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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 29-July 5
Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 29-July 5: June 29: Actor Gary Busey is 81. Actor-turned-Congressman-turned-radio host Fred Grandy is 77. Drummer Ian Paice of Deep Purple is 77. Singer Don Dokken of Dokken is 72. Singer Colin Hay of Men at Work is 72. Actor Maria Conchita Alonso is 70. Actor Kimberlin Brown ('The Bold and the Beautiful,' 'The Young and the Restless') is 64. Actor Sharon Lawrence ('Fired Up,' ″NYPD Blue') is 64. Actor Amanda Donohoe is 63. Actor Judith Hoag ('Nashville') is 62. Singer Stedman Pearson of Five Star is 61. Actor Kathleen Wilhoite ('Gilmore Girls,' 'ER') is 61. Actor Melora Hardin ('The Office') is 58. Broadway actor Brian D'Arcy James ('Hamilton') is 57. Actor Christina Chang ('The Good Doctor') is 54. DJ and rapper DJ Shadow is 53. Actor Lance Barber ('Young Sheldon') is 52. Musician Sam Farrar of Maroon 5 is 47. Actor Luke Kirby ('The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel') is 47. Guitarist Todd Sansom of Marshall Dyllon is 47. Singer and TV personality Nicole Scherzinger (Pussycat Dolls, 'The Masked Singer') is 47. Comedian Colin Jost ('Saturday Night Live') is 43. Actor Lily Rabe ('American Horror Story') is 43. Singer Aundrea Fimbres of Danity Kane is 42. Actor Camila Mendes ('Riverdale') is 31. June 30: Actor Nancy Dussault ('Too Close For Comfort') is 89. Singer Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) is 81. Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke is 74. Actor David Garrison (' Children') is 73. Guitarist Hal Lindes of Dire Straits is 72. Actor David Alan Grier is 69. Actor Vincent D'Onofrio is 66. Actor Deirdre Lovejoy ('The Wire') is 63. Actor Rupert Graves ('The Madness of King George') is 62. Bassist Tom Drummond of Better Than Ezra is 56. Actor Tony Rock ('Living Biblically') is 56. Actor Monica Potter ('Parenthood,' ″Boston Legal') is 54. Actor Molly Parker ('House of Cards') is 53. Actor Lizzy Caplan ('Masters of Sex,' ″Mean Girls') is 43. Guitarist James Adam Shelley of American Authors is 42. Country singer Cole Swindell is 42. Singer and 'American Idol' winner Fantasia Barrino is 41. Actor Sean Marquette ('The Goldbergs') is 37. July 1: Actor Leslie Caron is 94. Actor Jamie Farr is 91. Dancer Twyla Tharp is 84. Actor Genevieve Bujold is 83. Singer Deborah Harry of Blondie is 80. Actor Daryl Anderson ('Lou Grant') is 74. Actor Trevor Eve is 74. Stage actor Terrence Mann is 74. Singer Fred Schneider of The B-52′s is 74. Singer Victor Willis of the Village People is 74. Actor Dan Aykroyd is 73. Actor Lorna Patterson ('Airplane!') is 69. Actor Alan Ruck ('Spin City,' ″Ferris Bueller's Day Off') is 69. Singer Evelyn 'Champagne' King is 65. Singer Michelle Wright is 64. Actor Dominic Keating ('Star Trek: Enterprise') is 63. Actor Pamela Anderson is 58. Bassist Mark Pirro of Polyphonic Spree is 55. Actor Henry Simmons ('Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' ″NYPD Blue') is 55. Rapper Missy Elliott is 54. Actor Julianne Nicholson ('Law & Order: Criminal Intent,' ″Ally McBeal') is 54. Actor Melissa Peterman ('Young Sheldon,' 'Reba') is 54. Actor and writer Jill Kargman ('Odd Mom Out') is 51. Drummer Bryan Devendorf of The National is 50. Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens is 50. Actor Thomas Sadoski ('Life in Pieces') is 49. Actor Liv Tyler is 48. Actor Hilarie Burton ('One Tree Hill') is 43. Actor Lea Seydoux ('Spectre,' ″The Grand Budapest Hotel') is 40. Actors Steven and Andrew Cavarno ('Party of Five') are 33. Singer Chloe Bailey of Chloe X Halle is 27. Actor Storm Reid ('12 Years a Slave,' ″A Wrinkle in Time') is 22. July 2: Actor Robert Ito ('Quincy') is 94. Actor Polly Holliday ('Alice') is 88. Writer-director Larry David ('Curb Your Enthusiasm,' ″Seinfeld') is 78. Actor Saul Rubinek ('Warehouse 13,' 'Frasier') is 77. Keyboardist Roy Bittan of the E Street Band is 76. Actor Wendy Schaal ('American Dad,' ″It's a Living') is 71. Model-actor Jerry Hall is 69. Actor Jimmy McNichol is 64. Bassist Dave Parsons (Bush) is 60. Actor Yancy Butler ('Witchblade') is 55. Violinist Melodee DeVevo of Casting Crowns is 49. Actor Owain Yeoman ('The Mentalist') is 47. Singer Michelle Branch is 42. Actor Vanessa Lee Chester ('The Lost World: Jurassic Park') is 41. Actor Nelson Franklin ('The Millers') is 40. Actor Ashley Tisdale ('Hellcats,' ″High School Musical') is 40. Actor Lindsay Lohan is 39. Actor Margot Robbie is 35. July 3: Actor Kurtwood Smith ('That 70s Show') is 82. Country singer Johnny Lee is 79. Writer Dave Barry is 78. Actor Betty Buckley is 78. Actor Jan Smithers ('WKRP In Cincinnati') is 76. Actor Bruce Altman ('Blue Bloods') is 70. Talk show host Montel Williams is 69. Country singer Aaron Tippin is 67. Synthesizer player Vince Clarke of Erasure is 65. Actor Tom Cruise is 63. Actor Thomas Gibson ('Criminal Minds,' ″Dharma and Greg') is 63. Actor Hunter Tylo is 63. Actor Connie Nielsen ('Gladiator') is 61. Actor Yeardley Smith ('The Simpsons') is 61. TV chef Sandra Lee is 59. Singer Ishmael 'Butterfly' Butler of Digable Planets is 56. Keyboardist-guitarist Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies is 56. Actor Shawnee Smith ('Saw,' ″Becker') is 56. Actor-singer Audra McDonald ('Private Practice') is 55. Actor Patrick Wilson (film's 'Aquaman,' TV's 'Fargo') is 52. Country singer Trent Tomlinson is 50. Actor Andrea Barber ('Full House') is 49. Actor Ian Anthony Dale ('Hawaii Five-0') is 47. Comedian Julie Klausner ('Difficult People') is 47. Singer Tonia Tash of Divine is 46. Actor Olivia Munn ('The Newsroom') is 45. Actor Shoshannah Stern ('Jericho') is 45. Singer Elle King is 36. Actor Grant Rosenmeyer (TV's 'Oliver Beene') is 34. Actor Kelsey Batelaan ('Nip/Tuck') is 30. July 4: Actor Eva Marie Saint is 101. Actor Ed Bernard ('Police Woman,' ″White Shadow') is 86. Actor Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu in 'It's A Wonderful Life') is 85. Singer Annette Beard of Martha and the Vandellas is 82. TV personality Geraldo Rivera is 82. Percussionist Ralph Johnson of Earth, Wind and Fire is 74. Percussionist Domingo Ortiz of Widespread Panic is 73. Singer John Waite is 73. Guitarist Kirk Pengilly of INXS is 67. Steel guitarist Teddy Carr (Ricochet) is 65. DJ Zonka (Big Audio Dynamite) is 63. Singer Michael Sweet of Stryper is 62. Bassist Matt Malley (Counting Crows) is 62. Actor-playwright Tracy Letts ('Homeland') is 60. Actor-comedian Al Madrigal ('Gary Unmarried,' ″The Daily Show') is 54. Actor John Lloyd Young ('Jersey Boys') is 50. Singer Stephen 'Ste' McNally of BBMak is 47. Actor Becki Newton ('Ugly Betty') is 47. Actor Mo McRae ('Sons of Anarchy') is 43. Reality star Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino ('Jersey Shore') is 43. Singer Melanie Fiona is 42. July 5: Musician Huey Lewis is 75. Country keyboardist Charles Ventre of River Road is 73. Singer Marc Cohn is 66. Actor Dorien Wilson ('The Parkers,' ″Sister, Sister') is 63. Actor Edie Falco ('Nurse Jackie,' 'The Sopranos') is 62. Actor Jillian Armenante ('Judging Amy') is 61. Actor Kathryn Erbe ('Law & Order: Criminal Intent') is 60. Michael Stuhlbarg ('Dr. Strange') is 57. Rapper RZA of Wu-Tang Clan is 56. Singer Joe is 52. Drummer Bengt Lagerberg of The Cardigans is 52. Rapper Bizarre of D12 is 49. Rapper Royce da 5′9″ is 48. Musician Jason Wade of Lifehouse is 45. Actor Ryan Hansen ('Party Down,' 'Veronica Mars') is 44. Musician Dave Haywood of Lady A is 43. Bassist Nick O'Malley of Arctic Monkeys is 40. Actor Jason Dolley ('Cory in the House') is 34.
