5 Hollywood Celebrities Who Are In Prison


17 April 2024

From murder to child abuse, here's a list of famous Hollywood celebrities who are currently in prison for their crimes

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Danny Masterson, best known for playing Steven Hyde on ‘That 70's Show', was convicted last year of raping two women in 2003 

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A US judge sentenced Masterson to 30 years of life in prison. He is currently imprisoned at the California Men's Colony, a medium to minimum-security prison in San Luis Obispo

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R&B singer R Kelly is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He was jailed in 2022 for 30 years for sex trafficking and racketeering

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Months later, Kelly was also convicted of enticing minors for sex and producing child sexual imagery. In total, he will serve no more than 31 years in prison, as per the BBC

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‘Tiger King' star Joe Exotic is serving a 21-year prison sentence for trying to hire two different men to kill animal welfare activist Carol Baskin

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He was initially sentenced to 22 years, but later it was reduced by just a year after a federal appeals court ruled that improper sentencing guidelines were being used

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Ryan Grantham, known for playing Rodney James in the 2010 movie ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid', was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother in 2020

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Grantham admitted to shooting his mother in the back of the head as she played piano in their home, north of Vancouver

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‘Austin Powers' actor Joseph Son was convicted of the torture of a 19-year-old woman who was gang raped on December 1990

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He was sentenced to life in prison for the crime in 2008 after his DNA samples were entered into the database because of an unrelated case of vandalism

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