• From Ferris Bueller to boxing’s most charismatic promoter, we count eight celebrities
who have killed people!
8 – Keith Moon, • On the fourth of January 1970, The Who
drummer Keith Moon got into trouble while attending the opening of British pub The Red
Lion.
Showing up with his cheuffer and entourage, Moon’s success angered the working class
locals, who chased him outside later in the night.
• Moon’s driver Neil Boland attempted to pacify the angry skinheads and create a
diversion so that Moon could leave, but Moon was a poor driver and sped out in fear, accidentally
hitting and crushing Boland’s skull.
• The incident was ruled a tragic accident – because the old ‘chased by skinheads’
defence never fails – but Keith Moon was haunted by it for the rest of his life.
7 – Don King, • ‘Llllleet’s get ready to murder!’
• Horrible black humour aside, Don King has committed murder on two separate occasions,
but served less than four years in prison.
King is famous in the boxing world for promoting massive fighters like Mike Tyson, Muhammad
Ali, George Foreman and Evander Holyfield.
• After dropping out of Kent State University, King ran an illegal bookmaking operation during
which he shot Hillary Brown in the back.
This was ruled a justifiable homicide, as Brown had been attempting to rob him.
• King was later convicted of second-degree murder for stomping Sam Garrett, an employee
who owed him six hundred dollars, to death.
For this he served less than four years in prison.
6 – Ted Kennedy, • On July 19 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy was
leaving a party when he drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick, an island near
Martha’s Vineyard.
• The car went into the water, and though Kennedy swam free, his passenger, Mary Jo
Kopechne, drowned in the overturned vehicle.
• The cowardly Kennedy fled the scene and waited nine hours before reporting the incident.
He later pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two month jail
sentence, which was suspended.
5 – Johnny Lewis, • In 2012, Sons of Anarchy star Johnny Lewis
suffered something of a mental breakdown.
He broke into and ransacked the home of 81-year-old Catherine Davis and then killed her and her
cat.
• Witnesses say they saw Lewis climb over a fence and assault a neighbour, then hop
back over and return to the Davis house.
He later fell from a roof and died.
• Although he had a history of drug use, autopsies revealed that Lewis had no drugs
or alcohol in his system at the time of his death.
4 – Phil Spector, • Phil Spector is the legendary record producer
who had a hugely prolific run, backing music legends like the Beatles, the Ramones and
the Righteous Brothers.
• Spector was a known eccentric and recluse with a lifelong gun obsession.
In February 2003, following a minor altercation at a Hollywood club, Spector went home with
B-movie actress Lana Clarkson.
It was there he shot Lana in the mouth and emerged in a panic, telling his driver ‘I
think I shot her!’
• Spector later claimed the gunshot was self-inflicted, but numerous people testified
to being held at gunpoint by Spector in the past.
The first trial resulted in a hung jury, but the second found him guilty.
He was sentenced to nineteen years to life.
Rock on.
3 – Matthew Broderick, • In 1987, Ferris Bueller and Lion King
star Matthew Broderick was in a car accident that took the lives of two women: Anna Gallagher
and her mother Margaret Doherty.
• The accident occurred while Broderick was vacationing in Ireland with his Ferris
Bueller co-star Jennifer Grey, who he was secretly dating.
Broderick crossed lanes and collided head-on with Anna’s Volvo, killing her and her mother
instantly.
• Broderick awoke in the hospital with no memory of the incident.
He was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, which entailed five years in prison,
but in the end was only convicted of careless driving and fined a meagre $175.
• The victims’ family called this ‘a travesty of justice’.
Broderick made plans to meet with the family in 2003 and provide closure, but ended up
backing out of this.
In 2012, Broderick was featured in a multi-million dollar Honda commercial that aired during
the Super Bowl, so it seems everyone’s forgotten about his history behind the wheel.
2 – Sid Vicious, • In 1979, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious
was arrested for murdering his former-prostitute girlfriend Nancy Spungen while out of his
mind on heroin.
• The incident occurred at New York’s famous Hotel Chelsea, where the couple was
staying after the Sex Pistols’ formal breakup.
At first Sid and Nancy were smitten, but their relationship quickly deteriorated because
of their insatiable drug habit.
Before long they were physically and emotionally abusing each other.
• On the night Nancy was murdered Sid was found passed out playing with his knife.
Despite being arrested for the crime, he died of a heroin overdose before the case reached
trial.
1 – O.J.
Simpson, • This is a controversial pick.
Former footballer O.J.
Simpson was found not guilty, but everyone and their dog thinks he did it.
He even wrote a pot-stirring ‘hypothetical confession’ book called If I Did It.
• On the ninth of November 1994, Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman were found
brutally stabbed to death.
The evidence overwhelmingly pointed to O.J.
Simpson and the case became a media sensation.
• Despite DNA evidence and a long history of spousal abuse, O.J.
was found not guilty.
He is, however, currently enjoying a thirty-three-year jail sentence for an unrelated robbery charge.