Celebrities are loved by millions of people all over the world. We all have a favorite celebrity, someone we’ve never met but love. We watch their movies, or listen to their songs, and could spend hours talking about them. People set up blogs dedicated to them, write books about them, and they’re constantly in the news. But what happens when it feels like your favorite celebrity let you down? Or worse, actually hurt you?

Most of us would just be quietly disappointed, or complain on Twitter. “That sucks,” we’d say, and then move on with our day. Some people, however, feel that celebrities need to pay for disappointments and mistakes, and they resolve to use the court system to make it happen, whether the celebrity was actually in the wrong or not.

Without further ado, here are 10 celebrities who were sued, rightfully or wrongfully, by their own fans.

10 Skrillex

Concerts are a dangerous place to be sometimes. Between the packed, jostling crowds, the limited visibility, the strobing lights, and disorienting loud sounds, there’s numerous ways to find yourself injured. That’s exactly what happened to one fan in 2014, at a concert performed by famed DJ and dubstep artist, Skrillex.

Jennifer Fraissl was in the concert audience when Skrillex leapt off a DJ table up on the stage, allegedly landing directly on her and causing her to have a stroke! Though his attorney claims that the video of the incident clearly shows no contact between Skrillex and Fraissl, the jury tasked with the final decision in this lawsuit disagreed.

Fraissl was awarded a cool 4.5 Million in damages, divided up between Skrillex, his tour company, and the venue for payment.

Skrillex, to his credit, took it well, saying that his number one priority was making sure his fans were safe and having a good time.^[1]

9 Creed

Creed is a well known and well loved “dad rock” band, with tracks that have been featured in movies, played incessantly over the radio, and featured in at least one playlist we all had in our 20s. It’s reasonable to expect such an accomplished band to put on a fantastic show, right? The fans seemed to think so, which is why one 2003 concert was such a shock that it apparently required the response of a class action lawsuit!

In 2003, fans of Creed were shocked and a little horrified when frontman Scott Stapp stumbled out onstage, allegedly drunk and unsteady. He reportedly had severe trouble singing, and at one point actually passed out on stage, halting the concert. Needless to say, the 15,000 who showed up to watch creed play were incensed, some so much that they filed a lawsuit on behalf of everyone else at the venue!

They demanded a refund on the ticket costs (and hopefully an apology) for everyone who came to the show, as well as a refund on their parking, a total cost to the band of 2 Million dollars!

The judge, however, dismissed the case, saying that he was not “a rock critic” and that it would be a very bad idea for the arts to set a legal precedent for judging good art (or shows) from bad ones for the sake of lawsuits.^[2]

8 Lil’ Wayne

Even if you’re not into Rap, you probably know about Lil’ Wayne. From 2009-2014, he was a massive success in the rap world. Kids loved him, parents tolerated him, and fans were crazy about him. His explicit songs, whimsical lyrical twists and often hilarious rhymes shot him to the top of the charts.

In May of 2012, however, one fan wasn’t very happy with Wayne. Alfred Marino claims that, after getting into an argument with the famous rapper, one of Wayne’s ‘crew’ smashed him over the head with a skateboard! Marino had pulled out his phone with the intent of taking a picture of Lil’ Wayne after seeing him outside a shop in Los Angeles. After being told repeatedly to put his phone away (and being called a few nasty names) Marino alleges that Wayne’s bodyguard broke a skateboard over the back of his his head, knocking him out and leaving him with vertigo so severe he had to take medical leave from his job.

Marino was reportedly “disgusted” by Lil’ Wayne after the incident, and as a former fan, sued the rapper for the distressing and painful incident.^[3]

7 Justin Bieber

For a while, just about the most harmless celebrity you could imagine would have been Justin Bieber. The Canadian dreamboat was known for his sugar-pop love songs, big eyes, and irresistible charm. Girls of most any age swooned over him, spending tons of money on his merchandise, his albums, and most of all to see him live and in person at sold out concert venues.

At one such show in Oregon in 2010, Bieber set up an act for the concert that played off that very thing, climbing into a giant, heart-shaped metal gondola and being pulled over the crowd, leaning out to wave to the sea of fans below. In the crowd was Stacey Betts, a stay at home mother of five who had come to see the show with her daughter.

According to Betts, Bieber whipped the crowd of girls into such a frenzy with his waving that their screams reached “unsafe levels”, echoing off the metal heart and causing a “sound blast” that permanently damaged her hearing. She claims to have contracted tinnitus, a condition which causes constant, debilitating ringing in the ears. Betts also claims hearing loss and an overall lowered quality of life.

For her pain and suffering, Betts demanded a whopping 9 Million in damages.^[4] The case was ultimately dismissed.

6 Miley Cyrus

Many of us have fond memories of Miley Cyrus as her lovable, blonde alter ego Hannah Montana, the spunky country pop-star plastered across the Disney Channel schedule (and our hearts). The daughter of famous country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley was introduced to the entertainment business young and has stayed there pretty solidly ever since then. Those perfect wholesome beginnings have not, however, kept her out of trouble with the media, and with her fans.

In 2009, a photo surfaced on the web of Miley making a “Chinese eyes” face. Sitting with a group of her friends, Miley was seen in the photo pulling her eyes out to the sides along with others in the group. In fact, the only person in the photo NOT doing this was a young asian man who, it is alleged, was being mocked by the eye pulling.

The photo was deemed so offensive that it triggered a lawsuit. Los Angeles area woman Lucie J. Kim, alleging to have been personally damaged by the “discriminatory” photo, reportedly sued the Disney teen for $4 BILLION dollars! Not just on her own of course, but on behalf of the over 1 million Asian Pacific Islander’s living in the Los Angeles area.

For frame of reference on how out of this world a sum of 4 billion is, Miley’s entire net worth currently stands at only 160 million: roughly 4% of the requested pay.^[5]

5 Usher

Whether you’re a fan of Usher’s music or not, you’ve probably heard his name. From his involvement with Justin Bieber to being parodied on Family Guy, Usher has been around for a while, and in that time has made a name for himself as a talented musician and agent for up-and-comers.

It’s my unfortunate duty to tell you that Usher is also known for a less pleasant bit of publicity: a lawsuit filed against him in 2017 by three people who say that he gave them all herpes! Way to really screw it all up, Usher!

Quantasia Sharpton, an anonymous man, and another anonymous woman have banded together to sue the R&B star for allegedly giving them herpes (and they’re not talking about cold sores, either). Although he refused to make a public statement, Usher is known to have settled a similar lawsuit about the same allegations out of court for 1.2 million dollars in 2012. The unnamed plaintiff in the 2012 case is supposedly a former lover and celebrity stylist.

Sharpton and the anonymous duo sought unspecified damages and to have Usher cover their court fees.^[6]

4 Jessica Simpson

Serious question: can a paparazzo be considered a fan? They’re obsessive like fans, and they love to take pictures like fans, so for the purpose of this list, they probably count. With that in mind, let us look at the lawsuit against Jessica Simpson in 2018.

Outside a hotel in New York, Jessica Simpson was, as is often the case, ambushed by a paparazzo. A few photos were snapped, the paparazzo ran off, such is life for a famous person. However, a few hours later when the photo was posted to a rag site, Simpson copied it and pasted it onto her instagram. You’d think, being that it was a picture of her, she’d have the right. I mean, it’s literally her face!

According to the paparazzo and the media company that employed him, however, since the photo was taken by their employee, they own it, and Simpson actually stole it when she pasted it on her instagram.^[7]

The company alleges damages upwards of 20 thousand dollars. They may not legally own her face, but they sure are determined to make her pay for taking it back!

3 Snoop Dogg

Imagine for a minute you’re at a concert for your favorite artist. Elated at being near them, you rush the stage and go in for a hug. From the wings, as if waiting for you, several security guards swoop in and tackle you, causing major injuries.

That was the situation for Richard Monroe Jr, a Snoop Dogg fan violently tackled by security when he rushed the stage and attempted to hug Snoop in the middle of a concert. Monroe was knocked out and dragged offstage. He later woke on the ground backstage, his face swollen, lying in a pool of blood.

Monroe originally sued for 22 Million in damages, but was awarded just under 500 thousand after the jury determined that Snoop was not entirely to blame for the incident. Monroe also says that, after spending several days hanging out with Snoop during negotiations for a settlement, he feels very close with Snoop. He even went so far as to say that he felt happy when he saw Snoop in the courtroom, despite the circumstances.^[8]

2 Bon Jovi

As we all know, Bon Jovi is a very successful man. An ’80s star that still enjoys relevance and success today, Bon Jovi is clearly a man who needs no helping hands, ethical or otherwise. In fact, he’s still performing and touring to this day, and still putting out new music! So why would he need to steal a song?

According to one Samuel Bartley Steele, Bon Jovi did just that. In 2007, after releasing his song “I Love This Town”, Bon Jovi was hit with a stunning 4 Billion dollar lawsuit by Steele, who claims that Bon Jovi had somehow gotten his hands on Steele’s “country rock tribute” song to the Boston Red Sox (“Man I Really Love This Team”) and had passed it off to his record label as his own. At the trial, Steele even brought a musicologist to testify that they were the same song, only to be surprised when the musicologist testified that the songs were, in fact, nothing alike save for the words “love” and “this” in their respective titles.

His lawsuit was of course dismissed, but that didn’t stop him. Steele appealed the decision, hoping to take another run at the famous singer.^[9]

1 Taylor Swift

When you’re a pretty girl and your face is plastered across magazines, billboards, and social media almost constantly, you tend to attract a lot of strange people. Most are harmless, simply adoring fans who vie for your attention with gifts, stunts, and social media campaigns. What do you do, however, when you manage to attract a stalker?

In 2015, Taylor Swift had to answer this exact question as a fan went rogue and attempted to drag her into court to get her attention. Russell Greer, a long time Swift fan, wrote a song over the course of two years titled “I Get You, Taylor Swift” and send it to her agents, attempting to have it passed on to Swift herself. The agents were not allowed to pass the song on because of copyright concerns, and sent back polite but firm rejection letters.

Instead of taking it on the chin, Greer began sending mail and gifts directly to Swift’s family, begging them to give her the song. When that failed, he tried a new tactic: suing her to the tune of 7 thousand dollars for both neglect of duty and emotional distress. At first, it was couched simply as an attempt to get her attention, but when the lawsuit was dismissed and Greer, through statements made in the motion, found that Swift’s family considered his efforts “troubling” and “invasive”, Greer became openly hostile, and sued her a second time, this time for 50 Million, in another attempt to force her to acknowledge him.^[10]

Yikes! Let’s hope no other girls ever catch his eye quite like poor Taylor!

Celebrities, for better or worse, have a tendency to try their hand in the music industry. However, when a celebrity is associated with a certain industry, it can sometimes be hard to place them within the world of music, and sometime it is better not to. But then again there are a few pleasant surprises, though not necessarily for the best of reasons.

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Whether they started out in music before finding their true calling, or reached a degree of fame and with it gained a sometimes misguided faith in their musical talent, here are ten celebrities who have, surprisingly, released songs.

10 Brie Larson—She Said

Before her now successful career in film, Brie Larson had a short stint at making music. Following minor roles as a child actor, Larson embarked on a career in music, and released one album in 2005 Finally Out Of P. E.

