10 Mysterious Celebrity Deaths That Shocked The World

The suspicious, the unexplained and the downright weird...

There€™s a case to be made that media prurience and the desire to make a news cycle out of a tragedy ends up rendering every celebrity death mysterious. After all, there are enough bird-brained conspiracy theorists out there who€™ll naively aid and abet a cynical editorial decision to extend the lifespan of a story in order to sell advertising space. Then there are the deaths which don€™t need to rely on delusion and the dollar to look suspicious. The murders that seem to stretch credibility, the accidents that don€™t quite look like accidents, and the completely unexplained. After all, a celebrity€™s life is full of weirdness: rabid fans and stalkers, more money than sense, a disconnection from real life, drug and/or alcohol dependency€ all of these things can provide the fertile ground for something dodgy to happen. When you look at it like that, it€™s surprising it doesn€™t happen more often. Here they are€ a selection of the most perplexing stories of fatal celebrity misfortune you€™ll ever hear about, stories which don€™t need the overcomplication of exaggeration and irrational thought processes to appear suspicious.

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