There are some well known and beloved famous people who overcame major personal obstacles, particularly those who grew up with parents involved in criminal activities.
Read more to learn of the most unsettling strories surrounding the crimes that these celebrities’ parents has committed.
Woody Harrelson
It’s hard to beleive that Harrelson’s father, Charles, was a convicted hitman who died while serving a life sentence in prison.
Actually, his father carried out the first assassination of a federal judge in the 20th century.
That’s not all, At one point, he also participated in an armed robbery. And was even rumored to be involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The actor confessed that he didn’t see or hear anything from his father since he left the family in 1968. And the first time he heard of him since he left them was when he was arrested for the the murder of judge John Wood.
Keanu Reeves
When Keanu was a boy, his father, Samuel Reeves, was arrested in Hawaii at the Hilo International Airport while trying to sell heroin.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but managed to got out on parole after only serving two years.
Reeves’ mom, who was a former Paris showgirl, raised Keanu and his siblings on her own for the most part, due to his father walking out on them multiple times through the years.
His father also admits that he spent 20 years battling a heroin addiction which made him estranged from his family, leaving them before even Keanu started school.
Keanu and his father have became estranged since then.
Diddy
When Diddy’s father died when he was just three years old, the musician was told for his entire life that he died in a car accident.
However, Diddy later learned the truth that his dad died during a botched drug deal, possibly while working for Frank Lucas, the notorious Harlem heroin trafficker dramatized in the 2007 film “American Gangster.”
Jamie Foreman
Jamie’s father, Freddie Foreman, was a legendary gangster known as the “Godfather of London,” who was also a member of the infamous gang The Firm, run by the notorious Kray Twins.
Freddie was accused of several murders, but was charged and sentenced to 10 years in prison for disposing the body of Jack “the Hat” McVitie.
Later, Freddie was imprisoned again for nine more years for being part of the Shoreditch Security Express robbery.
After that, Freddie confessed to the murders of Frank “Mad Axeman” Mitchell and Tommy “Ginger” Marks as well.
Kellie Pickler
Country music singer Kellie Pickler became famous by appearing in American Idol and Dancing with the stars.
The singer had a rocky upbringing, she was raised by her grandparents after both of her parents leaving her for the most part of her childhood.
Her father Clyde Pickler Jr. Spend three years in prison due to his long battle with alcoholisim which lead to multiple arrests like stabbing a neighbor and stealing vehicles.
In 2013, her father, Clyde “Bo” Pickler, Jr., missed a check-in with his probation officer which lead to him being declared a fugitive by the state of Florida.
Despite all this, Pickler has remained close and supportive of her father trying to repair their relationship, and they stayed in touch until his death in 2019.
Leighton Meester
The gossip gil star’s parents Douglas Jay and Constance Lynn were caught and send to prison for participating in an illegal international marijuana traficking operation. They were caught for smuggling 1,200 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Jamaica.
While her mother was in prison she found out that she was pregnant. Constance Lynn Meeseter was allowed to give birth outside of prison, in a Texas halfway house, But she went back to it shortly after.
While both of her parents were in prison, Leighton Meester was taken care of by her grandparents.
Meester’s family troubles didn’t end there. Her maternal aunt, who was also in prison fo being involved in the same drug-smuggling operation, broke out of jail and became the first woman ever to appear on the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted List.
That’s not all, her brother, Douglas Meester, was charged with rape while attending the Air Force Academy, but the charges were dropped in a plea deal in 2004.
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire’s father, Vincent, was arrested back in 1993 for robbing a bank. He allegedly robbed a bank without a mask in broad daylight, leaving with a bag of money. For his crime, Vincent was jailed for two years.
Admittedly, the reports about the crime are pretty vague, and Maguire has never disputed it.
Terrence Howard
Terrence Howard didn’t have the best relationship with his father. His father Tyrone Howard tormented, abused, and mistreated him on multiple occasions.
At the age of two, while waiting in line in a shopping mall to seat on Santa’s knee, a fight broke out between Terrence’s father, Tyrone, and another man, who accused them of cutting in line.
The fight ended with Tyrone stabbing the man many times with an unknown sharp object. The man would later die from his injuries.
The case will be later known as the “Santa Line Slaying.” Tyrone was sentenced to 11 months in prison for manslaughter.
Tyga
the Rapper admitted that he never met his father Stevie Stevenson. And he is currently serving life in California’s Solano State Prison.
Shortly after Tyga was born in 1989, Stevenson left the family before being imprisoned in 1991 due to kidnapping charges and more.
Hope Solo
Solo’s father, Jeffrey, was in prison at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary for embezzlement, when she was conceived during a conjugal visit.
Years later, after her parents seperated, her and her brother were kidnapped by her father.
Jeffrey took her and her brother to a baseball game and ended up kidnapping them for several days.
Eventually, Jeffrey was arrested and charged for taking the children.
Kevin Spacey
The actor has distanced himself from his family specially his father, even changing his last name to his mother’s maiden name.
He actually never talked about these accusations, about his past, or about his father.
His brother, Randall, has spoken at length about how their father was a Nazi sympathizer that would dress up like Hitler.
Randall also claimed that their father had sexually abuse him and another family member when they were children.
Lily and Alfie Allen
Lily and Alfie’s father, Keith Allen, is a famous British actor himself. However, he had a history of troublemaking for his entire life.
As an adult, Keith has been arrested and sent to priso a few times for various charges, usually involving drugs and alcohol and different forms of vandalism and violence.
He even spent time in prison for damaging the Zanzibar club in the 80s.
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj has openly discussed about her troubled childhood, and about her parents toxic relationship. Detailing how her parents would hit each other all the time, and how the police was always called to the house.
Her father, Robert was a crack-addict, who even attempted to murder her mother when she refused to give him money. He actually burned down their house while her mother was still inside.
In addition to this attempted murder, Nicki recalls another time when her father pulled her mother out of a car and dragged her on the ground for two blocks. But It’s unclear if he ever spent any time in prison for his actions.
Drew Barrymore
Since she was a child, the Hollywood star has experienced a very public tumultuous and unusual upbringing.
Her father, John Drew Barrymore, had a respected career as an actor. But it was all lost due to his drug and alcohol addiction. He faced several legal issues related to drug abuse, public drunkenness, and domestic violence from the 1950s through the 1960s.
Jackie Chan
The action star’s parents have a fascinating Hollywood story of how they met. Jackie Chan’s mother Lee-lee Chan was struggling with hard financial times and the recent loss of her husband, she abandoned her daughters in a Shanghai train station around 1945.
She then began to try to make money selling opium at the Shanghai ports. when she was caught by a police officer. Not only did he let her go, he also gave her the opium back. This officer was Charles, the man who would become her future husband and Jackie’s father.
He was also part of the street gang called the “Shandong Gang.”
His mother’s problems didn’t end there, she also got into gambling and used to pawn everything she owned. But charles, the officer would get back all her stuff and return them to her.
They later got married and had Jackie.
Charlize Theron
One night, when she was just 15, Theron’s alcoholic father allegedly started shooting his gun threatening to kill both Charlize and her mother.
It was then that Charlize’s mother, Gerda, grabbed another gun and shot and killed Charles. She was declared innocent due to self-defence.
After the incident, Theron and her mother moved from South Africa to the United States.
Lindsay Lohan
Like Lindsay Lohan, her father has also had numerous encounters with the law, ranging from drunk driving to drug possession.
It started in 1990, when he was convicted and sent to prison for three years for insider trading.
It wasn’t long before he went back to prison on numerous occasions, for charges ranging from a violation of probation to the aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
In addition to that, he also faced multiple arrests for domestic violence, and for trying to profit off of recovering patients.
Judith Barsi
Judith Barsi was a famous child actress. Her father, Jozsef, was a notorious alcoholic and had been arrested on drinking and driving charges multiple times. He constantly abused his wife and threatened to kill her and her daughter, There was even an investigation into child abuse. After several attempts to reach out for help from the police, no action was ever taken against Josef.
Sadly, Jozsef eventually shot and killed both Maria and Judith before burning their bodies. He then shot and killed himself before police found him.
]]>December :
Tom Wilkinson
Date of death : Dec.30
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Tom Wilkinson, the two-time Oscar nominated british actor who received numerous awards throughout his career including a BAFTA Award , a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, died on Dec. 30 at 75.
Wilkinson was best known for appearing in The Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love, Michael Clayton, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Kurtis “Mad Kurt” Chapman
Date of death : Dec. 29
Age : 25 years old
Cause of death : Still not confirmed
Kurtis Chapman, a british professional wreslter better known as Mad Kurt in the ring died on Dec.29 at 25, a precise cause of death was not confirmed.
Lee Sun-kyun
Date of death : Dec.27
Age : 48 years old
Cause of death : Still not confirmed
The south Korean actor who is best known for starring in the best picture winning film Parasire, died Dec.27 at 48.
The star was under investigation for alleged drug use when he was found dead in his car in Seoul.
Mbongeni Ngema
Date of death : Dec. 27
Age : 68 years old
Cause of death : a car accident
Mbongeni Ngema, a south African playwright and musician best known for writing the 1988 Broadway musical Sarafina, died Dec.27 at 68 in a car accident.
Tom Smothers
Date of death : Dec. 26
Age : 86 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Tom Smothers, the comedian best knwon as the one half of the Smothers Brothers musical comedy duo, died on Dec. 26 at 86, after a brief battle with cancer.
Henry Sandon
Date of death : Dec. 25
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : natural causes
Henry Sandon, a TV personality
Henry Sandon, an English TV personality, author, an antique expert, and longtime fixture of Antiques Roadshow, died on Dec. 25, at 95.
Richard Franklin
Date of death : Dec. 25
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : natural causes
Richard Franklin, a British actor, writer, director, best known for his role as Captain Mike Yates on Doctor Who, died on Dec. 25 at age 87.
David Leland
Date of death : Dec. 24
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
David Leland, a British actor, screenwriter, and director, who is best known for directing the 1987 film Wish You Were Here, died Dec. 24, at age 82.
Casey Kramer
Date of death : Dec. 24
Age : 67 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Casey Kramer, an actress on stage and screen, and the eldest daughter of director and producer Stanley Kramer, died Dec. 24, at 67.
Kamar de los Reyes
Date of death : Dec. 24
Age : 56 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Kamar de los Reyes, a Puerto Rican actor, who is best known for playing Antonio Vega on the soap opera, One Life to Live, died Dec. 24 at 56, after a brief battle with cancer.
Neel Nanda
Date of death : Dec. 24
Age : 32 years old
Cause of death : Still not confirmed
The Stand-up comedian Neel Nanda died Dec. 24 at age 32, a cause of death was not revealed.
Mike Nussbaum
Date of death : Dec. 23
Age : 99 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Mike Nussbaum, an actor and director who appeared in several films like House of Games, Things Change, and Fatal Attraction, died Dec. 23 at age 99.
Jim Ladd
Date of death : Dec. 17
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : Heart attack
Jim Ladd, a radio producer and writer, who went to promote rock music on SiriusXM’s Deep Tracks for over a decade, died on Dec. 17 at 75 from a heart attack.
James McCaffrey
Date of death : Dec. 17
Age : 65 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
James McCaffrey, the actor best known for his voice role as Max Payne in the hit video game trilogy, died on Dec. 17 at age 65 after a battle with cancer.
Colin Burgess
Date of death : Dec. 16
Age : 77 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Colin Burgess, an australian rock musician better known as the drummer in the Masters Apprentices from 1968 to 1972, and the original drummer of AC/DC, died on Dec. 16 at age 77.
Andre Braugher
Date of death : Dec. 11
Age : 61 years old
Cause of death : lung cancer
Andre Braugher, the two-time Emmy winning actor, who is best known for playing captain Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and starring in “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died Dec. 11 at 61 from lung cancer.
Michael Blakemore
Date of death : Dec. 10
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : Illness
Michael Blakemore, a stage director in both the West End and Broadway, better known for 1982’s Noises Off and 1998’s Copenhagen at the National, died Dec. 10 at 95 following a short illness.
Anna Cardwell
Date of death : Dec. 09
Age : 29 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
The half sister of Alana Thompson, Aka Honey Boo Boo and the eldest daughter of Mama June, died on Dec.9 at 29, after a brief battle with cancer.
Ryan O’Neal
Date of death : Dec. 08
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : heart failure
Ryan O’Neal, an Oscar-nominated actor, who rose to fame for the soap opera Peyton Place, and starring in 70s popular films like “Love Story,” “What’s Up, Doc?,” and “Barry Lyndon,” died Dec. 8 of a congestive heart failure.
Stan Rogow
Date of death : Dec. 07
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : not disclosed
the Emmy-nominated producer, best known for making the Disney Channel hit Lizzie McGuire died Dec.7, no cause of death has been disclosed.
Ellen Holly
Date of death : Dec. 06
Age : 92 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Holly, who is noted as the first American Black actress to appear on daytime television in a leading role, on the the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, died Dec.6 at 92.
Norman Lear
Date of death : Dec. 05
Age : 101 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
A legendary screenwriter, producer, and developer, behind iconic sitcoms like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, and One Day at a Time, died Dec. 5 at 101.
Denny Laine
Date of death : Dec. 05
Age : 79 years old
Cause of death : interstitial lung disease
An English musician who co-founded the two Rock bands the Moody Blues and Wings, died Dec.5 at age 79, from interstitial lung disease.
November
Shane McGowan
Date of death : Nov.30
Age : 65 years old
Cause of death : pneumonia
singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman and the primary lyricist of Celtic punk band the Pogues, died Nov. 30 at 65, from pneumonia at his home in Dublin.
Jack Axelrod
Date of death : Nov.28
Age : 93 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Jack Axelrod, an actor who appeared on General Hospital and guest starred in Grey’s Anatomy, My Name Is Earl, and many other shows, died on Nov. 28 at 93 of natural causes.
Frances Sternhagen
Date of death : Nov.27
Age : 93 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Frances Sternhagen, the two-time Tony Award winner actress who appeared on Broadway, movine, and television for over six decades, died Nov.27 at age 93.
Jean Knight
Date of death : Nov.22
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Jean Knight, the Grammy-nominated R&B and soul singer behind the 1971 hit “Mr. Big Stuff,” died on Nov. 22 of natural causes, at age 80.
Mars Williams
Date of death : Nov.20
Age : 68 years old
Cause of death : Ampullary cancer
Mars Williams, a jazz and rock saxophonist for the bands ; the Waitresses, the Psychedelic Furs, Liquid Soul, and NRG Ensemble died Nov. 20 at 68 following a battle with ampullary cancer.
Joss Ackland
Date of death : Nov.19
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Joss Ackland, an English actor with an acting career spanning eight decades of theater, film, and television, died Nov. 19 at age 95.
Peter Spellos
Date of death : Nov.19
Age : 69 years old
Cause of death : pancreatic cancer
Peter Spellos, an actor who appeared in hundreds of films and television shows including NBC’s American Dreams, as well as his copious voiceover work, died Nov. 19 at 69, from pancreatic cancer.
Suzanne Shepherd
Date of death : Nov.17
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Suzanne Shepherd, an actress and theater director known for playing the roles of mothers to iconic mob wives in both Goodfellas and The Sopranos, died in her New York City home on Nov. 17 at the age of 89.
George Brown
Date of death : Nov.15
Age : 74 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
George “Funky” Brown, the longtime drummer and co-founding member of the R&B, soul, and funk band Kool & the Gang, died Nov. 15 at 74 after a battle with cancer.
Kevin Turen
Date of death : Nov.12
Age : 44 years old
Cause of death : Heart issues
Kevin Turen, an Emmy-nominated film and television producer the X film series, the Idol, and HBO’s Euphoria, died on Nov. 12 at 44 from multiple heart issues.
Conny Van Dyke
Date of death : Nov. 11
Age : 78 years old
Cause of death : vascular dementia complications
Conny Van Dyke, the actress and singer-songwriter, best knwon for her hit songs “Oh, Freddy” and “It Hurt Me Too,” and for starring in films such as Hell’s Angels ’69, Framed, and W.W. died Nov. 11.
She died at the age of 78 from complications due to vascular dementia.
Janet Landgard
Date of death : Nov.06
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : brain cancer
Janet Landgard, a model and an actress who starred in The Swimmer and on The Donna Reed Show, died Nov. 6 at 75, following a brain cancer diagnosis.
Ross McDonnell
Date of death : Nov.05
Age : 44 years old
Cause of death : not been determined
Ross McDonnell, the Emmy-winning Irish cinematographer, director, and photographer, died Nov. 5 at 44, after he went missing on Nov. 4 while biking in Brooklyn.
