Written out to Mr. Roper, a bad check is the stuff of Three’s Company comedy; in real life, it’s no joke. Before she was famous, Somers bounced checks worth $100— and paid the price.
After a paparazzo tipped police off to her strange auto behavior (she was running over a pair of sunglasses repeatedly), Locklear was charged with driving under the influence of prescription meds.
Cops busted the British heartthrob for engaging in oral sex with a Hollywood prostitute. Consider it Divine Brown intervention: "Last night I did something completely insane," he said.
Does her clenched fist suggest she was arrested at a Vietnam War protest? Yes— but she was actually nabbed at an Ohio airport, where officials mistook her vitamins for smuggled drugs.
Both Electra and her then-husband, former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman, were booked for domestic violence. He’s 6’6’‘ and she’s 5’3’‘, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors?
Officers flashed their lights; she kept cruising (perhaps because she had a small stash of pot in the car). "My wife is an excellent driver," said her hubby at the time, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.
The Microsoft mastermind was snagged for a traffic violation in 1977, at age 22. Is it just us, or does the smirk on his face say Whatevs: In 10 years, Forbes will declare me a billionaire?
The infamous 1970s captive turned convict served two years for joining her kidnappers in armed robbery. "I had been abused," she’s said.
"I was very good at doing what I was told."
The antiwar activist whose son died in Iraq, was booked for blocking a road near George W. Bush’s Texas ranch. "I want to ask the president, Why did he kill me son?" she said.
Photo courtesy of: McClellan County Sheriff's Office
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and became a civil rights icon. This shot was taken in 1956, when Parks was arrested during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotts.
Her three young sons and husband were in the car when she rolled it down a California freeway embankment while under the influence. Fortunately, nobody was injured; just some unfortunate growing pains for the kids.
