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Quick Tillis
"James (Quick) Tillis, the young heavyweight [the first man to last ten rounds w...
Final Request
Shortly before his execution by firing squad, the notorious murderer James Rodge...
Red Handed?
When Congressman Gary Condit's intern Chandra Levy disappeared in 2001, many sus...
William Brodie: The Drop
William Brodie, a respected figure in Edinburgh, lived a double life as a highly...
Stoudamire Foiled
In July 2003, Portland Trail Blazers star Damon "Mighty Mouse" Stoudamire was ar...
One-Way Trichet?
Making his way toward Paris one day, the impecunious Rabelais found himself stra...
Marked Man?
Like Hemingway, Mark Twain loved to boast of his hunting and fishing exploits. R...
Kissing Bandit: What a Boob!
The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - was arrested at ...
Meals to Die For
In 2004, Brian Price, a former inmate who once worked in a prison kitchen in Hun...
The Human Circus
In 1878, the twenty-one-year-old Joseph Thomson served as geologist and natural ...
Hard Lines
Oscar Wilde's legal battle with the Marquis of Queensberry (his lover's father) ...
Blind Justice
One day Moshe Dayan, who lost an eye while fighting in the British army during W...
Half-Wits
As a former law enforcement officer, John Miller (author of The Cell) had...
Puisne Judge (long)
As a puisne judge, Bowen once adjudicated in a memorable case involving a burgla...
Nursery Crime?
Peter Lovesey, a longtime P. D. James fan, once heard the noted author speak at ...
Putin's Bus
During the CIS Summit in 2001, Russian President Vladimir Putin used a luxury Ge...
Determined Thief?
One day Zeno caught his slave stealing. Threatened with a good thrashing, he beg...
Puppet Master?
Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency after Republican spies were ca...
Colt Murder
In 1841, Samuel Colt - the inventor of the six-shooter and founder of the firear...
Little Flower
"One bitter cold day at the police court they brought a trembling old man before...
Coxey's Army
In 1893, Jacob Sechler Coxey, mayor of Massillon, Ohio, and some 20,000 men and ...
Minor Omission
In 1879, James Murray, editing what would become the Oxford English Dictionary, ...
Crime Ring
Comedian Gene Baylos once took a memorable trip to crime-infested Atlantic City:...
Tracking Device
In July 2000, a federal judge granted a request by alleged mobster Vincent Marin...
White Lie?
In 1979, a city employee named Dan White went on a rampage and killed San Franci...
Dumb Luck
"Two gangsters, James Gallo and Joe Conigliaro, set out to murder a stool pigeon...
Steve Miller Rocks! (long)
During the 1960s, Steve Miller once played at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Ric...
Randall Simon: Wienergate
During a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers on July 9...
Hans van Meegeren: Meeger E...
The art dealer Hans van Meegeren once sold a painting by Dutch master Johannes V...
Steamship Snapshot
"An Englishman was accused of murdering a friend in Rio de Janeiro harbour. One ...
De T'ing
As a law enforcement agent, author John Miller had considerable experience monit...
City Of Fear
In Januray 2002, Jacques van Gompel, the mayor of Charleoi, Belgium, hosted a de...
The Real Gabor?
In 1989, famed sexpot Zsa Zsa Gabor was tried for slapping a policeman in Beverl...
Film Critic
In February, 2000, famed film critic Rex Reed was arrested for shoplifting three...
When in Rome?
In 1960, Norman Mailer ran for mayoral office in New York City, advocating that ...
Spaghetti-O's
In March 1995 Thomas J. Grasso was executed by lethal injection for his role in ...
Miss Deeds?
With Winona Ryder facing charges of shoplifting and vandalism, many observers fo...
Urban Design
In 1905, Evelyn Nesbit married a wealthy businessman named Harry K. Thaw. The fo...
Lawford & Son
One day in the 1960s, the NYPD received a call that Peter Lawford's son was stan...
Mona Lisa
One day in 1911, an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Peruggia, angered by in...
George Bernard Shaw: Finger...
On his ninetieth birthday, George Bernard Shaw was visited by Scotland Yard's ce...
Kiefer Sutherland: Good Sam...
One day in October 2002, Kiefer Sutherland stopped his car at the side of the st...
SOLAR POWERED CLOTHES DRYER
The legendary con artist Steve Comisar got his start at an early age. His first ...
Brad Pitt: Malibu Canyon
According to "Inside Edition" (and an L.A. County sheriff's report), while filmi...
Gary Miller: It's Miller Time!
In October 1997, ESPN's Sport Center host Gary Miller, who reportedly ent...
James Caan: Sports Camp
James Caan always had some interesting friends. "He said we were gonna go and se...
ODB: Ol' Dipsy Bastard
"One time we was hanging out," the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA recalled of his cousin Ol'...
Mutual Admiration Society?
When fellow artists Amedeo Modigliani and Maurice Utrillo first met, each paid t...
Crime Fighter
Robert Barbers fame as a crime fighter led to numerous medals and other honors, ...
Fielding Questions?
When British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visited California in 1946, Mr. an...
Mayhem
In March 2003, a Norwegian death metal fan named Per Kristian Hagen filed suit a...
Alfred Packer Grill
In 1977, the United States Department of Agriculture dedicated its Washington ca...
Phone Master
At the turn of the millennium, legendary hacker Calvin Cantrell earned $9,000 se...
Bobbies on the Beat
"After making an impassioned plea for more bobbies on the beat, Martin Thomas, S...
Grover Cleveland: Pro and C...
President Grover Cleveland, though constantly at war with the Senate, got on wel...
Olivier, PI?
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, who co-starred in such films as Fire Over Eng...
George Gallup & the Telepho...
Like many polls conducted before the presidential election of 1948, George Gallu...
Pardon?
One day Frederick the Great conducted a tour of inspection of a prison in Berlin...
9-11
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, U.S. Attorney Gener...
America's Most Wanted?
As founder of the Hell's Angels, Sonny Barger's extensive involvement in 'extral...
Jackie Gleason: Gleason's G...
While performing at a club in a seaside town early in his career, Jackie Gleason...
King Size Justice
On April 6, 2000, the following news item appeared in the ...
Elderly Englishmen
Winston Churchill was once informed that a man over seventy-five years of age ha...
Dave Matthews: Tour Bus Inc...
In 2004, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sought more than $70,000 in dama...
Venus in Chains
One day in 1907, the Australian actress and star swimmer Annette Kellerman ("The...
Interior Decorator
While in high school, Ice-T hung out with the Crips (a notorious L.A. street gan...