The title of the album is a perfect summary of Larson’s music — bubblegum teen pop, though quite appropriate, because Larson was only sixteen at the time. She Said was the single to come out of the album though commercially it did very little.

Larson came to dislike the music industry due to her own self-written songs being dismissed for songs her record label wanted her to play. Essentially, Larson did not want to be molded into what her label wanted her to be, and left it all behind.^[1]

9 Macaulay Culkin (The Pizza Underground)—Pizza Gal

The premise of Macaulay Culkin’s band “The Pizza Underground” is a strange parody of the Velvet Underground, and Pizza Gal is just one of the bizarre songs Culkin has released.

The Pizza Underground parody many of the Velvet Undergrounds songs interlaced with various pizza-based jokes — yes really. Pizza Gal is a parody of Femme Fatale by the Velvet Underground, and musically is close to the original, but substitutes the original lyrics for pizza related themes.

Culkin called it “one of those good ideas you have when you’re drunk and you wake up and forget about it… but we’re taking it to the end of the joke.” There is a reason those ideas only happen when you are drunk, because they are terrible.^[2]

8 Andy Murray—Autograph

Andy Murray and fellow tennis player Novak Djokovic teamed up with Bryan Bros Band to provide a shining example of why celebrities should sometimes stick to what they are good at, whatever that may be.

In 2009, the collaboration gave us the song Autograph. The song details the inconveniences Andy Murray has to suffer when signing autographs for his eager fans. Autograph is as bad as it sounds.

Murray tries to rap on the song providing us with the lyrics “during Wimbledon it really gets crazy. My hand cramps up and my mind gets hazy” and “I sign and sign, but the line doesn’t end. Wake me up tomorrow, let’s do it again.”

We can all objectively say that Autograph is woeful, and is it really so bad that fans want an autograph? Stick to tennis please.^[3]

7Naomi Campbell—Love and Tears

Somewhat infamous model Naomi Campbell tried her luck in the music industry in an effort to branch out from the world of modeling. In 1994, Campbell released the appropriately named album Baby Woman, and Love and Tears was the single from the album.

Surprisingly Love and Tears is not as bad as would be expected from a model turned singer, but still proved that Campbell did not have much prospect in making music, as it was her first and last single and album.

Baby Woman was poorly received by critics and was commercially unsuccessful except in Japan.^[4]

6Frankie Muniz (Kingsfoil)—What Your Mother Taught You

Star of Malcolm in the Middle, Frankie Muniz had a brief run with indie pop band Kingsfoil from 2012 to 2014, in which he featured on the single What Your Mother Taught You.

As a longtime fan of the band, Muniz auditioned for Kingsfoil, and they duly accepted him into the group. Kingsfoil sported Muniz on drums for their 2012 album A Beating Heart is a Bleeding Heart, from which, What Your Mother Taught You came. Kingsfoil are not the first band to feature Muniz in their lineup as he also played in the group You Hang Up before joining Kingsfoil.

The song is your typical indie pop song, and the band is not too dissimilar to Coldplay. However, Muniz left the group in 2014 due to scheduling conflicts with filming of Hot Bath an’ a Stiff Drink 2.^[5]

5 Steven Seagal—My God

Martial artist and renowned tough guy actor Steven Seagal delved into the world of music with his debut album Songs from the Crystal Cave in 2004, from which My God was born.

Although Steven Seagal is a relatively accomplished guitarist, My God proves that if you have a certain degree of fame and fortune, and have the ability to roundhouse kick people in the face, nobody can stop you from releasing music.

My God is a strange dancehall-esque track that upbraids the concept of religion in the most infantile of ways. Seagal makes an attempt at irony in his lyrics like “Why do you force your will with a gun, let’s start another holy war” topped off with the chorus line “My God is better than your God, My God is bigger than yours.” The lyrics just come off as laughable rather than in any way spiritual especially coming from Steven Seagal.

Unbelievably, Seagal actually managed to get Stevie Wonder to play harmonica on the song, though even Stevie Wonder could not save the song.^[6]

4 Clint Eastwood—Bar Room Buddies

Bar Room Buddies was recorded by Merle Haggard and Clint Eastwood for the 1980 film Bronco Billy. (LINK 11). However, the song was released as a single in the same year, and was incredibly successful in the world of country music, reaching number one in the Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.

Country music legend Merle Haggard carries the enchantingly strange duo whilst Eastwood tries to sing, but mostly fails to break away from his inimitable gravelly voice. The song details the two “Old chug-a-lug-a-lugging” bar room buddies’ drunken exploits.

Bar Room Buddies is a little slice of lighthearted nonsense but still quite fun, and the song actually stayed in the country charts for thirteen weeks.^[7]

3Val Kilmer—Frontier Justice

Having convincingly sang as Jim Morrison in the 1991 biopic The Doors, and having learned to play guitar for the film Top Secret, Kilmer took his musical credentials one-step further when he released the album Val Kilmer: Sessions With Mick in 2007.

He teamed up with friend Mick Rossi to write a series of songs for the album. The song Frontier Justice is a bluesy number in which the protagonist accounts his gunning down of his lover’s lover. It is eerie but well produced, and Kilmer actually has a decent singing voice.

Frontier Justice was released on Kilmer’s MySpace music blog before the full Val Kilmer: Sessions with Mick was self released on his website.^[8]

2 Ricky Gervais (Seona Dancing)—More To Lose

Seona Dancing were a short-lived ’80s new wave duo fronted by none other than comedian and actor Ricky Gervais. The duo was stereotypically ’80s new wave — big hair, makeup and no small amount of androgyny.

Sounding like a low-rent ’80s David Bowie, More to Lose proved that music was not Ricky Gervais’ calling. The song fails to rise above the dreary clichés ’80s new wave churned out; it is forgettable yet unforgettable to see Gervais fully clad in his new wave attire, which raises the question: what happened?

Seona Dancing released two mostly unsuccessful singles in the 1980s and disbanded in 1984. More to Lose went on to be quite popular in the Philippines, receiving substantial radio play through the 1980s. Fellow band member Bill Macrae did not reach the fame of Gervais, fading into obscurity after Seona Dancing’s disbandment.^[9]

1 Bruce Willis—Under The Boardwalk

Before John McClane there was Bruno Randolini — Bruce Willis’ soul and R&B singing alter ego, who actually had notable success through the late 1980s.

In 1987, Bruce Willis released his debut album The Return of Bruno complete with a fake documentary about Willis’ musical alter ego. Willis, or Bruno, covered Under the Boardwalk by the Drifters on the album, which was also released as a single. Carried by the Temptations who sang backing vocals, the song struggled commercially in the US, but somehow reached number two in the UK charts.

It is clear from the song that Willis is better suited to playing the rugged cop with a heart of gold on the silver screen than he is to singing because Under the Boardwalk is inescapably cringe-worthy. Willis cannot quite reach those high notes, and for the most part is propped up by his stellar cast of musicians.

Willis went on to record another album If It Don’t Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger in 1989 before finally submitting to the on-screen Bruce Willis we know and love today.^[10]

It’s easy to look at the life of a celebrity and assume that everything is great. With all that fame and money, it should be easy to make your problems go away. But the reality is that celebrities are real people, and no amount of money can enable them to change what’s in their past. They may be on top of the world now, but for the following ten celebrities, things didn’t always look so rosy.

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10 Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is widely regarded as one of the most talented people in Hollywood. Renowned for her ability to transform herself, Theron’s performance as Aileen Wournos earned her both an Oscar and a well-deserved place in cinematic history. But if her past had been slightly different, we may never have heard of the feisty South African we have all come to know and love.

Theron grew up on a farm with her parents, who were locked in a loveless marriage. Her father was a drunk, and although Theron says he never physically abused her, he did abuse her mother. One night, an aunt called her to warn that her father was coming home in a particularly bad mood. He soon showed up with his brother threatening to shoot Charlize and her mother. There was a lot of arguing and commotion, until he began shooting through her door into her bedroom, at which point her mother killed him with a handgun and shot his brother. Fortunately, prosecutors ruled that the mother had acted in self-defense, and Theron has gone on to achieve great things in life.^[1]

9 Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan’s hardships pretty much started at the very beginning. Born into a poor family in rural Ireland, he was swiftly abandoned by his father, who he would only go on to meet once. His mother was forced to send him to live with his grandparents while she worked as a nurse in England, then his aunt and uncle, and then onto a boarding house. His mother visited twice a year until he could move to England at age 11, at which point he became the focus of school bullies.

In 1980, Brosnan married Cassandra Harris and adopted the 3 children of her late-husband, adding one more to the mix for good measure. But in 1991, Cassandra died in his arms after a 4 year battle with ovarian cancer, which would later go on to take the life of their 41 year old daughter Charlotte in 2013. By then, he had become estranged from his son Chris, who had a major drug problem resulting in fights, thefts, and 2 drunk-driving crashes in 2 years. The crashes may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, as Brosnan had already narrowly avoided losing his son Sean at 13, after Sean’s cousin drunkenly drove off a 200 foot cliff.

Despite all this, Brosnan doesn’t expect any sympathy, saying that while his childhood may have been “unconventional”, it was his normal.^[2]

8 Kelsey Grammer

Kelsey Grammer’s troubles started early in life, with his parents splitting up when he was just two years old. His mother’s parents took them in, and helped raise Kelsey until he was 12, when his grandfather died of cancer. The following year, his father was murdered by a home intruder who had started a fire, all in front of his new family.

Then in 1975, Grammer’s 18 year old sister Karen was abducted, raped, and murdered by four men who left her for dead. Sadly, Karen had enough strength to make it to a nearby house, where bloody handprints revealed she was attempting to ring the door. The house was empty. Kelsey identified his sister’s body one week later. 2 years later, both of his half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident.

Shockingly, Grammer has appeared at the parole hearings of the last remaining member of the gang who killed his sister. In 2014, he spoke directly to the killer at the hearing, stating “You could not have come to a better person in the world than me to advocate for someone who has made some bad choices. I accept your apology. I forgive you. However, I cannot give your release my endorsement. To give that a blessing would be a betrayal of my sister’s life.”^[3]

7 Nicki Minaj

Love her or loathe her, there’s no denying that Niki Minaj has built a pretty successful career for herself. With triple platinum, number one albums, a litany of awards, and a net worth of over $100 million, things could certainly be worse. But according to Minaj, it’s the fact that things were worse than inspired her to work so hard.

Throughout her childhood, Minaj had to contend with her abusive, drug-addicted father, who would regularly beat her mother, punch holes in the walls, get arrested, and sell their possessions for drug money. At one point, he attempted to kill her mother by lighting the house on fire. Despite all this, the pair are still together, and dad apparently isn’t too happy when she tells that story. To this, she says “It’s the price you pay when you abuse drugs and alcohol. Maybe one day your daughter will be famous and talk to every magazine about it, so think about that, dads out there who want to be crazy.”^[4]

6 Kevin Spacey

Nothing in your past can give you licence to abuse a child, not even a history of being abused as a child. So while most of us may struggle to find any sympathy for alleged-pedophile Kevin Spacey, it is worth noting that he was apparently a victim of such abuse himself. That doesn’t excuse or justify his behavior, but it could help explain it.

According to his estranged brother Randy Fowler, Spacey’s father physically and sexually abused the boys throughout their childhood. To make matters worse, their mother apparently knew, but turned a blind eye to the whole situation. She later wrote a letter claiming that both she and the father had also been abused as children, again offering a potential psychological explanation.

