It feels like a lot of the time, celebrities live in their own world and abide by their own rules. They're just not quite like the rest of us.
Once in a while, a celebrity is made to suffer the consequences of their own action. There are even quite a few who have done jail time for some major screw-ups.
These are the celebrities who spent some time in the slammer in the '90s.
1.Matthew McConaugheywas arrested on marijuana possession charges in 1998. Police were called because he was smoking, listening to a Cameroonian singer and guitarist, and playing along on his bongos at 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday night/Monday morning...naked.
3.Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested in 1990, after she was pulled over for driving erratically and found to have an invalid license and an open container of alcohol. She slapped a police officer during the encounter.
5.James Brown got out of jail in 1991, after serving three years of a six-year sentence for taking out a gun during a dispute at an insurance company, evading a police officer, and leading cops on a car chase.
6.Robert Downey Jr. was first arrested in 1996, when he was pulled over in his pickup truck was found to have cocaine, heroin, and a pistol in his possession.
7.Mike Tyson was found guilty of rape in 1992 and was sentenced to 10 years, with 4 suspended, and an additional 6 years of probation. He ended up serving just under three years and was released in March 1995.
9.Rick James was convicted for two separate instances of kidnapping and assaulting two different women while under the influence of crack cocaine in 1993. He spent three years at Folsom State Prison.
10.Before the world knew 50 Cent, he spent six months in a correctional boot camp as a result of drug charges. It was in 1994, when he was just 16 years old.
11.Leona Helmsley, known as the Queen of Mean and wife of real estate mogul Harry Helmsley, was sentenced to four years in jail in 1992 for evading $1.7 million in taxes.
12.Tupac was convicted of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in 1995. He was originally sentenced to four years in jail. He served just nine months of that sentence.
13.Felicia Pearson was convicted of second-degree murder in 1996 and served six and a half years in jail before discovering success in acting through The Wire.
14.In 1997, Christian Slater allegedly got drunk on tequila, did cocaine, and attacked the woman and man he was with, as well as the officers who came to arrest him.
16.MLB star Darryl Strawberry was indicted on three counts of evasion and conspiracy after failing to report over $350,000 in income. He pleaded guilty to just one count of tax evasion.
17.O.J. Simpson served time in jail in 1995 leading up to his trial for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. He was acquitted and released in October 1995.
18.Heidi Fleiss was convicted of federal tax evasion in 1996 and sentenced to three years in jail. She served 20 months at the Federal Correctional Institution in California before being released to a halfway house in 1998.
19.Pete Rose received a lifetime ban from baseball in 1989 for betting on the sport as a team manager and former player. It was during that investigation that officials learned he was dodging taxes on his winning, earning him a five-month prison sentence in 1990 for falsifying tax returns.
20.Rae Carruth was at the beginning of his NFL career when he hired a hitman to kill a woman who was pregnant with his child. The woman died, but their child lived.
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