GG
For years, Gucci was as famed for its founding-family fueds as for its fashionab...
Great Dane
Judge Robert Lymbery once rejected an order that a 168-pound Great Dane be destr...
Barren Shore (long)
"One day there came in to London Opinion an excellent story signed by one...
Hose Job
Allan McFee (Max Ferguson's legendary sidekick on the CBC radio show "Rawhide") ...
Good One
In 1997, Robert Downey Jr had his probation revoked (after yet another drug-fuel...
Fox in the Hole?
Charles Fox once asked George Selwyn whether he had attended the execution of a ...
Off Target?
While traveling to a meeting with Colonel House (Harold Wilson's adviser) one da...
Tommy Chong: Tommy Bong?
In 2001, Tommy Chong, famed for his roles as a pot-head in the ...
Cracked Scull
"While playing at Swansea," the music-hall comedian George Robey once recalled, ...
Herb Brooks: Amex Card
An American Express card belonging to the wife of legendary "Miracle on Ice" hoc...
Generosity James?
"On one occasion Jesse James and his gang sought food and rest at a lonely farmh...
Najeh Davenport: Rookie Sym...
Beginning in the 1990s, the NFL (like Major League Baseball and the NBA) began r...
Grand Theft Blotto?
Brad Renfro, as famed for his long rap sheet (underage drinking, cocaine possess...
Frankly Amazing
"Even in jail Frank Costello baffled the law. He continued to smoke English Oval...
Sharp Shooter
"He [George Jessel] took a shot at a doctor once--the one who Norma [Talmadge, h...
Frank Zappa, Porn Star
In 1963, poverty-stricken Frank Zappa opened a soft core porn-production office....
The Terminator
O. J. Simpson was among the actors considered for the title role in James Camero...
Ned Kelly: Such... a Moron
"In 1880, after years on the run, [the notorious Australian bushranger Ned] Kell...
Candid Camera Robbery
While setting up for a "Candid Camera" segment in a bank one day, Peter Funt (th...
C-Murder
"Yesterday in Louisiana," Conan O'Brien announced in September 2003, "the rapper...
Darrell Issa: Fraudster
In 1972, future Republican California congressman Darrell Issa and his brother B...
Britney Spears: Touring New...
While driving through New Hampshire in April 2004, Britney Spears' tour bus was ...
Merle Haggard: Dumbest Heist
"A petty criminal when he started performing, Haggard vowed not to let his music...
George W. Bush & John Ashcr...
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed John Ashcroft to serve as U.S. Attor...
Bob Probert: DWI
After crashing his motorcycle into a car in 1994, Chicago Blackhawks left winger...
John McCain: Identity Theft
In 2004, John McCain's wife was horrified to learn that a group of criminals had...
Johnny Unitas: First Fidelity
In 1981, former Baltimore Colts star Johnny Unitas did a series of radio spots t...
James Joyce, Banker?
While laboring as an impoverished young novelist, James Joyce once applied for a...
Balzac: Wealth of Laughter
One night, a thief who had broken into Balzac's tiny apartment to pick the lock ...
Gillian Anderson: Class Clown
On the eve of her high school graduation (from City High School in Grand Rapids,...
William Blake, Psychic?
"When William Blake was fourteen years old, his father planned to apprentice him...
Mutual Admiration Society?
When fellow artists Amedeo Modigliani and Maurice Utrillo first met, each paid t...
Rififi
Jules Dassin was delighted by the domestic success of his classic 1955 heist fil...
Mae West
In 1926, police raided Mae West's Broadway show "Sex" and arrested her on vice c...
Screwed?
Jonathan Wild masterminded several robberies using organized gangs of thieves (m...
Brazilian Prison
In August, 2002, Brazilian Judge Sueli Zeraick Armani de Menezes visited Taubate...
Willie $utton
The notorious bandit Willie Sutton was once asked why he had decided to rob bank...
Natasha Lyonne: Hollywood E...
In the wee hours of August 28th, 2001, Natasha Lyonne's rented Dodge left the ro...
Noble Gesture?
One day at the height of the French Revolution, a group of Lafayette's admirers ...
Kiss This!
After her arrest and conviction by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for tax ev...
104
The world record for the most illegal polygamous marriages is held by Giovanni V...
X-treme Stupidity
In June 1999, BASE jumper Frank Gambalie III parachuted off the famed El Capitan...
Alfred Packer
During the heavy winter of 1874, the famous nineteenth-century Colorado pioneer ...
Sean Penn: Butcher, Baker, ...
In 1987, Sean Penn served 32 days in jail for assaulting an extra who had taken ...
Feeling Lucky Punk?
Clint Eastwood once had a special security system installed in his Jeep. The ala...
Rush Limbaugh: Rush in Rehab
"If people are violating the law by doing drugs," rabid Republican radio host Ru...
Long Shot
Elfego Baca, one of the world's longest golf holes (a rocky three-mile stretch o...
Disturbing the Peace
One day in 1797, James Hetherington was arrested and charged with appearing "on ...
Standard Fare?
Early in their careers, director Paul Thomas Anderson and some friends made a mo...
Tupac Shakur: Bad Credit?
Wendy Day (of Rap Coalition) once visited Tupac Shakur in Clinton Prison (45 min...
Down In It
One day during the production of the video for "Down In It," the apparently life...
Moon Landing Conspiracy?
In September 2002, Nashville-based documentary filmmaker Bart Sibrel ambushed le...
Capone
Unable to convict Al Capone on gangland charges, Federal prosecutors and the US ...
Coolio Under Pressure?
In 1998, rapper Coolio was arrested for allegedly stealing $900 and assulting a ...
Johnny Depp & the Mark Hotel
In September 1994, Johnny Depp trashed his $2,200-a-night Presidential suite at ...
Asleep at the Wheel
In 1987, Kenneth Parks employed a novel defense to explain why he had murdered h...
Foo Fighters: Jailhouse Rock
On tour in Australia in 2000, Dave Grohl and the other Foo Fighters rented moped...
Dennis McKinley: Being a Ca...
One day in June 2003, Jay Leno reported that Arizona Cardinals fullback Dennis M...
Pacifist
During the 1960s, Robert Lowell, having embraced pacifism, refused to serve his ...
Mafioso Monkey
One day during the production of Marked Woman (1937), producer Hal B. Wal...
Novello & the Vatican
While researching his role as "Father Guido Sarducci" on "Saturday Night Live" o...
Super Freak
In the early 1990s, Rick James spent three years in California's Folsom prison (...
Gold Card
One day in January 2003, famed hedge-fund manager Edward Lampert was abducted by...
Crime and Punishment (Arkan...