After a body was discovered on a beach in Breezy Point, Queens on 17 November, it was confirmed to be McDonnell on Nov.22, foul play was not suspected.
Evan Ellingson
Date of death : Nov.05
Age : 35 years old
Cause of death : an accidental opioid overdose
Evan Ellingson, the former child actor best known for playing Kyle Harmon in CSI: Miami and Jesse Fitzgerald in the 2009 film My Sister’s Keeper, died Nov. 5 at the age of 35.
His cause of death was determined to be an accidental opioid overdose.
Peter White
Date of death : Nov. 01
Age : 86 years old
Cause of death : melanoma
Peter White, the actor who rose to fame for his groundbreaking role in The Boys in the Band, and for appearing in All My Children, died Nov. 1 at age 86 after battling melanoma.
October
Tyler Christopher
Date of death : Oct. 31
Age : 50 years old
Cause of death : a cardiac event
Tyler Christopher, the actor best known for his work on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. died on Oct. 31 at age 50 from a cardiac event in San Diego.
Aaron Spears
Date of death : Oct. 30
Age : 47 years old
Cause of death : undisclosed causes
Aaron Spears, the Grammy-nominated drummer who worked with huge stars like Usher, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, and many more, died Oct. 30, at 47, from undisclosed causes.
Matthew Perry
Date of death : Oct. 28
Age : 54 years old
Cause of death : acute effects of ketamine
Matthew Perry, the actor best known for playing the role of sarcastic but lovable Chandler Bing on the popular NBC sitcom “Friends,” died Oct. 28, at the age of 54.
He was pronounced dead after he was found unconscious in his hot tub. The cause of death was later determined to be acute effects of ketamine
Judy Nugent
Date of death : Oct. 26
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Judy Nugent, the former child actress best known for her role in the sitcom The Ruggles and Adventures of Superman died on Oct. 26 from cancer at age 83.
Richard Moll
Date of death : Oct. 26
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Richard Moll, the actor better known for playing “Bull” Shannon, a bailiff on the sitcom Night Court, anf for voicing Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, died Oct.26.
Richard Roundtree
Date of death : Oct. 24
Age : 81 years old
Cause of death : pancreatic cancer
Richard Roundtree, the actor best known for playing the private detective John Shaft in the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft and four of its sequels, died Oct. 24 at age 81 from pancreatic cancer.
Haydn Gwynne
Date of death : Oct. 20
Age : 66 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
The British actress best known for her role in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical, and for appearing in the The Windsors, and The Crown, died Oct. 20, at 66, following a recent cancer diagnosis.
The 45 King
Date of death : Oct. 19
Age : 62 years old
Cause of death : undisclosed causes
Mark Howard James, The hip hop producer and DJ known as the 45 king, who first rose to fame for his signature 1987 hit song “The 900 Number”, died Oct. 19, at age 62. No cause of death was disclosed.
Dwight Twilley
Date of death : Oct. 18
Age : 72 years old
Cause of death : A stroke
The pop/rock singer and songwriter known for her hit songs “I’m on Fire” and “Girls”, died Oct. 18, at 72, of a massive stroke while driving.
Joanna Merlin
Date of death : Oct. 15
Age : 92 years old
Cause of death : myelodysplastic syndrome
An actress and casting director who starred in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof, died on Oct. 15, at age 92, from myelodysplastic syndrome.
Suzanne Somers
Date of death : Oct. 15
Age : 76 years old
Cause of death : breast cancer
Suzanne Somers, actress, singer, author, and businesswoman better known for her roles in Three’s company and Step by Step, died Oct. 15, one day shy of her 77th birthday.
Piper Laurie
Date of death : Oct. 14
Age : 91 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
The Oscar-nominated actress best known for her roles in The Hustler, Carrie, and the television series Twin Peaks, died Oct. 14, at age 91.
Louise Glück
Date of death : Oct. 13
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
A poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, and the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections The Triumph of Achilles and The Wild Iris, died Oct. 13, at 80.
Lara Parker
Date of death : Oct. 12
Age : 84 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Mary Lamar Rickey better known as Lara Parker, an actress best known for her as Angelique on the ABC-TV soap opera Dark Shadows, died Oct. 12 at age 84.
Phyllis Coates
Date of death : Oct. 11
Age : 96 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Phyllis Coates, an actress better known as the first actress to portrayal Lois Lane on television in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Menand the first season of Adventures of Superman, died Oct. 11 at 96.
Mark Goddard
Date of death : Oct. 10
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : pulmonary fibrosis
Mark Goddard, the actor best known for his role as Major Don West in the CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space, died Oct. 10, at 87, from pulmonary fibrosis.
Jeff Burr
Date of death : Oct. 10
Age : 60 years old
Cause of death : Stroke
A film director, writer, and producer whose credits included horror sequels, such as Stepfather II, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Puppet Master 4 and 5, and Pumpkinhead II, died Oct. 10, at age 60.
Keith Giffen
Date of death : Oct. 9
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : Stroke
A comic artist and writer who worked for DC comics on many books at both DC and Marvel, as well as co-creating Lobo, Rocket Raccoon, and Jaime Reyes, died Oct. 9 at 70.
Burt Young
Date of death : Oct. 8
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : a cardiac arrest
Gerald Tommaso DeLouise better known as Burt Young, a former boxer and actor known for playing his Oscar-nominated role Paulie Pennino in the Rocky film series, died Oct. 8, at 83.
Terence Davies
Date of death : Oct. 7
Age : 77 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
A British screenwriter, film director, and novelist better known for writing and directing autobiographical films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, and collage film Of Time and the City, died Oct. 7 at 77.
Dick Butkus
Date of death : Oct. 5
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : Stroke
Dick Butkus, the football linebacker from the Chicago Bears who later became an actor, died Oct. 5 at age 80 from a stroke.
Keith Jefferson
Date of death : Oct. 5
Age : 53 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Keith Jefferson, an actor, producer, and voice actor best known for appearing in several Quentin Tarantino films, died Oct. 5 at 53.
Shawna Trpcic
Date of death : Oct. 4
Age : 56 years old
Cause of death : an unknown cause
Shawna Trpcic, the Emmy-nominated costume designer known for designing looks for Firefly, Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett, and The Mandalorian, died Oct. 4 at 56.
September
Michael Gambon
Date of death : Sept. 28
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : Pneumonia
The Irish-English actor better known for playin Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” films, died September 27, at 82 after a bout with pneumonia.
David McCallum
Date of death : Sept. 25
Age : 90 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
The Scottich actor best known for starring in The Man From UNCLE, and for his role on NCIS, died Sept. 25, at 90.
Nashawn Breedlove
Date of death : Sept. 24
Age : 46 years old
Cause of death : fentanyl, cocaine and ethano overdose
Nashawn Breedlove, the actor and rapper best known for the 2002’s 8 Mile, died on Sept. 24 at age 46, of multiple substance abuse overdose.
Terry Kirkman
Date of death : Sept. 23
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : congestive heart failure
The singer-songwriter better known as the founding member and the vocalist of the ’60s folk-rock band the Association, died Sept. 23 at 83, from congestive heart failure.
Nic Kerdiles
Date of death : Sept. 23
Age : 29 years old
Cause of death : a motorcycle accident
The American professional ice hockey player who played with the Anaheim Ducks, died Sept. 23 at the age of 29 after a motorcycle accident.
Roger Whittaker
Date of death : Sept. 13
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : complications following a long illness
The British folk singer-songwriter known internationally for his 1971 single “The Last Farewell”, as well as his trademark whistling ability, died Sept. 13 at 87.
Irish Grinstead
Date of death : Sept. 16
Age : 43 years old
Cause of death : not revealed
Irish Grinstead, the singer who was known as the member of the R&B girl group 702, died on Sep. 16, at the age of 43. While no cause of death was provided, Irish had been battling “serious medical issues”.
Billy Miller
Date of death : Sept. 15
Age : 43 years old
Cause of death : suicide
The actor who was recognized for his work on soap operas including The Young and the Restless and General Hospital died on Sept. 15 at the age of 43.
The cause of death has been ruled as suicide of a gunshot wound to the head after years of battling bipolar and depression.
Michael McGrath
Date of death : Sept. 14
Age : 65 years old
Cause of death : not determined
The Tony award-winning broadway actor best known for his performance in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, died on Sept. 14 at 65.
Charlie Robison
Date of death : Sept. 10
Age : 59 years old
Cause of death : cardiac arrest
The country singer-songwriter best known for the single hit “I Want You Bad,” died Sept. 10 at age 59 from cardiac arrest and other complications.
Gary Wright
Date of death : Sept. 4
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : Parkinson’s disease
The musician and composer better known for his 1976 hit songs “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive”, died Sept. 4 at the age of 80.
Steve Harwell
Date of death : Sept. 4
Age : 56 years old
Cause of death : liver failure
The founding member and lead vocalist and frontman for the rock band Smash Mouth, died Sept. 4 at the age of 56 of liver failure after years of alcoholism.
Marcia DeRousse
Date of death : Sept. 2
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : Illness
The actress better known for her roles on True Blood, St. Elsewhere, The Fall Guy and Schooled, died Sept. 2 at 70, after a long illness.
Jimmy Buffett
Date of death : Sept. 2
Age : 76 years old
Cause of death : Skin cancer
The musician and singer-songwriter best known for his tropical rock sound and persona, died Sept. 2 at the age of 76 of complications from a rare skin cancer.
Auguest
Gayle Hunnicutt
Date of death : Aug. 31
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
A film, television and stage actress who appeared on over 30 films, died on Aug. 31 at 80.
Jack Sonni
Date of death : Aug. 30
Age : 68 years old
Cause of death : pneumonia
A writer, musician, and marketing executive, best known as “the other guitarist” of the legendary rock band Dire Straits, died Aug. 30 at age 68 of pneumonia.
Robert Klane
Date of death : Aug. 29
Age : 81 years old
Cause of death : kidney failure
A screenwriter, novelist and filmmaker, known for his screenplays for dark comedies such as Where’s Poppa? and Weekend at Bernie’s, died Aug. 29 at 81.
Faye Fantarrow
Date of death : Aug. 26
Age : 21 years old
Cause of death : Brain tumor
An English up-and-coming singer-songwriter, died on Aug. 26 at age 21 after a battle with a rare and agressive Glioma brain tumor.
Bob Barker
Date of death : Aug. 26
Age : 99 years old
Cause of death : Alzheimer’s disease
The Emmy Award-winning gameshow host Bob Barker, who worked on “The Price Is Right” and “Truth or Consequences for five decades died Aug. 26. at 99.
Arleen Sorkin
Date of death : Aug. 24
Age : 67 years old
Cause of death : complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis
An actress, comedian, screenwriter, and television presenter best known for portraying Calliope Jones on days of our lives, and for co-creating and voicing the DC Comics character Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series. Died on Aug. 24 at 67.
Bernie Marsden
Date of death : Aug. 24
Age : 72 years old
Cause of death : bacterial meningitis
an English rock and blues guitarist who is known for his work with the metal band Whitesnake in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Aug. 24 at 72.
Bray Wyatt
Date of death : Aug. 24
Age : 36 years old
Cause of death : a heart attack
Windham Lawrence Rotund, known professionaly as Bray Wyatt, a third generation WWE star, died on Aug. 24 at 36 of a heart attack.
Hersha Parady
Date of death : Aug. 23
Age : 78 years old
Cause of death : brain tumor
The actress best known for playing the schoolteacher Alice Garvey in Little House on the Prairie, died on Aug. 23 at age 78.
Terry Funk
Date of death : Aug. 23
Age : 79 years old
Cause of death : dementia
The professional wrestler who is onsidered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, with a career that spanned more than five decades, died Aug. 23 at age 79.
Elizabeth Hoffman
Date of death : Aug. 21
Age : 97 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Elizabeth Hoffman, the actress best known for her role as Beatrice Reed Ventnor on the NBC drama Sisters, died Aug. 21 at 97.
David Jacobs
Date of death : Aug. 20
Age : 84 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
A television writer, producer, and director, well known for creating iconic ’80s soaps like Dallas, Knots Landing, and Paradise, died Aug. 20 at 84.
Ron Cephas Jones
Date of death : Aug. 19
Age : 66 years old
Cause of death : a long-standing pulmonary issue
An actor best known for his his role as William Hill on the hit NBC family drama This Is Us, died Aug. 19 at the age of 66, from a long-standing pulmonary issue.
Ray Hildebrand
Date of death : Aug. 18
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : Dementia
The one half of the pop singing duo Paul & Paula, best known for their 1962 million-selling, number-one hit record, “Hey Paula”, died on Aug.18 at 82.
Nancy Frangione
Date of death : Aug. 18
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : unknown
A soap opera actress best known for her roles as Cecile DePoulignac on Another World and Tara Martin on All My Children, died Aug. 18 at age 70.
Rose Gregorio
Date of death : Aug. 17
Age : 97 years old
Cause of death : pneumonia
A stage and on-screen actress who appeared mostly in supporting roles during the 70s, died Aug. 17 at age 97 from pneumonia.
Jerry Moss
Date of death : Aug. 16
Age : 88 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Jerry Moss, a recording executive and the co-founder of A&M Records, died Aug. 16 at the age of 88.
Chris Peluso
Date of death : Aug. 15
Age : 40 years old
Cause of death : schizoaffective disorder
The Broadway star who is better known for starring roles in Mamma Mia and Wicked, died Aug. 15 at age 40.
Magoo
Date of death : Aug. 13
Age : 50 years old
Cause of death : a heart attack
Melvin “Magoo” Barcliff, a rapper and producer best known as the one half of rap duo Timbaland & Magoo, died Aug. 13 at 50 of a heart attack.
Clarence Avant
Date of death : Aug. 13
Age : 92 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
a prominent American music executive and film produce, who is widely recognized as “The Black Godfather”, died Aug. 13 at age 92.
Darren Kent
Date of death : Aug. 11
Age : 36 years old
Cause of death : osteoporosis, arthritis and an extremely rare skin disorder
The British actor, writer, and director best known for his role in Game of Thrones, died on Aug. 11 at age 36, after long battles with osteoporosis, arthritis and an extremely rare skin disorder.
Tom Jones
Date of death : Aug. 11
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
The lyricist and writer best known for The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade, and I Do! I Do!, died on Aug. 11 at age 95.
Shelley Smith
Date of death : Aug. 8
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : complications of cardiac arrest
The fashion model who worked in the 70s and early 80s turned actress starring in The Associates and For Love and Honor, died Aug. 8 at age 70.
Robbie Robertson
Date of death : Aug. 9
Age : 80 years old
Cause of death : prostate cancer
The legendary Canadian musician best known for being the lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, and the former frontman of The Band, died August 9 at 80.
Robert Swan
Date of death : Aug. 9
Age : 78 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Robert Swan, a character actor known for his performances in Hoosiers, The Untouchables, and Natural Born Killers, died on Aug. 9 at 78 after a long battle with cancer.
Sixto Rodriguez
Date of death : Aug. 9
Age : 81 years old
Cause of death : Stroke
The musician from Detroit whose talent was highlighted in the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, died on Aug. 9 at 81.
Johnny Hardwick
Date of death : Aug. 8
Age : 64 years old
Cause of death : still undetermined
The actor best known as the voice of Dale Gribble in the animated television series King of the Hill, died Aug. 8 at age 64.
DJ Casper
Date of death : Aug. 7
Age : 58 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
A disc jockey rom Chicago, known as “Casper” and for creating the world famous dance anthem “Cha Cha Slide,” died on Aug. 7 at age 58, after a long battle with cancer.
William Friedkin
Date of death : Aug. 7
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : heart failure and pneumonia
A five time Academy Award-winning director best known for directing The French Connection and The Exorcist, died Aug. 7 at the age of 87.
Herbert J. Siegel
Date of death : Aug. 5
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Herbert J. Siegel, a billionaire businessman in the entertainment industry, died on Aug. 5 at age 95.
John Gosling
Date of death : Aug. 4
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : not been disclosed
A British keyboardist, pianist and vocalist, best known for being a member of The Kinks and The Kast Off Kinks, died Aug. 4 at age 75.
Mark Margolis
Date of death : Aug. 3
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : an illness
The actor best known for playing the character Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad, died on Aug. 3 at age 83.
Clifton Oliver
Date of death : Aug. 2
Age : 47 years old
Cause of death : an illness
Broadway actor Clifton Oliver died on Aug. 2 at the age of 47 from an undisclosed illness.
