Busted! Celebrities who got caught stealing
One of Hollywood's most desirable and elegant actresses was caught taking toilet paper from a hotel. She'd forgotten to buy any and was in dire need, Robbie told Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show. "It was ONE time. Desperate times, all right?"
Let's see if other celebrities can top this story!
Without a doubt, Winona Ryder committed the most famous theft in Hollywood history. The actress was caught with around 6,500 dollars in clothing and accessories at Beverly Hills's 5th Avenue Saks. It happened in 2001 and she did not return to work until 2006. Ryder later told Interview Magazine that getting caught saved her life.
The legendary Agent Scully told BBC Radio 1 that she had a special storage locker in Los Angeles for all the things she had taken from the 'X-Files' set. "Including, you know, heads of aliens and my own character's tombstone."
Chinese actress Bai Ling must have forgotten her wallet when she went for a few batteries and two magazines in an LA International Airport store. She was busted stealing the items and had to pay a fine and penalties of $700, CBS reported.
When he was 17, Ozzy stole 25 pounds worth of baby clothes and was sentenced to pay 40 pounds. As he had no money, he spent three months in prison. Osbourne recounted his embarrassing experience in the book 'I am Ozzy.'
(Photo: another arrest of Ozzy Osbourne, this time for public intoxication in Memphis, Tennessee)
The blondest girl in 'Charlie's Angels' was a regular thief of clothes in all kinds and conditions, 1970s' Hollywood knew. CBS recalls that "she was arrested twice for shoplifting after she took clothes from boutiques, and was convicted both times on the lesser charge of trespassing and fined $125 and $265, respectively."
During her years of emotional hardship, Britney Spears committed a few embarrassing offenses. One time, she stole a lighter from a gas station and made headlines all over the world. On another occasion, Marie Claire recalls, she took a wig from the Hustler shop in LA without going through the cash register. Awkward. Very awkward.
7 dollars was the price of the lipstick that the actress stole from Walmart. She wasn't famous yet but only a confused teenager who wanted to be noticed, Express reports. However, to this day, Megan Fox is not welcome in Walmart.
The well-known British chef was arrested for stealing cheese and wine from a supermarket, The Guardian reported. After the arrest, the 'Ready Steady Cook' star confessed that he had done this five times before.
In 2011, while going through rehab, Lindsay Lohan went into a jewelry shop, tried on a $2,500 necklace, and then left the shop without taking it off! The attempted theft cost her 120 days in prison, the LA Times reported. Let's say it was 30 for the robbery and 90 for the absurdity of the plan.
When the actress was still living in Ukraine, she once stole her neighbors' pet chicken. It got out of hand when they sued her for an absurd amount of money, as The Washington Post reported in 2015. The judge dismissed it, but Mila Kunis has hated chicken ever since.
The late Karl Lagerfeld accused rock singer Courtney Love of stealing a haute-couture design from a collection he hadn't even launched yet. How did he know? Because he saw Courtney Love at a party in that dress, Page Six reported.
She was arrested in 2010 for stealing cosmetics from one of the Sephora shops in New York, precisely the city where her father was the 'tough-on-crime' mayor for three terms. The stolen items were worth about $100, ABC News reported.
There has always been a rumor that the Libertines and Babyshambles singer is a petty thief of guitars. In 2011 he went one step further and took both a guitar and a bunch of records from a shop in Germany. The owner was not amused, as Reuters reported.
When she was 17, and already a tennis star, Capriati went into a Tampa jewelry store, tried on several rings, and kept two of them without paying. She was issued a citation for shoplifting, CBS reported.
In 2015, actress and Real Housewife Kim Richards entered a Target shop in Van Nuys, California and tried to steal hundreds of dollars in merchandise. She was arrested, locked up for a day and released on $5,000 bail, Page Six reported.
He is a repeat offender trying to steal the cell phones of his fans. The last straw came in 2014, CNN reports, when one of them decided to sue him. It did not have any serious consequences for the singer though.
Demi Lovato confessed on Ellen DeGeneres' talkshow that every time she checks out of a hotel, she takes the pillow with her. Considering the number of hotels she's visited, she must be living in a Pillow Villa by now.
In 2006, this actress from 'The Hills' was arrested for shoplifting at fellow actress Tawny K's store in Orange County, the Washington Post reports.
In the same year as her colleague Kristin Cavallari, Stephanie Pratt tried to steal around $1,300 worth of merchandise from Neiman Marcus in Honolulu. Metro reported that the stolen merchandise was worth about $1,300. The incidents caused everyone to wonder what was going on at the set of 'The Hills.'
The actress did a Lindsay Lohan, so to say. She walked into Barney's store on Madison Avenue in New York, put on a $200 hat, and left. Of course, as The Daily Mail reports, she was caught and made to pay for it.
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