey Jones - arrested for child porn

My favorite part of Martin Short's show on Broadway is when he plays Jiminy Glick and interviews a planted star brought up on stage and asks, "Where were you when Queen Elizabeth killed Princess Diana?"

R73, I can't tell if you are serious.

A producer @ Death Row R25? Hmmm "A producer for Death Row Records claimed that he wrote this. Suge Knight, the head of the label and former football player, visited Vanilla Ice and convinced him to sign over the publishing rights to Death Row. It is rumored that part of the convincing involved hanging Vanilla Ice over a balcony by his ankles. Knight made a lot of money from those publishing rights, which went into Death Row Records and the development of artists like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac."

Halle Barry killed someone accidentally while driving.

Isn't he a cartoon character, R73?

Several actresses, from the days of silent films to today, were prostitutes before becoming actresses.

I imagine there have been a lot of whores who have gone missing. No one ask about them, no one talks about them

Eddie Murphy and the unusual death of his tranny hooker.

Keanu Reeves and the convenient still birth of a baby he never wanted. Then the single car accident and death of the baby's mother about year and a half later, just two days after she had made a visit to Keanu, on location. They were not together so why the visit?

For some reason, Robert Wagner's odd actions after Natalie went missing.

Don Johnson. There's just something about him.

Michael Kors once farted in a crowded elevator. An old Jewish woman that witnessed the whole thing said: "It was the worst experience of my life...and I survived Auschwitz!"

Did Henry Rollins have anything to do with the murder od Dennis Cole's son.

I know R82, that story has been vetted and I'm pretty sure Kors was simply trying to have a laugh.

Chris Brown and Rihanna

Courtney Love had her husband murdered. Also killed a bunch of pets and stole her daughter's money.

lane garrison

"Rex Reed - shoplifting"

He was caught shoplifting 3 CDs from Tower Records: Peggy Lee, Mel Torme and Carmen McRae.

Courtney seems like a sociopath. You don't think she had anything to do with her bandmates death, do we? Was she in the same town at the time?

Mary Kate killed Heath Ledger, isn't that a given? Why else would the damn assistant or housekeeper call Mary Kate before 911?

Huge Grant - The Divine Brown 'incident'.

Wasn't Don Johnson busted with something a BILLION dollars worth of drugs at one point? Like they were using his boat to smuggle drugs into the U.S.? Then the case mysteriously disappeared (because I'm guessing he squealed on a higher up).

Ops, "Hugh"

[quote]Why else would the damn assistant or housekeeper call Mary Kate before 911?

Because Mary Kate was her boss and his "girlfriend", I assume, and she wasn't expecting mortal peril/wasn't the smartest person. How and why would MK kill him?

What happened to Courtney's bandmate? That woman is definitely dangerous.

No, I don't think Mary Kate killed him but she probably gave him the drugs and should have known he was in peril. I do kind of blame her for what happened. To think that his family doesn't just tear her head off...I don't get it. What if he could have been saved?

Don Johnson and a friend were stopped at one of the boarders in Europe...with a ton of money, his excuse? They were going to buy a very expensive car.

Phil Spector, of course. I think I remember that Robert Wagner was rumored to be involved in Natalie Wood's death. Was Sean Young ever charged for any of her crazy?

I don't think that there was ever any action taken against Sean Young.

Next to Lindsey Lohan and her crazy actions, Sean looks like June Cleaver.

Claudine Longet, French pop singer and D list actress married to Andy Williams in the 60s. She shot her lover on a ski slope. She was convicted but on a far lesser charge than the evidence indicated.

all I know was that Matthew Broderick's accident resulted in the death of one of his victims during the 1980's. The family own a holiday home in Donegal and visit regularly. So much so, that SJP actually was at a local agricultural show one year while they were on vacation, and presented a trophy. This was at the top of the Sex and the City era, when none of locals would have expected her to bother with the likes of them and the locals were very very surprised at the gesture! Besides, I know only too well the pain of car crashes since I was in one this year. Luckily I didn't have a passenger otherwise that person would have been killed. I crashed into a truck with the worst damage on the passenger side, so bad that hypothetically that person would have been either seriously injured or dead if present. I was lucky to have escaped without any injury whatsoever.