But on top of the physical and sexual abuse, Spacey’s father was a white supremacist Nazi who went so far as to maintain a Hitler mustache. Interestingly, even after he himself was accused of assault, Spacey denied his brothers claims were true. Randy, meanwhile, has opted not to have children for fear of passing on the “predator gene”, a decision that is probably for the best.^[5]

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5 Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson was born in Neptune City, New Jersey, in 1937. His mother was 17 when she gave birth to him, and had been working as a showgirl when she got pregnant. Although she was married, she soon found out that her husband was already married, and was left alone with her child. There were also some doubts as to whether the real father was the married man, her stage manager, or another unknown man.

Apart from that, Nicholson had a pretty normal upbringing, one that could hardly be described as “tragic” by any stretch of the imagination. But in 1974, Nicholson’s childhood was retroactively changed forever when it was revealed that his late-sister was in fact his mother. The people who had raised him as their own were in fact his grandparents, and his other sister was his aunt. By then, his birth mother and adoptive mother had both passed.

Nicholson’s story is far from the only one of its kind, with plenty of families pulling the same trick for young, unmarried mothers. And it seems he harbors no ill-will towards those involved in the lie, stating “I’d say it was a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn’t what I’d call traumatizing… After all, by the time I found out who my mother was, I was pretty well psychologically formed. As a matter of fact, it made quite a few things clearer to me. If anything, I felt grateful.”^[6]

4 Terrence Howard

As we have seen from the other examples, the simple fact of being related to somebody makes us much more likely to let them get away with doing some pretty terrible things. Most people like to believe that there is good in those around us, even if they are flawed human beings. So when someone definitively decides to cut ties with their own flesh and blood, they usually have good reasons.

Terrence Howard suffered physical abuse not only at the hands of his father, but his mother as well. When he was two, he witnessed his father stab a man to death, for which he was convicted of manslaughter. His mother raised him until his father was released, at which point they divorced, and he was sent to live with his grandparents. At age 16, Howard had himself legally emancipated, moved to New York, and lived off welfare while he tried to make it as an actor. While that was undoubtedly one of the hardest decisions he will ever make, it seems it was the right one.^[7]

3 Jim Carrey

Carrey’s life started out pretty normal, with his accountant father providing the family with a decent middle-class life. Unfortunately, Carrey’s father lost his job, forcing the comedian to drop out of school and start working as a janitor to help support the family. Things were quite bad, with the entire family forced to live in a van at one point. Carrey even got this ridiculous notion that he could supplement his janitor’s wage by performing stand-up comedy on the side.

Obviously, things worked out for Carrey, and his comedy career took off quite quickly. But he would encounter trouble again years later, when he broke up with his girlfriend Cathriona White, who took her life just days later. A note on her iPad accused Carrey of ruining her life by introducing her to drugs, abusing her, and giving her a number of STDs.

It was soon discovered that White had married another man while dating Carrey, apparently for a green card. The husband and White’s mother then launched a wrongful death lawsuit, accusing the actor of driving White to suicide. It was later revealed that White had faked STD tests to make it look like she was clean before she met Carrey, and infected afterwards. After years of legal battles, Carrey was cleared of all charges.^[8]

2 Oprah

Oprah is probably the most famous example of a celebrity overcoming their past and achieving success. Worth anywhere between two and four billion dollars, she is one of the most recognisable and influential people in the world. This alone would be impressive enough, but the fact that she built her success on a foundation of severe abuse is what makes her such an inspiration to so many people.

For years, young Oprah was sent back and forth between her parents’ homes, moving to one of the most impoverished and dangerous Milwaukee ghettos at age 6. Her mother worked various jobs to make ends meet, and was rarely able to take care of Oprah. By age 9, a number of trusted family-friends took advantage of her mother’s absenteeism and began an extensive period of sexual abuse.

At 12, she was able to spend a few happy years living with her father, but was eventually sent back to her mother, where the abuse resumed. She also suffered a lot of physical abuse from various family members, and was once whipped by her grandmother for getting blood on her dress, which was a result of being whipped for playing with water. Eventually, she went to live with her father for good, and credits him with helping her become the woman she is today.^[9]

1 Britney Spears

Everybody knows that Britney Spears has been through some very rough times. We came perilously close to losing a generational icon, but Britney has shown there is no brink you can’t be brought back from. She got the help she needed, and has now resumed her rightful role as Queen of Pop. But while most of us will remember the drama of 2007, not everyone is familiar with her early years, which were arguably worse.

Growing up, Britney’s family was apparently so poor that her abusive, alcoholic father would apparently go out hunting for rabbit or squirrel to feed the family. While Britney denies that ever happened, the reality is they were poor. Rather than getting a job, Lynn Spears decided the best way to get rich quick was off the back of her daughter’s vocals. Unfortunately for Britney, it worked, and she became the sole breadwinner to a family of 5.

At 13, she was drinking. At 14, she was having sex, and was allowed to have boys stay over. Her mother also set her up with an 18 year old for PR purposes. At 15, she was doing drugs. Then her career skyrocketed, the meltdown happened, and she had to be placed under conservatorship. But despite the fact that her father was an abusive alcoholic who once held a reported at knifepoint for 4 hours, he was deemed a more suitable guardian than Lynn, who apparently has little contact with Britney these days.

For all her fame, money, and success, not many of us would want to trade places with Britney. But while her story may be unenviable, it is ultimately a happy one. The tale of the star who stared death in the face only to bonk him with an umbrella is one that will be told for decades to come.^[10]

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It’s natural to assume those in power, including celebrities, are involved in evil conspiracies. And they are. But probably not one of these.

10. Billie Eilish is an industry plant

The industry plant conspiracy theory is one of the less esoteric on this list. There are no secretive cabals or shapeshifting monsters, just record labels and corporate fat cats. Basically, an industry plant is an artist presented by their label as a self-made success story when they’re actually manufactured by executives. It’s a charge often leveled at the singer Billie Eilish, whose meteoric rise to fame (following her viral success on SoundCloud) was too much for some to believe.

Like other artists of her generation, she emerged seemingly out of nowhere, complete with a polished image and the perfect sound for viral success. Never mind that she was born into a family of musicians, and, like all of us, has access to industry analytics (YouTube views for instance), allowing her to fine-tune her image overnight. In fact, the internet blurs the line between amateur and professional to the point where there’s hardly a difference.

Of course, music industry executives are by no means squeaky clean. They’re a cynical, predatory, duplicitous bunch. But, as Complex points out, industry plants don’t make much sense. For one thing, those accusing artists of being industry plants are often the same people accusing labels of neglecting their favorites—that is, of not manufacturing them enough. The fact is it takes a lot of time, not to mention money, to manufacture acts out of nowhere. It certainly doesn’t happen overnight—but viral success does. In other words, record labels are far too busy nowadays scooping up artists online to think about making their own.

9. There’s a Kardashian curse

There probably isn’t a sign over each of the Kardashians’ front doors reading “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” but, according to some, there should be. 

The so-called Kardashian curse ensures misfortune befalls any man who enters their orbit. Scott Disick, for example, Kourtney’s ex-partner, was left with substance abuse issues and the loss of his parents, while Lamar Odom, Khloé’s ex-husband, had a near-fatal overdose in 2015 after struggling with addictions of his own. Meanwhile, Kim’s ex-husband Kris Humphries, although they were only married briefly, saw his NBA career fail post-divorce. And Kylie Jenner’s ex Tyga was plagued with financial problems.

Then there’s Kanye West, who was married to Kim for eight years and has suffered some very public breakdowns. The couple’s divorce in 2022 further fueled speculation—especially as he was ordered to pay $200,000 a month in child support.

8. Beyoncé gave birth to her sister

Beyoncé has been the subject of two very specific, pregnancy-related conspiracy theories. The first, from 2013, says she’s actually Solange Knowles’ mother—not her sister as they would have you believe. According to the Knowleses, Beyoncé was four when Solange was born in 1986. But, according to a birth certificate seen by a Texan civil servant (or a driver’s license seen at Columbia Records), she was actually born in 1974—so she would have been a just-about-childbearing 12. Then there’s Gabrielle Union’s comment that she and Beyoncé have been friends since they were teenagers—even though Union was born in 1972. Even Beyoncé’s mum Tina helped fuel the rumor (albeit inadvertently) by mentioning a family history of birth record discrepancies. Some of her cousins, she said, had their surname (Tina’s maiden name Beyoncé) written down as Beyincé by officials who refused to correct it. In fact, Beyoncé’s grandmother was told that, because they were black, they were lucky to get birth certificates at all. Still, even if Beyoncé is 50 years old, there’s no proof Solange is her daughter.

The other conspiracy theory came the following year, when another Tina—Tina Seals—alleged that she was the mother of Blue Ivy, Beyoncé’s daughter with Jay-Z. Having served as their surrogate, she said, she now wanted custody of the child (then aged 10). To be fair, there was some doubt when Beyoncé was pregnant, given that her baby bump looked fake. In the end, though, Seals’ case was thrown out—as were her other claims against Mariah Carey, Kate Middleton, and the US government.

7. Katy Perry was a child sacrifice

The day after Christmas in 1996, JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty pageant queen, was murdered at her home in Colorado. Nobody was charged, but the case remains open. Police continue to investigate any new lead—except, apparently, the one that emerged in 2015 when YouTuber Dave Johnson said the girl’s death was staged as a sacrifice. It was, he said, a sacrifice “in name only” to “get something” the parents sorely wanted. And “that something,” he said, was for JonBenét “to become a star.” Or more specifically, as it turns out, to become Katy Perry.

The evidence is underwhelming. First, there’s the passable resemblance between Perry and the child—although Perry would’ve been 12 when JonBenét was 6. Then there’s the resemblance between their parents. According to Jonhson, “he [JonBenét’s dad] shaved his head, she [JonBenét’s mother] lost some weight and that’s about it,” There are also, allegedly, clues in Perry’s work.

Needless to say, the singer’s denial didn’t help. When, at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, comedian Billy Eichner asked her to blink twice if she was the murdered little girl, she unconvincingly replied “um wait, no, that is not real.”

6. Cardi B is MKUltra’d

Although “conspiracy theory” has come to mean “BS,” the fact is conspiracies happen—even the crazy ones. They’ve always been essential for maintaining power. MKUltra, for instance, was a mind control program (yes, a mind control program) run by the CIA. It ran from the 1950s to 1973. Using controversial techniques like high-dose LSD, brain surgery, and electronic implants, government scientists targeted vulnerable groups—such as mental health patients and prisoners—who couldn’t resist or retaliate. (Just like you see in the movies.)

But what about celebrities? In a way, the MKUltra celebrity mind control conspiracy theory is more plausible than the others on this list. It attributes celebrity quirks (or “glitches”) not to cloning or Reptilian sorcery but to good old-fashioned mind control. Evidence for the claim is thin on the ground but includes Cardi B’s appearance at the 2018 Grammy Awards. Appearing to zone out during a red carpet interview, she was said to be experiencing a glitch in her programming. The strange behavior of Kanye West, Katy Perry, and Kylie Jenner, among others, has also been attributed to mind control.