The members of the Arkansas State Legislature once found themselves debating how...
Airheads?
Among the passengers on Swiss International Airlines Flight #8 in May 2002 was J...
Driven to Murder?
In January, 2001, some seven years after O. J. Simpson was acquitted of murderin...
Alec Baldwin: Gillette Defense
One day in 1995, Alec Baldwin caught a celebrity photographer named Alan Zanger ...
Guy Pearce: Pinched Van
When Guy Pearce was fifteen years old, he and a friend "pinched" a car. "We were...
Russian Optimist?
In Anton Chekhov's story "The Malefactor," a fisherman, hoping to use them as we...
EasyJet Getaway
In April 2003, Major Charles Ingram and his wife were found guilty of cheating t...
Running Footman
The Duke of Queensberry once interviewed several candidates for "running footman...
Bottomley
In 1922, after years of fraud and evading the law, Horatio Bottomley was finally...
Jim Morrison: Mr. Mojo Risin'
In March 1969, Doors frontman Jim Morrison was arrested for exposing himself ons...
Punch Up with Leno's Dad
Jay Leno's father, a former boxer, once resolved to punch out a much younger man...
David Dinkins: Fine Lawyer?
New York mayor David Dinkins once faced allegations that he had failed to pay hi...
Crack Response
Famed crackhead Marion Barry was, not surprisingly, a questionable politician. D...
Pakistani Intelligence
One day in February 2003, Javed Ghumman, the director general of Pakistan's Inte...
Corporate Fraud
In a presidential address to the nation in October 2002, George W. Bush called f...
Purple Shamrock
In 1946, James Curley ("The Purple Shamrock") won his bid for reelection as Bost...
Peter Buck: Whiteout?
In 2002, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck was arrested for an air-rage incident in which he a...
Jack Nicholson: Significant...
One day in 1994, Jack Nicholson pulled up at a stop light, screamed "You cut me ...
Usual Suspects
O. J. Simpson's vow to "find the real killers" (after his acquittal on charges o...
Convention Speech
"George W. Bush spoke for 58 minutes at the Republican Convention," Craig Kilbor...
Whitney Houston
In January 2000, Jay Leno reported that Hawaiian security guards had discovered ...
James Brown: Mr. Dynamite
After an argument with his wife Adrienne one day, James Brown threw all of her f...
James Brown: Blind Justice?
In 1998, James Brown was arrested for possession of marijuana. "I have bad eyes,...
Big Bolden
In 2001, Darryl Bolden was sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping three mass...
Lucky Cynic
After disposing of several old-time Sicilian gangsters, the legendary New York m...
Criminal Masterminds?
As young men, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel seemed destined...
Keith Richards: Smack on th...
In 1977, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was arrested after an ounce of ...
Homies
In 1992, Tupac Shakur visited his old Bay Area neighborhood in Los Angeles to at...
Free Turkeys
In 1995, despite Tupac Shakur's legal troubles (for various gun-related offenses...
Al Capone: Par for the Course
Legendary gangster Al Capone was once shot on a golf course (at Olympia Fields i...
Pat Burns: Domestic Dispute
Don Cherry once asked Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Pat Burns, a former cop, to...
Dangerous Proposition
In February 2000, O. J. Simpson announced plans to marry again. "O.J.'s girlfrie...
Bethany Sloshed
In March 2000, Jay Leno reported that Bethany Tosh, Miss Northeast Arkansas, had...
Fried-Chicken Homicide
"In the newsroom of the Miami Herald, there is some disagreement about wh...
Jeffrey Shyster
Jeffrey Archer's overweening ambition was apparent from his days as a student at...
Sedition Act
In 1798, Vermont's Matthew Lyon made history, becoming the first and only U.S. C...
Heath's Last Words
Shortly before his execution, the notorious British murderer Neville Heath was o...
Pothead Prime Minister
One day in October 2003, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced that, a...
Vincenzo Curcio: Brison Break
"Following the escape from jail by Antonio Lara in Texas, a mafia hit man has fo...
Crooked Kennedy
Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father and the patriarch of the Kennedy clan) became one o...
Wanda Baucus: War of the Ro...
"I stand by her 110 percent and she has my full support," Montana State Senator ...
Robson Robbed
One day in October 2003, "Birds of a Feather" star Linda Robson stepped out of h...
Transport Minister
One day in November 2003, reporters equipped with hand-held radars clocked trans...
Nutty James Brown
"At first, the madness of King James came in subtle spurts. He refused to speak ...
Jay Mohr's Magnum
"I have my .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson next to my bed," Jay Mohr once revealed. "...
Robert Mitchum & the Riffraff
Robert Mitchum's penchant for drinking and carousing nearly ended his $3,000-a-w...
Jackie Stallone & the Maryl...
Jackie Stallone (Sylvester Stallone's mother) earned a measure of fame for using...
Mike Tyson: Thug Defense
In 1992, boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape and imprisoned for three years. ...
John Pitner: Automatic Mist...
In 1997, Washington State Militia leader John Pitner (who famously tried to "pro...
Ozzy at the Alamo
In 1982, perpetual stoner Ozzy Osbourne was busted in San Antonio for urinating ...
Dean Mildren: Absolutely St...
During a hearing in March 2004, Australian judge Dean Mildren declared that he w...
Pavel Bern: Tourist in Prague
In January 2005, the Czech daily newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes, inspired by...
Pablo Escobar: Drug Runner
After Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped from a minimal security priso...
Peter Gallagher: Borschke V...
"I was doing 'Grease' on Broadway," Peter Gallagher once recalled. "I lived on 5...
DEA: War on Hemp
"The Bush Administration has lost another battle in its War on Drugs," ...
Terry L. Neal: Offshore Sol...
In February 2001, Mastermedia published The Offshore Solution, Terry L. N...
Anthony Comstock
"In 1873, Anthony Comstock founded an organization called the New York Society f...
Ulysses S. Grant: New York ...
The American Museum of Natural History, Claudia Roth Pierpont once observed, was...
Mark Cuban: Great!
In August 2003, Kobe Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year old girl in a Colora...
Local Improvement Project
One year, each member of England's Staffordshire City Council was given £10,000 ...
Ingrid Parewijck: Pocket Ge...
One day in July 2004, fuckingmodel Ingrid Parewijck flew from France to New York...
Julia Stiles: Young Gangster
"I fancied myself a gangster," Julia Stiles once recalled of her junior high sch...
Dick Gregory: Santa in the ...
"I never believed in Santa Claus," Dick Gregory once recalled. Why not? "Because...
