8 Celebrities Who Turned Out to Be Murderers

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4 – Phil Spector,

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  • Phil Spector is the legendary record producer who had a hugely prolific run, backing music legends like the Beatles, the Ramones and the Righteous Brothers.
  • Spector was a known eccentric and recluse with a lifelong gun obsession. In February 2003, following a minor altercation at a Hollywood club, Spector went home with B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. It was there he shot Lana in the mouth and emerged in a panic, telling his driver ‘I think I shot her!’
  • Spector later claimed the gunshot was self-inflicted, but numerous people testified to being held at gunpoint by Spector in the past. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, but the second found him guilty. He was sentenced to nineteen years to life. Rock on.

3 – Matthew Broderick,

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  • In 1987, Ferris Bueller and Lion King star Matthew Broderick was in a car accident that took the lives of two women: Anna Gallagher and her mother Margaret Doherty.
  • The accident occurred while Broderick was vacationing in Ireland with his Ferris Bueller co-star Jennifer Grey, who he was secretly dating. Broderick crossed lanes and collided head-on with Anna’s Volvo, killing her and her mother instantly.
  • Broderick awoke in the hospital with no memory of the incident. He was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, which entailed five years in prison, but in the end was only convicted of careless driving and fined a meagre $175.
  • The victims’ family called this ‘a travesty of justice’. Broderick made plans to meet with the family in 2003 and provide closure, but ended up backing out of this. In 2012, Broderick was featured in a multi-million dollar Honda commercial that aired during the Super Bowl, so it seems everyone’s forgotten about his history behind the wheel.

2 – Sid Vicious,

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  • In 1979, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was arrested for murdering his former-prostitute girlfriend Nancy Spungen while out of his mind on heroin.
  • The incident occurred at New York’s famous Hotel Chelsea, where the couple was staying after the Sex Pistols’ formal breakup. At first Sid and Nancy were smitten, but their relationship quickly deteriorated because of their insatiable drug habit. Before long they were physically and emotionally abusing each other.
  • On the night Nancy was murdered Sid was found passed out playing with his knife. Despite being arrested for the crime, he died of a heroin overdose before the case reached trial.

1 – O.J. Simpson,

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  • This is a controversial pick. Former footballer O.J. Simpson was found not guilty, but everyone and their dog thinks he did it. He even wrote a pot-stirring ‘hypothetical confession’ book called If I Did It.
  • On the ninth of November 1994, Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman were found brutally stabbed to death. The evidence overwhelmingly pointed to O.J. Simpson and the case became a media sensation.
  • Despite DNA evidence and a long history of spousal abuse, O.J. was found not guilty. He is, however, currently enjoying a thirty-three-year jail sentence for an unrelated robbery charge.

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