July
Angus Cloud
Date of death : July 31
Age : 25 years old
Cause of death : accidental overdose of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and benzodiazepines.
An actor best known for his portrayal of Fezco in the hit HBO teen drama Euphoria, died July 31 at 25, of an accidental overdose of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and benzodiazepines.
Carol Duvall
Date of death : July 31
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
A television personality known for hosting arts and crafts-themed programming, like The Carol Duvall Show, died July 31 at 95.
Paul Reubens
Date of death : July 30
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian best known for creating the character Pee-wee Herman, died on July 30 at age 70, from cancer.
Marc Gilpin
Date of death : July 29
Age : 56 years old
Cause of death : glioblastoma
The former child actor best known fo playing Sean Brody in Jaws 2, died July 29 at age 56, after a long battle with glioblastoma.
Sinéad O’Connor
Date of death : July 26
Age : 56 years old
Cause of death : not been revealed
Sinéad O’Connor, an Irish singer-songwriter best known for her two albums The Lion and the Cobra, and I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, died July 26 at age 56.
Bo Goldman
Date of death : July 25
Age : 90 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
A playwright and screenwriter who won two Academy Awards for his screenplays of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Melvin and Howard, died July 25 at 90.
Inga Swenson
Date of death : July 23
Age : 90 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Inga Swenson, a singer and broadway actress who received three Primetime Emmy nominations for her role as Gretchen Kraus on Benson, died on July 23 at 90.
Pamela Blair
Date of death : July 23
Age : 73 years old
Cause of death : complications of colon surgery
Pamela Blair, the Broadway and soap opera actress best known for originating the role of Val in smash hit musical A Chorus Line, died on July 23 at 73.
Lelia Goldoni
Date of death : July 22
Age : 86 years old
Cause of death : complications from Alzheimer’s disease
Lelia Goldoni, an actress best known for starring in John Cassavettes’ Shadows and in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died July 22 at age 86.
Tony Bennett
Date of death : July 21
Age : 96 years old
Cause of death : Alzheimer’s disease
Tony Bennett, the Jazz and master pop vocalist whose career spanned eight decades with a No. 1 album at age 85, died on July 21 at 96, following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Jerome Coppersmith
Date of death : July 21
Age : 97 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
A Screenwriter, playwright, and screenwriting best known for his work on the classic police drama Hawaii Five-O, died July 21 at age 97.
Linda Haynes
Date of death : July 17
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : not revealed
Linda Haynes, the retired 70s actress best known for her performances in Rolling Thunder and Brubaker, died July 17 at age 75.
Jane Birkin
Date of death : July 16
Age : 76 years old
Cause of death : Not disclosed
Jane Birkin, the British and French actress who had a prolific career in French cinema, died July 16 at 76.
Nick Benedict
Date of death : July 14
Age : 77 years old
Cause of death : complications from a surgery
Nick Benedict, the actor best known for his role on Days of Our Lives, and his Daytime Emmy Award performance in All My Children, died July 14 at 77.
Josephine Chaplin
Date of death : July 13
Age : 74 years old
Cause of death : Unknown
Josephine Chaplin, the actress and daughter of filmaking legend Charlie Chaplin, died July 13 at age 74.
Carlin Glynn
Date of death : July 13
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : lung cancer
Carlin Glynn, the actress best known for playing Molly Ringwald’s mom in Sixteen Candles, and for starring in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died July 13 at 83.
Andrea Evans
Date of death : July 9
Age : 66 years old
Cause of death : breast cancer
Andrea Evans, the soap opera actress best known for her portrayal of Tina Lord on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, died July 9 at 66.
George Tickner
Date of death : July 5
Age : 76 years old
Cause of death : pneumonia
The rock musician, co-founding member, co-lyricist, and the original rhythm guitarist of Journey, died July 5 at age 76.
Coco Lee
Date of death : July 5
Age : 48 years old
Cause of death : Suicide
Coco Lee, the Hong Kong singer-songwriter best known for voicing Mulan in the Mandarin version of Mulan and was a part of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Runaway Bride soundtracks, died by suicide July 5 at 48.
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez
Date of death : July 2
Age : 19 years old
Cause of death : accidental overdose
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, the grandson of actor Robert De Niro, died July 2 at age 19, of an accidental overdose of drugs combination.
Robert Lieberman
Date of death : July 1
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : cancer
Robert Lieberman, a film and television director whose credits included the films D3: The Mighty Ducks and Fire in the Sky, the TV series The X-Files and Dexter, died July 1, at 75.
Lawrence Turman
Date of death : July 1
Age : 96 years old
Cause of death : natural causes
Lawrence Turman, the Academy Award-nominated film producer best known for his film The Graduate, died July 1 at the age of 96.
June
Alan Arkin
Date of death : June 29
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : congestive heart failure
Alan Arkin, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” and a prolofic director, producer and author with a career that spanned seven decades, died June 29 at his home Calif. He was 89.
Julian Sands
Date of death : June 27
Age : 65 years old
Cause of death : undetermined
Julian Sands, the British actor best known for his roles in “A Room With a View”, “Warlock,” was confirmed dead on June 27, five months after being reported missing following a hike near Mt. Baldy in Southern California. He was 65.
Nicolas Coster
Date of death : June 26
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : cancer
Nicolas Coster, the soap opera star best known for the role of Lionel Lockridge on NBC’s Santa Barbara, died June 26 at age 89.
Frederic Forrest
Date of death : June 24
Age : 86 years old
Cause of death : congestive heart failure
Frederic Forrest, the actor actor who was known for his roles in Apocalypse Now, and the 1979 musical drama The Rose, died June 24 at age 86.
Betta St. John
Date of death : June 23
Age : 93 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Betta St. John, the actress, singer, and dancer who worked on Broadway, the West End, and in Hollywood films, such as Dream Wife, died June 23 at 93.
Malcolm Mowbray
Date of death : June 23
Age : 74 years old
Cause of death : complications of dementia.
Malcolm Mowbray, the British screenwriter and director behind the making of A Private Function and Out Cold, died June 23, at 74, from complications of dementia.
Sheldon Harnick
Date of death : June 23
Age : 99 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Sheldon Harnick, a lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock in musicals like Fiddler on the Roof, died June 23 at the age of 99.
Milton ‘Big Pokey’ Powell
Date of death : June 18
Age : 45 years old
Cause of death : a heart attack
Milton Jerome Powell Jr. The rapper known by his stage name Big Pokey, died June 18 at the age 45, from a heart attack.
Paxton Whitehead
Date of death : June 16
Age : 85 years old
Cause of death : complications of a fall
Paxton Whitehead, the Tony award nominee English actor and theatre director best known for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot, died June 16 at the age of 85.
Glenda Jackson
Date of death : June 15
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : Illness
The two Academy Awards, and three Emmy Awards winner actress best known for her roles in Women in Love and A Touch of Class, died June 15, at age 87, after a short illness.
Brett Hadley
Date of death : June 14
Age : 92 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Brett Hadley, a soap apera actor known for his longtime role in The Young and The Restless, died June 14 at the age of 92.
Treat Williams
Date of death : June 12
Age : 71 years old
Cause of death : a motorcycle accident
The actor who rose to fame with role in the 1979: musical Hair, and for his portrayal of Dr. “Andy” Brown on Everwood, died June 12, at age 71, after a motorcycle accident.
John Romita Sr.
Date of death : June 12
Age : 93 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
John Romita Sr., the comic book artist who shaped Marvel’s art style for generations best known for his work on The amazing Spider-Man, died June 12 at age 93.
Pat Cooper
Date of death : June 6
Age : 93 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Pat Cooper, the actor and stand-up comedian known for his appearances on The Howard Stern Show, Seinfeld, and the film Analyze This and its sequel, died June 6 at age 93.
Mike Batayeh
Date of death : June 1
Age : 52 years old
Cause of death : a heart attack
Mike Batayeh, the comedian and actor best known for his role on Breaking Bad, died June 1 at age 52 of a heart attack.
Cynthia Weil
Date of death : June 1
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Cynthia Weil, the Rock and Roll hall of famer who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann, died June 1, at age 82.
May
Sergio Calderón
Date of death : May 31
Age : 77 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Sergio Calderón, the actor known for his appearances in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Men In Black franchises, and Ruins, died on May 31 at 77.
George Maharis
Date of death : May 24
Age : 94 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
George Maharis, the actor, singer, and visual artist best known for portraying Buz Murdock on the 1960 drama series Route 66, died May 24 at the age of 94.
Tina Turner
Date of death : May 24
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Tina Turner, the legendary Soulful diva and the Queen of Rock & Roll, who run the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, died May 24, at 83, in Switzerland.
Ray Stevenson
Date of death : May 21
Age : 58 years old
Cause of death : Not revealed
Ray Stevenson, the Northern Irish actor best known for playing the Asgardian warrior Volstagg in the Thor movies and the antihero Frank Castle in Punisher: War Zone, died May 21 at 58.
Leon Ichaso
Date of death : May 20
Age : 74 years old
Cause of death : a heart attack
The writer and film director, best known for his works including El Super, Crossover Dreams, Bitter Sugar, Piñero, and El Cantante, died May 20 at 74.
Andy Rourke
Date of death : May 19
Age : 59 years old
Cause of death : pancreatic cancer
Andy Rourke, the English musician best known as the bassist of the Smiths, died May 19 at 59 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Jim Brown
Date of death : May 18
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Jim Brown, the legendary fullback for the Cleveland Browns, civil rights advocate, who turned Hollywood action hero, died May 18 at 87.
Sharon Farrell
Date of death : May 18
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Sharon Farrell, the television and film actress, and dancer best known for her roles in It’s Alive, Marlowe, and The Young and the Restless, died May 15 at age 82.
Samantha Weinstein
Date of death : May 14
Age : 28 years old
Cause of death : cancer
Samantha Weinstein, the Canadian voice and on-screen actress best known for starring in the remake of Carrie, died on May 14 at 28 from cancer.
Barry Newman
Date of death : May 11
Age : 92 years old
Cause of death : a lung infection
Barry Newman, stage, film, and television actor known for his portrayal of Kowalski in Vanishing Point and for playing a maverick lawyer on Petrocelli, died May 11 at 92.
Jacklyn Zeman
Date of death : May 9
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Jacklyn Zeman, the actress who played the role of Bobbie Spencer on General Hospital for more than 40 years, died May 9 at the age of 70.
Lisa Montell
Date of death : May 7
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : heart problems and sepsis.
Lisa Montell, a Hollywood’s ‘50s and ’60s actress, died on March 7 at age 89 of heart problems and sepsis.
Gerald Castillo
Date of death : May 4
Age : 90 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Gerald Castillo, the actor known for his role as A.C. Slater’s dad on Saved by the Bell and Judge Davis Wagner on General Hospital, died May 4, at age 90.
Eileen Saki
Date of death : May 1
Age : 79 years old
Cause of death : pancreatic cancer
Eileen Saki, the actress known for being the longest-running actress to play Rosie, proprietor of Rosie’s Bar in the classic television series M*A*S*H, died May 1 at 79, from pancreatic cancer.
Gordon Lightfoot
Date of death : May 1
Age : 84 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, and guitarist, referred to as Canada’s greatest songwriter best known in the United States for his songs “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” died on May 1. He was 84.
April
Jock Zonfrillo
Date of death : April 30
Age : 46 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Jock Zonfrillo, a famous Scottish chef, author, restaurateur, and MasterChef Australia judge, died April 30 in Melbourne. He was 46.
Jerry Springer
Date of death : April 27
Age : 79 years old
Cause of death : pancreatic cancer
Jerry Springer, A man of many talents, a broadcaster, journalist, actor, producer, lawyer, and politicianthe whose known for hosting his controversial talk show The Jerry Springer Show, died on April 27. He was 79.
Harry Belafonte
Date of death : April 25
Age : 96 years old
Cause of death : congestive heart failure
A legendary Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who popularized calypso music in the U.S. in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Died April 25 at his Manhattan home of congestive heart failure. He was 96.
Barry Humphries (a.k.a. Dame Edna Everage)
Date of death : April 22
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : complications from hip surgery
Barry Humphries, the Tony-winning Australian comedian, actor and creator of Dame Edna Everage, died April 22 at the age of 89.
Moonbin
Date of death : April 19
Age : 25 years old
Cause of death : Suicide
Moonbin, a South Korean singer, actor and dancer, who’s a member of K-pop band Astro, died April 19 at the age of 25.
Mark Sheehan
Date of death : April 14
Age : 46 years old
Cause of death : undisclosed illness
Mark Sheehan, The Irish musician better known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the Irish rock band the Script, died on April 14 following a “brief illness.” He was 46.
Carol Locatell
Date of death : April 11
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Carol Locatell, the actress best known for her role as Ethel Hubbard in the 1985 slasher Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, died April 11 following a battle with cancer. She was 82.
Al Jaffee
Date of death : April 10
Age : 102 years old
Cause of death : multiple organ failure
Al Jaffee, an award-winning and the longest-running contributor in the satirical magazine Mad, died April 10 from multiple organ failure. He was 102.
Elizabeth Hubbard
Date of death : April 8
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Elizabeth Hubbard, the Daytime Emmy-winning soap opera star best known for her roles in The doctors, and As the World Turns , died April 8 the age of 89.
Michael Lerner
Date of death : April 8
Age : 81 years old
Cause of death : complications from brain seizures
Michel Lerner, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for his role as Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, and for starring in Eight Men Out, died on April 8. He was 81.
Paul Cattermole
Date of death : April 6
Age : 46 years old
Cause of death : heart failure
Paul Cattermole, an English singer and a founding member of British pop group S Club 7, died April 6. He was 46.
Heklina
Date of death : April 3
Age : 54 years old
Cause of death : not been revealed
Stefan Grygelko better known by the stage name Heklina, a San Francisco drag legend and entrepreneur, died on April 3 at age 54.
Judy Farrell
Date of death : April 2
Age : 84 years old
Cause of death : stroke
Judy Farrell, the actress and writer noted for her role as Nurse Able on CBS’ Tv series M*A*S*H, died April 2 after suffering a stroke nine days earlier. She was 84.
March
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Date of death : March 28
Age : 71 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor famous for his work in The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, died of cancer on March 28 at the age of 71.
For his contributions in films as a composer, he won an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Grammy, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Nicholas Lloyd Webber
Date of death : March 25
Age : 43 years old
Cause of death : gastric cancer
Nicholas “Nick” Lloyd Webber, a Grammy-nominated composer, record producer, and the son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died March 25 following an 18-month battle with gastric cancer. He was 43.
Tom Leadon
Date of death : March 22
Age : 70 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Tom Leadon, the singer and guitarist best known as one of the founding members of Tom Petty’s original band, Mudcrutch, died on March 22, at 70.
Wayne Swinny
Date of death : March 22
Age : 59 years old
Cause of death : brain hemorrhage
Wayne Swinny, a guitarist and one of the founding members of the metal band Saliva, died March 22 at 59 after suffering a brain hemorrhage while on tour.
Peter Werner
Date of death : March 21
Age : 76 years old
Cause of death : torn aorta
Peter Werner, a film and television director who worked on such TV series as Moonlighting, Justified, and Elementary, died on March 21 of a torn aorta. He was 76.
Lance Reddick
Date of death : March 17
Age : 60 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Lance Reddick, the actor who appeared in hit TV series like “The Wire,” “Fringe” and “Bosch” and films like the “John Wick” franchise, died on March 17 of natural causes. He was 60.
Sharon Acker
Date of death : March 16
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Sharon Acker, a Canadian film, stage, and television actress best known for playing secretary Della Street in The New Perry Mason, died March 16, at 87.
Bobby Caldwell
Date of death : March 14
Age : 71 years old
Cause of death : illness
Bobby Caldwell, the soulful singer-songwriter behind hit like “What You Won’t Do for Love,” and “Open Your Eyes,”, died on March 14 after a long illness. He was 71.
Bert I. Gordon
Date of death : March 8
Age : 100 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Bert I. Gordon, the filmmaker, and visual effects artist behind some of cinema’s greatest giant-monster films, died March 8 at the age of 100.
Tom Sizemore
Date of death : March 3
Age : 61 years old
Cause of death : brain aneurysm
Tom Sizemore, an actor best known for his roles in Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, and Heat, died March 3 at 61 after suffering a brain aneurysm.
Wayne Shorter
Date of death : March 2
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Wayne Shorter, a jazz saxophonist legend, composer, and bandleader, died March 2 at the age of 89.