Buzz Feed
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
15 Celebrities Who Are In Jail Right Now
Actor Danny Masterson How he's famous: Masterson is best known for playing Steven Hyde on That '70s Show from 1998–2006. He also was a regular cast member on Men at Work and The Ranch, which re-teamed him with That '70s Show costar Ashton happened: In 2017, the Los Angeles Police Department began a sexual assault investigation into Masterson after three women came forward with allegations against him. In each case, all of which occurred at Masterson's home between 2001–03, the women said Masterson gave them alcohol and then, when they became disoriented, took them to his bedroom and violently raped them. Masterson, who proclaimed his innocence, was arrested on three counts of forcible rape in early 2021.A first trial in 2022 ended in a hung jury; a retrial the following year ended with Masterson convicted of two of the three counts of forcible rape. He was sentenced to 30 years to life (with the earliest possibility of being paroled coming after serving 25 and 1/2 years). He is incarcerated in California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, roughly halfway between San Francisco and Los interesting element of this case involved the Church of Scientology, of which Masterson and all three victims were members. All three victims said the church tried to shield Masterson from accountability, and pressured them not to go to the authorities. As BuzzFeed News reported in 2022, one of the victims "recalled how she went to the church's Celebrity Centre in Hollywood to report the sexual assault, but instead of getting any assistance, she was warned against using the word 'rape' and told that she could be excommunicated from the church — and disavowed by her Scientologist family and friends — if she contacted police."In response to these allegations, the Church of Scientology told BuzzFeed, "The Church has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone, Scientologists or not, to law enforcement. Quite the opposite, Church policy explicitly demands Scientologists abide by all laws of the land. All allegations to the contrary are totally false." Actor Ryan Grantham How he's famous: Grantham was a succesful child actor, notably playing Rodney James in the 2010 movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Later, he appeared in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and in a 2019 episode of the CW's Riverdale. All told, Grantham amassed more than 30 acting credits in film and happened: On March 31, 2020, the then-21-year-old Grantham killed his mother by shooting her in the back of her head as she played piano in their British Columbia home. He then loaded up his car with guns and ammunition and began driving east with a plan to kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He ultimately changed his mind and considered carrying out a mass shooting at his alma mater, Simon Fraser University, before deciding to turn himself to Grantham's lawyer, Grantham was assessed by two court appointed psychiatrists who 'agreed that at the time of this horrendous event, he (Grantham) was suffering from a major depressive disorder and a cannabis use disorder, among other things.' Grantham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and — at his sentencing — pledged to spend his life rehabilitating himself and helping others. He is eligible for parole in 2036 after serving 14 years. Baseball player Mel Hall How he's famous: In 1981, Hall broke into the major leagues with the Chicago Cubs at just 20 years old, and went on to finish third in voting for the Rookie of the Year award. He played 13 seasons in total, including four with the New York Yankees, and retired with 134 home runs and a career .276 batting average. What happened: In 1989, during Hall's first year with the Yankees, he noticed a 15-year-old freshman in high school and her friends in the stands. He spent the game playfully pretending like he was going to toss her a ball but never did. At the suggestion of her father, the girl wrote Hall a letter asking for a signed ball, and to her shock, Hall called her house, inviting the family to another game. Soon, Hall ingratiated himself with the family, saying he was lonely with his new team. He began showing up at their home after games (sometimes in a limo) and hanging out with the girl talking late into the night. Hall started helping the family financially (paying to put in a swimming pool and for the mother to quit her job), then moved in with them. He began dating the girl with her parents' consent and even took over the parents' primary bedroom with the girl (the parents moved into their daughter's room). This relationship continued for years (the Yankees even published a photo of Hall and the girl at her high school prom in their media book) until the girl, then a 19-year-old woman, broke things off and started her life Hall's career ended, he became a girls' youth sports coach (for both basketball and softball), and did the same thing, earning the trust of families of young girls on his teams that he liked — again moving into a family's home in one circumstance — and sexually abusing the in 2007, two of his victims found each other online (including one who was just 12 when Hall first assaulted her) and went to the police. Hall was arrested, found guilty at trial, and convicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. He received a sentence of 45 years in prison (with no chance of parole for 22 years and 4 months). Hall is incarcerated at H. H. Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony, Texas, and isn't eligible for parole until Nov. 15, 2031. Actor Amy Locane How she's famous: Locane was an up-and-coming star in the early '90s, first starring opposite Johnny Depp in John Waters's cult classic Cry-Baby and then the critically acclaimed Blue Sky, which earned her a Young Artists' Award nomination for Best Performance by a Youth Actress Co-Starring in a Motion Picture. She was also a regular on the hit prime-time soap opera Melrose Place. She later retired from acting to raise her happened: On the night of June 27, 2010, Locane was driving 53 miles per hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone when she crashed into a car driven by Fred Seeman, who was making a left-hand turn into his driveway. Seeman's wife Helene, an NYU adjunct professor, was killed in the accident. When police arrived, Locane — who had been drinking at a friend's barbecue — was found to have a .23 blood alcohol level, more than three times the legal was convicted of second-degree vehicular homicide and assault by auto but received a sentence of only three years in jail, two less than the minimum sentence for the offense (the judge cited the welfare of Locane's children in giving the shorter sentence). Locane — who joined Alcoholics Anonymous after the crash and is