Actors with criminal records

Often, when we think of criminals, and people who have a criminal background of any kind, we never stop to consider that our beloved Hollywood big screen stars could be one of them. Even if we read such things in the newspaper, we quickly forget about it or sometimes don’t even believe it. This is exactly why we are here; to remind you of the criminal pasts of some of your favorite Hollywood sweethearts. So let’s begin!

Ex criminal entertaining our children – Tim Allen

Good looking, sometimes sarcastic (but in a good and funny way), almost criminally entertaining, star of oh so many fun shows, and a voice behind the warmest children characters. Above mentioned are all the qualities of an actor who is adored by many – Tim Allen. So how does an attribute of an ex criminal associates with this guy. Well, the story of his criminal past starts in the October 1978 when Allen was 25. Young Allen has been arrested for possessing over 650 grams of cocaine, and after turning informant against the other criminals in the industry of drug trafficking, he got a relatively light sentence of 3-7 years, eventually being paroled less than 2 and a half years after his incarceration. Now you must be thinking “Oh thank God, that is all!”, but that is NOT all. Allen’s criminal past has a sequel that happened in 1997 when he was arrested for DUI, and sentenced to a year’s probation along with a course of alcohol rehab. Don’t worry that is all. Allen has since then put his criminal past behind him, and if family-friendly corporations such as Disney allowed him to voice Buzz, then it would be foolish if we didn’t forgive him.

Criminal on and off the big screen - Danny Trejo

Yeah, Danny Trejo looks like a badass, and he has made his career playing one. In almost every movie this actor has appeared, he has always been a hardcore criminal, but did you ever know that this guy is a real deal. Yes, you read well, Danny Trejo is a hardcore, to the bone criminal, with serious criminal past that includes drugs, robbery, and even murder. Trejo is a straight-up, legit, genuine thug, which led to him being sentenced to 11 years jail time for an assortment of drug, murder and robbery charges. His acting career happened by accident when he was released from the jail in 1972. At that time he was 28 year old young man with an epithet of criminal stuck to his name. Still, he managed to overcome his drug addiction, and he eventually found work on the Oscar-nominated movie Runaway Train, training Eric Roberts for a boxing scene. Producers of the movie loved him so much, and his presence was so strong so got a small part in the movie. From there on, there was only sugar and candy in his life, and he left his criminal past behind for good.

Another famous actor with drug related crimes - Robert Downey Jr.

To anyone who reads papers or online news, criminal past of one of the most famous Hollywood actors, Robert Downey Jr., is a well known fact. He had legal difficulties throughout the 1990s for cocaine possessions. Robert was also arrested countless times for heroin, marijuana and weapon offences. Still, we couldn’t judge him, as he explained his criminal tendencies with a tearing story of how his father made him addicted to drugs when

Princess Fraud Story

From a servant girl to a Princess, using fraud

If the title you just read suggests a fairy tale, and you are expecting to read one, you should stop reading right now. Still if you want to read a very interesting scam story about a cobbler’s daughter who managed to fool the nation, you are in the right place.

Story about Princess Caraboo

On Thursday April 3, 1817, a strange woman appeared in Almondsbury, a small town near Bristol in Gloucestershire, England. A cobbler in England met an apparently disoriented young woman with exotic clothes who was speaking a language no one could understand. Because she appeared to have been wandering the countryside alone, either lost or destitute, she was sent to see the Overseer of the Poor, who, in turn, sent her to Knole Park, home of Samuel Worrall, the Magistrate of the County. It was a dangerous time in England to be a homeless foreigner wandering the countryside. The British had recently defeated Napoleon and sent him into exile on the island of St. Helena, but the British authorities were still worried that foreign agents might be present in the country gathering information or trying to foment revolt. Anyone found guilty of disturbing the peace was in danger of being shipped to Australia or even executed. However, because the girl was very pretty, gracious and her hands were soft, not those of a laborer, the Worralls found her very interesting, and they tried really hard to help her and discover who she really is. This was very difficult, since she spoke a language they have never heard before. The girl soon began to collect the sympathies of the locals, and they brought many foreigners who tried to find out what strange language the lady was talking, until a Portuguese sailor “translated” her story: she was Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean. She had been captured by pirates, then jumped overboard in the Bristol Channel and swam ashore. Carboo being royalty meant a great deal for Worralls and they immediately announced her presence at their house to the newspapers, and soon all of England knew about Princess Caraboo. Few coming weeks were real easy street for princess Caraboo, she lived in a grand style, spending her days dancing, fencing, climbing trees, praying to her god 'Alla Tallah,' entertaining the numerous visitors who came to see her, and swimming naked in the lake when she was alone. She acquired exotic clothing and a portrait made of her was reproduced in local newspapers and this exotic royalty became favorite with the locals.

The truth always comes out

Exotic or not, the portrait of Caraboo, published in the Bath Chronicle daily paper, was the thing that brought the end to her royal living. A woman called Mrs. Neale recognized Caraboo, and revealed that Caraboo had recently been employed as a servant at her house, where she had entertained the children by speaking a strange, nonsense language of her own creation, and that her true name was Mary Baker, daughter of a cobbler in Witheridge, Devonshire. Caraboo reluctantly admitted that she was a fraud. Caraboo has actually been a servant girl in various places all over England but had not found a place to stay. She had invented a fictitious language out of imaginary and gypsy words and created an exotic character. Things got even more bizarre when it was discovered that she was actually the cobbler’s daughter. Princess’s Caraboo reign lasted very shortly, but years after her story was the basis of the 1994 movie "Princess Caraboo", written by John Wells.

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