Ted Donaldson
Date of death : March 1
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : complications from a fall
Ted Donaldson, the former child actor best known for playing Cornelius “Neeley” Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Bud Anderson in the original radio version of Father Knows Best, died March 1 of complications from a fall. He was 89.
February
Burny Mattinson
Date of death : Feb. 27
Age : 87 years old
Cause of death : illness
Burny Mattinson, director, story artist, producer, and Walt Disney Animation’s longest-serving animator, died Feb. 27 at the age of 87.
Gordon Pinsent
Date of death : Feb. 25
Age : 92 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Gordon Pinsent, the a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. Best known for his role in Away From Her and voicing the children’s book character Babar the Elephant, died Feb. 25 at the age of 92.
Jansen Panettiere
Date of death : Feb. 19
Age : 28 years old
Cause of death : Enlarged heart
Jansen Panettiere, an actor who appeared on Disney Channel and animated Nickelodeon projects, died on Feb. 19 from an enlarged heart. He was 28.
Richard Belzer
Date of death : Feb. 19
Age : 78 years old
Cause of death : complications of unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions.
Richard Belzer, the stand-up comedian turned actor best known for his role as detective John Munch on “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” died Feb. 19. He was 78.
Barbara Bosson
Date of death : Feb. 18
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Barbara Bosson, the Emmy-nominated actress and writer best known for her role on Hill Street Blues, died Feb. 18. She was 83.
Stella Stevens
Date of death : Feb. 17
Age : 84 years old
Cause of death : Alzheimer’s disease
Stella Stevens, the actress best known for starring with Elvis Presley in “Girls! Girls! Girls!” and with Jerry Lewis in “The Nutty Professor” and “The Poseidon Adventure,” died Feb. 17, at 84.
Chuck Jackson
Date of death : Feb. 16
Age : 85 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Chuck Jackson, an R&B singer and one of the first artists to o record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully, died on Feb. 16, at 85.
Raquel Welch
Date of death : Feb. 15
Age : 82 years old
Cause of death : Alzheimer’s disease
Raquel Welch, an actress who rose to fame during the 1960s, and became a sex symbol thanks to her her bestselling posters of her in a doe-skin bikini, died Feb. 15. She was 82.
David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur
Date of death : Feb. 12
Age : 54 years old
Cause of death : congestive heart failure
David Jolicoeur, the rapper best known as one third of the iconic hip hop group De La Soul, died on Feb. 12 at the age of 54.
Cody Longo
Date of death : Feb. 8
Age : 34 years old
Cause of death : alcohol poisoning
Cody Longo, an actor and musician known for his leading role as Eddie Duran in Hollywood Heights and as Nicholas Alamin in Days of Our Lives, died Feb. 8 at 34.
Paco Rabanne
Date of death : Feb. 3
Age : 88 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Paco Rabanne, the iconic Spanish fashion designer who was also known for his fragrances including Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, 1 Million, and Lady Million, died Feb. 3 at 88.
January
Annie Wersching
Date of death : Jan. 29
Age : 45 years old
Cause of death : Cancer
Annie Wersching, an actress best known for her roles in 24, Bosch, Runaways, The Rookie, and voicing the character Tess in the video game The Last of Us, died Jan. 29 at 45 following a battle with cancer.
Barrett Strong
Date of death : Jan. 29
Age : 81 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Barrett Strong, the singer, songwriter who sang Motown’s first hit with “Money (That’s What I Want” and co-wroting “I Heard it Through the Gravevine,” died Jan. 29. He was 81.
Lisa Loring
Date of death : Jan. 28
Age : 64 years old
Cause of death : stroke
Lisa Loring, the former child star who played the young Wednesday Addams in in the original “Addams Family” series, died Jan. 28 from a stroke. She was 64.
Tom Verlaine
Date of death : Jan. 28
Age : 73 years old
Cause of death : prostate cancer
Tom Verlaine, the guitarist who redefined rock guitar in the punk era of the 1970s, and the frontman of his band Television, died Jan. 28. He was 73.
Sylvia Syms
Date of death : Jan. 27
Age : 89 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Sylvia Syms, a British stage and film actress best known for her roles in My Teenage Daughter, Woman in a Dressing Gown, Ice Cold in Alex and 2006’s The Queen, died on Jan. 27. She was 89.
Cindy Williams
Date of death : Jan. 25
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : illness
Cindy Williams, the actress best known for starring as Shirley Feeney on beloved sitcom Laverne & Shirley, died Jan. 25. She was 75.
Lance Kerwin
Date of death : Jan. 24
Age : 62 years old
Cause of death : multiple drug overdoses
Lance Kerwin, the former child actor who who starred in TV series “James at 15” and as Mark Petrie in Stephen King mini-series “Salem’s Lot,” died Jan. 24 at 62.
David Crosby
Date of death : Jan. 18
Age : 81 years old
Cause of death : illness
David Crosby, the A Grammy winner and 10-time nominee legendary rocker and co-founder of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, died Jan. 18 at age 81.
Gina Lollobrigida
Date of death : Jan. 16
Age : 95 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian bombshell who was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s starring in films including “Fanfan la Tulipe,” “Beat the Devil,” “Trapeze” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” died Jan. 16. She was 95.
Lisa Marie Presley
Date of death : Jan. 12
Age : 54 years old
Cause of death : a small bowel obstruction
Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and Elvis Presley’s only child, died Jan. 12 at Los Angeles hospital. She was 54.
Robbie Bachman
Date of death : Jan. 12
Age : 69 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Robbie Bachman, the drummer and co-founder of the legendary ’70s Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, died Jan. 12 at 69.
Charles Kimbrough
Date of death : Jan. 11
Age : 86 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Charles Kimbrough, the Tony and Emmy-nominated actor known for his role as the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown, died Jan. 11 at 86.
Ben Masters
Date of death : Jan. 11
Age : 75 years old
Cause of death : dementia
Ben Masters, actor best known for his role as billionaire Julian Crane on the soap opera Passions, died Jan. 11 at 75.
Carole Cook
Date of death : Jan. 11
Age : 98 years old
Cause of death : heart failure
Carole Cook, a veteran stage and screen actor who was a protégé of Lucille Ball, died Jan. 11 in Beverly Hills, Calif., of heart failure. She was 98.
Carole Cook, the comedic stage and onscreen actress who was a protégé of Lucille Ball, died Jan. 11 of heart failure. She was 98.
Tatjana Patitz
Date of death : Jan. 11
Age : 56 years old
Cause of death : metastatic breast cancer
The Germany-born supermodel Tatjana Patitz who achieved international prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, and who appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom ’90” music video, died Jan. 11. She was 56.
Jeff Beck
Date of death : Jan. 10
Age : 78 years old
Cause of death : bacterial meningitis infection
Jeff Beck, the Legendary English guitarist who rose to fame as a member of the Rock band the Yarbirds, and for founding and fronting the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice, died on Jan. 10 at 78.
Melinda Dillon
Date of death : Jan. 9
Age : 83 years old
Cause of death : Natural causes
Melinda Dillon, the Oscar and Tony-nominated actor, known for her role of Mother Parker in “A Christmas Story,” and appearing in “Magnolia” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died Jan. 9. She was 83.
Adam Rich
Date of death : Jan. 7
Age : 54 years old
Cause of death : effects of fentanyl
Adam Rich, the former child actor who played Nicholas Bradford on the sitcom Eight Is Enough, died Jan. 7. He was 54.
Fred White
Date of death : Jan. 1
Age : 67 years old
Cause of death : not given
Fred White, the drummer who was one of the two drummers for soul group Earth Wind & Fire from 1974-84, died Jan. 9 at age 67.
Gangsta Boo
Date of death : Jan. 1
Age : 43 years old
Cause of death : accidental overdose with fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol
Gangsta Boo, a rapper better known as the former member of hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, died Jan. 1. She was 43.
]]>Read on to find out which actors announced their pregnancies and will be welcoming a baby the next year in 2024.
Chelsee Healey : due Januray of 2024
The soap opera star who is known for Hollyoaks, and Waterloo Road, is expecting her second child. She is already a mom to a daughter named Coco, who is 5 years old.
The 35 year old actress who is now is now 8 months pregnant, has kept the identity of the father a secret.
But she has shared in social media that her pregnancy wasn’t an easy one, she told her fans that she is experiencing serious health issues.
The actress opened up in Instagram that she is having horrible migraines that are affecting her vision. She said that during her entire pregnancy she had sufferred from periods of blindness.
Suki Waterhouse & Robert Pattinson: Due spring of 2024
The private couple who have been dating for five years, are expecting their first child together. The actress confirmed the news on Nov. 19 while performing onstage at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City.
Hilary Duff: Due mid 2024
The actress revealed on Instagram that she and her husband, Matthew Koma, are expecting their third child together and the fourth for Hilary.
She has two daughters with her husband, Mae, age 2, and Banks, age 4. the star also shares a son named Luca, age 11, with her Ex-husband Mike Comrie.
She still hasn’t revealed yet the baby’s due date or it’s gender.
Sienna Miller : Due early-to-mid 2024
Sienna is best known for Factory Girl (2006), The Edge of Love (2008), and The Girl (2012).
The actress confirmed in August the news of her pregnancy. This will be her second child, she has an 11 year old daughter named Marlowe with her ax-husband Tom Sturridge.
The 41 year old actress will be sharing her second child with her 26 year old boyfrien Oli Green.
She still hasn’t confirmed the gender of the baby, but she did have a shower party with pink decoration in November.
Yvonne Strahovski & Tim Loden : due early 2024
The Handmaid’s tale star and her husband Tim Loden are expecting their third child together.
The couple who tied the knot in in the summer of 2017, share two sons together, William, 4, and a 2 year old, who’s name has not been revealed.
The actress took it to instagram to share the news in June with the caption “Well here we go. Baby bump #3.”
The 40 year old shared a photo posing in a black outfit next to her dog and one of her kids hiding behind her. She captioned ; “Pizza really wanted to be in the photo. So did Mr tiny feet hiding behind me.”
Russell Brand & Laura Gallacher : Due early 2024
Russell Brand and his wife Laura Gallacher are expecting their third child together.
During an appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast, host Steven Bartlett shared the news about the soon to be parents of three.
“You fell in love and you’ve got two children. You’ve got a third on the way, around the corner. That’s a very special love you have found,” Barlett shared.
The couple already share two daughters Peggy, 4, and Mabel, 6.
Josh Duhamel & Audra Mari : Due early 2024
The Safe Haven actor and his peagent queen wife Audra Mari have tied the knot on September 10, 2022.
One year later in September 2023, the couple revealed in a joint Instagram post that they are expecting their first child together. “Baby Duhamel coming soon” captioned Mari, sharing an ultrasound photo of the baby.
But it will be baby number two for the actor as he already shares a son Axl Jack, 10,with ex-wife Fergie. Who congratulated the soon to be parents in the comment section saying; “I am truly happy for you guys, Axl can’t wait to be a big brother.”
Adam Devine & Chloe Bridges : due early to mid 2024
The couple who met on the set of The Final Girls in 2014, began dating in February 2015 and ultimatly tying the knot on October 9, 2021.
On October 2, 2023, they announced on Instagram that they are expecting their first child together.
Ashley Benson & Brandon Davis : Due mid year 2024
Pretty little liars star Ashley Benson and her husband Brandon Davis (the grandson of of late billionaire Marvin Davis) are going to be parents for the first time.
The couple got engaged in July 2023, and tied the knot quietly the same year In the same year.
On November 7, 2023, Benson announced she will be welcoming her first child in 2024.
Alexa & Carlos PenaVega : due mid year 2024
Spy Kids star Alexa and her husband actor and singer Carlos PenaVega are expanding their family again welcoming baby no. 4. They announed the news on November 2023.
The couple got married on January 4, 2014 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. They have three children, two sons age 6, and 4, and a daughter age 2.
Serena Dalrymple : Due Mid 2024
33-year-old retired child star, Serena Dalrymple, who is now living in the United States, shared in November that she will be welcoming a baby in 2024.
Serena and her husband, Thomas Bredillet, who wed in October 2022, are having their first child together.
Maja Salvador : Due Mid 2024
The Actress/dancer/host announced this month that she is expecting her first child with husband Rambo Nuñez.
The couple got married on July 31, 2023 in Bali, Indonesia.
Jana Kramer : Due early 2024
On June 8, 2023, One Tree Hill actress announced she is expecting her third child and her first with fiancée Allan Russell.
She shares a daughter Jolie Rae Caussin, 7, and a son Jace Joseph Caussin, 5, with ex-husband Mike Caussin.
The actress, 39, also revealed on October 16 that she was hospitalised while on a babymoon with her fiancé. She said that she had devoloped a bad bacterial infection while away in Florida.
“Our babymoon didn’t go as planned but there were some lessons learned,” the actress wrote.
Ellie Taylor & Phil Black : Due early 2024
Comedian Ellie Taylor announced in September 2023 her pregnancy news with a photo of her daughter kissing her bump with the caption: “Excited. Terrified. Grateful. Hungry.”
This will be her second child with husband CNN correspondent Phil Black, who she married in London in 2014. The couple share a daughter, Valentina, 5.
]]>Even if you haven’t listened to rock and roll before, chances are you’ve heard a few of the many classic songs somewhere.
See what some of the biggest names in rock history are up to today, and how they aged.
1/ Bruce Springsteen
Born: September 23, 1949.
Then
Springsteen, nicknamed “The Boss”, rose to stardom in the early 1970s. The rock star is an originator of heartland rock, a genre combining mainstream rock music with poetic and socially conscious lyrics.
He is known for his narratives lyrics primarily concerning working-class American life. And his energetic concerts, with performances that can last for more than four hours.
During a six decades career, he has released 21 studio albums, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band.
His first hit album 1975’s “Born to Run” was described as an “American masterpiece,”which earned him a large audience, worldwide popularity.
This was followed with several other critically acclaimed records, such as 1980’s “The River,” and 1984’s “Born In the USA.” which became his most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums of all time.
His 2002’s album “The Rising” alreally showcased his unrivaled storytelling abilities, translated in his often-times political lyrics.
now: (Age: 74)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer wrapped up his long running Broadway show with his E Street Band in 2018.
His Netflix special, “Springsteen on Broadway,” received an Emmy for outstanding variety special at the 2019 Creative Emmy Awards.
Even at 74 ‘the Boss’ is still performing, and considered one of the sexiest rock stars in the world. His last album was released in 2022, a solo cover album titled Only the Strong Survive.
2/ Mick Jagger
Born: July 26, 1943.
Then
Jagger is the lead singer and one of the founder members of the legendary British band the Rolling Stones. And considered one of the most influential front men in the history of rock music.
With a career that spans six decades, the Rolling Stones is considered one of the enduring bands ever.
Jagger and the lead guitarist Keith Richards wrote most of the band’s song. Theys till collaborate musically to this day. which make their songwriting partnership one of the most successful in history.
Some of The band’s most memorable hits are “Satisfaction,” “Paint It Black,” and “Sympathy for the Devil.”
During the 1960s, Jagger also established a solo career. While continuing to tour and work with his band. He released four solo albums, “She’s the Boss,” “Primitive Cool,” “Wandering Spirit” and “Goddess in the Doorway.”
now (Age: 80)
At age 80, The rock legend is still touring with the Rolling Stones. He still keeps himself busy, with tours, albums, songwriting, mvies, even launching his own line of harmonicas.
3/ Paul McCartney
Born: June 18, 1942.
Then
The musician gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar.
McCartney and the late John Lennon were the leads of the iconic British band. They shared primary songwriting and lead vocaling.
One of the most successful composers of all time, McCartney is considered on of the influential and successful composers of all time. Exploring genres ranging from pre-rock and roll pop to classical, ballads, and electronica.
The beattles has created immortial recorders that still stand today thanks to their iconic albums and songs, like “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Help!,” and “Yellow Submarine.”
After the band broke up in 1970, he debuted as a solo artist with the 1970 album McCartney.
He also formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine. Due to his leadership skills and his unique songwriting style, Wings became one of the most successful bands of the 1970s.
With number one hits like ; “My Love”, “Band on the Run”, “Listen to What the Man Said”, “Silly Love Songs”, and “Mull of Kintyre”.
In 1980, he resumed his solo career, and has been touring since 1989. He also written or co-written a record 32 songs that have topped the Billboard Hot 100.
He collaborated with many artists like Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and Rihanna.
now (Age: 81)
at 81 years old, McCartney is still touring, performing some of his biggest hits and releasing new music.
In 2023, McCartney published the book 1964: Eyes of the Storm, a collection of photos he had taken at the height of Beatlemania.