now sober — served three years behind bars before being paroled on June 12, 2015, but an appeals court subsequently found her initial sentence to be too lenient and resentenced her to eight years in jail on September 17, 2020. She's currently incarcerated in New Jersey's Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women and is eligible for parole on Dec. 20, 2024. Reality TV star Josh Duggar How he's famous: Duggar is the oldest child of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, who became famous for their extremely large family of 19 children, as featured on the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting. The show often focused on Duggar and his wife, Anna, as they started their own family. What happened: In 2016, In Touch magazine obtained a police report that implicated Duggar as having molested numerous children — including his sisters — when he was a teenager. At the time of the crimes, Michelle and Jim Bob didn't go to the police. Instead, they consulted with their church leaders and had an Arkansas state trooper give Duggar "a very stern talk." The trooper was far from the ideal person to seek help from. He not only failed to report the crimes, but was later sentenced to 56 years in jail for child sexual abuse images. The release of the police report eventually led to a federal investigation of Duggar. After the authorities found child sexual abuse images on Duggar's computer at his used car dealership, they arrested Duggar on federal charges of receiving and possessing child sexual abuse images. At the trial, a Homeland Security agent described the images found on Duggar's computer as being "in the top five of the worst of the worst I've ever had to examine."Duggar was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in prison. He is serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Facility (FCI) Seagoville in Texas and won't be eligible for possible release until Oct. 2, 2032. Film producer Harvey Weinstein How he's famous: Weinstein — cofounder of the movie company Miramax — produced many critically acclaimed hit films during the '90s and '00s, including Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting. He won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in happened: After years of rumors, the New York Times published an investigation into Weinstein featuring the accounts of over a dozen women accusing the producer of sexual harassment and abuse. A New Yorker article followed days later with even more allegations. These reports opened the floodgates, and soon nearly 100 women (many very famous) came forward with accounts of Weinstein's abuse. On May 25, 2018, the New York district attorney's office charged Weinstein with "rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women." Among those who testified against Weinstein at the trial was actor Annabella Sciorra, who said that Weinstein burst into her apartment after dinner and raped her. "I said, 'No, no,'" Sciorra testified, "But there was not much I could do at that point. My body shut down. It was just so disgusting that my body started to shake in a way that was unusual. I didn't really even know what was happening. It was like a seizure."Weinstein was found guilty and sentenced to 23 years in jail; he subsequently was tried in Los Angeles for more crimes and sentenced to 16 additional years. British prosecutors, meanwhile, have authorized police to charge Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in is serving his sentence in New York State's Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 100 miles north of Albany. Actor and mixed martial arts fighter Joe Son How he's famous: Born in South Korea, Son moved to the United States as a child. He became a professional mixed martial arts fighter, fighting at the Ultimate Fighting Championship's UFC 3, but his fighting career ended uneventfully with an 0–4 record. Son made bigger waves as an actor, playing the bad guy in low-budget action films starring Lorenzo Lamas and Dolph Lundgren, and then — most notably — playing the villain Random Task in 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. What happened: In 2008, Son was arrested for kicking in the door of his roommate's car. As part of a plea deal, Son was required to provide a DNA sample to the authorities. When his sample was run through the system, it linked him to a horrific, nearly two-decade-old cold case. On Christmas Eve in 1990, he and an accomplice pretended to be lost as they approached a 19-year-old woman walking her dog. They then threw her into their car and held her hostage for hours, beating and raping her. Son also repeatedly threatened to shoot her as he counted the bullets in his gun. At the trial, the victim recounted how Son said "he was giving me to himself as a Christmas present." Son was convicted of one count of felony torture (the statute of limitations had run out on the sexual assault charges) and sentenced to seven years to life. Just a month after beginning his sentence, Son killed his cellmate. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to an additional 27 years. Reality TV star Jen Shah How she's famous: Shah starred on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City for three seasons, earning a reputation for sharp one-liners and, well, drama. What happened: Shah was criminally charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud in March 2021. She and her assistant were accused of orchestrating a telemarketer scam where they'd bilk their (usually) older victims out of large sums of money in exchange for services like website building and business coaching, which had little to no value. Nightline reported that a 75-year-old retiree in North Carolina named Trisha (she asked not to use her last name) invested more than half of her savings — $47,000 — on coaching about a business she hoped to start. Another victim, World War II veteran Ralph Hallock, was scammed out of more than $100,000. He died by suicide at the age of 92 (his family believes the scam contributed to his death).According to a sentencing memo from federal prosecutors, Shah "often joked about the victims' suffering and her employees' ability to victimize them." Texts were also released between Shah and her co-conspirators discussing how they could keep their victims hooked and spending more initially claimed she was innocent but eventually pleaded guilty to wire fraud. She was sentenced to serve 6½ years and is incarcerated at FPC Bryan Prison in Texas. She's eligible for parole in August 2028. Subway pitchman Jared Fogle How he's famous: Fogle made national headlines in 1999 when — as a student at Indiana University — he lost 245 pounds on a self-created diet where he exclusively ate Subway every day: a small turkey sub, a large veggie sub, baked potato chips, and diet soda. He was soon hired by Subway to be their spokesperson, and appeared in over 