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Jodi Hildebrandt
Jodi Nan Hildebrandt is an American former counselor and former YouTuber convicted of aggravated child abuse.
Samuel Bateman
Samuel Rappylee Bateman is an American convicted sex offender who led a small polygamous splinter sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah — an area known as Short Creek. Self-styled as a prophet and successor to imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, Bateman assembled more than 20 "spiritual wives" between 2019 and 2022, at least 10 of whom were minors, with victims as young as nine years old. He was arrested in 2022, pleaded guilty in April 2024, and was sentenced in December 2024 to 50 years in federal prison.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black America. He is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Some of Shakur's music addressed social injustice, political issues, and the marginalization of African Americans, but he was also synonymous with gangsta rap and violent lyrics.
Robert Downey Jr.
American actor (born 1965)
Paris Hilton
American media personality (born 1981)
Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, and again in 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and one of the most intimidating men in boxing history. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
Chuck Berry
American musician (1926–2017)
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was signed to Ford Models at the age of three, and gained early recognition as a child actress on the soap operas Guiding Light (1993) and Another World (1996–1997). Her breakthrough role came with the dual role of reunited identical twins in the Walt Disney comedy The Parent Trap (1998); its success led to subsequent roles in Life-Size (2000), Get a Clue (2002), Freaky Friday (2003) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004). Her portrayal of Cady Heron in the teen comedy Mean Girls (2004) affirmed her status as a teen idol and established her as a prominent leading lady; The New Yorker later ranked it as the eleventh-best film performance of the 21st century.
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer (1915–1959)
R. Kelly
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
Michelle Rodriguez
American actress
Wesley Snipes
American actor (born 1962)
O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson, also known by his nickname "the Juice", was an American professional football player, actor, and media personality who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills. Simpson is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time, but his success was overshadowed by his criminal trial and contentious acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994.
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded the Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
DMX
Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 – April 9, 2021), known professionally as DMX, was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. His accolades included an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, and six Grammy Award nominations. Regarded as an influential figure in the late 1990s and early 2000s and one of the greats of hip-hop, his music is characterized by his "aggressive" rapping style, with lyrical content varying from hardcore themes to prayers. His violent lyricism helped popularize the horrorcore genre.
Jared Fogle
American spokesperson and sex offender
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
Lauryn Hill
American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer (born 1975)
6ix9ine
Daniel Hernandez (born May 8, 1996), known professionally as 6ix9ine (pronounced "six nine"), Tekashi69, or Tekashi 6ix9ine, is an American rapper. His music has been marked by an aggressive style of rapping, while his controversial public persona is characterized by his distinctive rainbow-colored hair, tattoos, legal problems, social media "trolling", and publicized celebrity feuds. As of January 2026, Hernandez is serving a three-month sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, for violating supervised release conditions from his 2019 racketeering case.
T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), known professionally as T.I. or Tip, is an American rapper and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris is credited as a pioneer of the hip-hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. He met local music executive Kawan "KP" Prather in the late 1990s, joining his company Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment — an imprint of Arista and LaFace Records — by 1999. The lukewarm critical and commercial response of his debut studio album, ''I'm Serious'' (2001), led him to part ways the label. He then sign
Lucky Luciano
Italian American mobster (1897–1962)
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855–1926)
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British former socialite and convicted child sex offender. In 2021 she was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Randy Quaid
American actor (born 1950)
Jack Johnson
John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.
Rick James
American singer, songwriter and record producer (1948-2004)
John McTiernan
American filmmaker
Ja Rule
American rapper, singer and actor
Bobby Brown
American R&B singer (born 1969)
Eddie Deezen
American actor
Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon Schultz was an American actor, artist, and writer. He is best known for playing Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and Kevin Lynch in Criminal Minds (2007–2014).
Elijah Muhammad
American religious leader (1897-1975)
Ol' Dirty Bastard
American rapper (1968–2004)
Soulja Boy
American rapper and record producer (born 1990)
Dennis Hastert
American politician (born 1942)
Frank Costello
American mobster (1891–1973)
Young Buck
American rapper
Carlo Gambino
American mobster (1902–1976)
Alger Hiss
American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union (1904–1996)
Robert Morris
American financier and Founding Father of the United States (1734-1806)
Luigi Mangione
Luigi Nicholas Mangione is an American man accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
Jussie Smollett
American actor
Ski Mask the Slump God
American rapper
Janine Lindemulder
American pornographic actress (born 1968)
Amy Fisher
American pornographic actress, journalist and writer
Frank Sheeran
American mobster (1920–2003)
Joseph Bonanno
Sicilian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family
Sam Giancana
American mobster (1908–1975)
Eldridge Cleaver
American activist (1935–1998)
Frank Lucas
American mobster (1930-2019)
Michael Cohen
American attorney and Republican official
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
Juelz Santana
American rapper
Kent Hovind
American Christian fundamentalist and Young Earth Creationist
Martin Shkreli
American businessman and convicted felon
Prodigy
American rapper from New York (1974–2017)
Remy Ma
American rapper