He also one of the wealthiest musicians in the world, with an estimated fortune of £800 million.
4/ Joan Jett
Born: September 22, 1958.
Then
Jett began her music career in 1975 when she founded the all group band the Runaways, who recorded and released the hit song “Cherry Bomb”.
But she is mostly known for her work with post Runaways band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. They went on to make the iconis song “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” which was number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in 1982.
Jett always produced her own records, and in 1980, she founded the Blackheart Records company, producing for up and coming punk-rock bands like Bikini Kill and L7.
With three of her albums being certified platinum or gold. She’s been described as “the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”.
Her band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
now (Age: 65)
At the age of 65, The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer still tours with the Blackhearts, releases albums, and produces music for other upcoming bands.
In 2022, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts released Changeup, the first acoustic album ever recorded by the band, featuring “Bad Reputation” and “Crimson and Clover”.
5/ Jon Bon Jovi
Born: March 2, 1962.
Then
He is best known as the founder and frontman of the rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983. Releasing ’80s hits such as “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” which came from their critically acclaimed record, “Slippery When Wet.”
In the ’90s, he began a solo career. His first solo album was recordered for the movie, “Young Guns II,” and featured the title track, “Blaze of Glory,” giving him an Oscar and a Grammy award nomination in 1991.
He also pursued an acting career in the 90s, starring in the films Moonlight and Valentino, The Leading Man, Little City, Homegrown, Pay It Forward, U-517, New Year’s Eve, Cry Wolf. As well as appearing in popular TV shows like,Sex and the City, 30 Rock, Ally McBeal, and The West Wing.
Now (Age: 61)
Bon Jovi concluded “This House Is Not For Sale” world tour in 2019, and is currently not on tour.
In 2020, Bon Jovi released a Christmas single called A Jon Bon Jovi Christmas, with three new holiday songs.
6/ Bob Dylan
Born: May 24, 1941.
Then
A truly living legend from the folk-rock era. The man not only is one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived, but he’s also a major figure in popular culture for more than 60 years.
Dylan made waves with his folk songs, in which he used poetic and politically conscious lyrics, such as in his 1964 classic, “The Times They Are A-Changin.'”
His style was characterized by using poetic and politically, socially, and even philosophicaly conscious lyrics. Which made songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963), and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) an anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements.
He’s also a visual artist who published several books of drawings and paintings that have been exhibited in many art galleries.
Now (Age: 82)
Dylan’s creativity has no limits. To this day he continues to release music, write books, create visual art, write poetry and the list goes on.
The 82 has won every major prize in the industry, he even won a Nobel Prize for literature in 2016.
7/ Debbie Harry
Born: July 1, 1945.
Then
She is best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie, who she co-formed in 1974. Four of the band’s songs reached No. 1 on the US charts between 1979 and 1981.
Debbie was a stunner, in her ’70s heyday, the Blondie vocalist was one of the most desired women in rock.
In the early 80s, Harry started her solo career with her debut album, KooKoo. And an acting career appearing in lead roles in the neo-noir Union City (1980), Videodrome (1983), Hairspray (1988), and Body Bags (1993).
She continued acting appearing in independent films throughout the 2000s.
Now (Age: 78)
Today, even at almost 80, the singer still releases music, performe, and even releasd a memoir, titled Face It in 2019.
In 2017, Blondie released their eleventh studio album, Pollinator, which debuted at No. 4 in the UK.
8/ Ozzy Osbourne
Born: December 3, 1948.
Then
Nicknamed “Prince of Darkness” rose to fame during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
The band was known for her highly influential heavy music style. It specially shows in their critically acclaimed releases Paranoid, Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
In 1979, Osbourne was fired from the band due to his out of control alcohol and drug abuse. The following year, he started his successful solo career with Blizzard of Ozz and has since released 13 studio albums, the first seven of which received multi-platinum certifications in the US.
Now (Age : 74)
In January 2023, Osbourne announced he is retiring from touring due to health reasons.
He still, however, produces music his latest album titled Patient Number 9 was released in September 2022. And he announced that he is currently working on a new album to be released in 2024.
9/ Steven Tyler
Born: March 26, 1948.
Then
In the 1970s, Tyler rose to fame as the lead singer of Aerosmith, releasing hard rock albums like Toys in the Attic and Rocks, and hit singles, including “Dream On”, “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way”.
The frontman of the band Aerosmith, is known for his high screams and powerful wide vocal range, for which he was giving the name “Demon of Screamin’.
Since the late 1980s, Tyler has started his solo journey, guest appearing with other musicians including Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe, Santana, Pink and Keith Anderson, acting in film and TV, writing a book, and releasing solo music, including the single “(It) Feels So Good”
Now (Age : 75)
Now at 75, the musician is still going strong, touring solo, as well as with Aerosmith, releasing solo albums, and even appearing in TV shows.
10/ Axl Rose
Born: February 6, 1962.
Then
Not only known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses, but also the band’s sole constant member since he co-founded in 1985.
With a distinctive and powerful wide-ranging voice, Rose has been named as one of the greatest singers of all time.
Their first album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), was criticaly acclaimed and commercial successful selling 30 million copies worldwide. Making it the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. with 18 million units sold.
During the 90s, The band started to fall apart due to multiple reasons including : Rose’s controversy allegations of abuse, and personal and musical differences, primarily between Rose and lead guitarist Slash.
By 2001, Rose was the only remaining original member of the band.
Now (Age : 61)
Rose still tours and releases music with the band Guns N’ Roses, most recently the 2021 two singles “Absurd” and “Hard Skool”.
]]>Sobriety can not only feel like an uphill battle but also a life long struggle. From Drew Barrymore and Bradley Cooper to Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Lee Curtis, these are few of the names who aren’t afraid to tell their tale.
Here, we share more high-profile stories of actors who have publicly struggled with addiction and how they managed to turn around and live a clean and sober life.
Robert Downey Jr.
The actor spend his teenage years and early 20s in and out of rehab for cocaine, heroin, and alcohol abuse. He was also arrested multiple times on drug-related charges in the late 90s, before he finally got clean in 2003 with the support of loved ones.
After his recovery, the actor revived his stalled acting career with Marvel’s 2008 movie Iron Man, and he’s been one of the highly-paid actors ever since.
He told Vanity Fair this about addiction in 2014: “Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don’t change. So the thing is to get out and recognize the significance of that aggressive denial of your fate, come through the crucible forged into a stronger metal.”
Bradley Cooper
When he was first trying to make it on hollywood, the actor struggled for years with drug and alcohol abuse that threatened to ruin his life and career.
In 2006, Cooper was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine. He able to beat the charges, but not before the arrest made public.
After the arrest, Cooper cleaned up and began to focus on healthier habits.
Bradley Cooper told GQ in 2013 that the reason he got sober was because he realized that “if I continued it, I was really going to sabotage my whole life.”
“Anytime you’re trying to tell the truth you need to go to places and use things that have happened to you, or you’ve read about or experienced,” he said. “And that’s all part of the beauty of turning whatever things you’ve gone through into a story. I find that to be very cathartic.”
Cooper also said he was grateful to be sober when he played Jackson Maine in “A Star Is Born.”
“Thank goodness I was at a place in my life where I was at ease with all of that, so I could really let myself go,” he said. “I’ve been very lucky with the roles I’ve had to play. It’s been a real blessing. I hope I get to keep doing it.”
He’s since become one of Hollywood’s leading actors, winning several academy awards, and is an inspiration to those struggling with addiction.
Tom Holland
The Spider-Man star stopped drinking alcohol in 2022 after chosing to participate in Dry January.
During that time the actor realised that he was “enslaved” to the drink after founding himself thinking about drinking the whole time.
Holland said he was “definitely addicted to alcohol” and didn’t know how to socialize without drinking.
“I was really, really struggling and I started to really worry that maybe I had an alcohol problem. So I decided that I would wait until my birthday, which is June 1,” the actor said. “I said to myself, ‘If I can do six months without alcohol, then I can prove to myself that I don’t have a problem.’ And by the time I got to June 1, I was the happiest I’ve ever been in my life.”
“It’s honestly been the best thing I’ve ever done,” Holland added. “I’m a year and a half into it now. It doesn’t even cross my mind. I’ve found amazing replacements that I think are fantastic, ones that are also really healthy.”
Since he changed his lifestyle, Holland noticed that was ‘the happiest he’s ever been’, he could ’sleep better” and “handle problems better.”
Ben Affleck
Throughout his career, Ben Affleck’s relationship with sobriety has been an uphill battle filled with setbacks and triumphs.
The actor first checked into rehab in 2001 and has continued to work on his sobriety through the years.
At the time, he told a Fox News reporter, “I just wanted to stop. I started regretting some things I did when I was drunk.”
Affleck has been in rehab three times, “Relapse is embarrassing, obviously. I wish it didn’t happen. I really wish it wasn’t on the internet for my kids to see,” he shared with The New York Times in a July 2021 interview.
And in March 2017, the actor took to his Facebook page to talk about going back to rehab.
“I have completed treatment for alcohol addiction; something I’ve dealt with in the past and will continue to confront,” he wrote. “I want to live life to the fullest and be the best father I can be.”
his last visit to rehab was when his ex Jennifer Garner took him in August 2018. “It took me a long time to fundamentally, deeply, without a hint of doubt, admit to myself that I am an alcoholic. The next drink will not be different.”
Daniel Radcliffe
The star has opened up about his alcoholism that staretd when he was still shooting Harry Potter , he shared with BBC Radio 4 in 2020, “A lot of drinking that happened toward the end of Potter and for a little bit after it finished, it was panic, a little bit not knowing what to do next—not being comfortable enough in who I was to remain sober.”
The actor opened up about his uncertainty about the future post Harry poter as the movie franchise came to a close. He said that he was in panic when the franchise ended, afraid of not geting work after it.
In a conversation with Marc Maron for his “WTF” podcast in 2015, Daniel Radcliffe opened up about that, “There was definitely a time when I was coming out of ‘Potter’ and I was into the real world, suddenly I was in a world where I’m not going to have that consistency anymore,” he said. “I was pretty inconsolable on the last day of ‘Potter.’ I was really worried. I was living alone, and I think I was really freaked out … I drank a lot, as has been recorded.”
The road to sobriety begun after he started performing in broadway in 2008 acting in the play Equus.
He dropped drinking altogether to focus on his career and shared to Off Camera: “I woke up one morning after a night going like, ‘This is probably not good.’” And he has been sober since 2010.
Zac Efron
The actor made headlines when he went to rehab in 2013. The news came as a suprise as he was known to the public as dysney’s golden boy.
Not knowing how to cope with emmense fame following the success of High School Musical franchise, he turned to cocaine and alcohol.
“I was drinking a lot, way too much,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014. “It’s never one specific thing. I mean, you’re in your 20s, single, going through life in Hollywood, you know? Everything is thrown at you.”
Efron shared to Elle in 2016 that his trip to rehab really gave him a necessary wake-up call about his addiction. “There was a moment when my morning routine was, like, ‘Get up and google yourself.’ But that stopped, dramatically and instantly”
After the rehab, tohe also joined Alcoholics Anonymous and started seeing a therapist to help him on his journey, but added that battling addictions is a “never-ending struggle.”
Drew Barrymore
The barrymore’s family had it’s fair shair of success and struggles, from addictions to mental health struggles including drew barrymore’s father.
The actress acting career started at the young age of 6. So did her struggle with addiction, as she was only 13 when she first went to rehab in 1989.
She says she started drinking when she was 9, when her mother used to take her clubing and letting her drink.
She quickly moved on to marijuana and cocaine in her teenage years.
To cope with her divorce from Will Kopelman, Barrymore leaned on alcohol which lead to a down roll spiral.
Cameron Diaz, a friend of hers, said that was “difficult to watch” her struggle during that time.
In 2021, she shared that she hasn’t had a drink in over two years marking a big milestone in her journey.
“I’m just going to say something for the first time in a long time: I have not had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years,” she said on CBS Mornings. “And it was something that I realized just did not serve me in my life.”
She added, “It’s so funny. When we reveal ourselves and our truths and the things we’ve worked so hard for, it’s so liberating and vulnerable all at the same time.”
Barrymore shared that the word sober doesn’t mean that she is cured. “I kept thinking, ‘I’ll master this. I’ll figure it outm,'” said in 2023. “And finally, I just realized: ‘You’ve never mastered this, and you never will.'”
The actor and talk show host has since gone on to have a fruitful career, working on her relationship with her mother, and maintain sobriety.
When she talked to The Guardian about whether or not she’s going to talk about her past with her children, Barrymore said: “I’m not going to pretend I am not who I am. I’m going to show them how it got me to where I am now.”
Matthew Perry
The late Matthew Perry, best known for playong Chandler on Friends, has battled substance abuse for his entire adult life.
His relationship with alcohol has started at just 14 years old, and became out of control when friends became a global success.
His addiction to prescription drugs started when he had a skiing accident filming Fools Rush In with selma hayek.
“I would fake back injuries. I would fake migraine headaches. I had eight doctors going at the same time,” Perry said in a 2022 profile in The New York Times
In a sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer in October 2022, he admitted to taking 55 Vicodin per day.
In a November 2022 interview with CBS Radio, Perry said he won’t rewatch Friends “because I was brutally thin and being beaten down so badly by the disease…. I could tell season by season by how I looked, and I don’t think anybody else can, but I certainly could.”
In 2018, after a life-threatening two-week coma, from a colon burst from opioid abuse, Perry decided it was time for a change. “The doctors told my family that I had a 2% chance to live,” he recalled.
Perry released a raw memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, on November 1, 2022, discussing his addiction.
In his memoir, the “Friends” star revealed that his recovery journey cost him $9 million for 6,000 AA meetings, at least 15 stints in rehab, and dozens of detoxes.
Before his sudden death, the actor revealed in 2022 interview with the New York Times, that he was sober for 18 months.
Jamie Lee Curtis
« The greatest single accomplishement of her life » that’s how The actress calls her recovery journey from alcohol and drug addiction.
“Getting sober remains my single greatest accomplishment,” Curtis said. “Bigger than my husband, bigger than both of my children, and bigger than any work, success, failure. Anything.”
In an interview with people in 2018, Curtis shared that she became addicted to prescription painkillers for 10 years, when she was descriped for after a cosmetic procedure in 1989.
“for my hereditary puffy eyes,” resulting in a prescription that changed her life. “I had a 10-year run, stealing, conniving,” she told People. “No one knew. No one.”
The actress recalls how she knew she had hit rock bottom in the summer of 1998. That’s when her sister Kelly visited her bringing along prescribed painkillers for a rib injury.
“I knew she had them in her suitcase in our guest room closet,” she told the publication, crying at the memory. “I basically took all her opiates. When she was leaving I knew she would pack her suitcase and find her pills missing. I knew I had to acknowledge to her what I had done, and so I wrote her a note and left it on her suitcase. I came home that day, and she put her arms around me and told me she loved me and she was concerned about me and she was unwilling to watch me kill myself.”
She kept her addiction a secret from everyone, until she went to her first recovery meeting in 1999. The same day she confessed her addiction to her filmmaker husband Christopher Guest. “He was incredulous that he’d never noticed,” Curtis said.
She also added that she’s been sober ever since. Curtis is an outspoken advocate for drug misuse awareness and changes in opiate policy.
Dennis Quaid
In an interview with the Sunday Times in 2018, Quaid opened up about his cocaine addiction throughout the ’80s.
“I liked coke,” he said. “I liked it to go out. I missed it for quite a while. I was doing about two grams a day.”
The actor said growing up in the ’60s and ’70s people had ” a completely different attitude” towards the drug.
“It was even in some movie budgets. I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the ’80s,” he admitted in 2018.
He added, “I spent many, many a night screaming at God to ‘Please take this away from me and I’ll never do it again, cause I’ve only got an hour before I have to be at work.’ Then at 4 o’clock in the afternoon I’d go, ‘Oh it’s not so bad.'”
He said that he first went to rehab after ‘seeing himself dead’.
“I had one of those white-light experiences where I saw myself being dead and losing everything I had worked for my whole life, so I put myself in rehab,” he said.
So he decided to start taking control of his life and beat this addiction. He confessed to his then-fiancée Meg Ryan about what was going on. Then, he sought help. “That was the end of the love affair with me and cocaine.”
He even stopped drinking for 10 years while kicking his drug addiction but later got back into alcohol.
“I started drinking again, because alcohol was never my problem,” he said. “I never liked the feeling of being drunk. I would do coke and I would use alcohol to come down.”