As for the ladies, at least a sizable percentage of them were hookers at some point.

Busby Berkeley and Clark Gable: killed people in automobile accidents, were bailed out by the studio bosses.

I'm blanking on the name, but there was an actor in the 30s/40s who murdered his wife's lover, served time, and then returned to acting.

E!'s "Mysteries and Scandals" was a goldmine for this stuff.

Harrison Ford got into movies by supplying drugs to Lucas, Spielberg et al

Didn't Burt Reynolds also have a hand in Inger Stevens "suicide"? He also beat up his wives and other starlets.Someone asked Angie Dickinson about this once and she said nothing and left the room quickly.

[quote]Didn't Burt Reynolds also have a hand in Inger Stevens "suicide"?

Inger Stevens just plainly had periodic bouts with depression.

What may or may not have lead to her passing by her own hand was that she was secretly married to Ike Jones. The reason why she was secretly married to Ike Jones was that he was an African American gentleman and her "handlers" told her it would not be in her best interest to publicly speak of being married.

Downright tragic tale with Inger Stevens, but I really do not think that Burt Reynolds killed her or anything. She was just a lady who was somewhat ahead of her time and who was also just not truly well mentally.

Also, there were those girls who had the crazy E! reality show with their playboy bunny mom. One of them was involved in a bunch of thefts at other D-list celeb's homes (like Paris Hilton and Lohan). They're making a movie about it with Emma Watson and Tasia Farmiga.

[R100]: That was Paul Kelly. I don't know the details of the case, but he served only a short sentence and not only went back to acting but much later got the lead in Command Decision on Broadway. (Clark Gable made the film.) That was a part that every actor in New York wanted.

Corin Nemec- some teen star and petty theft.

Rory Calhoun - was in jail for armed robbery, right??

Ryan Seacrest. Unleashng the Kardashians on the world should be a crime against humanity. He should be ordered to watch every episode, every spinoff and everything unholy that stems from that which is Kardashian through eyes forced open with metal clamps and kept moist by drops applied every ten seconds by Britney Sprears. Too much? Then I should be able to spank him at least twice a day for the rest of my life.

When Danny Bonadouchebag was on L.A. radio he used to brag about how he could kick Suge Knight's ass. That is, until Suge told him "I could kill you and no one would ever connect me to it." He shut the fuck up.

Frank Sinatra made Joey Bishop drink Drano which destroyed his vocal cords. Joey was a far better singer than Frankie and that the the only way Frankie kept his career going.

Drano would have done much more than ruin his vocal cords...he would need a feeding tube.

For a while, Tilda Swinton made a living betting on horses. Not exactly criminal, but could be on the shady side as she was very successful at it.

"For a while, Tilda Swinton made a living betting on horses."

I don't believe that, nobody makes a living betting on horses! If she didn't come from money I'd say she was trying to come up something rather shadier, but she come from money she did.

She did, R112, heard it out of her own mouth during an interview. She said she'd look at the horses before a race and get a sense of which one would win.

Errol Flynn was arrested and went to trial for statutory tape. He beat the rap.

Dean Torrance of the Surfer Rock duo Jan & Dean financed the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr..

In his defense he pleaded ignorance of what the money was being used for. There was evidence that didn't support that.

At the trial, he perjured himself then came back before the judge after a break and recanted his testimony. Some believe his change of heart was prompted by his being approached and threatened with severe bodily harm during the recess. He was extremely lucky to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.