5. Many celebrities are clones

When a commodity sells, it makes sense to make more of it. Supply and demand. But what if your commodity is a person? According to some, the same rule applies—which is why Hollywood clones its celebrities. Disney Channel stars, including Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron, are actually lab-created clones, they say (despite this story first appearing on the satirical news site The Onion). Evidence centers on their weird and “glitchy” behavior. Cyrus, for example, sticks her tongue out for no apparent reason. Also, she’s been dead several times: in 2008 (hit and run), 2010 (murdered), and 2012 (accidental overdose). Each time, they say, Disney dumped the body and woke the next clone. But while the likeness is close, it’s not quite perfect. Little clues, like altered facial structure, prove she’s not the original.

It’s not just Disney. Other celebrities insured by clones include Béyonce (cloned by the Illuminati, died in 2000); Avril Lavigne (died in 2003, replaced by “Melissa”); Britney Spears (her 2008 breakdown was a glitch); Paul McCartney (dead since the sixties) Megan Fox (because she looks different); and the weatherman Al Roker (who actually admitted he was a clone once on Twitter). Then there’s Bill Gates, who, according to an alleged Ancestry.com page, has been dead since 2013. Also, his wife Melinda was replaced by a male clone, which is why they split up.

Like all clones out of the Illuminati’s clone farms, their purpose is allegedly to further the dark cabal’s interests—just like how bribes work but way more complicated.

4. Taylor Swift is a cloned Satanic priestess

Needless to say, Taylor Swift is another celebrity clone. She is after all the spitting image of the artist Zeena Schreck, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan. The resemblance is uncanny, but it doesn’t stop there. Swift’s work is replete with satanic symbols—at least according to some. Shane Lynch, of the boyband Boyzone, says her Eras Tour, in particular, was rife with demonic rituals, pentagrams, and other occult insignia. She also likes the color red, which, as any suburban religious mother caught up in the satanic panic in the 1980s knows, is a telltale sign of evil. 

There are also the ritualistic chants of the Swifties, her fans, and her occult-style costumes—some of which include hoods. Another mark of the Beast.

Critics of the theory point to Swift’s album 1989, named for her natural birth year, as evidence she wasn’t cloned. But this only shows how little they know about cloning.

3. Justin Bieber is a reptile

That Justin Bieber’s probably a Reptilian shapeshifter goes without saying. But for the hundreds who actually saw him change form, it’s an undeniable fact. It happened at an airport in Perth, Australia in March 2017. Bieber was greeting fans when he briefly revealed his true form, complete with a shrunken head, striped black eyes, a scaly body, and a taller, more menacing stature. After running for the exits, locking themselves in toilets, or jumping in taxis, panicked eyewitnesses were sure of what they’d seen. But somehow nobody caught the moment on film. The story did, allegedly, break on the news site PerthNow—although they deny it. Either way, Buzzfeed picked up on the story and further added fuel to the fire, stoking rumors not only that Bieber is a reptile, but also a devil-worshiping Illuminatus hellbent on establishing the New World Order (as if this one isn’t draconian enough). Specifically, he’s from a Reptilian-Illuminati bloodline known as the Babylonian Brotherhood.

Earlier evidence for this includes a 2014 court appearance in which he blinks to reveal what looks to be a nictitating membrane—the translucent inner eyelid through which crocodiles see underwater.

2. Everyone’s in the Illuminati

The Illuminati was once a society for intellectuals, men of science, political thinkers, and secularists—the sworn enemies of superstition and silliness. Nowadays, thanks to the internet, we all know otherwise: the Illuminati is an occult, sometimes Reptilian menace hellbent on world domination. They needn’t be thinkers today; in fact, they recruit (and clone) some of the most vacuous people on the planet. Madonna, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Drake, and Donald Trump are just some of the celebs accused of being members. Usually, this is based on hints they drop themselves—because, for some reason, they’re only allowed to reveal themselves coyly.

Madonna’s halftime show at the 2012 Superbowl, for instance, was permeated, as Gizmodo put it, by “subliminal Satanic-Illuminati-Freemason messages.” Two years later she came out with her not-at-all-publicity-courting song “Illuminati.” Jay-Z also uses occult symbols, including his signature triangle hand gesture, interpreted as an admission of membership. Then there’s the lyrics, like for example those in his 2010 track with Rick Ross, “Free Mason”: “I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason… I’m red hot, I’m on my third six, but a devil I’m not.” Béyonce, his wife, is also accused; in fact, she’s often said to be the group’s queen. Her response? “Y’all haters corny with that Illuminati mess.” Denials, however, only fuel the intrigue.

Under the Carters in Illuminati influence, allegedly, are Kim Kardashian (the devil) and Kanye West (the demon), who plan to sacrifice their young child North.

1. Hollywood elites drink children’s blood

The blood-drinking conspiracy theory accuses Hollywood elites of vampirically draining the life force of children. It isn’t new. But A-listers blowing the whistle on it is. In 2017, Mel Gibson was quoted as saying on The Graham Norton Show: “I don’t know how to break it to you gently… Hollywood is institutionalized pedophilia. They are using and abusing kids …. Their spiritual beliefs, if you can call them that, direct them to harvest the energy of the kids. They feast on this stuff and they thrive on it.” Now, if you’re not familiar with The Graham Norton Show, it’s a glitzy, glossy, totally mainstream celebrity chat show. Its default setting, like all the other glitzy, glossy, mainstream chat shows, is to fawn over Hollywood. Gibson continued: “Hollywood is drenched in the blood of innocent children …. I was personally introduced to the practice in the early 2000s. I can talk about this now because these people, the execs, they’re dead now.” Unfortunately, there’s no record of how Norton responded. A little while later, Keanu Reeves is said to have said: “Hollywood elites engage in the ritual abuse of children and the practice of drinking their blood,” adding “Some of these guys carry around bottles of blood [and] call it ‘red wine’.”

The following year, it emerged that Jim Carrey was now blowing the whistle. According to an article from Jasper and Sardine, the actor told an audience that “Hollywood elites eat whole babies for Christmas,” adding: “These people believe the more the child has suffered, the better it tastes …. [and] the negative emotions coursing through the kid’s body, the adrenaline and hatred, will give them special powers.” He’s talking about the alleged but demonstratively bullshit effects of adrenochrome—a chemical there’s no need to harvest from humans.

Whether or not any of this is true remains to be seen. But none of it was actually said either by Gibson, Reeves, or Carrey. In fact, all quotes appear to have come from a single website— YourNewsWire—which, following an avalanche of widely published fact checks, has since rebranded as NewsPunch.

There are two topics that are perennial favorites online . . . unsolved mysteries and celebrities. So what could be better than a list combining both? Here we look at some mysteries that we have never covered at , and we re-visit a few better known cases that have had new information emerge recently.

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10 Princess Diana, Surveilled

I am starting the list off with Diana, Princess of Wales as her death is typically considered to be lacking any mystery. However, many theories have been touted over time to suggest that there may have been more to the events leading up to her being killed in a car wreck. Additionally, the scandal around Prince Andrew and his ties to arguably-murdered paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has re-opened the debate around whether the royal family may be involved, from time to time, in the sordid business of wetwork.^[1]

On August 31, 1997 it was announced that Princess Diana had been in a car accident mortally wounding her and her lover Dodi Fayed, along with a security guard Henri Paul. The accident was the result of an attempt to escape the invasive eye of the mainstream media. Her death sent shockwaves around the world and more than thirty million people tuned in to watch the official broadcast of her funeral. And then the theories began to appear: did Diana really die in an accident or was she killed at the request of the Royal family to prevent her marriage to Dodi Fayed or from converting to Islam as there had been indications that she was considering it.^[2]

It was revealed in 1999, due to a FOIA request in the United States, that Princess Diana had been under twenty-four hour secret surveillance by the NSA. The reasons for the surveillance and the more than 1,000 pages of data on the princess remain under lock and key to this day. Additionally, scandalous conversations involving Princess Diana that were leaked to the media were recorded by the GCHQ, an element of the British secret service. These facts, and a 1993 letter the Princess wrote to her butler stating that she believed His Royal Highness Prince Charles intended to have her killed, do not help dismiss the theories that very important people may have had a hand in the untimely demise of the future King’s mother. Perhaps we shall never know whether Princess Diana was murdered or whether she truly was just the victim of a rabid media.^[3]

9 Lost Heiress Dorothy Arnold

Once upon a time celebrity didn’t involve the silver screen . . . because there wasn’t one! In those days, celebrities were royals, or wealthy businessmen (like Daddy Warbucks in Annie), or socialites: the “it girls” of their day. It was to this world, in 1885, that heiress Dorothy Arnold was born.^[4]

Dorothy’s father was a wealthy perfume importer, her aunt was married to a Supreme Court Justice, and the Arnold family descended from passengers on the Mayflower, which is about as close as it gets to being royalty in America. Living a life of wealthy privilege left Dorothy bored so, upon graduating from college with a degree in literature, she began to attempt a writing career which led to many rejection letters and little else. On the morning of December 12, 1910, Dorothy went dress shopping with the equivalent of $800 in today’s currency in her purse. She purchased a box of chocolates and briefly met with and chatted to an old friend on the street. That friend was the last person to see Dorothy Arnold alive. She vanished into thin air.^[5]

News of her disappearance caused a media frenzy—much like the JonBenét Ramsay case in our own time. Rewards were offered, lakes were dredged, and private detectives were sent around the world seeking information. Two mysterious clues emerged. One was a letter simply stating “I am safe” in Dorothy’s handwriting and the other was a claim made by a Jeweler in San Francisco who said he engraved a wedding ring for her with the inscription “To A.J.A. from E.R.B.”. Both clues were dismissed as inconsequential for reasons unknown and very soon after the police called off the investigation stating that no evidence existed of a crime having been committed.^[6]

For many years the story was headline-making and many theories were posited for Dorothy’s whereabouts. The first (though ultimately dismissed and unproven) came from a convict who claimed to have taken Dorothy’s body from the home of a doctor in New York and buried it—presumably to conceal her death by illegal abortion. But perhaps the most believable is that of the family lawyer who, upon the death of Dorothy’s mother, stated that he had always believed that Dorothy killed herself due to her failed writing career.^[7]

8 Who Saved Blanche Monnier?

On the 23rd of May, 1901, the attorney general of Paris received an anonymous note which read: “Monsieur Attorney General: I have the honor to inform you of an exceptionally serious occurrence. I speak of a spinster who is locked up in Madame Monnier’s house, half-starved and living on a putrid litter for the past twenty-five years – in a word, in her own filth.” The attorney general issued an order for the police to investigate the matter.^[8]

One of the policemen arriving upon the scene described what he found: “The unfortunate woman was lying completely naked on a rotten straw mattress. All around her was formed a sort of crust made from excrement, fragments of meat, vegetables, fish, and rotten bread . . . We also saw oyster shells, and bugs running across Mademoiselle Monnier’s bed. The air was so unbreathable, the odor given off by the room was so rank, that it was impossible for us to stay any longer to proceed with our investigation.”^[9]

It turns out that Blanche Monnier, a wealthy aristocratic woman from Poitier France had decided to marry a common lawyer and, fearful of the scandal it would cause in the public eye, her mother locked her up in a small room to prevent the marriage. The wealthy mother, and her son, announced that Blanche was dead and the world was none the wiser. Until the mysterious letter arrived with the attorney general twenty-five years later. In the meantime the lawyer had died but Monnier’s mother and brother remained. The news caused an outcry and a mob gathered outside the home.^[10]