Thomas Wainewright: Aesthete
"When a friend reproached [Thomas Wainewright] with the murder of Helen Abercrom...
Bono: Doctor of Law
In 2004, U2 frontman Bono received an honorary doctor of law degree from the Uni...
Stephen Pound: Direct Democ...
As an exercise in direct democracy, in late 2003 BBC's Today program asked its s...
Marlon Brando: Scene Stealer?
During the production of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), director John F...
Ted Alexandro: Mardi Gras M...
Ted Alexandro once visited New Orleans for Mardi Gras. "I'm walking down Bourbon...
Robert Mitchum: Prison Life
In 1948, Robert Mitchum was arrested for marijuana possession and spent several ...
Martha Stewart: Paper Money
"Martha Stewart earned $43 million today," Conan O'Brien announced one day in No...
Téa Leoni: Christmas in New...
In 2004, Tea Leoni spent Christmas with her family in a hotel in New York. "My [...
Tara Reid: Freeway
Tara Reid: "I have a Porsche and I was driving and there was no one on the freew...
Michael Jackson: Fingerprints
"The police have found Michael's fingerprints and the 13-year old boy's fingerpr...
Just a Little Miffed
"A few years ago, Time decided to run a cover story on racial tension acr...
Jeffrey Archer: Libel Suit
"[In 1996] the press reported [Jeffrey Archer's] involvement with a prostitute, ...
Paul Haggis: Hollywood Carj...
Crash (2004) was inspired by an incident which screenwriter Paul Haggis e...
Gerhard Brinkmann: Mug Shot
One day in February 2005, 88-year-old Gerhard Brinkmann encountered a thug in a ...
Björk: Welcome to Nutville
While passing through Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok in 1996, Bjork attacked a ...
Lenny Bruce: Con Artist
As a struggling young comedian, Lenny Bruce employed a variety of schemes and ru...
Jay Leno: Drunken Heckler
After making his first "Tonight Show" appearance in 1977, Jay Leno continued to ...
Superfan
In October 2005, Eric James Torpy, on trial for armed robbery and shooting with ...
Oliver Cromwell: Savage Pra...
"In the 17th century, an edict was passed by Lord Protector of England, Oliver C...
Bean's Two Bits
During the late 19th Century, Roy Bean was the proprietor of the Jersey Lily sal...
Little Fouler?
One day New York mayor Fiorello "Little Flower" La Guardia, convinced that they ...
More Dumb Criminals
As a young punk, Joey Ramone seemed destined for a life of crime. Fortunately, h...
Roux's Rues
In January 2002, a $200,000 shipment of rare wine was confiscated during a routi...
Witless Protection?
In the early 1990s, famed mob informer Joseph ("Joe Dogs") Iannuzzi was dropped ...
Road Kill
While out riding his motorcycle one day, Allman Brothers guitarist Dickie Betts ...
Rod Stewart & True Britt
In True Britt, Britt Ekland's tell-all bio, the author dished the dirt on...
Martha Stewart: Perfectly M...
In June 2003, Martha Stewart addressed the court during a hearing examining her ...
Louis XV: Pardon?
The Comte de Charolais, King Louis XV's cousin, was noted for his eccentricity. ...
Gates Firing?
In June 1992, former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chief Daryl Gates was ...
Cheating Death?
According to the legendary professional poker player Johnny Moss, life as a prof...
Woody Allen: Burgled
One day, Woody Allen was dismayed to discover that his Manhattan apartment had b...
Short Order Cook
During a Prohibition raid one day, the celebrated hostess and singer Texas Guina...
The Godfather
Many readers of The Godfather have suspected that Mario Puzo's knowledge ...
NYPD
"Honest" John Hylan is often cited as the least competent mayor in New York City...
Precious Irony
One day during his tenure as mayor of New York, Ed Koch sought to clarify his po...
Ultimate Humiliation
In 2001, 23 Chinese pirates were caught in the act on the high seas. Before thei...
Twiggs Defense
One night in the 1970s, the Allman Brothers arrived at a club in Buffalo, New Yo...
Come Together
One day in the mid-1960s, legendary LSD pioneer Timothy Leary decided to run for...
George Raft: Hollywood Dump
"In the 1940s three New York jazz musicians who were trying their luck in Califo...
Bonnie Hunt: Tough Call
Bonnie Hunt: "One time in the old neighborhood my mom was home alone and somebod...
Supermodels Kick Ass
Before pursuing a career as a Victoria's Secret model, Lorri Bagley had a differ...
Parenthood
In 1995, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, famed for his stage-diving gui...
Model Owner?
Henry Ford was once amused to receive a letter from an unlikely fan. "While I st...
Tennis Elbow
John Youens, former archdeacon and chaplin to Queen Elizabeth II, was once broug...
Pedigree Pals?
When Linda Blair flew to Florida to attend a funeral service for former members ...
Marilyn Manson: Genitals on...
Marilyn Manson was once asked to recall the wastedst thing that had ever happene...
World's Stingiest Man
Jack Benny was once confronted by an armed robber. "Your money or your life," th...
Debs, Undaunted
In 1918, the noted pacifist Eugene Debs made a speech condemning World War I and...
Rail Pass
Although the special rail passes which Henry Watterson and other American journa...
Hammer & Gavel
"An adolescent thief in North Carolina won't soon forget his sentence. Judge Don...
White Lie
What did famed con artist Arthur Ferguson once "lease" to a wealthy cattle ranch...
Young Seth Green
"My friend Breckin Meyer and I were really bad kids," Seth Green once recalled. ...
TRAIN ROBBERY!
On January 31, 1874, Jesse James and his gang robbed the St. Louis-Texas express...
Chivalry?
The trial of the notorious French serial killer Henri Landru was a sensation, wi...
James Earl Ray
Gerald Posner - author of "Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassinati...
Thick As Thieves
In August 2003, comedian and ex-con Mark Whiteley took to the stage at the Edinb...
Stiff Sentence
"When Albert Brown appeared for sentencing on charges of selling dope, Judge War...
Fox Outfoxed
In September 1784, Charles Fox accompanied his brother to Moorfields in London t...
Deryck Whibley & the ebay Guy
Sum 41's Deryck Whibley was once followed all over Manhattan by a so-called "eba...
Thai Entrepreneur
In July 2003 Thai "massage parlour" entrepreneur Chuwit Kamolwisit complained th...
Kissing Bandit
The actress 'Morganna' - better known as "the Kissing Bandit" - was arrested no ...
Mary Benny: Diamond Jockey
Jack Benny's wife Mary once lost a beautiful diamond ring during a robbery in a ...