300 commercials between 2000 and happened: Fogle's seemingly wholesome story was revealed to have a dark underbelly on July 7, 2015, when Fogle's Indiana home was raided by the FBI and Indiana State Police investigators who confiscated computers and DVD players. Two months prior, Russell Taylor — the executive director of the Jared Foundation, a nonprofit that purported to fight childhood obesity — was arrested on federal child sexual abuse images charges, and in the course of investigating, authorities discovered he had traded sexually explicit videos of children as young as 6 years old with Fogle. Additionally, the FBI subpoenaed text messages Fogle traded in 2008 with a Subway franchisee he was having an affair with. The texts were damning: Fogle talked about sexually abusing children as young as 9 years old, and tried to enlist her help to sleep with her 16-year-old cousin. Further investigation found that Fogle traveled to New York to have sex with a 17-year-old underage sex worker, and offered adult sex workers a finder's fee if they'd connect him with a possibility of 50 years in jail if he went to trial, Fogle pleaded guilty to two counts: distribution and receipt of child sexual abuse images, and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison. He's currently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood, and isn't eligible for parole until March 24, 2029. Actor Michael Jace How he's famous: Jace was best known for playing Officer Julien Lowe on the FX police drama The Shield but also appeared in high-profile motion pictures like Forrest Gump and Boogie Nights. What happened: On May 19, 2024, at Jace's home in the Hyde Park area of Los Angeles, Jace shot his wife April — an elite, medal-winning sprinter — in the back as their young sons, ages 5 and 8, looked on from their bedroom. Prosecutors said Jace then shot his wife in the legs before telling her, "If you like running, then run to heaven."Prosecutors further contended that Jace — who had been drinking all day — was "obsessed" with the idea his wife might leave him and believed she was having an was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years to life in prison. At his sentencing, Jace said, "There is absolutely no justification for my actions on that night. I am profoundly sorry for the pain that I've caused everyone." Jace is serving his sentence at California State Prison, Corcoran. Musician R. Kelly How he's famous: Sometimes called the King of R&B, Kelly is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, selling over 75 million records. "I Believe I Can Fly" and "Ignition (Remix)" are probably his best-known songs. He also wrote songs for other artists, including Michael Jackson's No. 1 hit, "You Are Not Alone."What happened: Allegations of sexual abuse of minors have followed Kelly for most of his career, but for a long time, he escaped accountability. In 1994, a then-27-year-old Kelly married his protégé Aaliyah, who was just 15 (Aaliyah ended the marriage when her family found out). Two years later, a woman filed a civil suit against Kelly, alleging that he had a sexual relationship with her starting at age 15. Kelly settled the case out of 2000, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Chicago police had begun investigations into Kelly and allegations that he'd had sex with a minor but had to drop them due to a lack of cooperation from the accusers. In 2002, a video circulated of what was alleged to be Kelly urinating on an underage girl and engaging in sex acts. This led to Kelly being charged with 21 counts of child sexual abuse images. Shortly after that, Kelly was charged in Florida with 12 additional charges of producing child sexual abuse images after police raided Kelly's home and allegedly found images of him having sex with a minor on a digital camera. The Florida charges, however, were thrown out when a judge ruled the police lacked probable cause for the search warrant. The Chicago charges ended in Kelly's favor, too, when a 2008 trial ended with him being found not guilty because it couldn't be proven the girl on the tape was a minor. In 2017, BuzzFeed News reported that the parents of three legal-aged young women claimed their daughters were being "held against their will" by Kelly in what was described as a "cult." This led to others coming forward with more allegations against Kelly, including that he'd had sex with minors. Then, in 2019, a comprehensive, six-hour Lifetime documentary, Surviving R. Kelly, put Kelly and his crimes under the spotlight even more. Police in Chicago charged him with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (after acquiring a tape of Kelly allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old), and federal authorities indicted him twice for crimes related to his sexual abuse of minors. In 2022, Kelly was found guilty in both federal trials and sentenced to spend 31 years in jail. He is currently serving his sentence at FCI Butner Medium I, a medium-security prison in North Carolina, and won't be eligible for parole until 2047 when he is around 80. Reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley How they're famous: Real estate tycoon Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie were the stars of the USA Network's reality show Chrisley Knows Best, which followed the couple as they raised five children with a "brutally honest" parenting style. The show debuted to solid ratings in 2014 and continued until happened: In August 2019, The Chrisleys were indicted on charges of having evading nearly $2 million in state taxes, using their production company to hide over $1 million of reality TV income from the IRS, and directing an employee to falsify income and asset documents. The Chrisleys pleaded not guilty to the crimes and scored a big win two months later when prosecutors dropped the state tax charges (the Georgia Department of Revenue found that, instead of failing to pay $2 million in taxes, the Chrisleys actually owed less than $77,000 due to an incorrect filing on one tax return).The reality stars still faced the charges related to bank fraud and their federal taxes, and those proved much stickier. During opening statements at the trial, prosecutors painted a picture of the Chrisleys exaggerating their wealth to banks and submitting false documents to borrow over $30 million in order to keep their affluent lifestyle the while hiding money from the IRS."They made up documents and they lie through their teeth to get whatever they want, whenever they want it," Assistant US Attorney Annalise Peters a nearly three-week trial, the couple were found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and tax fraud. Julie was also convicted of wire fraud. Todd was sentenced to 12 years, and Julie was sentenced to 7. Todd is serving his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FPI) Pensacola in Florida, while Julie is