Natalie Wood received a nomination for the Academy Award at the tender age of 17 for her performance alongside James Dean in the movie "Rebel Without a Cause." She was already a champion of the film business, having gained renown at the age of 9 for her work in "Miracle at 34th Street," and later starred in legendary films such as "Splendor in the Grass,"and for which she won an Academy Award. Wood's career stalled with the birth of 2 kids with Robert Wagner.

In 1981, during Thanksgiving weekend, Wood and Wagner brought actor Christopher Walken, one of Wood's co-stars in the film "Brainstorm," to Catalina Island for a sailing expedition. Wood's corpse was discovered facing down in the water in the wee hours of the morning. Although the coroner's report suggests that she drowned, reports that Wood and Wagner had a falling out over her supposed flirtations with Walken fueled speculation of foul play. Walken and Wagner remained mute for many years, which did little to calm the frenzy about Natalie Wood's rumored murder. However, Wagner reveals in his book, "Pieces of my Heart," that he was envious of Walken and felt enraged that night.

The investigation into Natalie Wood's rumored murder was revived in November 2011 when the yacht's skipper disclosed fresh evidence on the day of Wood's death. Still, as of early 2012, no other findings had been made, and Wagner or Walken were no longer considered suspects.

Thomas Ince, a director, actor, and producer, died in 1924 on the yacht of media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Ince was nicknamed the "Father of the Western", having been involved in over 100 films until his untimely death at the age of 42.

Following Thomas Ince's rumored murder, people circulated that he was stabbed and assassinated on his boat by Hearst. The reports were so widespread that the front page of the Los Angeles Times' morning edition carried the headline "Movie Producer Shot on Hearst Yacht!" According to the account, Hearst accused his lover, Marion Davies, of committing adultery with Charlie Chaplin, who'd been reportedly on board the boat at the time. When Hearst saw Chaplin and Davies together in a compromised position, he grabbed a revolver and tried to kill Chaplin, but fatally injured Ince in the process.

Hearst was a persistent guy, and the county District Attorney resisted vigorously prosecuting the case. Only one individual was interrogated in connection with Thomas Ince's rumored murder: a Hearst employee. Chaplin would eventually deny being on the boat at all. However, no more investigations were conducted, and Ince's corpse was burned, thereby closing the case.

When Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's Trials for murder and rape occurred in 1921, he was among the most expensive movie stars in Hollywood. Arbuckle reserved a complex of rooms at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel for a weekend of celebration after the signing of one of the most valuable studio agreements in history.

At one time, a youthful, unknown actress called Virginia Rappe screamed from her bed, unwell and distraught. The partygoers saw she was ill, but no one took her to the hospital, believing she was merely inebriated. Arbuckle was accused of rape and murder days later, after Rappe's death; apparently, his sexual assault (perhaps with a bottle of champagne) burst her bladder, resulting in the peritonitis that killed her.

The first two of Fatty Arbuckle's trials resulted in hung juries. Arbuckle was cleared of all allegations in the third trial due to the utter absence of evidence against him. Arbuckle's downfall, however, was due to the controversy. He was banned for a while and found it very hard to get employment once the prohibition was removed. The man was able to re-establish a portion of his old fan following – firstly under an alias, then as his genuine identity – but he never recovered his prior fame. Buster Keaton, his friend and colleague actor, stated that he died of a broken heart at the age of 46.

Woody Allen is well-known to many cinephiles as the personification of the broody neurotic, a position he has reprised several occasions in his prize-winning films. Allen's actual life, on the other hand, exploded in scandal to rival any screenplay when people found out about Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn's love affair. She was his then-adoptive girlfriend's daughter — who is 35 years his junior.

Allen, whose gift for creating razor-sharp, intellectual one-liners propelled him to success as a writer, director, and actor in the early 1980s, was romantically related to actress Mia Farrow. Farrow adopted many children, including a little girl called Soon-Yi Previn.

Farrow found naked photographs of Previn, then 21, in Allen's house in 1991. Regrettably, controversy ensued. Nevertheless, unlike many more typical Hollywood collaborations, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn's love affair has been extraordinarily successful. Allen and Previn wedded in 1997, when they were 63 and 27, respectively; the pair are still together as of 2021.

In the twenty-first century, the era of Online gossip and television shows, a celebrity tell-all may be found almost anywhere. This was not always the case, though. Christina Crawford's 1978 exposé of her mother, actress Joan Crawford, ushered in an age of sensational celebrity scoops.

Joan adopted Christina as a child in 1939, but the connection started to deteriorate as Christina matured. Joan apparently started asserting her power upon Christina and was resentful of her daughter's maturation. Christina's adolescent years were trying for the couple, but the last blow came when she chose to follow her acting career. Joan took her position in the ensemble of the opera "The Secret Storm" in 1968 until she was forced to leave for surgery. Christina never pardoned her mother, and the two grew alienated as a result. Joan passed away in 1977; Christina Crawford's autobiography "Mommie Dearest" was released over a year and half later.

Christina Crawford's autobiography is unlike any other works of its type, and its assertions that Joan was indeed a self-absorbed, heartless, and violent mother soon garnered media attention. The film version of the novel, featuring Faye Dunaway, was infamous for its campiness but contributed to the public's changing attitude of Joan. Despite the book’s enormous success, some who knew Joan directly disputed its authenticity. Myrna Loy and Van Johnson, as well as Christina's siblings Cathy and Cindy, publicly defended Joan. What was certain was that "Mommy Dearest" set the stage for an age of celebrity autobiographies.

Even when celebrities go dangerously off the rails, a publicist generally intervenes to do damage control before they start discussing, say, tiger blood. But not with Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen's public outburst in 2011 - which delivered a series of vengeful, fanciful, and apparently drug-fueled media rants – is the start of a supernova of stunning tirades dubbed his "violent bomb of truth."

