Celebrities You Never Knew Went To Jail

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Ricky Gervais

Prison seemed the only safe place for this comedic force of nature, whose brand of take-no-prisoners humor traumatized politically correct weaklings around the world.

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Dev Patel

Patel has been caught red-handed three times tampering with the claw machine at a Niles, IL Brunswick Zone.

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Jared Leto

Prior to making it big as a musician and actor, Leto was born in a federal penitentiary, fathered by a thousand psychopaths.

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Busy Phillips

Convicted for possession of a missile system designed to destroy aircraft.

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Bill Murray

Spends his nights locked inside the holding cell at Wrigley Field where they cattle-prod him onto the field every few months to sing and wave.

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Mel Gibson

Arrested for a DUI in 2006, Gibson was unable to talk his way out of it despite using every anti-semitic slur in the book.

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Flipper

The aquatic actor served over 4 years in a Florida penitentiary after developing a debilitating gambling habit and failing to pay over $3 million in back taxes.

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Glenn Close

In her mid-20s, Close spent over four years in jail after helping take nine Israeli Olympians hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich

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Tim Allen

Arrested at 1978 in Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport after being found with more than 1 pound of cocaine, thus taking the fall for Richard Karn and allowing the notorious narcotics kingpin to remain at large.

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James Gandolfini

The beloved actor died in prison after it was revealed that all of the murders he ordered as Tony Soprano were real.

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Woody Allen

Wait, he DIDN’T?

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Betty White

Spent 2 years in a U.S. POW camp after being captured during a botched kamikaze mission while fighting on behalf of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.

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Donald Trump

Trump has spent the last 6.5 years incarcerated in a prison located in the fantasies of liberals across the country.

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Johnny Cash

Imprisoned for seven misdemeanors over the course of his life despite writing many songs specifically about never having set foot near a jail.

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Jason Alexander

Finding yourself pigeonholed in your career after performing as an iconic TV character is its own form of prison.

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Jesus Of Nazareth

Oh, are you so warped by your modern liberal world that you don’t consider the most famous man in history a celebrity? Maybe open your mind and take other people’s beliefs into consideration here, okay? Executed for blasphemy.

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Mark Wahlberg

Many fans will be shocked to learn the actor has only ever spent one stint in prison.

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J.K. Simmons

Got picked up one night for a drunk-and-disorderly charge, but disappeared into the role of an imprisoned man so well that police accidentally held him for 9 years.

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Robert Downey Jr.

After being arrested in 1996 for possession of cocaine, heroin, and a Magnum handgun, Downey was sentenced to 3 years of prison plus 11 years in the Marvel Universe without parole.