incarcerated at Florida's Federal Correctional Institution Marianna. Todd was eligible to be released on Jan. 22, 2033; Julie was eligible to be released on Oct. 19, 2028. They have both since been pardoned by Donald Trump. Reality TV star Jerry Harris How he's famous: Harris starred on the Emmy-award-winning Netflix docuseries Cheer about the Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer Team from Corsicana, Texas. He became a fan favorite for his big personality and even endeared himself to Ellen DeGeneres, who invited him to attend the 2020 Academy Awards as her show's happened: In September 2020, a federal warrant was issued for Harris alleging that, when he was 19, he asked 13-year-old twin boys to send nude photos, one of whom agreed to do so. On the second season of Cheer, the boy described how the abuse began, saying, "I told him that I was 13, and then after that — right off the bat — he asked me, 'Can I have butt pics?' or 'Can you send butt pics?'" Harris was soon arrested and charged with the production of child sexual abuse images (according to authorities, Harris admitted to trading sexual images with 10–15 children he knew were minors). Court documents also stated that the then-19-year-old Harris had sex with a 15-year-old in February 2022, Harris pleaded guilty on charges of child sexual abuse images and traveling for illicit sex with minors. He was sentenced to spend 12 years in a federal prison in Oklahoma City. Rock star Gary Glitter How he's famous: Gary Glitter — real name Paul Gadd — was a popular British glam rock star of the '70s and '80s. He sold over 20 million records and released scores of hit singles in the UK, including "Rock and Roll Part 2," which has been played endlessly at sporting events across America. The song was also used in the film Joker when Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck dances down a staircase. What happened: In 1997, Glitter brought his laptop in to be repaired, and the technician found sexual abuse images of children on the hard drive. After police searched Glitter's home and found more images of children, he was arrested and eventually sentenced to four months in jail. After being released, Glitter left the UK, where he'd become persona non grata. In 2005, Glitter established a new home in Vietnam, but within months, authorities arrested him for molesting two girls, ages 11 and 12. Glitter was found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail. At his sentencing, the judge said: "His lewd acts have compromised the dignity of the Vietnamese people, law, and common sense." Glitter, meanwhile, claimed his innocence and said it was all a "conspiracy."Upon completing his sentence in 2008, Glitter did everything he could to avoid being deported to the UK, including feigning having a heart attack. Nevertheless, he eventually was returned to England and placed on the sex offender's registry. Four years passed uneventfully until ITV aired a documentary about Top of the Pops host Jimmy Savile and his alleged sexual abuse. In the documentary, there was a segment accusing Glitter of raping a 13- or 14-year-old girl in Savile's BBC dressing room during the late '70s. This led to Glitter being arrested and standing trial for sexually abusing three young girls, ages 12, 11, and less than 10, between the years 1975 and 1980. Glitter was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in jail, with the judge saying at the hearing, "It is difficult to overstate the depravity of this dreadful behavior."In February of 2023, Glitter was released from jail after serving half his sentence. However, one month later, he was thrown back into jail after violating his release conditions by trying to access the dark web and viewing downloaded images of children. The now-79-year-old disgraced pop star was denied parole earlier this year and remains behind bars. Football star Dave Meggett How he's famous: A 10-year veteran of the NFL, Meggett won a Super Bowl in 1990 with the New York Giants and made two All-Pro teams (once with the Giants and once with the New England Patriots). Meggett played running back and receiver but was best known as an elite return specialist. At the time of his retirement, he had the most punt return yards in NFL history (3,709).What happened: In 1998, Meggett was accused of sexually assaulting and robbing a Toronto sex worker, but prosecutors eventually dropped the sexual assault charge and only tried Meggett for the robbery; the trial ended in a hung jury. This started a pattern of Meggett escaping serious accountability for his crimes, even as he was subsequently accused of sexual assault by three additional women — including one who said Meggett put a date rape drug in her drink at a bar, dragged her to his Porsche, and then raped was finally brought to justice in 2009 after he broke into the home of a woman he'd loaned $200 and sat on the edge of her bed. She awoke, startled, and he demanded she repay him. When she didn't have the money, he said, "I'm gonna get a down payment now" and raped her. Once Meggett left, the victim went to the hospital, where doctors found vaginal abrasions consistent with sexual was convicted of burglary and criminal sexual conduct and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He's presently incarcerated at South Carolina's Lieber Correctional Institution and isn't eligible for parole until July 6, 2034. UPDATE The post has been updated to include a statement from the Church of Scientology.
Forbes
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Book Review: All-Time Golf Greats Via Michael Arkush's ‘The Golf 100'
HOYLAKE, ENGLAND - APRIL 19: A view of the Claret Jug in front of the clubhouse at Royal Liverpool ... More Golf Club on April 19, 2023 in Hoylake, England. (Photo by) In Men at Work, George Will observed that 'The history of baseball is littered with stories of failures by players who thought that their natural physical endowments would be sufficient.' The previous assertion was what made Will's book such a fascinating read. It never occurred to me that the most interesting aspects of baseball were often the unseen strategies at work, and that were crafted by savants in the dugout and on the field. Baseball was so cerebral, and knowing this made it so much more fun. Will's classic came to mind quite a lot while reading Michael Arkush's excellent new book, The Golf 100: A Spirited Ranking of the Greatest Players of All Time. Hale Irwin (#54 on the list), whom Arkush describes as more competitive than Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, and even Pete Rose, confirms a la Will with baseball that golf has intensely cerebral qualities. As he put it, 'At this level, it's not about hitting the golf ball. Everyone can do that. It's about the conversation between your mind and your heart.' Which brings up arguably the most interesting aspect of a book that would still