10 Hollywood Stars You Didn't Know Had Killed People

Barely any of whom actually went to jail.

By Jesse Gumbarge /

Hollywood is a glamorous place, at least that's the way it's usually portrayed. Kids come from Nebraska and Oklahoma, become stars, make millions and live out the rest of their lives trying to hide from TMZ while they sleep next to their pile of money. A young aspiring filmmaker can work at a video-rental store in Manhattan Beach, California and go on to make million dollar movies the very next year. In Hollywood all things are possible. These next 10 Hollywood heavyweights however prove that sometimes people in the film industry do very bad things. And we're not talking about doing drugs and sleeping with prostitutes. We are talking about the final and definitive act of ending another person's life. That's right: there are some folk in Hollywood - be they actors, directors or writers - who have legitimately killed people in real life, either on purpose or by accident or in full-on war. Though this is nothing new, as far back as 1865 an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln; it is a shocking thing to hear that your favourite entertainers were once involved in murder, manslaughter or otherwise. Click next to start the countdown.