]]>But he was also an addict. That was the “big, terrible thing” Perry referenced in the title of his memoir last year titled ; Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. He made no secret of his relationship with alcohol, his addiction to Vicodin after a 1997 jet-ski accident, his attempts to stay sober, and his near-death experience in 2019 after his colon burst as a result of his use of opioids.
The memoir starts with the prologue: “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.”
In the final years of his life, he wanted to leave a legacy of helping other addicts overcome their struggles.
his Tragic death
Nearly a year to the day, after publishing his memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing”, Perry was found dead on Saturday in his hot tub at his Los Angeles home in an apparent drowning. He was 54.
The police said. It could be weeks or even months before the cause of his death is established, experts said.
After a jet ski accident, Perry became addicted to pills
Perry characterised himself as a ready-made, just-add-water addict: an alcoholic with his first drink at the age of 14.
Then after a jet ski accident in 2007, while filming ” fools rush in” with salma hayek, he was hooked on painkillers when he was prescribed Vicodin. “It wasn’t my intention to have a problem with it,” he said in 2002. “But from the start, I liked how it made me feel, and I wanted to get more.”
High, he drove a red Mustang convertible across the desert, feeling “complete and utter euphoria”: “I remember thinking, ‘If this doesn’t kill me, I’m doing this again.’” It didn’t then.
His addictions and struggles during “friends“
When Perry was first cast on Friends at age 24, his alcohol addiction was just starting to surface. “I could handle it, kind of. But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble,” he admits. “But there were years that I was sober during that time. Season 9 was the year that I was sober the whole way through. And guess which season I got nominated for best actor? I was like, ‘That should tell me something.'”
At one terrifying point during filming Friends , Perry’s addiction got out of control, taking 55 Vicodin a day and was down to 128 pounds. “I didn’t know how to stop,” he said. “If the police came over to my house and said, ‘If you drink tonight, we’re going to take you to jail,’ I’d start packing. I couldn’t stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive. So it gets worse and worse as you grow older.”
Though Perry tried to hide his condition, the dramatic changes in his appearance each year reflected his state of sobriety. And he confessed that he didn’t watch the show because he couldn’t see himself like that.
“I didn’t watch the show and haven’t watched the show, because I can go, ‘drinking, opiates, drinking, cocaine’ — like I could tell season by season by how I looked,” he said, referring to the stage of addiction he was in during filming, in an interview on the “Q with Tom Power” podcast in Toronto in November.
Eventhough, his addiction off set was spiraling he never drunk or got high on set. “I had this odd rule that I would never drink on a set,” Perry told The New York Times. But the effects of his addictions still showed. “I went to work in extreme cases of hangovers. It’s so horrible to feel that way and have to work and be funny on top of that.”
He also admitted that he didn’t remember three saisons from friends due to his extreme substance abuse.“I don’t remember three years of it,” Perry admitted about filming Friends during his uncontrolled addiction. “I was a little out of it at the time—somewhere between Seasons 3 and 6.”
In his memoir, Perry also noted that fans would have been able to tell whether he was drinking or taking drugs in certain seasons, depending on his appearance.
“When I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills; when I have a goatee, it’s a lot of pills,” he said.
His ‘Friends’ costars tried to help
Perry was eventually confronted by his concerned co-star Jennifer Aniston, who starred in Friends as Rachel Green.
“‘We can smell it,’ she said, in a kind of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ hit me like a sledgehammer,” Perry wrote.
Aniston described him as “one of the most sensitive people I’ve ever met, more than most girls I know. His feelings get hurt. He cares what people think.” Friends co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman told People, “It was terrifying… watching someone you care about in so much pain.”
“I tried to talk to him,” Friends costar LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani, told People. “There wasn’t a response. It’s such a personal struggle; they need to bottom out on their own.” As difficult as it was, his co-stars simply stood aside, ready to support him. After all, it was all they could do.
“Hard doesn’t even begin to describe it,” Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, told The New York Times of the 2000-2001 season. “When Matthew was sick, it was not fun. We were just hopelessly standing on the sidelines. We were hurting a lot. Matthew is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met in my life. He’s charming and hilarious. Most of our hard laughs came from Matthew.”
Although Perry knew they all cared, the efforts were lost on him. “I wasn’t ready to hear it,” he admitted. “You can’t tell anyone to get sober. It has to come from you.”
His recovery journey
Perry went to rehab 15 times over the years, and that made him well-versed on the tools necessary to maintain sobriety. “I’m pretty healthy now,” he says, before joking, “I’ve got to not go to the gym much more, because I don’t want to only be able to play superheroes. But no, I’m a pretty healthy guy right now.”
His first trip to rehab was in 1997, spending 28 days at a Hazelden Betty Ford facility in Minnesota. But he didn’t stay sober for long. In May 2000, he was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas from alcohol abuse.
In February 2000, he was filming both Friends and the movie Serving Sara, so he had to commute between two sets in Los Angeles and Dallas to play his parts.
Around this time, he was drinking vodka by the quart.“I was sleepy and shaking at work,” he said.
But on February 23, 2001, something shifted. “I can’t describe it, because bigger things were taking place that I can’t put into words,” he said. That day, he was in his Dallas hotel room and decided to call his parents for help.
“I didn’t get sober because I felt like it,” he told The New York Times. “I got sober because I was worried I was going to die the next day.”
Even though Friends was still in production and there were 13 days of shooting left on the movie, his parents took him to a rehab center in California.
“It was scary. I didn’t want to die,” he said. “But I’m grateful for how bad it got. It only made me more adamant about trying to get better.”
After two and a half months, he re-emerged and finished filming his movie. He also returned to the set of Friends. “I learned that a happy life is possible without alcohol or drugs,” he said of his new outlook.
His near death experience in 2019
Perry also talked about his near-death experience in 2019 at age 49, in which Perry’s colon burst because of his opioid use. He was left in a coma for two weeks and hospitalized for five months, and he had to use a colostomy bag.
During the health scare, he was placed on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, which provides prolonged cardiac and respiratory support to the heart and lungs. Perry recalled that doctors told his family he had a “2% chance to live.”
“There were five people put on an ECMO machine that night and the other four died and I survived,” he said in an interview with People magazine last year. “So the big question is why? Why was I the one? There has to be some kind of reason.”
Perry’s recovery gave him a new purpose
In an interview with The New York Times in October 2022, he estimated: “I’ve probably spent $9 million or something trying to get sober.” And at the time of the interview, he confessed that he had been clean for 18 months.
Despite his pain and struggle, Perry said his recovery journey left him with a prevailing sense of duty to help others fighting the same fights.
“I am no saint — none of us are — but once you have been at death’s door and you don’t die, you would think you would be bathed in relief and gratitude. But that isn’t it at all — instead, you look at the difficult road ahead of you to get better and you are pissed. Something else happens, too. You are plagued by this nagging question: Why have I been spared?” he wrote in the book.
‘When I die, I don’t want “Friends” to be the first thing that’s mentioned’
In 2013, Perry converted his mansion in Malibu, California, into a sober living house, which ran for two years. The same year, he received the Champion of Recovery award from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. He also became a spokesman for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
While promoting his memoir last year, Perry said he wanted to be remembered most for what he did for others.
“The best thing about me, bar none, is if somebody comes up to me and says: ‘I can’t stop drinking. Can you help me?’ I can say yes and follow up and do it,” he said.
Perry spent the rest of his days doing just that.
Actor and comedian Hank Azaria, who also appeared on “Friends,” shared on Instagram that Perry helped him get sober.
“I’m a sober guy for 17 years. The night I went into AA, Matthew brought me in. The whole first year I was sober, we went to meetings together,” he said. “As a sober person, he was so caring and giving and wise, and he totally helped me get sober.”
Perry was patient about helping others, and he wanted that to be his true legacy, “I’ve said this for a long time: When I die, I don’t want ‘Friends’ to be the first thing that’s mentioned,” he said. “I want [helping people] to be the first thing that’s mentioned. And I’m going to live the rest of my life proving that.”
Friends Cast Members Share Emotional Tributes to Matthew Perry
The cast of Friends is honoring the memory of costar Matthew Perry in a shared statement:
“We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just cast mates. We are a family,” the sitcom’s famous main cast said in a statement shared to ABC News Monday. “There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.”
“In time we will say more, as and when we are able,” the statement continues. “For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty’s family, his friends, and everyone who loved him around the world.”
]]>The singer, now 41, talks about her romantic relationships, family problems, failed marriages, mental health battles, and of course the conservatorship.
Spears’ memoir is available for purchase now, but if you’re looking for a cheat sheet, we’ve compiled the most shocking stories from The Woman in Me.
1. Justin encouraged Britney to get an abortion
In Spears’ memoir, she shares that Timberlake allegedly pressured her into getting an abortion while they were together in late 2000.
She explained that the reason she did not go through with the pregnancy was because N*Sync star Justin ‘wasn’t ready’ for the responsibilities of parenthood as the pair were only 19 at the time.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” she writes. “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
Spears said she didn’t personally want to have an abortion at the time. “If it had been left up to me alone,” she explains, “I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father…To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
Britney explains how she was left ‘crying and sobbing’ all alone after choosing to undergo the procedure at home in a desperate bid to keep the abortion completely secret from the public and her own family.
“It was important that no one find out about the pregnancy or the abortion, which meant doing everything at home. Spears says she used the abortion pill, then “went into the bathroom and stayed there for hours, lying on the floor, sobbing and screaming.”
Then, Timberlake apparently decided to soothe Spears by performing for her.
“At some point, he thought maybe music would help, so he got his guitar and he lay there with me, strumming it,” Spears notes.
“The experience messed me up for a while, especially because I still did love Justin so much. It was insane how much I loved him, and for me, it was unfortunate.”
Britney would later welcome sons Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden, 17 with Kevin Federline.
And Timberlake, who also has two children with his wife, actress Jessica Biel, has not publicly commented on Spears’ story.
2. Spears and Timberlake both cheated before breaking up over text
Up until now, the agreed upon explanation for the couples split was that spears cheated on Timberlake. And the theory was endorsed by Timberlakes’s famous music video’ Cry Me A River.’
But in her book spears revealed that, It was Timberlake who cheated throughout their relationship, she says.
“There were a couple of times during our relationship when I knew Justin had cheated on me,” Spears writes. “Because I was so infatuated and so in love, I let it go, even though the tabloids seemed determined to rub my face in it. When NSYNC went to London in 2000, photographers caught him with one of the girls from All Saints in a car. But I never said anything. At the time we’d only been together for a year.”
Spears listed another alleged affair of Timberlake’s, which came to light after he outed himself to one of her dancers. “We were in Vegas, and one of my dancers who’d been hanging out with him told me he’d gestured toward a girl and said, ‘Yeah, man, I hit that last night,’” Spears recalls. “I don’t want to say who he was talking about, because she’s actually very popular and she’s married with kids now. I don’t want her to feel bad.”
According to Spears, these incidents happened frequently but she decided to ignore them. she says. “It was one of those things where you know but you just don’t say anything.”
Britney also confirms in her memoir that she cheated on Timberlake at the very end of their relationship, with a choreographer named Wade Robson. She said that she has kissed him during a night out.
“[Wade and I] were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar,” she says. “We danced and danced. I made out with him that night.”
Spears writes of the moment she saw Timberlake’s video for his hit song “Cry Me a River,” which she described as “a woman who looks like me cheats on him and he wanders around sad in the rain.”
“I felt there was no way at the time to tell my side of the story,” she writes of sharing that they had both cheated. “I couldn’t explain, because I knew no one would take my side once Justin had convinced the world of his version. I don’t think Justin realized the power he had in shaming me. I don’t think he understands to this day.”
She writes that while she thought the media portrayed her as a “harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy,” she was actually “comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood.”
3. Timberlake broke up with Spears with a two-word text
Britney revealed that she was devastated when Justin Timberlake broke up with her through text message. (a two-word text message. And a lot of exclamation points).
To be specific, Timberlake texted Spears, “It’s over!!!”
Spears was on set filming a music video for her song Overprotected when she received the text message.
The director for the music video, Chris Applebaum, confirmed to Page Six earlier this year that he saw the text message with his own eyes.
According to Applebaum, Spears disappeared from set at some point late in the day, he later found her in her trailer, crying, which is when she showed him the text message from Timberlake.
Applebaum said to Spears, “If you don’t have it in you, I totally understand. But if you want to go out there and finish this last set-up in the rain, you can show [Timberlake] that he just made the biggest f—ing mistake of his life.”
So Spears went out and finished the work day.
She wrote, “As much as Justin hurt me, there was a huge foundation of love, and when he left me, I was devastated,”
“When I say devastated, I mean I could barely speak for months. Whenever anyone asked me about him, all I could I do is cry. I don’t know if I was clinically in shock, but it felt that way.”
4. Inside her decision to shave her hair during infamous 2007 meltdown
In the memoir, she explains that the gesture of shaving her hair in 2007 was supposed to send a strong message. As she was in the midst of going through a painful divorce with Kevin Federline and was constantly in the public eye.
“My long hair was a big part of what people liked — I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot. Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: F— you. You want me to be pretty for you? F— you. You want me to be good for you? F— you. You want me to be your dream girl? F— you. I’d smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents says I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top, while executives patted my hand condescendingly and second-guessed my career choices even though I’d sold millions of records, while my family acted like I was evil. And I was tired of it,” she writes.
She also added: ‘I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager.
‘Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.’
As a result, a year later she was put under a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008, which granted her father Jamie Spears and a lawyer total control over her financial and personal affairs.
5. She learned about the conservatorship papers while in the hospital
While she was in the hospital for an evaluation in 2008, Spears learned that a judge had put her under a conservatorship.
Her father Jamie Spears was appointed to be her co-conservator, along with a lawyer, Andrew Wallet.
“Even though I begged the court to appoint literally anyone else — and I mean, anyone off the street would have been better — my father was given the job, the same man who’d make me cry if I had to get in the car with him when I was a little girl,” she writes. “And the court told me I was demented, and I wasn’t even allowed to pick my own lawyer.”
She writes that Wallet was paid a salary of $426,000 per year for managing her estate, plus she says she paid upwards of $500,000 for her court-appointed lawyer, who she didn’t learn she could replace for over a decade.
Soon after the conservatorship was in place, Spears writes her father moved items into her office space in her home.
“My father shoved aside my bowl of receipts, setting his things up on the bar. ‘I just want to let you know,’ he says, ‘I call the shots. You sit right there in that chair and I’ll tell you what goes on,’” she recalled. “I looked at him with a growing sense of horror. ‘I’m Britney Spears now,’ he says.”
6. the 13-year conservatorship made her feel like a ‘child robot’
Britney also went into details talking about that 13-year conservatorship as she detailed how her father ‘controlled her body and her money’ and ‘hurt’ her with ‘fat’ jibes.
‘I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.’
Spears also recalls several instances of her father and other members of her team controlling her diet over the course of the conservatorship.
“No matter how hard I dieted and exercised, my father was always telling me I was fat,” she writes. “He put me on a strict diet.”
She says she would plead with their butler to sneak her “real food,” like a hamburger or ice cream. She says the butler replied that he couldn’t due to “strict orders” from her father.
“So for two years, I ate almost nothing but chicken and canned vegetables,” she says.
She also recalls how her father controlled all her fianances.
She says she was given an allowance of $2,000 a week, and that any of her purchases, even something as small as sneakers, could be declined by her conservators.
“This was despite the fact that I did 248 shows and sold more than 900,000 tickets in Vegas,” she writes. “Each show paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
The star concluded: ‘Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick…
‘I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.’
7. britney’s mother got her into drinking very young
Spears shares that she developped a relationship with alcohol when she was only in middle school, due to her parents drinking habits.
“For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom [Lynne] and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi,” Spears writes, “and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris. We called our cocktails ‘toddies.’ I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then. The way we drank was nothing like how my father [Jamie] did it.”
Spears described her father’s personality, while he was drinking, as “more depressed and shut down.” It was a stark difference compared to how Spears felt when she drank with her mother. “We became happier, more alive and adventurous,” she says.
Neither Jamie nor Lynne Spears have yet responded publicly to this story.
8. Britney gave up her ‘freedom’ so she could see her sons during conservatorship
In her book, the singer alleged that she went along with the terms of her now-terminated conservatorship in order to spend time with her boys.
Ex-husband Kevin Federline was given sole legal and physical custody of their sons in 2008 after Spears was hospitalized after she locked herself in a bathroom with her sons and refused to turn them over to Federline.
‘My freedom in exchange for naps with my children — it was a trade I was willing to make,’ she wrote.