Charlie Sheen is the son of the star Martin Sheen. He featured in the hit comedy series "Two and a Half Men" on CBS. However, reports started to circulate in early 2011 that Sheen was misusing narcotics to the point of being incoherent and unable to work. Sheen flouted Hollywood's standards of deference and attacked the series's exec producer, Chuck Lorre, naming him a "piece of s—-," a "troll," and a "dumb little guy."

This sparked a media frenzy as Charlie Sheen's public outburst became more unpredictable. Sheen claimed to be sober, but his evidently insane claims of being a "wizard" with "tiger blood veins" cast doubt on that claim. Sheen embarked on a lecturing and comedy tour after CBS dismissed him in late February. The tour, however, received lukewarm critical reviews and crowd booing. Within several months, when Sheen's frenzy waned, the public demand for it waned as well. Sheen seems to have put his tiger blood into peaceful dormancy as of January 2012.

Receiving a DUI and uttering a few apology-inducing statements is hardly newsworthy by Hollywood's standards. However, when arrest records indicate how one of the world's top entertainers engaged in an aggressive, anti-Semitic diatribe, this qualifies. Gibson was stopped on Malibu's iconic Pacific Coast Highway in the wee morning of July 28, 2006, after being recorded at over 90 miles per hour (144.8 kilometers per hour). Gibson first cooperated due to the presence of an opened bottle of rum in the vehicle. However, after being detained and put in the squad vehicle, he began making anti-Semitic slurs at the officer involved, who was also Jewish.

Quickly came the expected apologies, but it was far too late. The following of Mel Gibson's DUI Accident was a media frenzy, with actors, agents, and the Anti-Defamation Organization all offering their perspectives on Gibson's behavior. Hollywood has a strong history with Usa's Jewish community, and some prominent Jews have even called for Gibson to be blacklisted. Mel's father was also included in the discussion, despite the fact that he has openly rejected the Holocaust's severity.

The man received a three-year probationary term in the end, but the Mel Gibson's DUI Accident's damage to his reputation has lasted far longer. "The Passion of the Christ," his final big picture before his DUI, garnered about $370 million domestically. Following the tragedy, his first big venture generated just over $51 million. As of late 2012, the majority of his post-DUI press attention has been focused on claims of significant emotional and physical abuse made by a former lover.

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Wherever there is power, there is controversy, and neither is unfamiliar to the White House. With the most dashing President of the United States in the White House in the early 1960s, it seemed inevitable that Marilyn Monroe, America's most gorgeous actress, would make her way to Washington. Monroe attended a dinner celebration in honor of John F. Kennedy in February 1962. This was not their first rendezvous, and witnesses had noted their flirty behavior during earlier interactions. Kennedy, though, requested her phone number this time. He phoned the following day to welcome her to his Palm Springs, Calif residence; coincidentally, First Lady Jackie might be unavailable.

While the Secret Service attempted to hide proof of their discussions, suspicions about Marilyn Monroe's affair with John F. Kennedy began to circulate after that California weekend. Kennedy was a ladies' man well-known for his extramarital affairs, and other guests noticed that "it was evident that they were close and that they were spending the night together."

However, Marilyn Monroe's affair with John F. Kennedy did not end well. Monroe's difficult background left her mentally and physically fragile, and she allegedly fell considerably more profoundly for Kennedy than the man did for her. His diminished enthusiasm in her corresponded with a succession of other setbacks, and she spiraled into drink and drug addiction. She died of a heroin overdose on August 4, 1962, alone in her house. Her death was deemed a suicide by the coroner.

Hollywood is renowned for its liberalism; still, the no-holds-barred entertainment business deems some topics taboo. David Carradine's rumored murder in 2009 shone a gruesome spotlight on hitherto taboo subjects of extreme sexual behaviors. While filming a film in Bangkok, the 72-year-old veteran of the 1970s television drama "Kung Fu" was discovered dead, dangling from a thread in his hotel room closet.

Despite his wife's protestations to the contrary, reporters and law enforcement first thought that Carradine committed suicide. However, further research showed that the rope encircling Carradine's throat was also attached to his genitals, implying that he died of autoerotic asphyxiation, the technique of restricting air flow to improve a sexual experience.

Marina Anderson, Carradine's ex-wife, publicly affirmed that he had participated in "deviant" and "possibly lethal" sexual activity, bolstering the autoerotic asphyxiation theory. The controversy about David Carradine's rumored murder intensified when a Bangkok newspaper released gruesome images of Carradine's corpse hanging in a closet. While the circumstances behind Carradine's death remain unknown, the tragedy thrust sexual deviance, which is generally prohibited in popular settings, to the front of the societal awareness.

It's difficult to believe today, but prior to the advent of YouTube, footage of a celebrity engaging in questionable behavior was major news – even more so when the tape revealed an adolescent movie hero involved in sexual relations with an underage female.

Rob Lowe, a part of the infamous "brat pack" of young, beautiful stars who dominated the 1980s movie landscape, discovered this personally during the 1988 Democratic Convention. Lowe, who is still riding the wave of fame generated by his 1985 picture "St. Elmo's Fire," was at the gathering to endorse presidential contender Michael Dukakis. In a midtown Atlanta pub, he found two young females. He escorted them back to the hotel room and then filmed himself and the two engaging in sexual activities. When Lowe returned from the toilet, wo females had already stolen all money and Rob Lowe's sex tapes. He later learned that a lady was just sixteen years old.

Public ridicule and humiliation arose after Rob Lowe's sex tapes were leaked, but Hollywood never abandoned him. Lowe withstood the storm, despite the fact that his career took a little hit after the scandal's revelations. Only two years later, on"Saturday Night Live," did Lowe publicly parody the event.