Unite 19.1 Law and order
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Rich and Famous or Rich and Dangerous?
They say that in the end we're all the same.You can have money and fame,
but in the end you still have to do the same kind of things as everyone else-
sleep,eat, fall in and out of love.and,apparently.commit crimes!
Yes,when you look at the world of celebrities,
it's amazing how many have had trouble with the law.
Here's just a few of the ones we could remember,but the Internet has lots more!
O.J.Simpson
O.J.was involved in perhaps the most famous celebrity trial of them all.
He was accused of killing his ex-wife.Nicole Brown.
and her lover.Ronald Goldman,
and he was allegedly filmed driving away from the scene in a truck.
At first,the evidence suggesting he was guilty
seemed to many people to be very clear,
but the trial,which was televised around the world,found him innocent.
Lots of people think the jury got it wrong
and that he was lucky to get away with it.
He had to pay several million dollars in damages to the victims' relatives
when they took him to court afterward.
However,as one American comedian said,
Have you ever heard of a millionaire murdering someone with their own hands?
These people employ someone just to answer the telephone!
Johnny Depp
He may look sweet and innocent,
but Johnny Depp has been found guilty of vandalism more than once in his life.
On one occasion,he smashed up a hotel room in New York.
He was charged,but it didn't go to court
because he agreed to pay $2000 to the hotel to repair the damage.
Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson continued to earn millions of dollars as a boxer
even after he had been to prison for rape.
He took a nineteen-year-old contestant in the Miss America beauty contest
to his hotel room and forced her to have sex with him.
He was later found guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison,
but he got out just three years later for good behaviour.
He hasn't exactly shown much good behaviour since then,though!
Jean-Claude van Damme
After admitting he had been drink-driving,
the so-called Muscles from Brussels was ordered to pay a $1200 fine.
was banned from driving for ninety days.
and was forced to go to an anti-drink-driving course.
Let's hope the course was more effective than the acting lessons he took!
David Beckham
Another bad driver is David Beckham.
He was convicted of driving at over ninety miles an hour
when he was on his way to a training session for his former football club.Manchester United.
His excuse was that he was being chased by a photographer.
He was also banned from driving,
but shortly afterwards the judge agreed to give him back his driving licence,
because he said that,as a celebrity,
it was safer for Beckham to travel in his own car than on public transport.
Safer for David,perhaps,but not for everyone else on the road.