#8 - Michael Jace After beginning his professional acting career
in 1992, Michael Jace appeared in small roles in films like Forrest Gump and Boogie Nights,
before finally landing a job as a recurring member of the ensemble cast for the crime
drama series The Shield in 2002.
He appeared in 88 episodes of the show throughout its 7 seasons on the air.
On May the 19th of 2014, police were called to Jace’s South Los Angeles residence following
a report of domestic violence.
Jace himself had placed a call to 9-1-1 as well, in which he’d chillingly stated, “I
shot my wife”.
When officers arrived at the home, they reportedly found that the actor’s spouse, April, had
already succumbed to the 3 gunshot wounds she’d previously sustained.
The Los Angeles district attorney’s office later reported that Jace had become enraged
at his wife after she’d expressed her desire for a divorce.
The actor reportedly believed that April was having an affair and, in a jealous rage, he
shot her once in the back and twice in the legs.
The shooting took place in front of the couple’s two young sons.
Jace was consequently arrested and charged with his wife’s killing.
Two years later, he was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years to life in
prison.
#7 - Shailene Woodley California-born actress Shailene Woodley rose
to prominence by starring in the lead role of the teen drama series The Secret Life of
the American Teenager from 2008 to 2013.
Her television success was followed by a burgeoning movie career, with appearances in films such
as The Descendants, The Spectacular Now, and The Fault in Our Stars.
Woodley established herself as a mainstream draw starting in 2014 when she portrayed the
protagonist of The Divergent franchise, a trilogy of science fiction films based on
a series of young adult novels.
Beyond her acting prowess, Woodley’s celebrity status is also characterized by her fervent
environmental activism.
In October of 2016, she took part in a protest against the construction of the Dakota Access
Pipeline in Standing Rock, North Dakota.
While she was livestreaming the event on Facebook, Woodley was arrested by police officers after
refusing to vacate the construction site.
Her mother continued to record as the actress was taken away in a patrol car.
Court records indicated that Woodley was charged with trespassing and engaging in a riot, to
which she pleaded not guilty.
She ultimately agreed to a plea bargain that sentenced her to one year of unsupervised
probation.
#6 - YG At about 4 am, on January the 24th of 2020,
rapper Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, better known by the stage name YG, was served an arrest
warrant at his residence in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles.
He was then booked into the Men’s Central Jail on robbery charges that reportedly stemmed
from local police’s ongoing investigation into a previous incident.
Jackson posted his $250,000 bail before going on to perform at the 2020 Grammy Awards just
two days later.
Along with a group of other hip hop artists and musicians, including Roddy Rich, Meek
Mill, and DJ Khaled, Jackson helped pay tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle by performing
a pair of commemorative songs titled “Letter to Nipsey” and “Higher”.
Jackson released his debut single under the name “YG” in 2010, which led to him signing
a record deal with Def Jam Recordings.
He’s since released 6 studio albums, including a collaborative project with fellow California-born
rapper Mozzy in 2021.
#5 - Renee Graziano One of the stars of the VH1 reality television
series Mob Wives had a run-in with the law in January of 2022.
According to subsequent reports on the incident, Renee Graziano, whose father Anthony formerly
served as a consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, crashed her car into a parked SUV
in Staten Island, New York, shortly after 10 pm on the 4th of the month.
The force of the collision caused Graziano’s vehicle to flip over but she avoided any serious
injury in the accident.
Upon the arrival of law enforcement, the 52-year-old climbed out of her car and allegedly began
speaking incoherently to the responding officers.
She was taken to a hospital to undergo a medical examination, after which she was transported
to a nearby police precinct and charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by
drugs.
Graziano reportedly told the police that she’d taken Adderall earlier on the day of the incident,
and it later emerged that the reality TV star had been battling substance abuse for some
time.
It was reported that Graziano’s substance dependency was connected to her depression.
Her mental health had been affected ever since the 2016 death of one of her Mob Wives co-stars,
Angela Raiola, who on the show was often referred to as “Big Ang”.
Graziano appeared on the British reality series Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, reportedly
finishing in third in the show’s 18th season.
#4 - Vic Mensa Upon his return from a trip to Africa, on
January the 15th of 2022, Chicago-born rapper Vic Mensa was arrested at the Washington Dulles
International Airport.
US Customs and Border Protection officials reportedly found that the 28-year-old had
various substances, including LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, capsules and gummies, in his possession.
Following the discovery of the drugs during a secondary set of screenings, Mensa was taken
into custody and charged with felony narcotics possession.
