Celebrities who have killed people

[lurkur]

I thought up this topic when I saw another thread title about Rebecca Gayheart. Her killing that kid was immediately came to mind, and it looks like that's a common reaction. So how many celebs have KILLED someone? It seems like there are a lot out there.

To get it started...


From Wikipedia:
On 13 June2001, Gayheart struck nine-year-old Jorge Cruz Jr. as he crossed a Los Angeles-area street. According to the police report, the child was walking home from school and crossed the street. While several cars stopped to let him go, Gayheart swerved around them and into a two-way left-turn lane, striking the boy. Her attorney, Steven Lerman, subsequently admitted Gayheart had been using a cell phone during impact.[1]
Cruz died the next day at Los Angeles Children's Hospital. His parents, Jorge Cruz and Silvia Martinez, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on 6 August 2001 against her and Gayheart eventually paid for Cruz's hospital and funeral expenses. On November 27 2001, she pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter. She was sentenced to three years probation, a one-year suspension of her license, a $2,800 fine, and 750 hours of community service. She was also ordered to make a public-service announcement.
Gayheart was represented in the criminal proceeding by Harland Braun, who also defended Robert Blake against murder charges during the same timeframe and is defending Prison Break actor Lane Garrison against vehicular homicide charges as of 2007.
She sparked further controversy later that year when she flipped a rental car into two parked cars with her father commenting that, "I've told my wife not to let her drive any more." [2]




More recently, Brandy was involved in a fatal crash killing an older Iranian woman, pulling a hit and run.

(I lifted the images from other threads - don't be mad.)

[pacific breeze]

I think killing someone this way is a bit different than pre-meditated murder, and the law reflects that.

O.J. Simpson
Robert Blake
Phil Spector
Christian Brando
Ryan O'Neal's son (accident)

[sputnik]

claudine longet killed her ski champion lover, some guy named spider.

[japangherl]

I heard Matthew Broderick accidently killed someone with his car a long time ago. But they hushed it up.

[sputnik]

sid vicious
william s. burroughs killed his wife. i think they were playing william tell.

[Icepik]

Didn't Vince Neil killed someone?

[WickedHo]

Video killed the radio star.

[pinklilycat]

I heard Matthew Broderick accidently killed someone with his car a long time ago. But they hushed it up.

He killed a mum and daughter by driving the wrong way down a one way street. Jennifer Gray was in the car with him at the time too.

[pacific breeze]

^^It was in Ireland, as I recall.

[AliceInWonderland]

Its very true that a drunken Clark Gable ran over and killed a pedestrian and the studio covered it up. Its a story thats been disputed but its true, just like the fact that he had a kid with a very "Catholic" Loretta Young who tried to say she adopted that kid and he might have also had gay encounters on the casting couch during his early career.

[Tater Tot]

Didn't Halle Berry have some sort of driving incident? I can't remember if she killed someone or not though.

[twitchy]

Laura Bush ran a stopsign and killed her ex.

[Novice]

Shit you mean that she deliberately drove past a couple of stopped cars & ALL she got was probation & community service???? Pppppphhhhhh!

THAT'S bollox!

[Honey]

Wow....She (gayheart) was banned for just one year for killing a kid

This thread is insightful, and I think Halle Berry was involved in a hit and run

[SweetPea]

^From biography.com.

In February of 2000, Berry was involved in a hit-and-run accident that erupted into a tabloid scandal. After enduring a minor head injury, she claimed that she did not remember leaving the scene. As a result of her actions, she was put on probation and fined $13,500. The driver of the other vehicle recently filed a civil suit against Berry, and both are currently awaiting a court hearing.