be interesting without it: 'promise unfulfilled.' So many players that could do so many remarkable things with clubs in their hands, but who seemingly lost their magical powers on the grandest of stages. Really, how did Fred Couples (#88), described by Arkush as '007 in spikes,' by University of Houston teammate (and CBS announcer) Jim Nantz as someone who had 'no bad side to him,' win but one golf major, the Masters in 1992? It couldn't have been for a lack of talent, but maybe it was for a lack of the proper mind necessary to win the biggest tournaments. Think about what Nantz has observed about Couples, while also contemplating Gary McCord's view that 'you have to have a lot of nasty in you to win the majors.' McCord was talking about Davis Love (#76) who 'only' has one major victory on his resume (the 1997 PGA Championship), but one senses McCord would say the same about Couples. Arkush is plainly apologetic with his routine what-might-have-been comments about golf's greatest players, but realistically they're a feature of the book exactly because they help the reader understand just how mentally challenging golf is, arguably quite a bit more than baseball. The bet is that Will would agree. Baseball is about occasional errors on the field, along with misses and outs at bat, but baseball players have backups, they have relievers, they have other players who can essentially bail them out. Not so in golf. There's no one to fix the seemingly inevitable mental lapses. And rest assured they're inevitable exactly because other than one's caddie (Steve Williams's autobiography was clear that caddies are mathematicians to the players in addition to psychologists), golfers are alone. Every mistake is their own, and this trite truth means few have the consistency of mind to match with their talent. We know this because so many can't-miss golfers missed. About Sergio Garcia (#86), Arkush writes that 'there will always be a feeling that Garcia should have achieved more.' Garcia, like Couples, like Love, has one golf major to his name, the Masters in 2017, but when he was all of 15-years-old, he was part of an exhibition that included Seve Ballesteros (#17) and Jose Maria-Olazabal (seven majors between the two), and it was apparent even then that he hit the ball better than they did. Johnny Miller (#47) is to this day thought by those in the know to have played the best round of golf ever (the final round of the 1973 U.S. Open), Lanny Wadkins (#56) describes him as 'the best player I ever saw,' but he finished with two major wins. Still, in Miller we perhaps find clues as to why greatness isn't always sustained, nor does it keep repeating itself in ways that it at times does in team sports. In Miller's words to Arkush, 'I was just content.' Does success beget relative mediocrity in golf? The question just leads to more questions. It wasn't too long ago that Jordan Spieth (#59) was seemingly unbeatable as the 2nd youngest person (after Jack Nicklaus, no less) to win three different majors before the age of 24. No doubt there have been injuries, but it seems even by Spieth's own admission to come back to the mind. As he explained his fall from the top of the PGA perch to Arkush, 'Once you reach your end goal of something, maybe there's a little bit of a letdown.' It seems like a reasonable explanation, that reaching the top drives the very satisfaction that knocks you back down, but the explanation is unsatisfactory. That's because the work required to get to the top points to the kind of person who wouldn't suddenly rest on laurels. In other words, the reason you (you being the typical person) will never be Garcia, Spieth, or Rory McIlroy (#25) is because you would never put in the effort to become any of the three. About McIlroy, Arkush writes that 'no twenty-first-century golfer, however much it kills me to admit it, has been a bigger disappointment.' Once again, so many disappointments among the 100 greatest golfers of all time. How could that be in a sport populated by players who revere the players of the past more than in any other sport, and who for venerating them, understand intimately the constant about golf's greats that is 'promise unfulfilled'? To be clear, this review doesn't presume to answer the question, and Arkush doesn't himself. That's not a knock, it's just a comment that's pregnant with questions. What is it about a sport that, in Arkush's words, 'promises nothing and often delivers a lot less'? Well, what? To read about how so many of the greats should have won more, but also how some of the greats nearly finished without a major (Couples, 1992, Masters), is to keep searching and wondering. Professional golfers are said to lean Republican. Is that because golf is golf, or is it because golf is golf? As in does golf generally attract a more 'conservative' kind of person comfortable in golf clubs, or precisely because golf promises nothings does it unearth in its professional a conservative mindset that decries handouts from the Commanding Heights exactly because golfers get none? Dustin Johnson (#44) told Arkush that he hopes to be fishing 'with a gold beer' when he's 64. Too laid back, too unlike the greats? Ok, but he's also got two majors to his name. And as readers no doubt know by virtue of clicking on a review about a golf book, Johnson could have had so many more. Promise unfulfilled? Yet he won two majors. You see the paradox? Johnson seemingly lacked the anger of a Michael Jordan, notably told family members after a U.S. Open loss (Chambers Bay) he plainly should have won that 'it's just a golf tournament,' but could someone seemingly that easygoing ever win two majors as is, and contend for so many more? If they're all great ball strikers, but not all of them have the mind or the mental fortitude, they still had it enough to win some majors while nearly winning others. The more that's read about the players, and the more that's written about the players in search of better understanding, the more confused it all becomes, albeit in a good way. Which is a long digression. Writing about the presumed mentally crippling aspects of golf (including satisfaction), it's easy to get away from the purpose of the book. Arkush's ranking is 'spirited,' which is an explicit admission from him that his Top 100 wouldn't resemble that of others. Take Scottie Scheffler alone. He's not listed in the Top 100. Which requires another digression. Explaining how he ranked the players, Arkush is clear that 'one aspect of a player's career would be valued more than any other: how he or she performed in the game's biggest events.' Arkush explains further that the 'majors feature the strongest fields and, more often than not, are staged on the most demanding courses.' Arkush awarded 2,000 points for each major win, 500 for second, 250 for third, etc. Back to Scheffler, major #3 happened just last Sunday. From this, the seemingly