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Dennis Rodman is pals with Kim Jong Un, going as far as to say they’re “pals for all times.” He is visited North Korea many instances, and with Kim, he stated the 2 “experience horses, we hang around, we go snowboarding, we infrequently speak politics, and that is the nice factor.” The previous NBA participant even supplied to “straighten issues out” between the chief of North Korea and then-President Donald Trump, who he additionally stated was a good friend.
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In one other weird Dennis Rodman reality, he is damaged his penis whereas having intercourse on three separate events.
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Former US Senator Ron Paul was once an OB-GYN, and he delivered Selena Quintanilla. Selena’s mom additionally did not know she was pregnant — she went to the hospital as a result of she wasn’t feeling effectively and was initially instructed she had a tumor that needed to be eliminated, in accordance with Selena’s father. In search of a second opinion, she met Ron Paul, who instructed her she was pregnant and later delivered her little one. So, with out Ron Paul, Selena could by no means have been born.
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Talking of politicians, Ronald Reagan not directly saved his personal life when he appeared as a Secret Service agent years earlier than he ever grew to become president within the movie Code of the Secret Service. 9-year-old Jerry Parr noticed the movie and was impressed to enter the Secret Service himself. A long time later, he was with Reagan throughout the assassination try in opposition to him — and helped save his life.
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Again in 2005, Olivia Newton John’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Patrick McDermott, disappeared whereas on a fishing journey. That they had been collectively for about 9 years, however their relationship was rocky, they usually’d damaged up a number of instances. In June that yr, McDermott set out on an in a single day boating journey with 22 others. By morning, he was gone, along with his pockets and different private objects left behind. The Coast Guard concluded he had in all probability drowned.
Here is the place the story will get bizarre — McDermott would possibly truly nonetheless be alive as we speak. There have been a number of stories of sightings over time, and Dateline even claimed he faked his personal loss of life to keep away from his money owed. Nevertheless, there isn’t a stable proof of this, and his ex-wife, Yvette Nipar — who shared a son with McDermott — doesn’t imagine any of the theories.
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Osama bin Laden was a significant Whitney Houston fan, in accordance with Kola Boof, who claims to have lived with Bin Laden for just a few months. “He stated that he had a paramount want for Whitney Houston, and though he claimed music was evil, he spoke of sometime spending huge quantities of cash to go to America and attempt to prepare a gathering with the celebrity,” she stated. She even claimed Bin Laden deliberate to kill Bobby Brown, whom she was married to on the time.
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As a child, Terrance Howard witnessed his dad stab a person to loss of life whereas they have been in line to take images with a division retailer Santa, in what grew to become generally known as the “Santa Line Slaying.” Terrance stated the person, who was additionally there along with his household, made a racist remark to Terrance’s father, Tyrone, after he thought he skipped in line. Tyrone was arrested and pleaded self-defense; he ended up being convicted of manslaughter and spent eleven months in jail.
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Talking of Howard — he is made his life’s mission to show that 1×1=2 as a substitute of 1. An interview with Rolling Stones states, “He started writing down his logic, in a language of his personal devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote ahead and backward, with each his proper and left arms, typically utilizing symbols he made up that look overseas, if not alien, to maintain his concepts secret till they may very well be patented.” He and his then-wife, Miranda Pak, started shopping for scissors, wire, magnets, and sheets of plastic, then spending as much as 17 hours a day reducing out and becoming a member of the plastic in ways in which have been meant to show his numerous mathematical theories.
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Leighter Meester made headlines when it was reported that she had been born in jail as her mom was serving a sentence for serving to smuggle 1,200 kilos of weed out of Jamaica. Meester later clarified her mom gave delivery in a hospital earlier than returning to jail — with Meester spending three months in a midway home. Meester’s aunt, who had been arrested together with her mom, truly escaped jail and have become the primary lady on the US Marshals 15 Most Wished Checklist within the US: “My household has a loopy historical past. In all probability the craziest I’ve ever heard of,” Meester admitted in 2012.
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When Angelina Jolie was 22, she employed a hitman to kill her. She was suicidal, however she was apprehensive that the folks in her life would blame themselves if she died by suicide. She discovered a hitman in New York — which she stated wasn’t troublesome — however he ended up speaking her out of it. “He was a good sufficient individual and requested if I might give it some thought and name him once more in two months. One thing modified in my life, and I figured I would stick it out.”
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Travis Barker, equally, tried to pay pals a million {dollars} to kill him after struggling a traumatizing aircraft crash in 2008. The Blink-182 drummer stated, “I might name pals of mine and go, ‘I will deposit one million {dollars} into whoever’s checking account,'” to take him out.
