5 Forgotten Celebrity Scandals That Still Haunt Us

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30-06-2025

In 2000, Angelina Jolie took home two Best Supporting Actress awards for her portrayal of Lisa Rowe in the 1999 film Girl, Interrupted. She then infamously kissed her brother on the lips.
In January, after winning a Golden Globe for her performance, Angelina made headlines for locking lips with her brother James Haven. She continued the love at the 72nd Annual Academy Awards in March, where the two shared a passionate kiss on the red carpet as they wore matching black outfits. Later that night, she took home the Oscar."I'm in shock," Angelina said in her Oscar speech. "And I'm so in love with my brother right now. He just held me and said he loved me, and I know he's so happy for me, and thank you for that." After thanking her parents and others, Angelina went on to shower her brother with love. "Jamie, I have nothing without you. You are the bravest, strongest man I've ever known. Thank you. I love you so much.""Saying I'm 'in love' with him is just an expression," she told Vogue, two years after winning the Oscar. 'What I meant was, in this moment, with all this shit going on, all that matters to me is that guy sitting right there who has stood by me and is so fucking happy for me."
"Matthew McConaughey was arrested in 1999 for getting really high and playing the bongos while naked at 3 a.m." — anonymous
In 1999, Matthew was put in handcuffs for a loud music complaint and resisting arrest, after he was reportedly found naked in his home playing the bongos while smoking a bong.
The incident happened after the University of Texas alum attended a Texas Longhorn football game. He was arrested in Austin, Texas, after police responded to a noise complaint — only to find him naked, playing the bongos (yes, seriously), and dancing around his home in the early hours of the morning. Officers reportedly found some marijuana at the scene, which added to the charges, but honestly, the most memorable part was the image of McConaughey, in full free-spirit mode, bongo-drumming in the buff. He later laughed it off, saying, 'What's wrong with beating on your drums in your birthday suit?' Classic.'What I didn't know was that while I was banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen also thought it was time to barge into my house unannounced, wrestle me to the ground with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the floor,' Matthew wrote in his memoir.
Before Rocky made him a star, Sylvester Stallone's first movie role was actually the lead in an adult film called The Party at Kitty and Stud's.
In 1970, a then-struggling Stallone starred in a low-budget softcore film called The Party at Kitty and Stud's. He was in his early twenties, broke, and sleeping in a bus station when he landed the role. For $200 for two days' work (and a roof over his head), he played 'Stud,' a very enthusiastic young man in a plot that included light bondage and a dinner party.After Stallone hit it big, the film was re-released — very opportunistically — as Italian Stallion, a nickname that would follow him all the way to the boxing ring.He told Playboy in 1978, 'It was either do that movie or rob someone because I was at the end – at the very end – of my rope. Instead of doing something desperate, I worked two days for $200 and got myself out of the bus station.'
A tale so outrageous it sounds made up, but it's 100% real (and very unfortunate for some unsuspecting tourists).
In August 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band was crossing Chicago's Kinzie Street Bridge when the driver decided to empty the bus's septic tank — right into the Chicago River below. The very bad timing? A boat full of tourists was cruising under the bridge at that exact moment. Over 800 pounds of raw sewage came raining down. A literal crapstorm.The band quickly apologized and insisted it was done without their knowledge. They even donated $100,000 to environmental causes and paid fines. But the damage was done — and the story lives in infamy as one of the nastiest (and oddly hilarious, depending on your humor) mishaps in music history.So the next time you visit Chicago, maybe bring an umbrella if you decide to take the open-top boat tours.
Yes, the same Nikola Tesla that Elon Musk named his electric car company after as a way to honor his contributions to electrical engineering.
Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was widely known for being a brilliant and eccentric inventor, but somewhere along the line, he built up a reputation for falling in love with a bird.In his later years, Tesla became more reclusive and isolated, living mostly in hotel rooms and spending time feeding pigeons in a park in New York City. This one particular pigeon stole his heart. But not just any pigeon, a radiant white one with gray-tipped wings that he said would visit him daily through his hotel window, and they'd spend time together in quiet companionship. Tesla claimed he could communicate with her in a way that transcended words and that he loved her 'as a man loves a woman.' He even believed the pigeon loved him back. Tesla said that one night, the pigeon flew in to see him for the last time. Her eyes gleamed like powerful lamps, and he saw a light so bright he believed she was dying. When she passed, Tesla said he felt his life's work was finished, as if her death marked the end of something sacred.
Is there a wild celebrity or Hollywood story that the world seemingly forgot about, but you think about often? Let me know in the comments!