Christian Slater:

In 2000, Slater married Ryan Haddon, the daughter of '70s model Dayle Haddon. The couple have two children, Jaden Christopher (b. 1999) and Eliana Sophia (b. 2001).[4] In 2003, Haddon was arrested for assaulting Slater at a Hard Rock Cafe while on a trip to Las Vegas.[8] Haddon allegedly threw a glass bottle and gashed Slater’s neck open.[9] Haddon was charged with domestic battery, booked at Las Vegas’ Clark County Detention Center, and freed after posting a bond. Afterwards, Slater had to get 20 stitches on his neck.[9][10] They announced a separation over Christmas 2004 while Slater was performing in a stage version of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in London's West End. They officially separated in 2005 and divorced in 2007.[11]

In 2007, Slater made news for stating that he is still in love with Heathers co-star Winona Ryder.[12] He was once quoted as saying "Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job."[13] [edit]Arrests and convictions In 1989, Slater was arrested for drunk driving and assault. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail.[4][14]

In 1994, he was arrested when he tried to board a commercial plane with a gun in his luggage.[14] He was sentenced to community service.[15]

In 1997, Slater was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend, Michelle Jonas, and a police officer while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.[4][14] He spent over 100 days in a rehabilitation facility while out on bail and then was sentenced to a three-month term in jail followed by three months in a residential rehab center.[3]

On May 24, 2005, Slater was arrested in Manhattan, New York, after he allegedly sexually harassed a woman on the street.[16] A video of Slater being arrested was recorded and shown on television. Slater was charged with third degree sexual abuse and was held at the 19th precinct in Manhattan.[16][17] However, Slater denied the charge.[17]

"Keanu Reeves and the convenient still birth of a baby he never wanted. Then the single car accident and death of the baby's mother about year and a half later, just two days after she had made a visit to Keanu, on location. They were not together so why the visit?"

The so-called girlfriend was batshit crazy. She was rocker Dave Navarro's assistant for a few years, this was while he was hopeless heroin addict. I met her a few times, she was whiny with a permanent sneer on her face. At that point in his life, Navarro surrounded himself with enablers, she was the worse choice he could have made for a PA.

This woman was supposed to help Navarro with emails, take care of the running of his house and also be the liason between Dave and a certain segment of Navarro's fans who he became close with. These were fans he would give his personal email address to. (Dave had given a lot of his fans his email and phone numbers before he got really messed up on heroin, he trusted these fans and many were musician like him, not groupies)

For absolutely no reason, other than her insanity, this young woman started harrassing Dave's fans through his email account. Dave was so messed up at that point, it was futile to try to contact him and besides she was intercepting all his emails, so she'd simply delete any email where a fan was explaining what was going on with her harassing them. She then started answering emails FOR Navarro, which was not part of her job. A great majority of the emails were harassing.

This young woman was clearly not professional in most of her dealings with Dave's fans and other showbiz people she dealt with. Whatever she claimed to be, she was nothing more than a PA.

I'm not saying this young woman deserved to be murdered, but the general public, who have followed this story of her involvement with Keanu Reeves, have absolutely no idea what this woman did behind the scenes, she was batshit crazy and vindictive to people she didn't even know. It stands to reason that she had a boatload of enemies, in and out of showbiz.

When I heard about her death, I wasn't surprised at all. If she wasn't going to die at the hands of someone she really pissed off or ripped off, she was going to die from her drugging or drinking. She was not as innocent as the casual observer might have assumed.

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I think Jennifer was often Keanu's mule and not his lover. Sometimes I wonder if there was ever a pregnancy or if it was a fake belly? All I know is Keanu did not want a baby and in the end, Keanu didn't have, to have a baby. Of course he got a shitload of sympathy about a dead baby and a dead girlfriend, who was never his girlfriend. But you better believe he paid for her beautiful funeral, Keanu front and center in the tabloids.

No wonder Slater's career has tanked. I wonder if he will ever come back?

Phil Foster, lovable Mr. Defazio on "Laverne and Shirley" was thought to be a drug dealer on the Paramount lot.

Did John Frusciante give River Phoenix the coke that killed him? Or was it Gibby Haines?

The biggest crime they were ever involved in was being brought into this world...it was a crime against humanity!!

Then-future First Lady Laura Bush ran a stop sign on a clear night in Midland, TX, and killed a boy from her own social circle.