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The aircraft crash itself is a wild story. Earlier than the crash, Barker’s then-wife determined to remain residence on the final minute “in case one thing occurs.” Their daughter additionally hysterically begged him to not go, telling him the roof was going to come back off. Barker himself had a foul feeling in regards to the flight however bought onto it anyway. The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff, killing each pilots, Barker’s assistant, and his safety guard. Barker and his good friend DJ AM escaped the crash, however Barker jumped into jet gas in his hurry, inflicting him to catch hearth. He spent 11 weeks within the hospital and nearly misplaced certainly one of his toes.
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One other superstar who was in a aircraft crash was Sandra Bullock. The aircraft skidded off the runway, severely damaging the aircraft however fortunately leaving Bullock unharmed. Coincidentally, Bullock had not too long ago starred within the movie Forces of Nature, which is a couple of aircraft that skids off the runway.
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In a a lot odder instance, Paula Abdul has made a number of remarks about being in a aircraft crash within the ’90s, struggling accidents that led to her retreating from the highlight for a while. There’s only one drawback: there isn’t a document of the crash ever occurring. Abdul’s description would not match any crashes on the time, although it’s potential it was not reported and the wreckage was not discovered. Nonetheless, as this Jezebell article factors out, this may imply Abdul and the opposite passengers simply left the burned-out aircraft in a area and by no means reported it.
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Julia Roberts, who would later star in Runaway Bride, actually was a runaway bride. In 1991, days earlier than she was going to marry Kiefer Sutherland, Roberts known as off her marriage ceremony. On the day she was speculated to be married, she as a substitute went on a date with Jason Patric, who was pals with Sutherland (however had not too long ago been uninvited from the marriage), then ran away with him to Eire.
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Talking of Roberts…Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital invoice when Julia Roberts was born. Why? Roberts’ dad and mom ran a theater college that allow within the Kings’ kids at a time when few applications would admit Black kids. When her dad and mom could not pay the hospital invoice, Martin and Coretta stepped in.
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And talking of MLK Jr., Samuel L. Jackson as soon as held his father, Martin Luther King Sr., hostage. Jackson was half of a gaggle protest in opposition to the administration and curriculum, which concerned locking the college’s board (which included Dr. King) in a room utilizing chains from the walkways for a day and a half. At one level, Dr. King had chest pains, so that they “put him on a ladder, put him out the window, and despatched him down.” Jackson ended up being kicked out of faculty for the protest.
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Fran Drescher claimed that when she was youthful, she was kidnapped by aliens who put a chip in her head — and that the identical factor had occurred to her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson. “You already know, it is humorous as a result of Peter and I each noticed [aliens] earlier than we knew one another, doing the identical factor, driving on the highway with our dads,” she recounted. “We have been each in junior excessive. A couple of years later, we met, and we realized that we had the identical expertise. I feel that one way or the other we have been programmed to satisfy.” She continued that they each have scars in the identical spot, the place the chips are, although “the aliens programmed [them] to assume” the scars have been from one thing else.
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In his ebook, Van Halen member Sammy Hagar wrote that he had an alien abduction expertise, too. He instructed MTV, “Aliens have been plugged into me. It was a obtain state of affairs. This was lengthy earlier than computer systems or any type of wi-fi. There weren’t even wi-fi telephones. Trying again now, it was like, ‘F***, they downloaded one thing into me!’ Or they uploaded one thing from my mind, like an experiment — ‘See what this man is aware of.'”
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Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller additionally cloned their canine to create twin Jack Russel Terriers — which value over $100,000.
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Guillermo del Toro’s father was kidnapped for 72 days in 1997, with a $1 million ransom…which was initially reported to have been paid by director James Cameron, a good friend of del Toro. Del Toro later clarified that he had paid the ransom, however Cameron had supplied after which “got here in and took cost” of the state of affairs, paying for the companies of a hostage negotiator.
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Benedict Cumberbatch was additionally as soon as kidnapped in South Africa. He was driving with pals again to the set of To the Ends of the Earth when their tire blew out. Armed males requested them for cash and their medication (they have been smoking weed) after which tied them up and put them of their automotive, later placing Cumberbatch within the trunk earlier than tossing him on the bottom in the course of nowhere and letting all of them go.
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British singer Duffy was additionally kidnapped for 4 weeks and even taken to a different nation. The occasion deeply traumatized her and is the primary cause she’s retreated from the general public eye.