Tyson
Shortly after Mike Tyson's rape conviction and imprisonment, writer Wallace Matt...
Capital Argument?
New York Senator James Donovan was once embroiled in a debate concerning capital...
Cheating Baker
Every day Poincare bought bread from his local baker. Though the bread was suppo...
Matthew McConaughey: Bongo Boy
In October 1999, police responded to a disturbance call at Matthew McConaughey's...
Made in Manhattan
Paul Muni's performance as Tony Camonte in Howard Hawks' classic gangster movie ...
F---in' Busted
During a concert in 1975 in Memphis, Tennessee, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler ...
Rancid Youth (long)
Rancid's Lars Frederiksen was often asked about his wild youth. "Oh Jesus," he o...
Coldplay & the Paparazzi
One day in 2003, a paparazzo named Jon Lister caught Coldplay frontman Chris Mar...
Derrick Coleman
"It is unfortunate that I can't function as a normal person in today's society,"...
Big Apple
While walking along a New York street one day, Cal McCrystal was confronted by a...
Freak Show?
A lawsuit was once filed against WXVO-FM in Knoxville, Tennessee, on behalf of a...
Spazzie Grubman
On July 8th, 2001, the publicist Lizzie Grubman visited the Conscience Point Inn...
Freddie Hospitality
One night, police visited future Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and his mates to...
Moderation Management?
In June 2000, Audrey Kishline, the founder of Moderation Management (MM) - an al...
Errol Flynn: Booty Call?
In November 1942, Errol Flynn (who called under-aged women 'jail bait' and 'San ...
Public Enemy Number One
Shortly after his designation as "Public Enemy Number One" by the FBI in 1933, t...
Young Dutch Schultz
The legendary gangster Dutch Schultz, New York's murderous "king of beer" during...
Straw Man
At the age of fifteen, the Dust Brothers' Mike Simpson landed his first job work...
Kappfjell? (long)
Having jumped from several mountains and buildings around the world, BASE jumper...
Jane Fonda: Pill-Popper
Jane Fonda was once arrested after allegedly kicking a police officer. Although ...
Something Rotten?
In 1772, Johann Friedriche von Struensee was executed in Denmark for crimes agai...
Pierre Belon
Despite being warned of the danger to Christians, the French naturalist Pierre B...
War Criminal?
In 2002, Christopher Hitchens published a curious book (entitled ...
Richard Nixon: Tricky Dick
Shortly after the Watergate story broke, Richard Nixon was asked by British tele...
Classic Capone
The funeral of famed Chicago gangster Dion "Deany" O'Banion in 1926 was attended...
Good Customer!
In 2002, Winona Ryder was found guilty of theft and vandalism following a shopli...
Sam Waksal: Amazon Wish List
In 2003, ImClone founder Sam Waksal began serving a seven-year-and-three-month t...
Streets of Philadelphia
One day during his tenure as mayor of Philadelphia, with the city's murder rate ...
Lucky Luciano
In 1936, legendary New York gangster Lucky Luciano, dubbed "the czar of organize...
Pardon?
In 1830 President Andrew Jackson issued a pardon to a man (George Wilson) who ha...
Goon Squad
While Ben Hecht was working on the script for Scarface (1932), word got a...
Murder in Clubland
In 1996, party promoter Michael Alig and his fellow club kids murdered a small-t...
Up Eeyore's?
With crime on the rise in 2003, Lord Irvine, Britain's top law officer, was shar...
Teflon Don
Three times during the 1980s, John Gotti, having seized control of the Gambino c...
Plan B
In 1985, Paul "Big Paulie" Castellano, the boss of the Gambino crime family, fel...
Grim Voyeur
John Waters, whose favorite childhood memory was of seeing real blood on the sea...
Tightwad
In June 1995, Hugh Grant paid a prostitute named Divine Brown $60 for oral sex. ...
Capital Punishment
In 1950, a witness named John Christie testified that John Evans had killed his ...
Young Ed Burns: Fake ID
When Ed Burns was in the ninth grade, he and two of his mischievous friends trav...
Mock Jury
A mock jury was once convened in Elkton, Maryland, to try a famous criminal case...
Oval Office
In 1977, Crosby, Stills and Nash performed for President Jimmy Carter at the Whi...
Kantner Cocktail
During a Jefferson Airplane show in Miami one evening, guitarist Paul Kantner wa...
What a Guy!
One day in 2003, British comedian Guy Venables was arrested following an inciden...
Pothead?
One day in the mid-1970s, Bruce Willis was stopped by a cop while walking down a...
George Carlin: Carlin Guara...
In the early 1970s, George Carlin was arrested for possession and cultivation of...
Shop At Home
The sports card dealer and NWA Wrestling announcer Don West, famed for his role ...
Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix...
Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix arrived for the Woodstock festival in 1969 in a heli...
Victor Feuger's Final Meal
Shortly before his execution for kidnapping and murder, Victor Feuger requested ...
Lo Blow
One day in December 1999, Jennifer Lopez and Puffy Combs were arrested after a g...
Catharine Lorre: Close Call
One night Peter Lorre's daughter, Catharine, was stopped by two policemen. When ...
Arthurian Chivalry
The myth of Arthurian chivalry was celebrated most memorably in Sir Thomas Malor...
Cat Burglar (long)
"During the first days of his presidency, Coolidge and his family had not yet le...
Martha Stewart: Inside Job
One day in August 2003, Jay Leno announced that Martha Stewart was convinced tha...
King of Spain
Shortly after the publication of his Satanic Verses - and the subsequent ...
Diana Ross DWI
On December 23, 2003, Diana Ross was charged with drunk driving after she was sp...
Capone Quiz
Which of the following were said by notorious gangster ("Public Enemy #1") Al Ca...
Curious Question
Before moving to the Miami Herald, the legendary crime reporter Edna Buch...
Clooney's Vault
In 2003, George Clooney bought a home on lovely Lake Como in Italy. Among the co...
Turing's Tits
"In Manchester, [the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing] told police investigat...
Capone's Vaults
"In April 1986 the WGN TV station got a scoop. Amidst much ballyhoo they announc...
Kobe's T
In August 2003, Kobe Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year old girl in a Colora...
Looking for Trouble
In May 1956, Sonny Liston beat up a man in St. Louis and stole his gun. He was l...
Spitting Image
"In 1998, St. Petersburg, Florida, police used DNA to nab the notorious "Duck Ro...
Ray Liotta & the Horse's Head
Ray Liotta, famed for his roles in such mafia films as GoodFellas and ...
Wynter Tan
"I was in this gorgeous area on the Emerald Coast [in Florida]," Sarah Wynter on...