Fifteen days later Blanche’s mother died but her brother was put on trial. He was convicted but the conviction was overturned on appeal as he was deemed mentally incapable of knowing he had a responsibility to rescue his sister. Monnier suffered from numerous mental disorders as a consequence of her captivity including anorexia, exhibitionism, and coprophilia. She was incarcerated in a mental hospital until her death in 1913, a celebrity more for her horrific captivity than her position as a socialite and heiress. The mystery of who wrote the letter that exposed this hideous crime to the world remains unsolved.^[11]

7 Disappearance Of Joe Pichler

Joe Pichler was a child actor who was best known for his roles in the Beethoven movies (about a dog named Beethoven) and stints in various TV series in the late 1990s and early 2000s. After establishing himself as a Hollywood actor with a promising future, his parents felt he would be better served (at least for the time being) returning home to complete high school.^[12]

He moved back to his home town of Bremerton, Washington, in 2003, and graduated from high school two years later. His intention was to return to Hollywood the following year, once his dental braces were removed. And then he vanished. On the night of the 9th of January 2006, Joe’s car was found with all of his belongings intact except his wallet and car keys. He had also uncharacteristically left his home unlocked with all the lights on.^[13]

Poetry found in the car suggested that Pichler was down in the dumps but no significant evidence was found to support the case that he was suicidal. Police suspected he may have jumped from a nearby bridge, but sniffer dogs found no trace of him there nor any indications that he had walked by recently. Strangely, the parents accused the police of not actively trying to investigate the case as no fingerprints were taken. The case remains open.^[14]

6 Bob Crane Bludgeoned

Most loved for his role as Hogan in Hogan’s heroes, Bob Crane had an unusual hobby: he liked to film and photograph his sexual activities. It was while filming Hogan’s Heroes that he was introduced to John Carpenter, an electronics salesman who helped Crane with his video machinery. The two would prowl bars for new women to video in their sex sessions.^[15]

On June 29, 1978, Crane’s corpse was found in his apartment by a co-star from a show he was currently engaged in. He had been bludgeoned to death and an electrical cable was tied around his neck. The murder weapon was never identified. Carpenter immediately became the chief suspect due to his recent falling out with Crane that had led to the end of their friendship. Carpenter’s car was searched and blood smears were found matching Crane’s blood type (no more accurate testing was available in those days).^[16]

A 1990 re-examination of the evidence uncovered a photo showing what appeared to be a piece of brain in the car interior but no physical evidence was found. The photograph, however, was sufficient to get a judge to allow the re-opening of the case and a DNA test of the blood. It was inconclusive. In 2016, further DNA testing was used on the remaining samples from Carpenter’s car. Two sequences resulted: one from an unknown male, and the other too damaged for a conclusive match to anyone. Right to his death Carpenter denied any role in the murder of Crane.^[17]

5 Agatha Christie’s Memory Loss

What could be more fitting for, arguably, the greatest writer of mystery novels than to find herself at the center of a true-life mystery of her own? At 9:30pm on the night of December 3rd 1926 Agatha Christie’s husband admitted to an affair with another woman and asked for a divorce. Agatha, after saying goodnight to her young daughter, drove off into the night not to be seen again for eleven days. Her vanishing sparked a nationwide manhunt with over 1,000 policemen being put on the case. Christie was thirty-six years old and already an acclaimed writer.^[18]

The genre of her writing and mysterious nature of her disappearance prompted the police to drag other luminaries of the mystery writing world (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L. Sayers) into the investigation in the hopes that their skills might be of assistance to investigators. A fanatical spiritualist, Doyle gave one of Christie’s gloves to a medium though it offered up no leads. But then Agatha’s car was found abandoned on the edge of a steep chalk cliff.^[19]

The hunt for Mrs Christie continued unabated with 15,000 volunteers joining the search and airplanes being called in to surveil the countryside around the car. And then, unexpectedly, Agatha was found sojourning in an elegant hotel in fashionable Harrogate under the false name of Mrs Tressa Neele (the same surname as her husband’s mistress). Christie had no recollection of the previous eleven days and, until her death, refused to speak of them. It went unmentioned in her autobiography.^[20]

Logic would suggest that Christie fled after the news of her husband’s affair, but even so, her memory loss, which was medically verified, is inexplicable. Ultimately she gave her husband the divorce he wanted and, in her own words: “[A]fter illness, came sorrow, despair and heartbreak. There is no need to dwell on it.”^[21]

4 Natalie Wood’s Watery Death

Natalie Wood was a beautiful and talented actress who has been mentioned a number of times on in the past but she definitely deserves a spot on this list for the mysterious nature of her death. Shortly after thanksgiving in 1981, Natalie, her husband Robert Wagner (famed for the television program Hart To Hart) and Christopher Walken (famed for his character in Pulp Fiction who carried a watch “up my ass for two years”), whom she was working with on a film, went sailing to Catalina Island for the weekend.^[22]

Allegedly Wood tried to either leave the yacht or secure a dinghy that was banging against the hull when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard and drowned. Later it was discovered a witness nearby heard calls for help at around midnight. She said the cries lasted for about 15 minutes and were answered by someone else who said, “Take it easy. We’ll be over to get you. “It was laid back,” the witness recalled. “There was no urgency or immediacy.” An investigation by Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official verdict of accidental drowning. Noguchi concluded Wood had drunk several glasses of wine and was intoxicated when she died. There were marks and bruises on her body but they could have been received as a result of her fall.^[23]

People thought little of the case until the yacht’s captain, Dennis Davern, published a book in 2008 which suggested that the “accident” came close on the heels of a fight with Wagner. And then in 2011 the police unexpectedly re-opened the case. Most recently the coroner changed the official cause of death from “drowning” to “drowning and other undetermined factors.” Is there something more to the case that has been uncovered by the police since 2011? It would appear so, because just last year (2018), the police officially named Robert Wagner as a “person of interest” in the case.^[24]

3 Elizabeth Short’s Vampiric Murder

The Black Dahlia was once the greatest Hollywood mystery but the infamy of the case has diminished slightly in recent years due to some new developments. But before we talk about that, here’s a summary of the story. In 1947 the body of 22 year old Elizabeth Short was found drained of blood and cleaved in two in a parking lot in Los Angeles. Until her identity was known, she was nicknamed “Black Dahlia” as a play on a then-current movie The Blue Dahlia.^[25]

The reason for her death and the perpetrator remain unknown though her tale is certainly one of the most discussed of all Hollywood mysteries. Movies, books, scintillating top 10 lists, and other media formats have told her story and it will certainly go down in the annals of history as one of the most deeply disturbing unsolved murders.^[26]

The latest breakthrough in the case is the recent statements of Buz Williams, the son of one of the now-dead police officers who investigated the case. Mr Williams has said that Leslie Dillon, a bellhop and one-time mortician’s assistant, murdered Short at the request of a Hollywood mogul obsessed with her. Dillon even contacted the police anonymously at the time of the crimes to make enquiries as to their progress. We will most likely never solve this mystery, but there is no denying that the passage of time does not make it any the less fascinating.^[27]

2 Brittany Murphy’s Black Death

In 2009, rising star of the film world Brittany Murphy died at age thirty-two of pneumonia. An autopsy revealed that she was full of flu medication. Her death was a shock and the results of the autopsy couldn’t explain why a woman of her age, in otherwise excellent health, would die like she did. Then, in a shocking coincidence, five weeks later her boyfriend Simon Monjack, aged forty, also died . . . of pneumonia. Their deaths occurred in the same house so people began pointing fingers at black mould as a potential cause of death, though no evidence was put forth that proves it was the culprit.^[28]

Brittany’s father (Angelo Bertolotti) believed she was poisoned by the CIA for being an outspoken supporter of whistleblower Julia Davis who, in 2004, leaked information showing that the department of Homeland Security was not properly vetting visa requests from terrorist nations. Davis’ home had been raided by twenty-seven armed agents, a U.S. Marshall, and a Blackhawk helicopter. Murphy’s phone was wiretapped according to her father.^[29]

Bertolotti ordered a toxicology report to be done independently of the official autopsy and the results found ten heavy metals consistent with death by rat poison. What did kill Brittany Murphy and her boyfriend? Was it just excess moisture leading to a dank and unsafe home, or was it part of a massive coverup of government incompetence?^[30]

1 Dallas’ Debbie Disappears

What ’80s schoolboy didn’t see—or at least hear—of Debbie Does Dallas, the 1978 film by Jim Buckley? It was lauded as one of the truly great blue movies from what is now known as the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). To this day the picture remains the number one best-known adult film in history.^[31]

But what most people don’t know is that Debbie disappeared without a trace. Furthermore, no one even knows who Debbie actually was. The actress playing the title role went by the stage name “Bambi Woods”. It was common in those days for porn stars to keep their real identities secret as much of the industry operated outside of the law and there was considerable influence from the mafia.^[32]

Woods took up pornographic acting in order to pay debts she owed. Debbie Does Dallas is the only porn film she starred in. For two years Woods made appearances in public and lived a fairly extravagant and exotic life amongst the jet set of New York clubs Studio 54 and Plato’s Retreat. And then, just like that, she vanished. Lurid rumors arose that she had died a brutal death of a drug overdose.^[33]

A 2005 documentary, Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered, claimed to have found and interviewed the real Bambi Woods, alive and well in Iowa keeping her past safely—and secretly—in the past. But then, in 2007 a woman claiming to be Woods disputed (via email) virtually every claim in the documentary except that of wanting to maintain her private life. Was one of these women the real Bambi Woods, or did Debbie die doing drugs?^[34]

Just because they’re famous, doesn’t mean they’re not weird sometimes. Or, you know, all the time. From bizarre antics to weird videos and the odd witches’ brew or two, the celebs on this list have done it all.

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10 Suicide solidarity

 

Marilyn Manson is the shock rocker most parents warned their kids against during the 90s. Not surprizingly, since he’s been associated with Satanism, a dalliance with Anton LaVey and smoking human bones.

In 2001, Manson took his inherent weirdness to a new level, and decided to grab a security guard during his set at the Ozzfest. He wrapped his legs around the man’s head and rubbed his genitalia against it, whilst wearing only pantyhose and a leather thong. This did not sit well with the 25-year-old guard, Joshua Keasler, who laid a battery and sexual assault charge against the singer. The sexual assault charge was dismissed by a judge, and Manson paid $4,000 in fines after pleading no contest in 2002.

In 2013 Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson, reportedly tried to commit suicide after being told she wasn’t allowed to attend a Marilyn Manson concert. According to reports, Jackson tried to slash her wrists with a meat cleaver after drinking 20 Motrin pills. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where was admitted for observation and recovery. During said concert, Manson dedicated his song “Disposable Teens” to Jackson and then proceeded to drag a meat cleaver across his forearm ‘in solidarity’ with the then 15-year-old girl.^[1]

9 Everything Shia LaBeouf has ever done

Ah, yes, Shia LaBeouf. There is no way that a list like this cannot include the actor that seemed so normal during his appearances in movies like Transformers but turned out to be stranger than anyone could ever have imagined. He is the guy that was accused of plagiarism and then also of plagiarizing his apology regarding the plagiarism. He decided to wear a paper bag over his head on the red carpet with the words “I am not famous anymore” written on it, leaving his fans baffled. LaBeouf is also the guy that at the age of 28 decided to appear in a Sia music video alongside 11-year-old Maddie Ziegler. In the video the two tussle while wearing skin-colored leotards and shorts.