In 1968, Alain Delon and his wife were implicated in a huge sex, drugs, and organized crime scandal surrounding the death of his bodyguard, who was found wrapped in a mattress in the woods. The scandal threatened to expose shady goings-on that somehow involved Mme. Pompidou. I don't remember any resolution to the scandal.

Courtney Love is clearly psycho and is suspected to be involved in the deaths of Kurt Cobain, who was preparing to divorce her, and also her band-mate Kristen Pfaff.

re: Paul Kelly

[quote] His career momentum was briefly halted with a two-year (1927–1929) forced hiatus when he served 25 months for manslaughter in California's San Quentin prison for the death of actor Ray Raymond, a few days after their fistfight.[5]

[quote] Raymond's widow, Dorothy MacKaye, later married Kelly. She was briefly imprisoned for being an accomplice in the killing; and, wrote about her experiences, titled, "Women in Prison," that became a 1933 film, Ladies They Talk About, with Barbara Stanwyck.

Well, they made it look like a crime, the dirty bastards.

Is it still primetime if it is 24/7?

Courtney had to kill Kurt because what judge would give Courtney all of Kurt's money? None. People all over the world hate Courtney, like they hate Yoko and yes...they STILL hate Yoko.

Courtney Love was there when Kristen Pfaff the bassist died.

I own this thread, Bitches! - Robert Wagner

When William Desmond Taylor was shot in 1922, a huge scandal erupted. He was seeing so many lovers, both female and male, that police didn't know where to start in what they assumed was a crime of passion. The case went unsolved for the next 40 odd years until 1964 when a friend witnessed the deathbed confession of Margaret Gibson who starred with Taylor in a silent film called "The Kiss." Of Death, apparently.

In Ireland with girlfriend Jennifer Grey, Matthew Broderick turned right instead of left on a country road and collided head on with a car coming from the (correct) opposite direction. The crash claimed the lives of a young woman and her mother. Broderick and Grey suffered minor injuries.

Yes that was pretty awful with Broderick. I think he felt that for along time. I'm sure he paid a ton of money.

Before he died, Andy Gibb confessed in two major print interviews that when he was younger he and his mates would enter a crowded sports stadium and throw claw hammers as hard as they could into the bleachers and run.

Instant Karma is a Bitch.

There was a rumor about John Lennon. Stu Sutcliffe's wife tells a different tale than the "official" version of the night her husband got his head bashed in outside a bar. He was a pretty boy, the creative genius behind the Beatles look and act, and he died young from injuries connected to that beating. He was very close to John, who professed his love for him. The official version is that John dragged Stu away from the thugs who were stomping him and actually saved him. If I recall correctly, Stu's wife, Ingrid, or someone close to her, claimed that it was John himself who kicked Stu repeatedly in the head outside that bar, in an alcoholic blackout, and she never forgave him.

What? I thought Stu simply died from a bleed in his brain.

I was just going to post that one R124! (Reading a biography of Nico & it's mentioned.) Actually two of Alain Delon's bodyguards died under mysterious circumstances...Delon was obsessed with having a tough "underworld" image.

There's no basement in the Alamo, r28!

I love r135. You have been the best group ever, I mean it.

Stephen Fry's been to prison for fraud/theft.

Author Anne Perry was convicted of murdering her girlfriend's mother in 1954. They made the movie "Heavenly Creatures" about this true story.

[quote]Claudine Longet, French pop singer and D list actress married to Andy Williams in the 60s. She shot her lover on a ski slope.

Actually Spider Sabich was shot in the bathroom of his home in Starwood, Colorado--not on the ski slopes. (I think you're getting the actual event mixed up with the later hilarious SNL sketch, "The Claudine Longet Invitational," where they'd show stock footage of various skiiers wiping out on the slopes accompanied by the sound of gunshots as Jane Curtin explained that Claudine Longet had just accidentally set off another gun.) Longet was arrested for the crime, but the jury believed her story the gun accidentally backfired when Sabich was showing her how to use it. Longet was convicted only of a misdemeanor of criminal negligence.