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Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandmother, who he believed to be his mom — it seems that the a lot older “sister” he’d had was his actual mom. His mom was solely 18 when she had him, because of a relationship with a married man. To keep away from scandal, Nicholson’s grandmother claimed him as her personal.
He did not discover out the reality till after his mom died when Time journal did a profile on him in 1974 (immediately earlier than the discharge of his movie Chinatown) and found the reality of their analysis. Essentially the most eerie half? Nicholson’s character finds out the reality about one other character — specifically, that her “sister” is definitely her daughter — in Chinatown.
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Rolling Stones bassist Invoice Wyman made waves when he married 18-year-old Mandy Smith, whom he had been courting since she was 13. Wyman was in his fifties. However the scandal did not finish there — Wyman’s son Stephen ended up marrying Mandy’s mom. The 2 have been nearer in age than Wyman and Mandy. As this Grunge article factors out, if Invoice and Mandy had nonetheless been collectively when the second Wyman and Smith bought married, Stephen would’ve been his personal step-grandfather.
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Sean Penn was as soon as in jail with the notorious Night time Stalker serial killer. In reality, the assassin, Richard Ramirez, basically despatched Penn fan mail asking for an autograph. Penn, who was spending 60 days in jail on the time for reckless driving and punching an additional — stated Ramirez wrote, “Hey, Sean, keep powerful and hit them once more — Richard Ramirez, 666.” Penn replied with a notice saying he felt “completely no kinship” with Ramirez, regardless of each being inmates and stated, “I hope fuel descends upon you earlier than sanity does, ? It might be a kinder approach out.”
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One other superstar linked to a assassin is Woody Harrelson, who’s the son of hitman Charles Harrelson, who murdered Choose John Howland Wooden in 1979. This reality would turn out to be a lot stranger in gentle of Harrelson’s starring in No Nation for Outdated Males. Although the movie didn’t embrace it, the No Nation for Outdated Males novel featured the road, “Right here some time again in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal decide,” which was probably referring to the homicide perpetrated by Woody’s father.
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Oh, and Matthew McConaughey may also be Charles Harrelson’s son, which means Woody and Matthew is likely to be half-brothers. In response to McConaughey’s mom, she “knew” Charles Harrelson and “frequented the identical comparable place out in West Texas one time when he was on furlough.” Whereas the 2 have not taken a DNA check attributable to resistance on McConaughey’s half to find that who he thought was his father could not truly be his organic father, the likelihood has been mentioned. That is particularly ironic provided that Harrelson and McConaughey are shut pals, and their kids already name the opposite “Uncle.”
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Jack Black’s mom is engineer Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the system that rescued the Apollo 13 crew. In reality, in accordance with a tribute certainly one of her different sons wrote after her loss of life, “She truly went to her workplace on the day that Jack was born. When it was time to go to the hospital, she took together with her a pc printout of the issue she was engaged on. Later that day, she known as her boss and instructed him that she had solved the issue. And…oh, sure, the child was born, too.”
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Sean Astin has actually lived the plot of Mamma Mia! After his mom had a sequence of short-lived relationships and affairs leading to a being pregnant, his father might have been certainly one of three males — Michael Inform, Desi Arnaz, Jr., or John Astin. He has a relationship with all three, although a paternity check ultimately proved Inform was his organic father.
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Lord of the Rings star Christopher Lee had one of many wildest lives I’ve ever heard of. First, he was the one LOTR solid member to have met Tolkien. He additionally witnessed the final public execution by guillotine. He fought in World Warfare II and was a Nazi hunter, and he additionally noticed focus camps.
At one level, he was reportedly a spy, and followers have theorized that his cousin, Ian Fleming, wrote the Bond books a minimum of partially primarily based on him.
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A physique double was used for Willem Dafoe’s nude scenes in Antichrist as a result of, in accordance with Dafoe, if that they had used his genitals, “that is all that individuals would discuss.” Certainly, it did turn out to be all folks talked about — particularly after director Lars von Trier claimed that Dafoe “has an infinite dick” and that “we needed to [have a stand-in dick] as a result of Will’s was too massive” and “everyone bought very confused once they noticed it.”
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And Gemma Arterton was born with six fingers on every hand. She had them eliminated as a baby. So did Taye Diggs.
Listed below are Ashton’s, the place you’ll be able to see what we imply by “webbed center toes.”
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And at last…Mick Jagger has a son who’s youthful than his great-grandchild. In 2016, his then-29-year-old girlfriend Melanie Hamrick gave delivery to their son Deveraux — two years after his great-grandson Ezra was born. Ezra was born to Jagger’s granddaughter from his marriage with Bianca Jagger within the ’70s.
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