Sia’s social media feeds were flooded with angry responses from those who saw the video, saying it smacked of child molestation, pedophilia and child abuse. Sia apologized quickly, but the controversy didn’t stop the video from racking up over 4 million views on YouTube in one day.

A lot of LaBeouf’s shenanigans were excused as ‘art exhibitions’ and ‘perfomance art’ but what he was thinking when he livestreamed himself in 2015 while watching all his movies in reverse chronological order, we’ll probably never know. He invited people to join him in the theatre and at one point the line to just get into the theatre was 12 hours long. After shaking a lot of hands and looking very confused during some of his movies, he took a couple of naps in the aisle next to his seat before returning his attention to the screen.^[2]

8 The enigma that is Nicolas Cage

 

Nicolas Cage is the master of facial expressions, swearing and leather jackets. He attracted all kinds of attention with his jackets to the point where he woke up at home one day to find a man standing at the foot of his bed, dressed in only a leather jacket belonging to Cage, eating a Fudgsicle. Cage is also the guy who loved spending money so much that he unwittingly bought a stolen dinosaur skull and decided to buy the rumored-to-be-haunted LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans in 2007 so it could serve as inspiration for writing a horror novel. Needless to say, the novel never saw the light of day.

Throughout the years, Cage bought Leaf Cay, a private island in the Bahamas, shrunken pygmy heads and a tomb shaped like a pyramid. And then there was the $150,000 octopus purchase, because he hoped the tentacled pet would help him become a better actor.

The octopus must not have helped much because in Cage’s new gig, History of Swear Words, he is pretty much just the usual Nicolas Cage, only amped up even higher (and with a bizarre dye job).^[3]

7 All we smell is… Lady Gaga

 

Even with an excellent vocal range and an Oscar behind her name, Lady Gaga will probably always be best remembered for wearing a meat dress, bleeding during performances, and showing up at an awards ceremony in an egg. Gaga has also scared the bejesus out of Eminem one time, when she accepted an award from him completely covered in red lace and a red crown adorning her head.

In 2013 it was reported that Gaga was really pressed while backstage on the Late Night show and could only make it as far as a dressing room where she squatted over a trash can. The weirdest consequence of this wasn’t even Gaga’s own doing, however. Andy Cohen decanted the singer’s urine into a bottle after which one of his personal assistants cooked it up into a fragrant perfume.^[4]

6 That’s Captain… Jack Sparrow

 

Johnny Depp has always been a wacky character, his movie roles aside. In the early 90s he attended interviews and spoke in what sounded like an American English accent, but as the years went by his accent morphed from British to Irish to Australian. He also made a friend’s final wish come true when he had Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes shot from a cannon after Thompson committed suicide in 2005.
Depp was convinced by the one and only Nicolas Cage to become an actor after first meeting in the 80s and being roommates for a while. Depp was all about becoming a musician, but one night during a game of Monopoly, Cage told Depp to try acting. This led to Depp meeting with Cage’s agent and nabbing his first role in A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Depp has done some pretty far-out things over the years, including recording a bizarre video of himself and then wife, Amber Heard, apologizing for bringing their dogs to Australia. Months later he joked that he had killed and eaten his dogs “under direct orders from some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia.”

Long ago, during his 21 Jump Street days, Depp vandalized a promotional billboard with his own face on it because he didn’t like the picture of his character. Once security realized who he was, they let him continue to his heart’s content.^[5]

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5 Pop princess gone awry

 

The 90s gave us a seemingly unlimited supply of pop stars and boybands, including The Backstreet Boys, Westlife, Christina Aguilera, The Spice Girls, NSYNC and of course, Britney Spears. After the Mickey Mouse Club was cancelled, Spears moved back home, and it would take only 5 years for her to open for NSYNC on her first real concert tour and become a superstar. Then followed a much-publicised relationship with Justin Timberlake, a controversial kiss with Madonna, a 55-hour first marriage and a trainwreck of a second marriage to Kevin Federline. In 2007, she shaved her head, attacked a photographer’s car with an umbrella, lost custody of her kids all while working on her fifth album “Blackout.”

Things only started to look up again for Spears towards the end of 2008, but the never-ending fight over her assets continue to this day, as her father is still her conservator. Late in 2020, Spears sparked concern among her fans when she posted a clip to Instagram in which she frenziedly explained how much she enjoyed her summer. Her dishevelled hair and smudged makeup made the whole thing just that much more disconcerting. Two months later, Spears seemed to poke fun at herself for sharing Instagram posts back-to-back in which she wears the same clothes, sparking even more concern among her fans. One can only hope that things take a turn for the better once the next conservatorship hearing is held in February 2021.^[6]

4 I’mma let you finish…

 

Because of all the strange incidents surrounding Kanye West, it is easy to forget that the rapper was a huge influence in the 21st century development of mainstream hip hop. His controversial behavior at award shows, friendship with former president Donald Trump and almost-past marriage to Kim Kardashian has overshadowed the music industry successes he has achieved over many years.

Things went from bad to worse for Kanye, when he uttered his thoughts on slavery in 2018, saying “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice.” Not surprisingly, the rapper received massive backlash and quickly apologized. He then went on to defend both R Kelly and Bill Cosby which didn’t score him any points whatsoever either.

In a truly bizarre turn of events, Kanye revealed on July 4th, 2020 that he would be running for president that year. He received support from Elon Musk but couldn’t get America on board, receiving only 0.04% of votes nationally.^[7]

3 Let Me Be Frank

 

Kevin Spacey was just your average actor, winning roles and awards, including a Golden Globe and five consecutive Emmy Awards, until he was accused of being a sexual predator in October 2017. Netflix immediately cut ties with Spacey, removing him from the last season of House of Cards as well as cancelling his film, Gore. Also in October 2017, Spacey came out as gay while apologizing to his first victim, actor Anthony Rapp, who alleged that Spacey had made a sexual advance toward in 1986 when Spacey was 26 and Rapp only 14. In total, more than 30 people came forward claiming that Spacey abused them sexually, including 8 people involved with the production of House of Cards.

For some reason, Spacey thought it would be a good idea to post a video to YouTube on Christmas Eve 2018 in which he wears a Santa apron and behaves like his House of Cards character, Frank Underwood. In the video he says things like “You wouldn’t rush to judgement without facts, would you?”

In 2019 he once again reprised his Frank Underwood YouTube character with another video released on Christmas Eve in which he creepily says, “You didn’t really think I was going to miss the opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas, did you?”^[8]

2 Armie the cannibal?

 

2021 is shaping up to be not such a good year for Armie Hammer and we’re only just done with January. While the DMs at the centre of the current storm hanging over the actor’s head have yet to be verified, they are truly chilling. In the DMs Hammer allegedly details disturbing fantasies, including rape, mutilation, and cannibalism. Screenshots of these messages were shared by several women in January 2021, who are claiming they were sent to them by Hammer. His credibility has also been hampered by his comments on BDSM during an interview with Playboy seven and half years ago. He didn’t do himself any favors by having an Instagram video leaked from his private account in which a lingerie-clad woman can be seen lounging on a bed, and Hammer can be heard referring to her as “Ms. Cayman.” He quickly released a statement to the Miss Cayman Islands Universe Committee in which he apologized profusely.

Hammer was also the centre of controversy in July 2019, after he shared a video of his 2-year-old son who happened to be sucking on the actor’s toes, for a full 7 minutes. Fans commented that they found the video not only disgusting, but inappropriate and disturbing.^[9]

1 It’s not as bad as it looks

 

Azealia Banks was a hit on Myspace in 2008 and was signed to her first record label at the age of 18. Much like Kanye West, the rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress has been very outspoken regarding her political views and doesn’t shy away from disputes over Twitter. In fact, Banks has had very public feuds with several superstars, including Beyonce, Rihanna, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Dave Chappelle, Busta Rhymes, Lizzo and of course, Kanye himself.

In 2016, Banks posted a series of videos on Instagram showing her cleaning a closet in her apartment that was seemingly filled with dead and decaying chickens, dried blood, and feathers. All this, she said, was in the name of witchcraft. After a few more years of fighting with just about everyone, Banks truly shocked her fans in January 2021 when she posted extremely disturbing videos to Instagram which seemingly showed her cooking her deceased cat, Lucifer, after digging his corpse up three months after he died.

She defended herself after huge backlash from people who thought she ate the cooked cat, saying “No, I didn’t eat the cat, and I especially did not eat a cat that’s been dead for three months.” She went on to say that what can be seen on the videos was part of taxidermy. Banks also clarified that the skull she held up in the video wasn’t that of her dead cat, but a human skull she purchased from a website. She went on to explain that the skull belonged to a six-year-old girl who had died from head trauma.^[10]

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Isn’t it always enjoyable to watch actors fighting with bad guys on screen to rescue their girlfriends or daughters or for any good reason? But, what if they fight in real life, and that too, on film set itself, with co-actors or crew-members? We all enjoy the videos or news of the paparazzi getting beaten by some actors or actresses and making a sensation on Twitter or any other social media.

But that’s not all; some actors are famous more for their controversies than their acting skills. This time the countdown will be for the on film-set rivalries between actors and other members of the film’s team. Some nasty but epic moments below will definitely make you think twice before you want to have a date with them in your dreams again, like you always think of going to the Hawaii Islands with your favorite star.

Yes, they can also creep you out instead of making your “once in a lifetime evening” wonderful if they carry the same mood they pursue on sets. So have a glass of your favorite cola with some cheese popcorn to enjoy reading the way some actors behave on the set. And here is the list of actors who are outrageously infamous because of their bizarre behavior on film set.

The 10 Bizarre Behaved Celebrities On Film Set:

10. Steven Seagal

True Godfather of mixed martial arts, Sensei Steven Seagal, is famous for treating co-stars and stuntmen like a bully. Kicking stuntmen in between thighs is a normal thing for him, just to see if they’re wearing cups or not. On the set of Executive Decision, 1996, he attacked John Leguizamo, who is just a tom thumb with 5′ 8″ 70 kg in front of the Himalayan build of Seagal, just to prove who the real lion on the set was.

When everyone was rehearsing for the film where John Leguizamo was playing role of Seagal’s Master Sergeant, Seagal suddenly appeared and declared making some new laws on set, according to his wish, just to prove that he’s in command. Knowing about his characteristic behavior, no one objected other than John. When Leguizamo laughed at him for the absurd attitude Seagal had shown a minute ago, the Sensei Seagal Taekwondo’ed John’s bum against the brick and hit him hard with his elbow.

9. George Clooney

The salt and pepper guy from “Ocean’s 13”, George Clooney, got into a royal rumble with director David O. Russell during a shoot for “Three Kings”, 1999. American film director, screenwriter, and producer, David Owen Russell is pretty well-known for his back to back three-time academy nomination and also for his bad behavior with stars like Lily Tomlin.

