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37 Trivia Tidbits About Celebrities Behaving Badly

May 18, 2024

Thanks for being here for our last list. We just put in our two weeks because it seems like the public-relations industry is much more lucrative. So the next time a drunk Reese Witherspoon pulls the “I’m famous” card with the cops, we’ll be there, drafting up an apology to those officers and her fans. Something like, “I couldn’t help it. I was drunk and I’m famous. I deserve special treatment!”

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now ARMIE HAMMER rocks in Call Me by Your Name. THINGS FELL APART WHEN ALLEGATIONS OF HARASSMENT (AND LATER ABUSE) emerged around 2021. What makes them different, however, was the explicit, insisting, and systematic fantasies of sexual torture and even cannibalism. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now CHARLIE ROSE hosted his eponymous talk show from 1991 to 2017. НЕ WAS FIRED FROM PBS AND CBS due to allegations of sexual harassment dating from 1991 to 2011. Не tried a comeback in 2022 by interviewing a billionaire. Sheesh, holding water to climate-collapsing obscene wealth sure is a great look, Charlie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now CHRIS BROWN had a very successful R&B career. HE'S ALSO A NOTORIOUS COLLECTOR OF ABUSE ALLEGATIONS. In the years after the Rihanna fiasco, accusations of violence just keep popping up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now Stand-up comedian CHRIS D'ELIA portrayed characters such as a child molester and a sexual predator. PLOT TWIST: НЕ WAS ACCUSED OF BEING EXACTLY THAT. His agency dropped him and he lost a bunch of gigs, including a role in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (which actually sounds like a win for him, but whatever). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now JEFFREY JONES acted in a bunch of awesome movies НЕ WAS ALSO ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF, ERM, CHEESE PIZZA, and had to register as a sex offender. Не has since resumed acting, mainly on the stage and stuff like 2019's Deadwood: The Movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now DGIRO GROU ESTRONG.ORG LANCE ARMSTRONG won the Tour de France seven friggin' times, which is amazing. LIVESTRONG EXCEPT WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THAT НЕ RAN A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED DOPING RING, and took performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career. Не was stripped of his wins and banned from the sport, but hey, what would Dodgeball trivia be without him? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now MATT LAUER was the face of NBC's Today for 20 years. НЕ ALSO REPORTEDLY HARASSED A LOT OF WOMEN, abused his power, and had a button to close the door of his office automatically, as normal people do. Не was fired from NBC, and nobody has seen him since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now R. KELLY was an R&B superstar with a string of worldwide hits. ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM, THOUGH, GO BACK TO THE '90s. In 2022 he was sentenced to 30 years in jail for running a literal sex ring -which means crimes we won't even mention. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now KEVIN SPACEY was a respected character actor for over two decades. SINCE 2017, HOWEVER, HIS CAREER HAS PRETTY MUCH DIED after a bunch of abuse and harassment allegations came out- including four charges of sexual assault in the UK just in May 2022. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now For almost two decades, HARVEY WEINSTEIN was a respected figure in the indie movie industry. НЕ WAS ALSO ABUSING ACTRESSES. He'd harass them and threaten them with career death-and he indeed boycotted the careers of amazing actresses such as Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd. He's currently serving a 23- year sentence for sexual assault and rape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now WOODY ALLEN's list of classics is insane. BUT PUBLIC OPINION HAS STRONGLY VEERED AGAINST HIM IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, given allegations of abuse dating from the early '90s. His last two movies were mostly ignored, many performers regret working with him, and he has lost passion for moviemaking. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You used to be cool ALEC BALDWIN verbally assaults his 11-year-old daughter. Basically the '90s John Hamm, he was a hot movie star who was legitimately funny. At that point, he had hosted SNL 13 times. In 2007, we heard a leaked voicemail of him screaming you're a rude, thoughtless little pig to his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool ZACH BRAFF beat up a kid on Punk'd. Friend and Scrubs costar Donald Braison helped punk the lovable Zach Braff by having kids fake-spray paint his new car. Zach got a hold of a 12-year- old boy and (in his words) just started pummeling him. The segment was cut from the episode. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool SEAN CONNERY promoted hitting women. In 1987, he told Barbara Walters that slapping women isn't that bad, if the situation merits it. On what situation would merit hitting a woman, he said it should only come after a man has tried everything else. Not cool, James Bond. Not cool. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool JAMES CORDEN's lovability is all an act. Known for his cutesy teddy bear-like demeanor, he was once so rude to staff at a New York restaurant that he was banned. Dozens of stories of his rude, terrible behavior (on and off set) began surfacing, forever tarnishing his reputation. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool MEL GIBSON was once a Hollywood darling. It's near-impossible to imagine now, but Gibson was once the go-to movie star for the blockbusters, the rom coms, and the funny, lovable Lethal Weapon movies. Now, he's primarily known for drunken, explosive, anti-Semitic rants and general awfulness. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool CEELO GREEN took a page out of Bill Cosby's playbook. Green had a cool, likable persona, but he pleaded no contest to drugging and raping a woman. Then tweeted, If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! So WITH implies consent. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool ELLEN DeGENERES' shattered reputation. After BuzzFeed detailed allegations of racial insensitivity, sexual harassment and bullying, Ellen's 30 years of likability were shattered. A Twitter thread asked people to share stories of Ellen being mean, and it quickly received over 2,600 replies. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool WILL SMITH's Oscar slap. A heart breaker. Не was the Fresh Prince, Hollywood royalty, and a rapper known for not even cursing. Accosting Chris Rock over a joke at the 2022 Oscars got him banned from attending the ceremonies for 10 years, and caused the world to think a lot less of him. CRACKED — Source

