Shocking Celebrity Scandals

Stars: They're larger than life. And so are their screwups.

by the More.com Editors

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Anna Nicole Smith

She died from such excessive drug use—we’re not talkin’ TrimSpa pill popping—that two doctors and her boyfriend at the time, Howard K. Stern, were tried for providing her with opiates and sedatives (they denied charges).

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Janet Jackson & Justin Timberlake

He revealed her breast to millions during their Super Bowl half- time show. Jackson caught most of the flak, and Timberlake later said, “America’s harsher on women.” The boob’s right.

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Jackson: C2C/ J. Michael Arnoldi / PR Photos; Timberlake: Andrew Evans / PR Photos

Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn

“The heart wants what it wants,” he’s said of starting a relationship with then-lover Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter. One man’s Midsummer Night’s Sex Com- edy is another’s Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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Charlie Sheen

What happened after Sheen pleaded guilty to assaulting his now estranged wife? He was sentenced to three months’ probation, forced into rehab—and named TV’s highest- paid comedy actor.

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Vanessa Williams

Penthouse published photos of her posing naked with another woman, prompting the first black Miss America to resign her title. “I felt betrayed and violated, like I had been raped,” she’s said.

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Liz Taylor, Richard Burton and Eddie Fisher

Before Brangelina and Jen, there was this Hollywood love triangle: Fisher left his wife for Taylor; Taylor left Fisher for her Cleopatra co-star, Burton. In other words, Brad, karma’s a bitch.

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Fisher and Taylor: Courtesy Everett Collection; Burton: Mary Evans/ Ronald Grant/ Everett Collection

Tiger Woods

“I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated,” Woods said in his public apology. Redundant? Yes—but so
were the dozen or so mistresses he reportedly bedded (and sexted) behind Elin’s back.

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Tonya Harding

How’s this for a Soap Opera on Ice: She denied involvement in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan plotted by her ex-husband and bodyguard but pleaded guilty to covering up the knee-whack heard round the world.

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Martha Stewart

She served five months in jail for insider trading—but perhaps the worst blow to the domestic diva’s reputation was that she didn’t win the prison’s holiday decorating contest.

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Mel Gibson

Last summer’s most explosive blockbuster starred Gibson as an expletive-hurling misogynist and Oksana Grigorieva as the ex-girlfriend who recorded his abusive rants. Call it Maverick as Lethal Weapon.