She added: ‘Starting a family was my dream come true. Being a mom was my dream come true.’
9. On being ‘finally free’ when the conservatorship was ended
Spears revealed that it was her supporters who were the reason she began fighting her conservatorship, after she saw #FreeBritney on a talk show while she was in a mental health facility.
On the night of June 22, 2021, she called 911 from her home to report her father for conservatorship abuse, and one day later she made a public testimony to the court asking to terminate the conservatorship.
She describes how she felt when her father was removed as her conservator in September.
“I felt relief sweep over me. The man who had scared me as a child and ruled over me as an adult, who had done more than anyone to undermine my self-confidence, was no longer in control of my life,” she writes.
She was on vacation in Tahiti in November when she got a call from her attorney Mathew Rosengart, that she was no longer under the conservatorship.
“He’d told me when I left for the trip that one day soon I’d be able to wake up for the first time in 13 years a free woman,” she recalls. “Still, I couldn’t believe it when he called me as soon as he came out of the court hearing and told me it was done. I was free.”
10. Britney is not interested in pursuing music in the near futur
So what will she do next after breaking free of her conservatorship and published this memoir ?
“I keep getting asked when I’m going to put on shows again. I confess that I’m struggling with that question. I’m enjoying dancing and singing the way I used to when I was younger and not trying to do it for my family’s benefit, not trying to get something, but doing it for me and for my genuine love for it,” she writes.
As for her performing career, Spears says music will not be her main focus.
“Pushing forward in my music career is not my focus at the moment. Right now it’s time for me to try to get my spiritual life in order, to pay attention to the little things, to slow down. It’s time for me not to be someone who other people want; it’s time to actually find myself,” she writes.
She adds, “Being an entertainer was great, but over the past five years my passion to entertain in front of a live audience has lessened.”
]]>You can tell a lot about a particular era of American history by looking at its Halloween costumes. We’re taking you back to witness the evolution of Halloween costumes through the decade.
1910s
In the early 20th century, halloween costumes were geared towards spooky themes, and were mostly homemade.
A witch costume was one of the easier costumes to make from scratch, which is a reason why many women chose this as their costume.
1920s
In the 1920s, When Halloween became a secular holiday and as trick-or-treating started to become a more popular activity, around the great depression, costumes started out simple and homemade.
The Pierrot clown, with its dramatic black and white painted face, was a popular costume. Other Halloween staples, like witches, gypsies, and farmers, got their start in the 1920s.
The goal of early costumes wasn’t necessarily to dress up as particular creature or character, but rather to canceal one’s identity in a spooky way that evoked themes like ghosts, witches, black cats or the moon.
In the era of the flapper girl, Halloweens during the 1920s often had women incorporating the trends of everyday fashion into their costumes.
this young woman is dressed as a ballerina. But by the looks of her headdress and jewelry, she was obviously influenced by the flapper lifestyle.
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Three girls pose in their masked costumes (a flapper, a clown and a masked boss ) as they prepare for halloween festivities in the college hill neighborhood of cincinnati, ohio, 1929.
1930s
Box costumes were considered expensive luxuries during the great depression era, so most families continued to make their own outfits using costume patterns.
during the Great Depression, particularly after 1933, As parents encouraged community activities for children on halloween, costumes expanded to include characters that children might have seen and enjoyed. This included characters from popular radio shows, comics and movies, like Mickey and Minnie Mouse as in this undated 1930s photo of girl holding a mickey mouse mask.
Because of new licensing deals with Walt Disney, Halloween costumes featuring Disney characters were being mass-produced.
Couples costumes were just now beginning to become popular, and many couples dressed up as the beloved Micky and Minnie Mouse.
1930s, the first mass produced costumes appear – like this Mickey Mouse
1940s:
Spooky skeletons and cute clowns were still all the rage in the 1940s, but one trend that maintains till this day started in the ‘40s: the sexy Halloween costume.
With the rise of pinup girls and sexual liberation, women took classic Halloween costumes like witches and cats, hiked up their skirts, and got sexy all for the sake of dressing up.
The ‘sexy’ Halloween costume first showed up in the mid-1940s
1950s
In the 1950s, mass-produced box costumes became more affordable, so more kids began to use them to dress up as : princesses, mummies, cowboy, clowns or more specific characters like Batman and Frankenstein’s monster.
Children pose as trick or treat with their costumes and masks, 1955.
1950s, Plastic masks rose in popularity in this decade
During the 50s, Western films and television shows dominated pop culture, and many women dressed as cowgirls for Halloween.
1960s
As store-bought costumes became more affordable, parents could suit up their children for the holiday at the last minute.
Halloween masks became more elaborate in the 1960s, as shown by this store display from the decade.
Sometimes a good mask makes up most of the costume, as on this boy, photographed in 1968 as he tries to scare a young girl.
1970s
Movies became popular costume inspirations. Here star wars characters, C3P0 and darth vader, celebrate at harvard square in cambridge, massachusetts, 1977.
The 1970s also saw some more adult changes to halloween costumes. This is the period when americans began wearing politically inspired like presidential masks, particulary the most famous one of all : richard nixon’s shown here in 1978.
‘sexy’ versions of costumes for woman were common from the 1960s on and became an established commercial product in the 1990s.
here a woman dressed like a playboy bunny dances at studio 54 halloween party in new york city, 1979.
Since comic books were also becoming more popular, it was common to see women dressed up as their favorite female superheroes on Halloween.
Wonder Woman was a very popular costume in the 70s. She symbolized female strength and power in a time when women were fighting for equality.
1980s
Halloween costumes in the 1970s and 80s became more gruesome with the rise of slasher horror movies.
Horror movies also cemented michael myers and jason voorhees masks as classic horror costumes. Here people pose as dracula, a skeleton and werewolf at morrisey magic store in new york, 1985.
Major fantasy and sci-fi movies had a big influence, too. Fans dressed up as C-3PO, Darth Vader and Princess Leia from Star Wars, and kids particularly liked dressing up as the titular alien in E.T.
Box costumes were still popular among young children specialy superheroe costumes.
Here two boys, dressed as the thing and batman, are photographed at the annual new york city halloween parade in this photo from the late 1970s or early 1980s.
1990s
The 90s was a decade full of punk rock and rebellion. People used their Halloween costumes as a way to rep their favorite singers, groups and bands.
Since the Spice Girls were at the peak of their fame in the late 90s, a lot of women dressed up as them for a group Halloween costume.
In 1995, the year of the O.J.Simpson trial, costume shops, like this one in new york city, sold hundreds of masks of both simpson and the presiding judge ito.
2000s: Celebrities
As pop culture continued to be all the rage, people started to dress up like their favorite TV characters, singers, or actors. Such as Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jackson, and Hannah Montana.
Harry Potter and his Hogwarts friends were all the rage, as were Spongebob Squarepants, Spiderman, and the Joker from The Dark Knight.
2010s:
Even four years after its release, kids cannot let Elsa, Anna, Olaf, and Sven from Disney’s Frozen go.
Other fictional favorites like Marvel’s Avengers, the Game of Thrones cast, and Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad were (and continue to be) hugely popular.
But of course, who can forget 2013, when everyone dressed up like Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke. or the 2016 election, when folks tried to make Halloween great again by dressing like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
From 2017, nostalgia and real life will once again be all the rage. We can also see emoji costumes, plenty of Stranger Things kids, and the witches from Hocus Pocus on the streets.
Many other celebrity couples have called it quits this year. From short-lived marriages falling apart like Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez to almost a three decade’s worth of love like Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Jackman, here are the biggest celebrity divorces of 2023.
September :
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Jackman
Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-lee announced on September 15 that they ended their marriage after 27 years. The two met in 1995 before getting married a year later.
Hugh and Deb released a statement to People, saying “We have been blessed to share almost 3 decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage. Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth.”
“Our family has been and always will be our highest priority. We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love, and kindness. We greatly appreciate your understanding in respecting our privacy as our family navigates this transition in all of our lives.”
The statement, signed “Deb and Hugh Jackman,” concluded: “This is the sole statement either of us will make.”
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner
Jonas and Turner called it quits after four years of marriage. After days of speculation, TMZ reported that Joe had officially filled for divorce on September 5.
According to the paperwork, the musician stated that it is “in the best interests” of the couple’s two daughters that “the parties have shared parental responsibility.”
Jeannie Mai Jenkins and Jeezy
The rapper filed for divorce from The Real host on Sept. 14 in Atlanta, Georgia, after more than two years of marriage.
Jeezy’s filing said that their marriage is “irretrievably broken” with “no hope for reconciliation.” The document also said that the rapper wants to share joint legal custody of the pair’s daughter.
Bijou Phillips and Danny Masterson
Phillips filed for divorce from that’s 70s show actor in September after more than a decade of marriage.
The filing came less than two weeks after the actor was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after being found guilty on two counts of rape.
August :
Sophia Bush and Grant Hughes
Sophia Bush filed for divorce from Grant Hughes on Aug. 4 after 13 months of marriage. The actress has also erased the last name “Hughes” from her Instagram bio.
A source tells People “Sophia and Grant were friends for 10 years and bonded during COVID through their love of community service. They continue to run their nonprofit together and remain good friends.”
The news came seven weeks after Bush celebrated their wedding anniversary in a post on Instagram.
Khadijah Haqq and Bobby McCray
The Sky High actress announced her separation from the former NFL player on Instagram on Aug. 18 after 13 Years of Marriage.
In her statement, Haqq wrote, “Now more than ever I have been relying on prayer.”
“Family is so important to me. Unfortunately, life has brought me to tremendous transition,” Haqq continued in part. “After 13 years of marriage, 16 years together and 4 incredible children, I have come to the intensely difficult conclusion that while Bobby & I have a great deal of love for one [another], it’s best we move forward separately.”
Corey Feldman and Courtney Anne
Corey Feldman announced his separation from Courtney Anne Mitchell, his wife of seven years, amid her ongoing health conditions.
The actor and musician said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE on August 8 that :
“We have been through so much together and still have much love and respect for each other,” Feldman said. “There is no one to blame. This is a case of life becoming really hard, Courtney dealing with health issues, and two people who have grown apart and now find themselves at a crossroads.”
July :
Britney Spears and Sam Asghari
After getting married in 2022, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari went their separate ways in July after 14 months of marriage.
According to sources who spoke to TMZ, the couple “have separated after a nuclear argument that involves allegations of cheating” with Asghari having confronted Spears “over rumors she stepped out on him.
Tina Knowles and Richard Lawson
TMZ reports that Tina filed for divorce on July 26 after eight years of marriage, listing the date of separation as Tuesday and “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.
Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello
Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello went their separate ways after seven years of marriage. The couple got married in 2015, and the news was announced this July.
The former couple released a statement to Page Six saying, “We have made the difficult decision to divorce. As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.”
Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez
Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez split after tying the knot in May 2021. While at Wimbledon, Grande was spotted without her engagement ring or wedding band, and soon news broke of their divorce.
Per an Entertainment Tonight source, “Ariana and Dalton tried to make things work, but ultimately they were just not a good fit. Dalton has been very private and low-key about their relationship with his work colleagues and hasn’t been talking a lot about their split.”
Adam Smith and Billy Porter
Billy Porter and husband Adam Smith went their separate ways in early July after six years of marriage.
In a whirlwind romance, the two met in 2009 and began dating for about a year before breaking up. In 2015, they rekindled their relationship and got married only two weeks after their engagement in 2017.
The former couple’s rep confirmed the sad news to People, saying in part, “The decision was an amicable and mutual one and was made after much consideration. They continue to love and support each other as they embark on this next chapter. There will be no further comment from either parties and it would be appreciated if their privacy be respected.”
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef announced their divorce in early July after six years of marriage.
“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years,” the Puerto Rican superstar and the Syrian-Swedish artist told PEOPLE in a joint statement in July.
Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky
PEOPLE confirmed on July 3 that the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and her husband have separated after 27 years of marriage.
A source close to the pair told PEOPLE: “Kyle and Mauricio have been separated for a while now but are still living under the same roof. They remain amicable as they figure out what’s next for them and their family.”
May :
Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin
On May 11, the star of The Bear and actress Addison Timlin are getting divorced after three years of marriage.
The two met as teens and even co-starred in a 2008 drama, Afterschool. Now, they share two daughters, 4-year-old Ezer and 2-year-old Dolores.
On Mother’s Day this year, Timlin posted a photo on Instagram calling herself a “single mom.” Viewers were quick to point out the misuse of the word, so Timlin edited the caption to say, “co-parent,” instead.
Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner
The Yellowstone star’s wife has filed for divorce from the actor after 18 years of marriage. The pair share three children.
In a statement to PEOPLE in May, Costner’s representative said, “It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage action.”
“We ask that his, Christine’s, and their children’s privacy be respected as they navigate this difficult time,” the rep added.
April :
Kim Zolciak-Biermann and Kroy Biermann
After nearly 12 years of marriage, The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum filed for divorce from the retired athlete.
The pair’s date of separation has been listed as April 30, per court documents obtained by TMZ.
In the filing, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star described her marriage as “irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation.” Zolciak-Biermann is seeking primary physical custody of their children and joint legal custody; she has also asked for spousal support and the restoration of her maiden name.
The former couple also share two sons Kash and KJ as well as twins Kane and Kaia.
March :
Jim Toth and Reese Witherspoon
Just before the couple’s 12-year wedding anniversary, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth announced their “difficult decision” to divorce.
Reese and Jim surprised fans in March when they posted a joint Insta statement confirming their split :
“It is with a great deal of care and consideration that we have made the difficult decision to divorce. We have enjoyed so many wonderful years together and are moving forward with deep love, kindness, and mutual respect for everything we have created together,” they wrote.
“Our biggest priority is our son and our entire family as we navigate this next chapter. These matters are never easy and are extremely personal. We truly appreciate everyone’s respect for our family’s privacy at this time.”
The couple met in 2010 and got married less than a year after meeting. Since then, they share a 10-year-old son, Tennesee James.
Alex Pettyfer and Toni Garrn
Model Toni Garrn announced in an Instagram Story post on April 22 that she and actor Alex Pettyfer were divorcing after two years of marriage.
“Alex and I have made the very difficult decision to divorce,” the model wrote in an Instagram Story statement on April 21. “We will continue our relationship as friends and coparents to our angel [daughter] Luca. Please respect our privacy during this sensitive time. Thank you.”
Shannen Doherty and Kurt Iswarienko
The Charmed alum filed for divorce from Iswarienko on April 21, after 11 years of marriage.
“Divorce is the last thing Shannen wanted,” Doherty’s rep, Leslie Sloane, told PEOPLE in a statement. “Unfortunately, she felt she was left with no other option.”
Drake Bell and Janet Von Schmeling
Drake Bell’s wife, Janet Von Schmeling, filed for divorce one week after Bell was reported missing and later found safe.
Von Schmeling cited “irreconcilable differences,” according to the dissolution of marriage petition filed in Los Angeles County’s Superior Court on April 20.
Von Schmeling also requested legal and physical custody of the couple’s baby as well as spousal support, according to the document.
Eva Marcille and Michael Sterling
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star filed for divorce from the lawyer on March 23, after four years of marriage, stating that their marriage is “irretrievably broken,” according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
“This has been one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make, but sometimes life takes your journey in a direction you were not expecting,” Marcille told PEOPLE exclusively. “Our children remain our biggest priority and the eight and half years we have spent together will always be cherished. We ask that you respect our privacy at this time.”
The pair married on Oct. 7, 2018, and they share three children.
Joanna Krupa and Douglas Nunes
Nunes filed for divorce from husband Douglas Nunes on March 24 after nearly five years of marriage, according to papers obtained by PEOPLE.
In the documents, he cites their separation date at Jan. 2, 2023. He lists “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for divorce.
The pair wed in July 2018 and share 3-year-old daughter Asha-Leigh.
February :
Julie Banderas and Andrew Sansone
After almost 14 years of marriage, Fox News’ Julie Banderas announced on live TV on Feb.9 that she and her husband, financial advisor Andrew Sansone, are getting divorced.
Banderas, who shares three children with Sansone, hinted as far back as December that there was trouble in their marriage, tweeting “you mean soon to be ex?” when a fan referenced her husband.
Drew Sidora and Ralph Pittman
The Real Housewives of Atlanta duo, who share two kids, called it quits in February after eight years of marriage, with Pittman filing for divorce.
January :
DeAnna Pappas and Stephen Stagliano
The former Bachelor Nation star announced her split from her husband on January 19 after 11 years of marriage.
