25 Celebrities With A Shocking Criminal Past You Never Knew About (3 of 5)

Vanilla Ice

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Vanilla Ice seemed like a good name for someone like Robert Matthew Van Winkle. But only until he was found pointing a pistol at a homeless man. He didn’t seem to learn his lesson, and the rapper was booked for the third time for domestic violence, in the year 2008.

Somehow, the rapper did manage to overcome all that and managed to make it big again and currently, has a net worth of well over $20 million.

 

 

Bruno Mars

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Peter Gene Hernandez was bound to achieve success, and his parents knew this ever since he was a little kid. In fact, he was given the nickname Bruno when the singer was just a small kid. It didn’t take long for him to start his career in entertainment.

However, Mars faced one of the first roadblocks in his career when he was pulled over drunk driving in 2010. The singer did admit that it was a very important lesson in his life and showed him how quickly things can go wrong.

 

 

Matthew McConaughey

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Matthew McConaughey is one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood, and his claim to fame was the comedy flick Dazed and Confused. His charming persona along with his great comic timing earned him millions of fans overnight.

In fact, people find even his arrest to be something that was funny. In 1999, LA police went to his home after a noise complaint and found the actor dancing naked. They also found a stash of marijuana in his home.

Thankfully for him, the drug charges weren’t pressed, but he was fined $50 for the noise complaint.

 

 

Stephanie Pratt

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Before Stephanie Pratt made it big in the popular reality TV show The Hills, she was involved in some real trouble. She was caught stealing clothes worth $1300 along with her friend when she was only twenty years old.

To further complicate things, she was also found in possession of drugs during her arrest.

That led police to charge her with the offense of theft and promoting harmful drugs.

And her troubles didn’t end there. A few years later, she was booked for drunk driving.

 

 

Stephen Fry

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The University of Cambridge is perhaps one of the best schools in England and the world.

And this is where famous English actor Stephen Fry, studied and decided that he wanted to be an actor.

However, before he graduated from college, he was involved in a credit card fraud, which made him serve three months in jail. Thankfully, that didn’t end up impacting his career later. He was signed up for multiple movies and tv shows, and currently has a net worth of more than $40 million.