Actually, r122, I read a couple of accounts saying it was Flea.

What? Flea has never been big on drugs.

At first I figured it was Keanu but then someone insisted it was John.

Soon after River's death Gibby went into rehab, that's why I thought maybe he was involved.

At the time, The Globe pinned it directly on Keanu.

What about Johnny Depp and that Viper Room thing-the business parter or whatever ...

I don't know the details.

I don't think Flea gave him the drugs. He just told him there was no room for him to play on stage with the band that night. River was upset about it and took a dose of heroin on top of what he had already taken earlier that night.

Jim Gordon from Derek and the Dominos. He wrote and played the piano coda to the song Layla. He developed schizophrenia and began hearing voices. He beat his mother to death with a hammer. He's locked up in a California mental institution.

That true about Kirk Douglas?

Did Johnny Depp have anything to do with one of his partners in The Viper Room, diappearing?

"Authorities in Los Angeles never took action against drug dealers operating out of The Viper Room, allowing them to operate with impunity as they had for decades. The only legal case that emerged by the end of the decade was Anthony Fox's lawsuit alleging that Johnny Depp had conspired to divert profits from The Viper Room. According to the Celebrity Justice section of the Warner Brothers website, the Judge in this case ruled that: "Defendant Depp . . . breached his fiduciary duties to the corporation and to Fox as a minority shareholder. The facts establish persistent and pervasive fraud and mismanagement and abuse of authority."

While lawyers for both sides were battling it out over the lawsuit, two things happened; Johnny Depp moved to France and Anthony Fox disappeared. It would seem odd to some that Fox, the single parent of a daughter to whom he was deeply devoted, would just vanish on his own, particularly given that it appeared he would win his legal battle with Depp. In Depp's case, he had met a woman with whom he wanted to start a family. Depp and his partner Vanessa Paradis settled into a new life in Paradis' home country, France..."

I'm thinking Johnny was involved in some major wrong doing.

Don't remember if Rory Calhoun convicted of robbery or drug charges or both.

Gary Vinson of "McHale's Navy" - convicted pedophile who later committed suicide.

Almost 150 posts and no mention of Fatty Arbuckle?

I'm not sure if Arbuckle was guilty. They have all done a shitload of illegal drugs and they have probably bought in large quantities.

Lindsey was arrested again for hit and run, this time in New York.

r119 Whatever Keanu's issues are, I've read many accounts saying he's a really kind, generous, down to earth guy.

R153 Now you've set off the Keanu troll. You really should not have said that. It is best to never mention him in any way and never hint anything positive about him at all. This cool thread will now be devolve into endless posts about how evil Keanu is.

No one mentioned Bill Tilden?

I always knew Keanu Reeves had the power to murder people at whim. Capo Keanu has epic swagg! He is now more arousing to me than ever before!

Cheb Mami, the Algerian singer who sang with Sting on Desert Rose, kidnapped and imprisoned a pregnant ex-girlfriend, then attempted to give her an abortion.

Farrah Fawcett was a klepto. She used to steal stuff from high-end LA shops all the time. During the Charlie's Angels days the shops all knew to contact Aaron Spelling's office. He covered the bills for whatever she stole.

The Brad Pitt thing was more than just a little mooning. He was completely nude, standing on a hillside overlooking the highway. After many drivers passed by and called the cops, he was arrested.

Right-wing radio hostess Laura Ingraham stuck a garden hose through the mail slot of a (married?) boyfriend who dumped her. She turned it on and left. He was out of town at the time.

As long as I'm on the right wing - Rush Limbaugh, celebrity drug addict. Used his housekeeper to purchase thousands of black market oxycontin pills to feed his habit.

Wesley Snipes - sentenced to three years for income tax evasion/fraud. I think he was also busted on a weapons charge at one time. He may be the "boyfriend" who beat Halle Berry so viciously that she lost the hearing in one ear but there are other candidates for that too.