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Within three months of being crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2015, Destiny Velez had an anti-Muslim rant on Twitter. Mini Apperica 2011 MISS 7 What Muslims have done is provided oil & terrorize this country & many others!!!!!! The Miss Puerto Rico Organization released her apology statement alongside the announcement of her indefinite suspension, and all her social media accounts were shut down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2013, Alec Baldwin chased down a TMZ paparazzo and called him homophobic slurs. HARRI HARR de INSTON AMERICA So MSNBC first suspended his talk show Up Late with Alec Baldwin for two weeks, then cancelled it. Funding for his radio show dried up, AT&T cancelled a paid speech of his, and his bank didn't renew their contract with his charity foundation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrity Big Brother dropped Tila Tequila for being a Nazi. Cult In 2013, she wrote a blog post titled Why I Sympathize With Hitler Part 1: True History Unveiled, calling Hitler a man of compassion. Almost two years later, when she was on the show, the production company found out about it and booted her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Since selling Minecraft to Microsoft in 2014, Markus 'Notch' Persson has devolved into paranoid white nationalism on social media. In response, Microsoft scrubbed all references to Persson from Minecraft's title page, and disinvited him from the celebration of Minecraft's 10th anniversary. — Source

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Danish film director Lars von Trier made some intolerable statements about Hitler at the 2011 Cannes film festival. I understand Hitler... I sympathize with him... And he was immediately banned from the festival by the Cannes board of directors; the ban lasted SEVEN YEARS. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Olympic gold medallist Ryan Lochte lost sponsorships after exaggerating about being robbed. SKOL - adidas Lochte told a reporter that people in police uniforms put a gun to his head and took his money. After a security camera footage showed that his account might be overly exaggerated, Lochte apologized, claiming he was intoxicated when giving the statement. The damage was done, however, as Lochte lost all his major sponsorship deals. — Source

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In 2016, Cardi В recorded an Instagram video in which she admitted to drugging and robbing men to survive. When the video resurfaced in 2019, comparisons were made between her and alleged sexual abuser, rapper R. Kelly. The backlash forced her to quit Twitter for a time. CRACKED COM — Source

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In 2017, Gigi Hadid was pulled from a Victoria's Secret fashion show in China due to a video of her making slant-eyes while holding a Buddha cookie. T GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 2017, punk band NOFX made an ill-advised joke about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. НА At least they were country fans and not punk rock fans, they said. They were immediately dropped as headliners from the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer and Music Festival, named after one of their own albums. — Source

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CRACKED MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ'S MULTIPLE DUIS. In 2007, she was sentenced to 6 months in jail for failing to complete her community service obligations, stemming from a string of 3 drunk driving offenses in 2004. — Source

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CRACKED VANILLA ICE THREATENED A HOMELESS MAN. In 1991, he was arrested and charged with battery after threatening a homeless man with a gun. — Source

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CRACKED MARK WAHLBERG WAS CHARGED WITH RACIALLY MOTIVATED ATTEMPTED MURDER. At 16, he knocked out a middle-aged Vietnamese man in the street. Later that day, he attacked another Asian man with a metal hook, leaving him blind in one eye. Не was charged with attempted murder, was sentenced to 2 years in prison, and only served 45 days. — Source

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CRACKED A DRUNK REESE WITHERSPOON PULLED THE I'M FAMOUS CARD. Her arrest was caught on film in 2013, and she drunkenly yelled to officers, Do you know my name? You better not arrest me. They did arrest her... for disorderly conduct. H — Source

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CRACKED BILL GATES WAS ARRESTED TWICE. The Microsoft co-founder was arrested once in 1975 for driving without a license and speeding. Не was then arrested in 1977 for again driving without a license, and failing to stop at a stop sign. — Source

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CRACKED VINCE NEIL OF MÖTLEY CRÜE WAS CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER. Vince Neil and Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle drove out to grab more beer for Neil's party while both were heavily intoxicated. Neil struck a car, severely injuring 2 people, and killing Razzle. Не spent less than 20 days in prison. Politica — Source

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CRACKED ALLISON МАСК RECRUITED GIRLS FOR HER CULT LEADER. The Smallville actor recruited women who would be severely mistreated by NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere. She faced sex trafficking charges but negotiated a plea deal for the lesser charge of racketeering. She served 2 years in prison, and Raniere got 120 years. — Source

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CRACKED SEAN PENN ASSAULTED A PHOTOGRAPHER. In 2010, Sean Penn was sentenced to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service for battery against photographer Jordan Dawes. Dawes needed knee surgery after the attack. — Source

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CRACKED FELICITY HUFFMAN'S SAT FRAUD SCANDAL. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud, and admitted to paying $15,000 to a service that guaranteed to boost her daughter's SAT scores. She spent 14 days in prison, got 250 hours of community service, and paid a $30,000 fine. — Source

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