![]() Howard Hughes the billionaire owner of Transworld Airlines, director of the ludicrously expensive feature film Hell’s Angels and the inventor of the infamous “Spruce Goose” (a plane so big it barely flew) struck and killed a pedestrian – Gabriel Meyer – on 11th July 1936. But it was whilst on bail for Nancy’s murder that Sid Vicious overdosed on heroine on 1st February 1979 and died. Ten days later, Vicious attempted suicide by slitting his wrists with a broken light-bulb, and whilst hospitalised at the infamous Bellevue Hospital, he tried jumping out of a high window, all the while screaming “I want to be with my Nancy”. She’d suffered a single stab to the abdomen and died of blood loss. Sid Vicious (born John Simon Richie), bassist for the Sex Pistols, stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death on the bathroom floor of the Hotel Chelsea (Manhattan, NY) on 12th October 1978, using a “007” flip-knife. Having bribed Mexican officials, Burroughs “skipped town”, returned to the USA and was convicted in his absence of murder and given a palty two-year suspended sentence. With William and his girlfriend Joan Vollmer being incapably drunk and suffering from heroine withdrawal, Vollmer placed a nigh-ball glass on her head, Burroughs shot and missed, shooting her in the forehead and killing her instantly. William S Burroughs, cult author of Naked Lunch, was drinking with friends at the Bounty Bar in Mexico City when he pulled a revolver from his bag and exclaimed to his girlfriend “it’s time for our William Tell act” (Tell famously shot an apple off his son’s head). Although the death was ruled as an accident, Moon pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, and the death of his friend haunted him with nightmares until he died in 1978. Following a fracas, leading to some of the pub’s regular harassing and attacking Moon’s Bentley, he tried to escape, but being heavily intoxicated, Moon accidentally ran over Boland, killing him. Keith Moon (his real name is actually Keith Moon) on 4th January 1970, The Who’s infamous drummer was drinking at The Red Lion pub in Hatfield (Herts) with his friend and bodyguard Neil Boland. His defence attorney was none other than Johnny Cochran, O. Snoop Dogg was later acquitted of murder after many lengthy court battles. Philip Woldemariam (of By Yerself Hustlers crew) was shot and killed. On 25th August 1993, Snoop Dogg – who was affiliated, although he claimed never to have joined the infamous Rollin' 20 Crips gang of the Eastside of Long Beach – was riding with his friends McKinley Lee and Sean Abrams, when they got into a petty argument with a rival gang member. Snoop Dogg (born Cordozar Calvin Broadus Junior). Although the details of the incident (how it happened, who was injured) have varied, with Jenner claiming he was being chased by the paparazzi– which cannot be verified by the police – all but one of the subsequent lawsuits against Jenner have been financially settled out of court. In February 2015, on the Malibu section of the Pacific Coast Highway, Jenner’s SUV was involved a multiple car collision, which killed Kim Howe, an animal rights activist, and injured three others. Broderick – who suffered multiple fractures, a collapsed lung and concussion – was charged with death by dangerous driving and faced five years in prison, but this charge was later lessened to careless driving and he was fined just £175.īruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner. In 1987, Ferris Bueller star Mathew Broderick was holidaying in Enniskillen (Northern Ireland) with his girlfriend and Bueller co-star Jennifer Grey, when he mistakenly drove his rented BMV onto the wrong side of the road, hitting an oncoming Volvo and killing Anna Gallagher (29) and her mother Margaret Doherty (63). Here's a handful of "celebities who have killed" which you may or may not remember. Simpson wasn't the first celebrity to be involved in someone's death, and he won't be the last. ![]() Simpson had been embraced as hero and welcomed into our lives and - it's because of that - that most people refused to accept his guilt. No-one believed that a "celebrity" could be involved in someone's death. And yet, as high profile as the case was, O. ![]() But it wasn't the brutality of the murder which made the case so infamous, it was that as a sports star and film actor O.J. He’s the man who (many people believe) was wrongly acquitted of the brutal murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson, most people tend not to remember him as the running back for the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers, where he earned the much coveted title of the NFL’s Most Valuable Player of 1973, or as a much-loved actor in Roots, Capricorn One and the Naked Gun trilogy.
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