Li'l Kim did a year in jail for conspiracy/perjury for lying to a grand jury about a murder at a recording studio.

Tatum O'Neal busted for possession of crack cocaine.

Gig Young married his fourth wife when he was 64 and she was 21. Three weeks later they were found dead in their apartment. He killed her then killed himself.

Good god, Depp's partner was a single parent? How old was the child?

This story is really creepy.

"Almost 150 posts and no mention of Fatty Arbuckle?"

See R35

Mr. Batshit Crazy himself, Robert Blake, will be on Dr. Phil tomorrow (9/20).

Jackie Coogan, a child actor who grew up to play Uncle Fester on the TV version of the Addams Family was part of a lynch mob who hanged the men who kidnapped and killed Brett Hart, a department store heir and Coogan's best friend.

Nothing happened to anybody who was in the lynch mob.

Some of the posts in this thread are exact quotes from a long ago thread. This site is so damn lame sometimes.

Did we mention Winona Ryder?

r161, that should be...interesting

Courtney Love got away with the biggest pop culture crime of the 90'.

Did Robert Blake say he was guilty?

I didn't think so.

I was recently reminded of how badly Sean Penn beat up and tortured Madonna when they were married. I think people didn't take it seriously enough at the time because she was famous for her stunts. They didn't know whether this was real or another one of her stunts, so didn't know what to think about the whole thing. They chose to believe "respectable" Penn over the attention hog bad girl.

Kelsey Grammer was a coke dealer before and during his Cheers days. He and his wife also were arrested after a drug fueled escapade with an underage "missing" girl.

Robert Blake never admitted murdering Bonnie Bakley. Whoever did it deserves some honorable recognition as she was a true parasite. We needed the space.

Lillo Brancato from a Bronx Tale. The kid who played De Niro's son was involved in the killing of a policeman while attempting to rob a place. This was after getting his big break with a Bronx Tale, and after/while The Sopranos. He was sentenced to 10 years and is eligible for parole in 2014.

And R74, I am reading Nightmare Alley at the moment... Love that film. The book is really good too.

I think the Eddie Murphy / Paul Barresi / Shalimar/Ken Atison Seiuli connexion needs another mention. Not that Eddie Murphy necessarily asked Paul Barresi to do anything, he might have been acting on his own.

1939 did these guys get arrrestedWallace Beery, John DiCicci, and Albert Broccoli murdered ted healy

Gig Young -- whom I almost have to call "Oscar-winner Gig Young" for fear that no one will remember him -- shot and killed his wife. He was never charged because he shot and killed himself immediately afterward.

Could somebody please link to the Michael Rooney thread that the OP mentions? The search function isn't bringing it up.

Oh, Mickey probably just stabbed someone in the kneecap.

[124] also in the death od Eldon Hoke, vocalist of Mentors that told in a documentary courtney offered ten thousand dollars to kill kur cobain. one wek after that he was found dead in train ttacks

opss i mean 50.0000 dollars

Where are Sandra Bullock and Jamie Jones now to tell us what they know...

I was told that Patti Labelle wrote in her bio that R&B crooner Jackie Wilson attempted to rape her in the 60s when she was just starting out, but she managed to escape from him and his friends. She only told those closest to her at the time, but many wondered why she never performed at any of the benefits held to pay for Wilson's medical bills after his heart attack and subsequent coma. Or something like that.

R100, that was Paul Kelly. The woman waited for him and they were married after he got out of prison.

[quote]Lillo Brancato from a Bronx Tale. The kid who played De Niro's son was involved in the killing of a policeman while attempting to rob a place. This was after getting his big break with a Bronx Tale, and after/while The Sopranos. He was sentenced to 10 years and is eligible for parole in 2014.

He's getting paroled, serving five years of his sentence. He wants to make a movie about his life.

They are rumors about Shannon Elizabeth being involved in gambling scams.

violent douche Sean Penn went to jail at least once for assault. He's had many other incidents.

184 posts & no mention of OJ SIMPSON. Anyone who still doesn't think he did "it", please drink the Drano that Sinatra allegedly gave to Joey Bishop.

