Posted : August 2013
Author : Brian Abrams
1. Fay DeWitt
In 1965, comic actress Fay DeWitt (“Mork & Mindy,” “Designing
Women”) was charged with stabbing her husband, playwright Ray Allen, to death
with a letter opener.
2. Amy Locane-Bovenizer
In February 2013, “Melrose
Place” actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer was sentenced
to three years in prison after being convicted of vehicular homicide in the
2010 death of 60-year-old Helene Seeman. Bovenizer broke down in tears in the
courtroom that day, as Seeman’s family walked out embittered. They were
anticipating a maximum 10-year sentence.
3. Charles S. Dutton
In the 1970s, long before “Alien3,” actor Charles S. Dutton
served hard time for manslaughter, illegal possession of a firearm and acting
as the ringleader of a prison riot. Then, in the ’90s, he was trapped in a
short-lived sitcom called “Roc.” On Fox.
4. Lillo Brancato Jr.
Back in 2011, with 10 years left on his sentence, “The
Sopranos” and “A Bronx Tale” actor Lillo Brancato Jr. somehow managed to tweet
to his celebrity friends from jail. Brancato continues to serve his sentence
for burglary charges as well as the death of an off-duty police officer in Yonkers, New York.
5. Skylar Deleon
The actor who had a bit part on “Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers” was sentenced to death in 2009 for murdering a husband and wife on
their yacht, which he expressed interest in purchasing. The name of the yacht,
sadly, was the “Well Deserved.”
6. Rebecca Gayheart
The ’90s Noxzema girl Rebecca Gayheart ran over and killed a
nine-year-old boy while driving through central Los Angeles back in 2001. She settled a wrongful
death suit out of court with the boy’s bereaved parents. “It’s something that
is with me every day, and it will be for the rest of my life,” she told People
Magazine in 2005.
7. Matthew Broderick
While vacationing in Ireland with then-girlfriend Jennifer
Grey back in 1987, Matthew Broderick accidentally drove his BMW rental head-on
into a Volvo – leaving its passengers, a mother and daughter, dead. Broderick
had a broken leg. Grey had his blood stains on her clothes. “The juxtaposition
of that deep sorrow, the survivor’s guilt, and then being celebrated as the new
big thing just didn’t jibe. It didn’t feel good to be the toast of the town,”
Grey told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2010. “My head was never the same, my
ambition was ever the same.” Broderick, after his hospital visit, claimed in
absentia. As a result, he avoided any liabilities involving negligence.
8. Robert Blake
In 2012, “Baretta” and “Little Rascal” actor Robert Blake
told Piers Morgan about life before his wife was murdered in 2002. (He called
her “a con artist.”). The actor was acquitted for the first-degree murder
charge but later found guilty in a civil suit in 2005.
9. Lane Garrison
At age 26, “Prison Break” actor Lane Garrison was driving
drunk and on coke when he crashed his SUV and killed a 17-year-old passenger.
He was sentenced to 40 months in prison.
10. John Wilkes Booth
Thespian John Wilkes Booth killed some guy named Abraham
Lincoln back in April 1865. He was killed in a man hunt days after the
assassination.
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