Al Sharpton Surveillance Video
In 2002, HBO announced plans to air a 19-year-old FBI surveillance video starrin...
Congratulations Gooden
In 1987 Dwight Gooden entered rehab after testing positive for cocaine use. He w...
Martha Stewart & ImClone
Shortly after being charged with insider trading of ImClone stock, Martha Stewar...
Errol Morris: Thin Blue Line
"Errol Morris' fame as a documentarian of odd human behavior gained national att...
Dick Gregory: Shoplifting Team
"We had an integrated shoplifting team," comedian activist Dick Gregory once rec...
Phil Spector & Lana Clarkson
On February 3, 2003, the legendary record producer Phil Spector was arrested on ...
Switchfoot & U2
In 2003, Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman met with U2's Bono to help out with an ...
Silvio Berlusconi: Organize...
"It was only a question of time before [Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...
Ice Cube: Rape Suspect?
In August 2003, rap music legend Ice Cube was not amused to learn that the Chica...
Guenther Kaufmann Murder We...
In November 2002, German actor Guenther Kaufmann was found guilty of murdering h...
Zbigniew Rybczynski: Oscar ...
In 1983, Polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski won an Oscar for Best Animated Shor...
TSOL & the Recall Election
In 2003, TSOL frontman Jack Grisham ran as an independent in the California gube...
Quentin Tarantino's Parking...
Director Quentin Tarantino was once jailed for refusing to pay his parking ticke...
Crazy Gau
In January 2004, Austrian MP Walter Gau (a member of the regional parliament in ...
Patrick Ewing & Kobe Bryant...
While testifying in a mob trial, Patrick Ewing once confessed that he had receiv...
Al Sharpton & the IRS
After ruining the life of a New York prosecutor falsely accused of raping Tawana...
Anthony Pellicano: Audio Ex...
"[Private investigator Anthony Pellicano] made his reputation during John DeLore...
50 Cent Justice
While driving with some friends near Miami Beach one day in February 2004, a Flo...
Omar Sharif: Resistance Hero?
In 2003, the 71-year-old Omar Sharif spent a night in jail after assaulting a po...
Banana Rapist
"Canaan Banana was Zimbabwe's first black president, serving as head of state fo...
Martha Stewart: Martha Stew...
Among the critical incidents in the Martha Stewart case (involving alleged insid...
Michal: Bubblebrain
"I almost got arrested once," the singer/songwriter Michal once recalled. "I pou...
Steven Spielberg: Shyster?
"Amblin' [Steven Spielberg's production company] was financed to the tune of $15...
Young Tupac Shakur: Life of...
In April 1969, Tupac Shakur's mother, a Black Panther named Afeni Shakur, was ar...
Young Thom Yorke: Playing C...
"As 15-year-olds, Colin Greenwood and [Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke] weren't fr...
Eminem: Fingerprint
On June 3, 2000, Eminem spotted his wife, Kimberly, in a parking lot at the Hot ...
Pink & Linda Perry: M!ssund...
While looking for someone to produce M!ssundaztood, Pink found the phone ...
Vince Neil: Drunk Killer
On a beer run in 1984, Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil hit another car while dri...
Dionne Warwick: Dopey Defense
In 2002, Dionne Warwick was busted after baggage screeners at the Miami Internat...
DMX: Criminal Genius?
"In 2001, DMX served 11 days in Erie County Correctional Facility following an a...
Bill Bresnahan: 9-11: Shyst...
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, a former Philadelphia police ...
James Caan: Character Witness
"Dubious friendships cast James Caan in a bad light. In 1985, at the trial of a ...
Martha Stewart: Ask Martha
"It has been reported that Martha Stewart's advice column no longer goes by the ...
Mark Chmura: Sexual Assault
Pro Bowl tight end Mark Chmura was once charged with sexually assaulting his 17-...
Derek Jeter: Rookie Hazing
"I got Marcus Thames pretty good two years ago," New York Yankees captain Derek ...
Paul Hubert
"In 1863, Paul Hubert, of Bordeaux, France, was convicted of murder and sentence...
Billy Bob Thornton: Raising...
Billy Bob Thornton was born to rock and raise some hell. On one occasion, young ...
Mark Wahlberg: Ironic Assault
In 2001, Mark Wahlberg was sued by a man he had allegedly beaten up outside New ...
Plutos: Russian Business (l...
"When Aleksei Panteliushin turned up at Plutos, his sausage factory in northern ...
Diana Taurasi: Topper
While living in Argentina, future University of Connecticut Huskies star Diana T...
Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Mas...
"From 1920 to 1931, Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria was top Mafia don in New Yo...
George Clooney: Hellfire He...
George Clooney was once questioned by Australian police after putting a paparazz...
Shannen Doherty: Anger Mana...
In September 1997, Shannen Doherty was sentenced to anger-management counseling ...
Robert Downey, Jr: Hasty Pu...
"After surviving teasing about his less memorable films, a therapy session with ...
Paul McCartney: Sing Sing S...
In January 1980, Paul McCartney spent ten days in prison after an arrest for can...
Just Kaws?
Though legendary graffiti artist Kaws "bombed" whole freight trains and defaced ...
James Naismith: Basketball ...
"The sport of basketball is 113 years old today," Jay Leno reported on December ...
Orlando Bloom: Necklaces
Over the years, Orlando Bloom made many necklaces using favorite articles. Among...
Kristen Johnson: Dressing R...
One day "3rd Rock from the Sun" star Kristen Johnson heard a sound in her dressi...
Elayne Boosler: Down by the...
Elayne Boosler: "Men and women perceive crime differently. Once when I was walki...
Josh Duhamel: Fake ID
"I made a fake ID in college when I was still twenty," Josh Duhamel once recalle...
Kevin Spacey: Sob Story
While walking his dog early one Saturday morning in 2004, Kevin Spacey was appro...
Larry David: Carjacking
One day Bonnie Hunt and Larry David met in Hollywood to discuss a script. "We're...
Corot: Forgeries
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot ranks among the greatest victims of forgery in the h...
Oscar Goodman: Defence Lawyer
In November 2005, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman suggested that people who deface...
Dennis Kozlowski: No Mercy
In September 2005, Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced to a grueling state-prison ter...
Spoken from the Heart
"'Twas Sir Everard Digby's ill fate to suffer in the Powder plott [the plot to b...
Olmos In Character
Edward James Olmos, noted for his role as the laconic Lieutenant Castillo on tel...
Gary Coleman: Diff'rent Str...
The actor Gary Coleman once made an unscheduled appearance on a reality televisi...
