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

Bill Gates

One of the most shocking names you’ll find on this list is Bill Gates, the world’s finest businessman. Before he made it big, Bill Gates was booked way back in 1975 for speeding and driving without a license.

Thankfully, that didn’t end up deciding his future and he is now widely appreciated for all the charity work he does. Recently, his organization has been working on looking for new ways to create sustainable, clean energy.

Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo is a popular actor who has also been nominated for Oscars and usually plays those macho guys on screen. While he does portray a drug lord or a gangster on screen many times, not many people know that he was a gangster in real life!

Trejo has spent well over ten years in jail for a multitude of crimes such as robbing a liquor shop, being part of a shootout, and selling drugs to name a few. And guess what? Even after so much, he did make it big in his life later.

“I’d rather shoot for the moon and miss the stars than shoot for the gutter and make it,” he once said.

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg is a renowned Hollywood actor who was born in 1971 in Massachusetts.

The actor started inviting trouble ever since he was a teenager. When he was about sixteen, he was busted in a failed attempt to steal alcohol from the convenience store. Public records accessed later also reveal that Wahlberg punched a man while he was trying to get rid of the police.

Wahlberg finally got rid of his criminal past and made it big as an actor, which was a dream come true for him.

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. needs no introduction today, as the actor is known all around the world as ‘Iron Man’. Downey’s father was also a filmmaker, while his mom was a renowned actress. In fact, it seems he never felt bored while growing up in the city of New York.

He has revealed that he started drug abuse quite early in his life, and in fact, he smoked marijuana for the first time when he was only six.

This continued for a while and Downey found himself entangled in a number of illegal acts for many years before he finally got himself arrested. In 1996, the actor was booked for driving under the influence of alcohol and for possessing drugs such as crack, heroin, and cocaine.

Once released from prison, the actor did bring about a change in his life and has never looked back since then as he continues to be one of the most popular actors in the world right now.

Will Smith

Will Smith, one of the most famous actors worldwide, was starting to get famous when he was only a sixteen-year-old. After trying his luck in the music world, Smith made up his mind to try and become an actor.

Soon, he bagged a role in the popular sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air just within a year after his arrest. A year prior to that, he was booked for attacking a man that almost made the victim blind.

Since then, the actor has never looked back and continues to be a popular actor around the world.