According to an Instagram post uploaded by Mensa’s frequent collaborator Chance the
Rapper, the musician had been released from custody as of January the 18th.
Mensa himself confirmed rumors of his release with a pair of Twitter posts that same day,
one of which read, “wow what a trip”.
Mensa co-founded the SavemoneySavelife foundation, a non-profit initiative that seeks to use
art and entertainment to advocate for sustainable change, specifically in the city of Chicago.
Mensa’s emergence within the hip hop scene was cemented when he was selected to appear
on the cover of XXL magazine’s Freshman Class of 2014.
#3 - 50 Cent Curtis James Jackson III, who achieved global
fame under the stage name “50 Cent”, first gained mainstream attention in the early-2000s
as the de facto leader of the East Coast hip hop group G-Unit.
His multi-platinum debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', was partially produced
by two of the most well-known figures in hip hop at the time, Dr. Dre and Eminem.
Prior to his massively successful rap career, however, Jackson grew up in the South Jamaica
neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he began selling illegal substances as early
as the age of 12.
His various drug-related arrests led to him being sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison,
in the mid-1990s, although he only ended up serving 6 months at a bootcamp, where he earned
the equivalency of a high school diploma.
Jackson faced further legal problems in 2002, when he and four members of his entourage
were taken into police custody in the early morning hours of December the 31st.
Officers reportedly searched the rapper’s car, which was parked outside of a Manhattan
nightclub, due to the vehicle’s tinted windows.
Inside, they discovered a pair of handguns, and Jackson was consequently charged with
two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
In the summer of 2013, Jackson was arrested for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend,
model and actress Daphne Joy, at her Los Angeles residence before ransacking her bedroom following
an argument between them.
He was charged with one count of domestic violence and four counts of vandalism, to
which he initially pleaded not guilty.
Jackson ultimately agreed to a plea deal, which ordered him to 3 years of probation
and 30 days of community service.
#2 - Devin Ratray Devin Ratray rose to prominence as a child
actor during the 1990s, playing Buzz McCallister in the first 2 entries of the popular Home
Alone franchise.
In the years since, Ratray has gotten steady work as a supporting actor in various movies
and television shows, including the Oscar-nominated comedy-drama Nebraska and the critically-acclaimed
indie thriller Blue Ruin.
In December of 2021, Ratray was invited to make a guest appearance at the two-day OKC
Pop Christmas Con in Oklahoma City.
According to a police report, the actor and his girlfriend were drinking at a bar, on
the night of December the 8th, when they got into a heated argument.
The dispute reportedly stemmed from the fact that the woman had agreed to give away Ratray’s
autograph to a pair of fans for free.
When the couple went back to their hotel room later that night, they started fighting again.
As tensions escalated, Ratray allegedly pushed his girlfriend onto the bed and attempted
to strangle her, telling her, “This is how you die”.
The victim was reportedly found with various injuries, including bruises on her face, chest,
and arm.
Ratray denied having “ever laid a hand on her” in the incident’s aftermath.
The 44-year-old actor did ultimately surrender to the authorities, and he was subsequently
charged with domestic assault and battery.
#1 - Shelley Malil In 2005, actor Shelley Malil got his breakout
role as a supporting character in the hit Steve Carrell-led comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
He also made appearances on popular television series such as Scrubs, Reba, The West Wing,
and NYPD Blue.
On August the 10th of 2008, Malil’s girlfriend, Kendra Beebe, was talking with a friend on
the back patio of her home in San Marcos, California, when the 44-year-old actor arrived
and immediately began attacking her with a knife.
When Beebe tried to flee, Malil pursued her, reportedly using a broken wine glass and a
kitchen knife to stab her repeatedly.
He also attempted to smother her with a pillow during the course of his violent outburst.
Malil was reportedly arrested the following day as he got off a train in Oceanside.
Beebe miraculously survived his onslaught but was left with 23 deep puncture stab wounds,
a severe laceration on her chin, collapsed lungs, and the loss of roughly half the blood
in her body.
Malil was ultimately convicted on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly
weapon.
He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 12 years.
In 2018, however, he was granted parole four years early.
In his initial interviews with the police and during his criminal trial, Malil claimed
that the incident had been an unfortunate case of mistaken identity, and that he’d
believed his girlfriend to be an intruder when he assaulted her.
The actor later amended his recounting of the incident while appearing in front of the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation panel.
Malil then admitted to premeditating the attack because he’d felt slighted by Beebe during
an earlier interaction.
According to the San-Diego Union Tribune, Malil also stated that he’d gone to his
girlfriend’s home that day with the intent to “annihilate” her.
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