Margaret Sanger
In 1917, Margaret Sanger founded her first birth-control clinic. The result? She...
Bichasbootleguz
Because many rappers and DJs first establish their reputations through homemade ...
Mungo Park?
While exploring a particularly wild region of Africa, Mungo Park happened upon a...
Booty Back
In 1812, James Montgomery's Sheffield home was broken into and a treasured inkst...
"Boss" Tweed
During the 1870s, Thomas Nast famously campaigned against corruption in New York...
Exaggeruggerio
In 1998, celebrity chef David Ruggerio - the owner of the famed Manhattan restau...
Wireless Marvel (long)
One day in 1910, after chopping his wife Cora's head off and throwing it into th...
Kidnapped
While working on a film in Bogota one day in March 2003, Colombian director Emil...
Fishburne's Father
Laurence Fishburne's father had plenty of ways of keeping his son out of trouble...
Last Request
"When I was writing In Cold Blood," Truman Capote once recalled, "I was p...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: ...
A classic episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" aired on television in 1958. "L...
Whisky Wheelbarrow
"The first mechanical road vehicle, forerunner of the automobile, was
a steam-p...
Oh, Henry...
O. Henry, charged with embezzling funds while working as a bank teller in Austin...
Hero's Return
Stephen Pile, founder of the "Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain," once bes...
Saving Face
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown (whose turbulent relationship was marked by scre...
Appetite for Destruction
As a teenager, future Guns 'n' Roses frontman Axl Rose was jailed more than twen...
Young Louis Armstrong
At the age of thirteen, Louis Armstrong was sent to a New Orleans 'waifs home' -...
Italian Politics
When Silvio Berlusconi became Prime Minister of Italy in 2001, he continued to r...
Jeffrey Archer: Repeat Offe...
On July 21st, 2003, Jeffrey Archer was released from prison on parole after serv...
Young Seann William Scott
Seann William Scott was once mugged by gangbangers on his way to a "Baywatch" au...
Robert Ligon's Donut Fraud
In January 2004, Robert Ligon began serving a 15-month sentence for labelling 53...
Libertines: Brothers in Arms
Shortly after his release from prison in October 2003, Libertines frontman Pete ...
Martha Stewart Living Behin...
One day in 2002, David Letterman reported that Lizzie Grubman, the publicist who...
The Mob in Cuba
In 1956, legendary Universal Studios boss Lew Wasserman visited Cuba with severa...
DMX: Interview
In 2001, DMX - a former thug from the School Street projects in Yonkers, New Yor...
DMX at JFK
In August 2004, DMX was arrested in a parking lot at John F. Kennedy Internation...
Evangeline Lilly: Lost
One day while Evangeline Lilly was filming an episode of "Lost" in Oahu, one of ...
Jason Priestley: Deer Defense
After crashing his car into a pole one day in 1999, Jason Priestley was arrested...
Old Complaint
An elderly offender was once severely reprimanded by Landis and sentenced to fiv...
Suicide Bomber?
Following the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001,...
Goldie Hawn's Porsche
"Goldie Hawn isn't Hollywood's most observant star," the ...
Edsel
"Ford produced the car of the decade in 1957 - the Edsel. Half of the
models so...
Shawcross Principle
At the Nuremberg trial in 1945, Hartley Shawcross presented the prosecution case...
Great Escape
The largest number of convicts ever to escape from a maximum security prison is ...
Mark Wahlberg: Rude Awakening
At 16, a drug-fueled Mark Wahlberg robbed a beer store, assaulting a Vietnamese ...
Coal Burning
When Nathan Birnbaum was growing up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, New Yorkers ...
Jude Law: Best-Dressed?
During the filming of Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003) in Romania...
White Slave Traffic Act
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson was once convicted of violating the "White Sla...
Sheriff of Bannack
Though Henry Plummer, the Sheriff of Bannack (in the Idaho Territory, now Montan...
Hot Tip
One day in August 1797, police detective G. Walsh received a hot tip from an inf...
Scared Straight
During an appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" one evening, Edward Burn...
Bungling Burglers
Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel once reflected upon their mis...
Olmos Crazy
Edward James Olmos, noted for his role as Lieutenant Castillo on television's "M...
Young Tyson
Mike Tyson seemed destined for a life of crime. He was first arrested for armed ...
Nutty Manson
Charles Manson was no fan of Frank Sinatra's music. Before he was caught (after ...
Snoop Doggy Bagg
Snoop Doggy Dogg was fired from his first job as a grocery bagger. "I was better...
Pardon!?
"The biggest and most difficult decision in my life was the Nixon pardon," Geral...
Vince Neil & the Moonlight ...
In 2003, former Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil was charged with battery after a...
Winona Ryder: Walking Pharmacy
According to the L.A. deputy district attorney who prosecuted Winona Ryder for s...
Maura Tierney: Hardcore Cri...
While driving in L.A. one day, Maura Tierney was pulled over for a moving violat...
Nutty Lee Lewis
On November 22, 1976, Jerry Lee Lewis drove his Rolls Royce to Graceland and, at...
Action Jackson: Dead Meat
"[In 1961] the Chicago mob suspected that William 'Action' Jackson was snitching...
Fellows Well Met?
Despite having clinched a guest role on television's "Ally McBeal" after his rel...
Elvis Fashion
"In Las Vegas, thieves broke into the Elvis-A-Rama museum and stole $325,000 wor...
Alan Dundes: Theory of Jokes
University of California at Berkeley "Joke Professor" Alan Dundes was once asked...
Courtney Love: Microphone S...
In March 2004, Courtney Love was arrested and charged with assault and reckless ...
Djibril Cisse: Halloween Mask
While sitting in their car one day, Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse and a friend...
Giovanni Tedesco: Perugia Fans
Perugia captain Giovanni Tedesco was once dismayed to learn that his car had bee...
Shawn Fanning: Poetic Justice
"A big company is thinking of buying Napster and the 19-year-old kid who owns it...
Charlotte Church: Platform ...
In October 2005, Charlotte Church visited the Soda Bar in Cardiff, Wales. Two me...
40 Days and 40 Nights?
Josh Hartnett: "My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy...
Ira Louvin
"The marriage of Faye Cunningham to 1950s star Ira Louvin, half of country-gospe...
Pound of Cure
Long before he had a license, Paul Anka regularly borrowed his mother's car (wit...
Hard Knock Life
In May 2003 (shortly after completing a three year probation for a 1999 stabbing...
Shakedown?
In 2002, Tom Sizemore found himself facing misdemeanor battery charges for alleg...
Iranian Cinema
In November 2002, Gohar Kheirandish, a veteran star of Iranian cinema, presented...