obvious explanation for the omission was the latter. Except that before the book went to print Scheffler could already lay claim to two majors (the Masters in 2022 and 2024), along with twelve other PGA Tour wins. Many of the ranked had less of a resume (majors and total tournament wins) than Scheffler even before last Sunday, yet as mentioned, they were ranked. So, while the lack of Scheffler was puzzling (to be clear, Arkush acknowledges the Scheffler omission, and explains it at book's end), the points system was comforting if only because it lent some objectivity to a ranking that surely begs for endless debate. And this presumption about debate comes from a reviewer who hasn't played golf in decades, but who finds the sport and its majors more than interesting. Arkush's book does nothing to dampen interest, while doing a lot to increase it. The rising interest is rooted in the happy fact that while Arkush's rankings have a numeric quality to them, his discussion of each player in the top 100 is anything but numeric. In roughly three pages per golfer, Arkush brings them to life. In 1971, and long after John McDermott (#100) had won two U.S. Opens, he was kicked out of the clubhouse at Merion Golf Club (where the U.S. Open was taking place no less!) after no one noticed who the poorly dressed old man was. Arnold Palmer luckily did, and proceeded to right the wrong. Ken Venturi (#93) was increasingly drowning himself in drink until a bartender told him he was 'wasting his life.' Venture told him 'I will not have another drink until I win again.' Venturi won the 1964 U.S. Open. Larry Nelson (#89) won two PGAs and one U.S. Open despite having never played a round of golf as of age 21. Julius Boros (#53) was an accountant for a Connecticut trucking company before he found his way onto the Tour. On the other hand, Ray Floyd (#29) seemed to enjoy betting on horses more than golf. Luckily his wife Maria let him have it: 'If golf isn't what you want to do for a living, now is the time to get out and think about doing something else. You're not giving it your best.' Sometimes the best people in our lives tell us what we least want to hear… Paul Runyan (#50) had a father who did not approve of his son playing golf, but his son couldn't not do what won him beatings from his father: 'Dad, you can whip me if you want, but it won't do you any good, because I'm going over to the golf course and I'm going to become a golf professional.' In Bernhard Langer's (#94) case, he went to a job placement center outside of Munich in the 1960s as a teen and told them 'I want to be a golf professional.' They must have looked at him like he had one eyebrow while responding, 'We have no documents on golf professional being a recognized job in Germany.' It all speaks to the beauty of the here and now. Runyan's father never saw his son play, while nowadays there aren't just golf professionals, there are golf swing coaches, putting coaches, shrinks, nutritionists, and all manner of other professions associated with the sport's prosperity. According to Arkush, swing coach David Leadbetter was paid a six-figure salary to work with LPGA great Se Ri Pak (#90) on her game. I'm sorry, but prosperity loves people yearning to work outside traditional life norms more than anyone else, and it doesn't come close. Thinking about Runyan some more, it's no reach to say that most readers haven't heard of him, most have heard of Langer, and everyone's heard of players like Crenshaw, Garcia, Couples, etc. This rates mention because readers of the book might be tempted to skip the many ancient names in the book, first half of the twentieth century names, along with the females. It's understandable, but it would be a mistake. There's rewarding, interesting information about each player, male or female. Harold Hilton (#30) smoked as many as 50 cigarettes on days he played golf, Peter Thomson (#55) would supplement his golf income by writing about the tournaments played in for newspapers, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias (#18) was in the estimation of Arkush the greatest athlete of the 20th century. What of Phil Mickelson? He's in so many ways a riddle wrapped in an enigma, or however Churchill put it. Six majors and over fifty PGA wins, but to Arkush he was, and realistically is, 'another all-time great who underachieved.' The list of professionals who can lay claim to six majors is vanishingly small, not to mention no less than six second place U.S. Open finishes. What a resume?! Yet what's strange and understandable at the same time is that if the oddities that took place at the various U.S. Opens (Winged Foot most notably) can be forgotten, what Arkush most seems to be saying is that even forgetting those, someone with Mickelson's talent still should have won many more. Except for what keeps coming up in this most interesting of books. Leaving aside #1 and #2, there's realistically no one in this most mysterious of sports that shouldn't have done better. And that of course includes #1 and #2. Mickelson was the definition of 'can't miss,' but at #13 it should be said he was 'can't miss' who didn't miss. This would especially be true with other rankings not compiled by Arkush and that might grade on a curve of sorts. Figure that Mickelson starred, and starred for a long time in a sport that's so globalized, so well-funded, and that has so many flash-in-the-pan stars who, perhaps due to contentedness, can't maintain the greatness. Yet Mickelson did. It's not just six majors, but six majors beginning in 2004, and ending (?) in 2021. No doubt Arkush understands all of the above, and much better than this reviewer. Which means my one critique of his analysis of both Ernie Els (#27) and Mickelson is that he notes how both unfortunately were at their best when Tiger Woods was at his, hence the fewer majors. This didn't nor does it ring true. For one, we have the can't miss potential of so many other top 100 golfers who somehow didn't reach ten, eight or even three majors, not to mention the arguably more compelling truth that Woods lifted everyone. In other words, absent Woods Mickelson and Els would arguably have won even fewer majors. Arkush at least implicitly acknowledges the possibility of the latter being true when writing about Mickelson, and how he managed to achieve just three top 10 finishes during a ten major stretch when 'Woods retooled his swing and went winless.' The simple truth is that Woods made those he beat so very much better. Mickelson should be so grateful for Woods, so should all who starred at a time when Woods dominated. Arkush's book is a great read for golf fans, mere followers, sports fans in general, or even people solely interested in the human condition. There's so much learning to be had from reading a book that's about golf, but that is truly about so much more.
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