Lana Turner's daughter shot & killed Lana's boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato.

Please, no one post any crimes committed by hip hoppers. That entire "culture" is a cover for drugs, gangs & money laundering. Everyone knows that.

Cheryl did shoot Stompanato. She stabbed him.

R186...yes, meant to write stabbed, not shot. A little hung over today..

Also, David Cassidy was recently busted for his 2nd DUI in Florida

Amy Locane

Many actors and actresses who started their careers as children or teens have been involved in drugs or at least underage drinking. I remember a blind item from a couple of years ago about an underage actress who showed up drunk to 7-11 with her mom in tow. The actress threw up in the 7-11 and her mom was with her. The mom paid off the 7-11 managers and employees not to go to the police. I can't remember if the BI was ever revealed, but many guessed that it was Jeanette McCurdy.

Shelley Morrison pulled a Winona.

r2

She was a wanton tramp who slept with anyone. How long till you get murdered with that attitude, Mrs Goodbar.

Sports people convicted of crimes

Stars behind bars.

Um, racist at r185 Sinatra was a bag man for the mob, per Anthony Summers and others.

He wasn't alone in that set, either. Many were cleaners for unsavoury people.

r192, thanks for that link! Interesting

[quote]Gig Young -- whom I almost have to call "Oscar-winner Gig Young" for fear that no one will remember him -- shot and killed his wife. He was never charged because he shot and killed himself immediately afterward.

Robert Pastorelli from "Murphy Brown" had a similar situation -- his girlfriend supposedly shot herself to death in front of him in 1999. No note, no friends saying she'd been depressed, nothing.

The case was eventually ruled a homicide, not a suicide, and the cops reopened the case. Pastorelli was the main (if not the only) suspect. UPI reported he was "on the verge" of being charged in the case when he OD'd in 2004.

Gianni Russo, Carlo from The Godfather, was a real-life friend of the mob, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's "seen things". Also, in an interview with Howard Stern, he claimed he killed a drug dealer in self-defense.

Pee Wee Herman

Fred Willard

[quote] E!'s "Mysteries and Scandals" was a goldmine for this stuff.

Almost every episode is on YouTube

Mysteries and Scandals was awesome. I miss the old version of the E! network.

R194: not racist to recognize & acknowledge the obvious.

Hip hopper shot to death last week in Montgomery, Alabama.

Another of 50 Cent's posse (gang) shot dead in an automatic weapons drive by in NYC last night.

Averaging about one a week, I'd say...

Olivia Newton-John has never satisfactorily explained the disappearance of her boyfriend.

Correction, r44 - Gypsy Rose Lee's MOTHER shot her (the mother's) lesbian lover.

Ripley stole my heart.

Funny you should ask...

Demian Bechir murder

We've got a dredger today.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lori Loughlin and her fug husband have been involved in other crimes in addition to the college admission scam.

Fatty was not convicted R35. The starlet’s death was likely due to a botched abortion. RIP Roscoe.

[quote] Olivia Newton-John has never satisfactorily explained the disappearance of her boyfriend.

If her new book doesn't do it, then nothing will.

[quote] I wouldn't be surprised if Lori Loughlin and her fug husband have been involved in other crimes in addition to the college admission scam.

[italic]Full House[/italic] was a crime in and of itself.

Sadly, we will never find out what really happened to Depp's Viper Room business partner Anthony Fox. Depp looks awful these days and if he was to pass away in the next few years, I can see some renewed interest in the Anthony Fox disappearance.

R162: That was Brooke Hart, not Brett Hart.

It's an interesting story, because the entire country was aware of the mob baying for the kidnapers' lives outside the jail, yet very little was done to discourage them.

Wikipedia has a good precis of the case:

I wouldn't be surprised if some mini-series is made about Brooke Hart kidnapping/murder and the later lynching of the kidnappers. A movie that was loosely based on the story was made years ago and it wasn't that great.

Some people think William Shatner killed his wife.