10 Celebs Who Survived Shocking Assassination Attempts
2. Russel Crowe
According to Crowe himself Al-Qaeda hatched a plan to kidnap and murder him in 2001. Their plan was allegedly to kidnap various American celebrities (even through Crowe is actually from New Zealand) in an attempt to destabilize Western culture.
Crowe claims that he was given a security detail from the FBI while filming a number of films. However the threat never really materialised.
When interviewed about this, Crowe responded saying 'mate, if you want to kidnap me, you’d better bring a mouth gag.' So it's not really clear how seriously he really took the threat.