Liu Jinbao: Routine Transfer
"On May 28th [2003], only a day before its shareholders' meeting, the Bank of Ch...
Novel Idea
In 2003, Johann Christian Lotter and Reinhard Rael Wissdorf, convinced that the ...
Gary Gilmore
In January 1977, notorious serial killer Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing s...
Shoot Out
By the time they were finally gunned down on May 23rd, 1934, Clyde Barrow and Bo...
Rector of Stiffkey
Chess has attracted its share of misfits, chief among them the defrocked Reveren...
Bloodgood
Chess has attracted its share of misfits, chief among them Claude Bloodgood, a f...
German Politics?
One day in June 2002, former German health minister Andrea Fischer appealed for ...
Grand Prix
In May 2003, Colombian Grand Prix driver Juan Pablo Montoya had his licence susp...
Joshing Around
In August 2002, "Ed" star Josh Randall was arrested for smoking crack with a hom...
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Murder
In 1975, Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered by a young hustler wh...
Airport Jeopardy!
While checking in at an airport one day, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek slipped an...
False Note
Many anecdotes concern Arturo Toscanini's famous temper. During one rehearsal of...
Massage Parlor?
"In December 1973, and again in January 1974, when he was a [Cincinnati] council...
Opie and Anthony
In August 2002, a Virginia couple was arrested for having sex inside St. Patrick...
Great Escape
In 2003, drug barons Jose Ramon Hidalgo (from Colombia) and Luis Mauricio Palaci...
Christian Slater: Deadly We...
In December 1989, Christian Slater was arrested in West Hollywoood after leading...
King of the Road
Cut to the spring of 1970, when Stephen King was twenty-two years old... ...
Downer
Robert Downey Jr.'s first brush with the law came in August 1996, when he was st...
Black Jack Ketchum: RIP
"Black Jack" Ketchum was hanged for murder without remorse. "I'll be in hell bef...
Pioneering Director
"When I was 19 at NYU, I got caught by the school security smoking pot in my roo...
Glen Campbell: Private Perf...
"Country singer Glen Campbell, 67, was arrested in Phoenix after allegedly drivi...
Mugshot
One night in 1988, Juliette Lewis was arrested for being underage in an undergro...
Worm
"Dennis Rodman was arrested for driving under the influence," Jay Leno reported ...
Gentleman Highwayman
"Duval's exploits were the subject of many ballads and pamphlets around the time...
Reid Rage
"I was running late for an audition," Tara Reid once recalled, "and doing, like,...
Who'll Buy My Memories
In 1990, the IRS seized Willie Nelson's homes and other property and began aucti...
Young Jeremy Piven
"I once got busted for drinking under age," Jeremy Piven recalled. "The cops han...
Jennings Lang Shooting
In December 1951, a famous, much-loved producer staked out his wife Joan Bennett...
Johnny Cash & the Wildlife ...
One day in 1963, Johnny Cash visited a national wildlife refuge in California. C...
Wu-Tang Klepto
In January 2002, the Wu-Tang Clan's Wu appeared as a guest on "Last Call with Ca...
James Joseph Minder: Bandit...
In January 2004, James Joseph Minder was elected chairman of Smith & Wesson (whi...
Fela Kuti: Crime Record
Nigerian band leader, saxophonist and political activist Fela Kuti was rarely se...
Wes Scantlin: Losing Control
In 2002, Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin was arrested in Los Angeles on dom...
Ol’ Dirty Bastard
"In March 1999, cops found three crack vials in the (license plate?free) vehicle...
Kid Rock: Stock Boy
To supplement his income in his early days, Kid Rock briefly worked at a car was...
Lenny Kravitz: Second Career?
In 2001, Lenny Kravitz was wrongfully apprehended for a bank robbery in Miami. "...
Jeb Bush: Mr. Tough-on-Drugs
In 2002, Noelle Bush was caught with crack in a rehab clinic. "The President's n...
Laurens van der Post: Night...
"It is every author's nightmare to lose the single manuscript copy of whatever b...
Mark Hofmann: Mormon Murders
"In the 1980s a man named Mark Hofmann hatched an ingenious plot: to create [for...
Christian Slater: Touching ...
In September 2005, Christian Slater saw a "forcible touching" charge dismissed. ...
20th Century Titan
In its special edition on "Builders and Titans of the 20th century," Time...
Wu-Tang
The Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man once described himself as a "terrorist on Hallowee...
African Passport
In the late 1940s, Leonard Howell, a Caribbean religious leader, was jailed for ...
Reckless Driver
In 1985, Matthew Broderick was involved in a fatal crash while driving in Irelan...
Dutch Schultz
When the legendary gangster Dutch Schultz, New York's "king of beer" during the ...
Rapid Fire Golfer
While playing the game of his life at Olympia Fields in Chicago one day, legenda...
Indian Moguls
In 1856, a British civil servant named William Herschell was entrusted with the ...
Vitalij Djomocka: Gangster ...
After becoming upset at the unrealistic portrayal of gangster life on Russian te...
Keen Criminals
As a kid growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, Jamie King and her mischievous friends o...
Venus Room
During the 1970s, James McCartney "Big Jim" Anderson developed a dodgy associati...
Publicity Stunt
In 1993, seven years after leaving Van Halen, David Lee Roth was busted in New Y...
Ron Davies's Moment of Madness
On October 27, 1998, Welsh MP Ron Davies had a "moment of madness" on Clapham Co...
Jamie Foxx & the Pepper Spr...
"Jamie Foxx must fancy himself quite the celebrity, because when a security guar...
Film Financing Vegas Style
"Financing film production was often a problem, forcing directors at
times to b...
Murder Weapon
In 1968, the actor Ramon Novarro was murdered by male hustlers in his Laurel Can...
Johnny Cash's Personal Stash
One day in 1965, Johnny Cash was busted while trying to cross the Mexican border...
Minor Hiccup?
As a young woman, Sinead O'Connor became a thief and was sent to reform school. ...
Quick Thinking
Alison Lohman's role in Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men (as Nicolas Cage's ...
Fabolous Timing
"Rapper Fabolous wins hands-down for the most arrests in a 48-hour period," the ...
Britney Spears: Cultural Mi...
In January 2003, Britney Spears sought a restraining order against Masahiko Shiz...
Kathleen Hanna & Courtney Love
Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna first met Courtney Love backstage on the first...
Eddie Vedder: Looking Normal?
In November 2001, as a "small political protest" against the bombing of Afghanis...
Lucky Luciano: Softy
"In 1949, when Mob leader Lucky Luciano was banished from Rome and sent back to ...
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