Five years before Russell fought a heavy fight with Lily Tomlin, he inaugurated his ‘fight with stars’ syndrome with Clooney. When the “Three Kings” shooting was going on a meagre budget, Russell reportedly took his frustration out on crew-members. The silent fight between Clooney and Russell saw an outburst on the last day of filming after Russell grabbed his walkie-talkie and threw it on the ground to show his anger at Clooney.

According to Sharon Waxman, the fight was so intense that the second assistant director quit right there. Russell started banging Clooney with his head and invited Clooney for a hand on fight encounter. Experienced Clooney then replied by grabbing his throat and made him choke like hell till other crew-members had to drag him the other way.

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8. Faye Dunaway

The drop-dead beauty Dunaway did something hilarious on the set of Polanski’s 1974 masterpiece, Chinatown, in which Faye Dunaway acted great against Jack Nicholson. During shooting, when stray hairs of the actress threatened to disturb a shot, Polanski solved it quickly by plucking away the offending strands from Dunaway’s head without even calling the make-up guys.

Moreover, Dunaway lost her calm when her director refused to let her go to the toilet. With so much disgrace, and shivering with humiliation, she urinated in a coffee cup and threw it at the Director’s face. Polanski’s later memorized her by calling her “a gigantic pain in the ass” for the awful behavior he receives from Dunaway.

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7. Gene Hackman

While shooting “The Royal Tenenbaums”, 2001, Oscar winning American actor and novelist, Gene Hackman, was not so easy to deal with. In his five-decade career, he had proven himself as a pretty much high-maintenance actor. in a heated moment on the set, Gene endowed upon screenwriter Noah Baumbach a very colourful profanity, and shouted at director, Wes Anderson, to ‘pull up his pants and act like a man’.

During a chat session after the 10th anniversary screening in New York, cast and crew members recalled their memories about how Hackman was pretty hard talent to handle. His colleagues in that movie, Anderson and Gwyneth Paltrow, both admitted, they were pretty scared to work with Hackman.

In that session, Anjelica Huston also admitted that even she was extremely scared as a co-star. She also expressed she was more concerned with protecting Wes, and said that no one involved with that film had again ever heard or seen of Gene since that movie.

6. Marlon Brando

“The Score”, 2001, was one of the best from Frank Oz. The god of gripping realism, Marlon Brando, got offended by Frank Oz’s direction because his performance as a homosexual crime master was too effeminate in that film. He refused to wear pants on the set and forced the crew to shoot him only above the waist in all the scenes.

Also, he addressed the director as “Miss Piggy” with his childish counter on the set. He even brought a note from his medical assistant doctor, claiming Brando was too allergic to Oz. Oz, just to continue the shooting peacefully, sat in a different room and gave direction through co-star Robert De Niro in an ear piece.

In 1996′s “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, Brando refused to remove an ice bucket hat from his head. He had also put on an earpiece for crew-members to feed him lines and queues while shooting.

5. Julia Roberts

Directed by procreator of dinosaurs, The Steven Spielberg, “Hook” of 1991 was a huge success in box office and also acclaimed by critics. Gorgeous Julia Roberts messed up on set with Mr. Spielberg when she was aged just 23.

According to the New York Times, she fought a heavy battle on the set with Steven, which many people believe was her emotional outburst for a cocktail of drugs, followed by repeated nervous breakdowns after her heart-breaking separation with Kiefer Sutherland.

At that time People Magazine suggested that all the celebrity to visit the set of “Hook” which included Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Prince, just to check if Julia was seriously as emaciated and emotionally fragile as she was rumored to be. The crew-members of that film gave her the nickname of “Tinkerhell” during shooting.

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4. Jennifer Lopez

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting”, 2012 is a fun-to-watch flick for couples, directed by English film director and screenwriter, Kirk Jones. Our favorite Jennifer Lopez did a splendid job as Holly at the age of 42 years. While shooting that movie, she, without any good reason, refused to speak to anyone while filming, which spread rumors and anxiety in the entire movie-making process.

After the ‘couple a while ago’ break-up with his boyfriend, Marc Anthony, she was her best to make herself out of reach of the paparazzi attention by adopting the mysterious no-talking-to-anyone way, as she told to media later on. But, just to continue the shooting and her career, she brought “personal handler” so that the crew could communicate with her.

So, if you wanted to speak to J-Lo wearing an unwritten tag of “I don’t talk to anyone on this freaking earth” on the set of that movie, then you just had to talk to her personal handler.

3. Christian Bale

The Dark Knight, Christian Bale, is known as a method actor. While shooting for “Terminator Salvation” in 2009, directed by Michigan-born Joseph McGinty Nichol aka McG, he made Shane Hurlbut famous by behaving very rudely with him.

Everyone got to know about the heated verbal exchange on the set of that movie, thanks to some of the sneaky paparazzi. But, here is the catch: Hurlbut is the man he was assaulting with profanities. Bale later talked about the director of photography, Hurlbut, of how he broke Bale’s yogi-like concentration twice by walking on set during a scene.

Bale shouted and threatened everyone to quit the movie if Hurlbut repeated the offense. Later, Warner Brothers’ executives sent the entire videotape to the film insurer. But, now we get countless parodies of the song “R U Professional” by The Mae Shi just for that scenario.

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2. Bruce Willis

“Cop Out”, 2010, which portrayed a marvellous acting partnership between the Diehard dude, Bruce Willis, and Tracy Morgan, which is directed by popular comic book writer, Kevin Smith. After releasing the movie, on 2011 “WTF” podcast show by Marc Maron, Kevin expressed the way he felt while directing Bruce.

In his words, it was truly soul-crushing. Bruce was famous for the huge amount of time he always allotted after any film for promotion to the reporters and journalists. But, this time was an exception, and he did not even bother to pose next to the “Cop Out” poster for a single photo at any Cop Out related marketing or promotional events.

Other cast and crew members witnessed some verbal fights at the release party where Kevin thanked everyone other than Bruce Willis. Not only that, Bruce was also called a prick by Kevin for his rude and extraterrestrial behavior on the set and during promotions.

1. Lindsay Lohan

When there is a controversy, there is Lindsey Lohan, for sure. No one is as (in)famous as Lohan and Hilton for their bizarre attitude. On the set of “Anger Management”, created by Bruce Helford bearing the same name of a 2003 Adam Sandler film, a 2012 TV Series on FX, Lohan showed how much out of the world she actually is.

When she was cast for “Charlie Gets Lindsay Lohan in Trouble” on Season 2, Episode 12, according to one E! News source, Lohan was a colossal pain for everyone on the set to deal with. From the very second day, when she arrived on the set for shooting, she just did nothing other than holding up the production. The entire shooting stopped because Lilo sat in her trailer and dozed: dozed stalled, and stalled heavily.

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She stalled and delayed the production every day intentionally, until she’s up and leave for her boyfriend’s concert. Holding everyone hostage for no good reason is the “Lindsay Lohan Way”. She topes the list of 10  Bizarre Behaved Celebrities.

Stars don’t depend on the planets, but the planets depend on them is the universal truth. So, however much capricious they are on the sets, they are always good to look on screen. We have to deal with the stars and their many ways of showing bizarreness, as long as they are good to our eyes and ears. So, go to the theater and enjoy them on screen….Only!!

Nowadays, if Jennifer Lawrence suggested that dragons are real and live in a secret kingdom beneath Tulsa, Oklahoma, nobody would really bat an eye. Some might even agree: #smaugisundertulsa #jlawmotherofdragons

Celebrity culture seems so broken that possessing wacky, easily debunked, and even dangerous ideologies or cultish beliefs could now be considered a prerequisite for being a celeb. Once upon a time, the public was willing to pay to simply watch or listen to the amazing things that celebrities did. Sometimes, we even bought their wares.

Oh, they can still be put on the same sort of pedestals now, but they also have to be total weirdos who must broadcast their peculiarities. Without the weirdo angle, such individuals are merely “successful people.”

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10 Lady Gaga Gets Her Ideas From . . . Within

According to famed gynecologist and part-time, award-winning pop star Lady Gaga, her creativity is housed in vaginal juices.

The “Born This Way” singer believes that women are indeed born differently from what all the relevant science suggests. But don’t simply dismiss her as a pseudoscientific nutjob. Her worry that engaging in sexual activity robs her of her creative inspiration (via her vagina) has, she claims, kept her “perpetually lonely.”

Lady Gaga seems to be locked into her theory. Frankly, one cannot help but feel sorry for her. Unless she’s right. In which case, Evian should drop their water-based model and start bottling up women’s va . . . we can’t even finish that sentence.^[1]

9 Missy Elliott And Black Cats

Plenty of people hold illogical superstitions. Some of these beliefs have seemingly practical uses—don’t cross people on the stairs (so you avoid getting bumped over the banister and breaking your neck) and don’t walk below a ladder (so you can avoid falling tools dropped by whomever is atop the ladder).^[2]

Black cats crossing your path is a bit weirder. We can point to folkloric underpinnings—allusions can be made to witches’ familiars and the devil. But what makes this superstition so weird in Missy Elliott’s case? She admits that “people think you’re crazy” for adhering to it.

She still suggests that even seeing a black cat will cause her to replan her whole day to avoid whatever consequences are linked to a cat crossing your path. She knows this is nuts but doesn’t care.

8 Kyrie Irving Is (Kinda) A Flat-Earther

Despite pulling back a bit on his initial flat Earth claims, NBA star Kyrie Irving doesn’t limit his beliefs to the ones he derived from watching too much History Channel.

Irving also considers it possible that the Federal Reserve Bank ordered the hit on JFK and that the CIA orchestrated the murder of Bob Marley. Still, if Irving helps the Brooklyn Nets to a playoff spot, fans probably won’t care if he suggests that Oprah and Cap’n Crunch conspired to take over Venezuela on behalf of the Nazi colony on the dark side of the Moon.^[3]

7 M.I.A. Thinks Google and Facebook Are Controlled By World Governments

Aren’t these companies evil enough in and of themselves? Sure, these corporations often work in conjunction with governmental bodies given the role the firms play in public discourse and data gathering. But controlled directly by world governments all while fronting as powerful corporations? Too convoluted.

This is another face of the “New World Order” conspiracy. It suggests that a small cabal of people are trying to bring about a single world government and run it as a dictatorship.

The problem with this?

Along with the near-total lack of corroborating evidence, the theory doesn’t really hang together by its own internal logic. The more exposure it gets, the more individuals, companies, organizations and governments are implicated in it.

That sounds more like a general consensus than a “cabal.” But let’s give the devil its due for a moment. If M.I.A. is right that the CIA created Google and Facebook to spy on the users or control their minds, there is an easy fix. Don’t use them. Easier said than done? Not really. Just don’t log on. Still, “Paper Planes” is a hell of a jam.^[4]

6 Randy Quaid Thinks Hollywood Is Trying To Kill Him

Randy, Randy, Randy. Okay, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt for a moment. Let’s concede that there is indeed a shady cabal of individuals who are hiring assassins to prey upon Hollywood’s brightest stars and systematically bump them off to . . . well, it doesn’t really matter, let’s just give him that.^[5]

Why him? Why Randy Quaid? And how is he privy to the knowledge that he is on the list? Was he once one of their number—an assassin perhaps? An agent? Is Randy Quaid really John Wick? Randy, Randy, Randy.

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5 Former Sugababe Mutya Buena Adds A Conspiracy Theory To Another Conspiracy Theory

Remember when boy bands sang and made their young female fans scream and cry with joy? Remember when girl bands pumped out hits that we could all dance to? Not anymore!