“We ask you to respect our privacy during this difficult time as we navigate the new normal,” the ABC alum’s statement read in part. “We want to thank our dear friends & family for your endless support & many, many prayers during what has become the most difficult time of our lives.”
The pair wed in October 2011, and share two children: Addison, 8, and Austin, 6.
Noel Gallagher and Sara MacDonald
The “Champagne Supernova” singer and MacDonald announced their split on January 16 after more than 20 years of marriage.
“Noel and Sara will together continue to look after their children who remain their priority,” a spokesperson said of the former Oasis member and MacDonald.
They share two sons Donovan, 15, and Sonny, 12 .
]]>From the 16th-19th Century
1. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before human models appeared, these miniature ’’fashion dolls’’ were used to advertise clothes.
2. The First Modern Model / Modeling was established as a profession in the mid-1800s by British designer Charles Frederick Worth.
3. At that time, ’’mannequins” were used to advertise clothes, but later on, they were replaced with human models, called ’’live mannequins.’
In the mid 1800s, Charles Frederick Worth, the world’s first couturier, also became the first designer to use live models instead of mannequins to market his clothing.
1920s:
By the 1920s, the word ’’model’’ became more widespread, as department stores across Europe and the US regularly staged fashion parades with live models.
Then, in New York City in 1923, John Powers opened the very first modeling agency.
1920s: And the First Modeling Schools, Too
Here, we see women at a “modeling school” in Berlin in 1928. (They’re practicing their posture by standing one-footed with books on their heads. Tyra and J. Alexander would be so proud.
The 1940s
Lisa Fonssagrives
Big names in fashion modeling started to emerge in the ’40s. Lisa Fonssagrives, whose career took off in the ’40s, was a Swedish fashion model widely credited as the first supermodel.
The New York Times wrote about Fonssagrives: “In the late 1940’s, when most models were paid $10 to $25 an hour, she was earning $40 an hour.”
Dorian Leigh
Model Dorian Leigh was also one of the most popular models of the time, appearing in more than 6 Vogue covers
1950s
Fiona Campbell-Walter
Fiona Campbell-Walter, one of photographer Cecil Beaton’s favorite models, struts her stuff during a run-through for a fashion show
Bettina Graziani
The supermodel Bettina Graziani also known simply as just Bettina worked with influential designers including Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy. Her small waist helped define the ‘New Look’ fashions of Dior.
Bettina reportedly commanded $1,300 an hour or over $11,000 in today’s value.
Suzy Parker
During the ’50s, modeling became a lucrative career for beautiful women from all over the world. By taking part in fashion shows and signing contracts with big cosmetic companies, model Suzy Parker became one of the most prominent models of the decade.
1960s
Jean Shrimpton
Jean Shrimpton‘s various magazine covers in the 1960s established her as one of the first ever supermodels. She has appeared on several Vogue covers and was one of the most in-demand models of her time.
Twiggy lawson & Beyond
The ’60s were also all about legendary fashion icon Twiggy Lawson. Twiggy’s immense popularity and her famously thin figure marked a shift away from curvy models to a more slender physique.
She became ’’The Face’’ of ’66 and the first international supermodel when she was only 16.
her stick thin frame, wide eyes and pixie haircut became forever associated with the mod movement.
1966: Black Models Start Becoming More Visible
Donyale Luna
Donyale Luna was the world’s first black supermodel. Time dubbed 1966 “The Luna Year,” while the New York Times called Luna “a stunning Negro model whose face had the hauteur and feline grace of Nefertiti.”
A pioneer of the industry, Naomi Sims became the first black woman to cover Ladies Home Journal in November 1968. as well as Life Magazine.
1969: Models as Designers
Model collab犀利士 orations with beauty and fashion brands are commonplace nowadays, but back in the 1960s, models were usually just models.
Not Twiggy though: She was one of the first models to turn her modeling fame into a separate business, launching a ‘Twiggy Tights’ collection for which she designed many of the tights herself.
1970s
Lauren Hutton
The 1970s ushered in new models. Lauren Hutton with her unique gap-tooth look made her the only model or celebrity to appear on American Vogue a record 26 times.
Mid 1970s: ‘Vogue’ and ELLE Feature First Black Cover Star
In 1974, Beverly Johnson became the first black model to cover American Vogue. And in 1975, she graced the over of French ELLE, too.
Johnson then went on to appear in 500 magazines throughout her career and walk the runway for such renowned designers as Yves Saint Laurent and Ralph Lauren.
Johnson’s Vogue cover was a major milestone for inclusivity in the industry and paved the way for many women of color in the modeling business.
1975: Margaux Hemingway Signs First $1 Million Contract
Modeling started to mean big money in 1975 when Margaux Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, signed the first $1 million contract with Fabergé as the face of Babe perfume.
The late 1970s
Cheryl Tiegs
Cheryl Tiegs was the first model to ever land a second Sports Illustrated cover.
In 1979, she signed a reported $1.5 million 2-year contract with CoverGirl, in what was the biggest modeling contract at the time
Christie Brinkley
All-American beauty Christie Brinkley became the face of her decade for her bouncy blonde hair and brilliant smile.
She not only appeared on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers from 1979 through 1981, but she only served as the face of CoverGirl for 25 years—the longest cosmetics contract in model history
Iman
Iman was discovered in 1975 by Peter Beard, who spotted the Somalian beauty on the street in Nairobi where she was studying political science at university. She moved to the U.S. and received her first gig with American Vogue.
She quickly rose to supermodel status and became a favorite of many designers and photographers in the industry. Yves Saint Laurent once described her as his “dream woman.
1980s: Beginning of the Modern Supermodel
The 1980s saw the rise of the modern supermodel. Now, these women were not just recognizable, but they also endorsed products outside of fashion including Pepsi, Ford Trucks and more.
Early 1980s
Cindy Crawford
Along with her countless magazine covers, Crawford is known for her girl next door look and her signature beauty spot right above her lip.
Ines de la Fressange
In 1983, Ines de la Fressange became the first “exclusive” model for haute couture house Chanel.
Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields became one of the most popular models of the ’80s after appearing in a popular campaign for Calvin Klein jeans.
Shields was also an established actress thanks to roles in “Blue Lagoon” and “Pretty Baby.”
Mid 1980s
Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson, aptly nicknamed “The Body,” featured in every issue of American ELLE for six years in a row.
In 1994, she formed her own company Elle Macpherson Inc. and later went on to start her own lingerie line
Late 1980s
Paulina Porizkova
In 1988, Paulina Porizkova secured what was then the highest-paying modeling deal ever: a $6,000,000 contract with Estée Lauder. She remained the company’s face until 1995.
Naomi Campbell
In the Late 1980s, Naomi Campbell rose to fame as a teenager, landing the cover of British ELLE just before her 16th birthday.
She quickly became one of the most in-demand models of her time due to her stunning features and iconic walk.
By the late 1980s, Campbell, along with Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista became known as the “Trinity.”
In 1988, she became the first black model to be featured on the cover of French Vogue with the support of her industry friend and mentor, Yves Saint Laurent.
Linda Evangelista
Linda Evangelista also became a prominent modeling figure in the ’80s. She was often referredas “the chameleon” of the modeling industry due to her ever-evolving hairstyles and beauty looks.
Linda Evangelista had her hair cut short in 1988. The haircut, nicknamed “The Linda,” not only sparked many copies worldwide, but it also benefited Evangelista’s career and helped usher in the era of the supermodel.
The 90s : Peak Supermodel Era
What followed was the ’90s, The Golden Age Of Supermodels. More than ever before, models were becoming successful businesswomen, producing their own posters, calendars, and perfumes.
Models were seen as new celebrities and were frequently featured in the media and even in music videos.
The 1990s were the heyday of the supermodel, British Vogue named Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, and Tatjana Patitz the supermodels of their day.
The girls were known for their personality as well as their personal lives including relationships with rock stars and actors. Evangelista even famously said that she did not get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks was a huge name in the ’90s after becoming the first African-American woman to grace the cover of GQ and Sports Illustrated.
In her first runway season, she was booked in 25 shows at the 1991 Paris Fashion Week.
She’s still one of the most prominent figures in fashion thanks to her tenure as a Victoria’s Secret Angel and her hugely popular TV show, “America’s Next Top Model.”
She was also one of the first models to make the crossover into acting. In 1993, she appeared in seven episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington was so famous in the ’90s that she was named the “Face of the 20th Century” by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was the face of brands such as Chanel, Marc Jacobs, and Maybelline.
In 1991, Christy Turlington signed a contract with Maybelline that paid her $800,000 for just TWELVE DAYS of work each year.
Niki Taylor
In the ’90s, girl-next-door good looks were all the rage. Think Cindy Crawford or Niki Taylor, pictured here in the cover of ELLE’s March 1991 issue.
Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer rose to fame in the early ’90s. Her first big break came when she starred in campaigns for Guess. She then appeared on the cover of Vogue and became the face of Chanel, which helped catapult her into a modeling icon.
The mid-’90s saw a new trend: The Waif Look.
The mid-90s also saw the rise of Kate Moss and the heroin chic look. Moss gained notoriety in the 1990s, becoming one of the most famous names in the fashion world.
Kate Moss got her start with Calvin Klein. Her Calvin Klein campaign with Mark Wahlberg made her an instant household name. Her popularity sparked a move toward a skinnier look in the industry.
The late 90s
Alek Wek
In the late 90s, Alek Wek, a model from the South Sudan, became an icon for black women with darker skin.
Sophie Dahl
Sophie Dahl was one of the earliest cases of a fuller-figured model being able to cross over into high fashion jobs. In 1999, she showcased her curvy frame in the Pirelli calendar.
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen first appeared on the scene in the late ’90s and has remained one of the highest-paid models in the world.
the 2000s
Although the exposure of the supermodel faded, there was still new supermodels who emerged in the 2000s.
Thanks to Victoria’s Secret and its lucrative Angel contract, Gisele Bundchen, Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum became household names.
Unlike previous decades, many of the models turned their careers into business opportunities. Klum became known for her hosting job on ‘Project Runway’, while Banks launched ‘America’s Next Top Model’, and Bundchen’s line of sandals and apparel company in Brazil has helped her rank number 1 on Forbes’ Highest Paid Models list for many years.
Trailblazing the path for Asian models, Ling Tan has worked with top designers such as Tom Ford, Yves Saint Laurent, and Elie Saab. she was also photographed by famed photographer Richard Avedon for the 1997 Pirelli calendar.
Mid 2000s: The Wide-Eyed Dolls
Gemma Ward
Gemma Ward ushered in a new wave of models with her unique babydoll features. A year later, she became the youngest model to appear on the cover of American Vogue, at just 16 years old.
Lily Cole
With her distinctive red hair and porcelain doll complexion, Lily Cole attracted significant attention. In 2004, she was named “Model of the Year” at the British Fashion Awards.
Miranda Kerr
Aussie beauty Miranda Kerr—the first Australian Victoria’s Secret model—is an excellent example of someone who was able to make the crossover from lingerie to high fashion
Late 2000s: The Brazilian Babes
Brazilian-born Adriana Lima has become one of the most famous Victoria’s Secret Angels since joining in 2000. She was also the highest earning angel.
Lima made an emotional final walk down the Victoria’s Secret runway in November 2018.
Karlie Kloss may now be known as a member of Taylor Swift’s girl squad, but she got her start as a wildly successful model in the 2000s.
Karlie Kloss is still an in-demand model. She has graced the cover of Vogue several times since starting her career in 2007, and has modeled for brands such as Dior, Donna Karan, and Nike.
She’s also one of the most famous Victoria’s Secret Angels and made her return to the show in 2017 after a brief hiatus.
the 2010s
The 2010s marked a turning point in the fashion industry when variety was more welcomed than ever.
2012:
Kate Upton was discovered on the Jumbotron during a sports game, when she was dancing and jiggling her now-famous curves.
She landed back-to-back covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2012 and 2013, but she was also featured on the cover of Vogue’s June 2013 issue, representing high fashion’s renewed interest in curvier, fuller figures.
2013: The Crossover Artist
Emily Ratajkowski popped up on the scene when she pranced around in her underwear for Robin Thicke’s infamous “Blurred Lines” video. Since then, she’s successfully made the transition from music video babe to runway model and Hollywood actress
2014
Jourdan Dunn
English model Jourdan Dunn was declared an icon by models.com in 2014. That same year, she also placed on Forbes list of top-earning models. She is considered to be one of the few supermodels of this generation.
Kendall Jenner
LOVE editor Katie Grand deemed Kendall Jenner the “‘It girl’ of the season” in 2014, she walked for Chanel, landed both a high fashion (Givenchy) and major beauty (Estée Lauder) contract, and the rest is history
2014: Blogger Takeover
There’s been a staggering uptick in the popularity and influence of independent fashion bloggers in recent years.
These savvy women parlay their Internet following into major money, through brand partnerships, collaborations, and social media sponsorships.
At the forefront of the blogger crowd is Chiara Ferragni, the Italian blogger behind The Blonde Salad, who boasts 6.6 million Instagram followers, has her own shoe line, and has starred on the cover of Grazia and Vogue España.
Ferragni raked in a whopping $8 million in 2014. she’s proven so successful that Harvard Business School designed a case study about her.
2015: Sister Act
Sisters are having a moment in fashion, as Olivier Rousteing highlighted in Balmain’s fall 2015 ad campaign, which featured chic siblings Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Gigi and Bella Hadid, and Joan and Erika Smalls
We’re happy to see that modeling has become more inclusive, allowing women of different shapes and sizes to join the show and achieve success.
And over the past decade, more and more plus-size models have started joining the show.
2016
Ashley Graham made history as the first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Graham’s cover on the 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue solidified her status as one of the most influential models of the moment. She’s graced the cover of Vogue, launched a lingerie line with Addition Elle, and is the new face of Revlon.
Her popularity also led to more plus-size representation in mainstream modeling.
2016
Canadian model Winnie Harlow, who is affected with the skin condition vitiligo, received a valuable endorsement when she featured prominently in Beyoncé’s Lemonade visual album.
The model got her start on “America’s Next Top Model” and has gone on to become one of the most famous contestants from the show.
She also made her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debut in 2018.
2010 to Present Day: The Rise of the Social Supermodel
Unlike previous decades, 2010 and on has saw the rise of models through an unlikely place—social media.
In a 2015 issue of Adweek, a modeling agent revealed that most top brands will not consider a model unless they have a large Instagram following (usually 500,000 and up).
This has paved the way for models like Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne and Karlie Kloss to “have more a voice” versus models of previous decades.
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Cara Delevingne
Cara Delevingne has built a large following on instagram with those iconic bold brows, and by making not pretty faces.
Joan Smalls
Joan Smalls is currently one of the highest-paid models in the world. She walked in the Victoria’s Secret Show from 2011 to 2016.
The former Victoria’s Secret model made history in 2011 when she became the first Latina model to represent Estee Lauder’s global marketing campaigns. She was the eighth highest-paid model of 2018 according to Forbes.
2016: The Instagirls
With social media followings across Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat far exceeding 100 million, models like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner have garnered fans beyond the fashion world, making them not just models, but mainstream celebrities.
Kendall Jenner
Kendall Jenner’s overwhelming success has marked a shift away from the traditional supermodel. She has walked several times in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and even landed a coveted spot on the cover of Vogue’s September Issue in 2016.
She was the highest-paid model of 2018, earning a whopping $22.5 million. Much of this income is due to her Instagram presence, which also made her one of the highest earning stars on the app.
Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid has also worked her way into the upper ranks of the modeling world after building a huge social-media following.
Hadid got her start at an early age by modeling with Guess at the age of 2. She stopped to focus her attention on school before returning to the industry as a teenager, walking for brands such as Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Victoria’s Secret.
Bella Hadid
Gigi’s sister Bella Hadid is also making quite a name for herself in the modeling world. She made her New York Fashion Week debut in 2014 and has since gone on to walk for brands such as Chanel, Givenchy, and Victoria’s Secret.
Hadid has also appeared on the cover of several magazines, including the March 2018 issue of Vogue.
Anok Yai
Anok Yai is currently a rising star in the industry. She gained popularity when her photos went viral on Instagram in 2017. Yai has since modeled for brands like Alexander Wang and Prada.
Kelsey Merritt
Kelsey Merritt made history when she became the first Filipino woman to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2018. She called getting into the show a “dream come true” when announcing the news on Instagram.
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen got her big break by posing for the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010, and later married singer John Legend in 2013.
She has since amassed millions of Instagram followers, released two cookbooks, was the third highest-paid model of 2018 according to Forbes, and becoming one of the most popular personalities in the world
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