When you consider that a former boy band member suggests that a strange political conspiracy theory is real, it’s mildly amusing at best and mildly alarming tabloid fodder at worst. When a former girl band member then adds a new conspiracy theory to justify the claim, we’ve entered peak idiocracy.

Mutya Buena added fuel to the minor media firestorm created by ex–Take That star Robbie Williams when he claimed that the notorious American “Pizzagate” conspiracy was real.

How did she do it?

Well, Buena told the world that the COVID-19 pandemic was a smoke screen invented by whomever runs the world to distract from the fact that Hillary Clinton was on trial for cutting off a young child’s face at a Washington, DC, pizza parlor. Oh, and Buena stated that Obama was involved, too. And Bill Clinton. And Oprah.^[6]

2020, folks. 2020. Let’s hope that 2021 is the year the celebs shut up.

4 Alicia Silverstone Thinks The Birds Have The Right Idea

Maybe it isn’t advisable to spit a gob of mushed-up fava beans into a toddler’s mouth. However, some Hollywood stars, like Alicia Silverstone, would disagree. In Silverstone’s defense, Mayim Bialik, Hollywood’s resident super genius, also used this strange practice with her kids.

They considered it beneficial to chew their kids’ food first and then spit it into the youngsters’ mouths. If it’s good enough for birds, it must be good for us, right?^[7]

Humans are mammals. We are not birds. Still, are these two sentences a cogent rebuttal to this practice? Not really. Silverstone and Bialik can do whatever they want.

It is a bit odd, though. There’s no clear benefit other than allowing your babies to ingest hard-to-swallow foods that the kids otherwise don’t need until they develop teeth. So, weird and pointless? Yup. The work of the devil? Hardly.

3 Rob Lowe Believes He Was Nearly Killed By Bigfoot

Rob Lowe is a legend. He also thinks that he was nearly murdered by a legend. During a shoot for his documentary series, The Lowe Files, he and his crew trekked deep into the wilderness of the Ozark Mountains in search of a cryptid that the locals had dubbed a “wood ape.”

Despite commenting that he was “fully aware” that he sounded like a “Hollywood kook,” Lowe swore that he and his crew were threatened by the unseen legendary beast at their remote camp.^[8]

Given that 2020 is officially “The Year The Earth Went Nuts,” Rob Lowe needs to return to the great American wilderness. He must find the elusive race of giant hominids and either be an ambassador to them—normalizing relations and maybe forging a trade deal—or challenge one of their number to a death match using 1950s biker gang weapons like pipe wrenches and lengths of chain.

2 Alice Walker Praised David Icke’s Theory That Lizard People Rule The World

Former professional soccer player and sportscaster David Icke has peddled outlandish conspiracy theories for years—ever since he essentially proclaimed himself to be the messiah on the Wogan TV show in 1991. Icke’s general worldview states that an underground cabal of shape-shifting reptilian-human hybrids are orchestrating major world events to enact a nefarious plan for world domination . . . and venerable author Alice Walker agrees.^[9]

Apparently, these reptilian beings can be swapped out for “Zionists,” the real enemies of freedom according to Icke and his acolytes. This is where Alice Walker agrees with Icke. Once again, it’s all about the Jews! The current reemergence of anti-Semitism seems so telegraphed and prosaic that it never fails to dumbfound reasonable people who still hold enlightenment values. And yet . . . 

For an author whose lifework is the complex discussion of the historic plight of her people, it is incredibly sad that she should so easily fall into wholesale blame of another group, let alone a people who have been so systematically maligned and persecuted (and who continue to suffer the scourge of anti-Semitism today).

1 Terrence Howard Thinks Mathematics Is Wrong

How do we know that 1 + 1 = 2 (or maybe 1 by Terrence logic)? Because we were told at school? Suckers! Empire star Terrence Howard has a new lesson for all you sheeple out there.

Math. Is. All. Wrong!

If you follow the logic of “Terryology,” then 1 x 1 = 2. Yes, that’s right. 2! You want proof? Take it away, Terrence.

“How can it equal one?” he asks. “If one times one equals one, that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two. So, what’s the square root of two? Should be one. But we’re told it’s two, and that cannot be”.^[10]

Get it? No? Well, maybe you need to seek a degree in Terryology. From Howard University. Excelsior!

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About The Author: CJ Phillips is a storyteller, actor, and writer living in rural West Wales. He is a little obsessed with lists.

Everyone needs a little help now and then. Most of us get through life without anyone knowing about when we need to rely on others or why. If you’ve ever hired a gardener or a masseuse or an entire petting zoo to come entertain you, that’s probably your business. But the higher profile someone gets, the more likely their endeavors towards hiring someone to assist them with any random task will be scrutinized. Most often these cases will be as mundane as they are for you and me. But not always.

10. Angelina Jolie Tired to Hire a Hitman to Kill Herself

Hiring a hitman is not an everyday event. You see it in movies now and then and you may even come across stories in the news about someone falling for a Rent-a-Hitman website and trying to have their ex killed. And then there’s a story like Angelina Jolie’s.

Jolie is arguably one of the biggest stars in Hollywood though her personal life often overshadows her professional one in the media despite having won an Academy Award, several Golden Globes and SAG awards among others. Back in 2001, however, she made a stunning and unexpected revelation.

Never one to shy away from talking about her struggles with mental health issues, Jolie admitted she once attempted to hire a hitman. The target? Angelina Jolie. She was suicidal but felt that it would be less of a burden to her family if her cause of death was something else. So, rather than take her own life, she considered having someone else do it, reasoning that murder would be less traumatic. 

This was no fly-by-night idea, either. She planned how to collect the money over time so as to not be suspicious and then found and even contacted a hitman. It was the hitman himself who suggested that she take some time before making the final decision. If she still wanted to do it, he told her to call him back after a month or two. 

Obviously things changed, and she never followed through, but who knows what might have happened had her contact not had some empathy.

9. Jeff Goldblum Tried to Hire a Prostitute When He Was 13

Not many actors can stand toe to toe with Jeff Goldblum for sheer weirdness and charm. His performances are memorable and enigmatic and he just comes across like a wholly unique and curious man. And he’s been curious in more ways than one ever since he was a kid if this story is to be believed.

In 2016, Goldblum was on the Graham Norton show and shared a tale of illicit wonder from his childhood. When he was 13, he stole money from his father with the intent of hiring a prostitute. He explained that he’d hit puberty but was not entirely successful with the girls at school so he tried to improvise.

He took $5 and headed to the red light district of his town and apparently that was a reasonable amount of money at the time as he was heading back to the room with a woman when he got cold feet. He explained he had another engagement, and he’d be back later. He never went back. 

8. The CIA Hired a Magician to Write a Magic Book for Spies

The CIA has a bit of a reputation in the world at large, some of it built on their real life exploits and some of it built on fiction. But, in general, this is the part of the American government that we most closely associate with spies. There are undercover operations and breakneck exploits with international espionage and intelligence gathering. And then there’s the time they hired a magician to write a book for spies.

Rumors of a CIA manual that taught magic to spies was considered a rumor for a long time until a former agent finally dug one up. The book dates back to the 1950s and was written by magician John Mulholland and covered techniques like sleight of hand and covert signaling that might help spies in the field at the height of the Cold War.

In the ’70s, it was revealed that Mulholland’s techniques were used to secretly administer drugs, like slipping a sedative into a drink without being noticed, perhaps. And he was even consulted to help explain and evaluate the inexplicable, like a mystic who claimed he could send and receive psychic messages. 

7. San Diego Hired a Rainmaker and Then it Flooded

Bad weather can wreak havoc on any city, and catastrophic weather can bring one to its knees. And that’s just in the modern world when we have technology to help overcome almost anything. In 1915, you can imagine things were much more touch and go.

Lack of rain became such an issue for San Diego thanks to a drought in 1915 that their reservoirs were all but depleted and they needed a miracle. So they paid for one. The city paid $10,000 to a man named Charles Hatfield, a “moisture accelerator” who promised he’d make it rain.

Hatfield, a sewing machine salesman, built a 20 foot tower atop of which he burned a chemical mixture he claimed would see the clouds and cause rain. And while it sounds ludicrous, the fact that it later did start to rain so much that the city flooded probably made a lot of people believe he was the real deal. Unfortunately for him, the flood was so bad he wasn’t getting praised but blamed.

It started to rain on January 1, 1916 and kept going for literally the entire month, dumping 30 inches on the city. A dam was washed out, dozens of people died, and no one paid Hatfield because it was labeled an act of God.

6. The Mayor of Bogota Hired Mimes to Make Fun of Bad Drivers

Most of us have had experience with a politician who’s maybe a little quirkier than we’d consider normal. Just because someone is weird doesn’t mean they’re unelectable. The city of Bogota in Colombia elected a mayor who fit that bill when they gave the job to mathematician and philosopher Antanas Mockus. 

Mockus had a tall order reigning in a city of 6.5 million known to be riddled with all manner of crime. How’d he handle it? He started wearing a Superman costume. He also enacted numerous unusual and inventive policies to help change the direction of the city.

He developed a “Night for Women” and encouraged all men to stay home so women could have a night out. 700,000 women took advantage of the first one. He took a shower on TV and turned off the water in the middle of it to encourage water conservation. Water usage dropped by 14%. When people realized it was saving them money, it dropped further to 40%.

For social change his ideas were just as weird. He gave out 350,000 thumbs up/thumbs down cards to be used in public to express support or disdain for other people’s behavior. He asked people to pay 10% more taxes. He didn’t make anyone do it, he just asked. 63,000 people agreed to it. He even lowered the murder rate in a year from 80 per 100,000 to 22 per 100,000.

The mayor’s office painted stars on the road where people died in traffic accidents. By the next year, fatalities were cut in half. In part, this was achieved by hiring over 400 mimes to make fun of pedestrians and drivers alike who didn’t follow the rules of the road. It worked so well they were able to eliminate the former and corrupt traffic police force.

5. The Rolling Stones Hired Hells Angels As Security

The Rolling Stones often find a place in the top ten list of the greatest rock bands of all time and have done so for decades now. They’re certified legends of the genre and when a band gets that big, they need their own infrastructure. Security, for instance. Concerts and appearances can get rowdy.

In 1969, the Stones tried to put on their own Woodstock at Altamont Speedway with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and some others. Security for this slapdash event was to be provided by several dozen members of the Hells Angels biker gang in exchange for $500 worth of beer. 

The Stones were the headliners, and the Grateful Dead were the second last act. But the Dead bailed when they found out that the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane got knocked out by a biker during their set. So when the Stones took the stage, tensions were high. And then one member of the gang stabbed another man who was armed with a gun to death right in front of Mick Jagger.

The band didn’t see what happened, so they kept playing. By the time the show was over, three other people had died by accident and somehow four babies had been born.

4. Gary Oldman Hired a Voice Coach to Re-Learn His British Accent

Gary Oldman is considered one of the great actors of our time, and his work has required him to take on many personas. He’s often been described as a chameleon on the big screen, changing his look dramatically from roles in things like the Harry Potter franchise, to portraying Winston Churchill, to his bizarre but iconic turn as an over-the-top villain in The Fifth Element, there’s not much he can’t do. Except, apparently, always sound like a Brit.