List of celebrities charged with homicide, loosely ranked by fame and popularity. It may surprise you to learn that several celebrities have been charged with varying degrees of homicide. Famous actors, actresses, musicians, and athletes have all been charged with homicide. Some of these celebs were acquitted, some pled guilty to a lesser charge and others are serving life sentences.
Who is the most famous person who was charged with homicide? Mark Wahlberg tops our list. The Four Brothers actor was charged with attempted murder when he was 16 years old. Wahlberg struck two different Vietnamese men with various objects, leaving one man blind in one eye. He ultimately plead guilty to the lesser charge of assault and served 45 days in prison.
Perhaps the most infamous celebrity who was charged with murder is O.J. Simpson. The former NFL player was charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman. After a much publicized trial, Simpson was found not guilty in 1995.
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Don King
Boxing promoter Don King was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1966, for stomping his employee Sam Garrett to death. He served less than four years in prison for the crime.
Roscoe Arbuckle
Actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was charged with murder for the death of Virginia Rappe in 1921. The charges were later reduced and Arbuckle went through three trials before being found not guilty in April of 1922.
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder when he was 16 years old. Wahlberg struck two different Vietnamese men with various objects, leaving one man blind in one eye. He ultimately plead guilty to assault and served 45 days in prison.
Oscar Pistorius
In 2013, Olympian Oscar Pistorius was charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. His trial is ongoing.
Phil Spector
In 2008, Phil Spector was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of Lana Clarkson.
Ray Lewis
NFL player Ray Lewis was charged with murder and various other crimes in the stabbing death of two men in 2000. Lewis took a plea deal, in order to get the charges dropped, and testified against the two other men who were charged with the crime.
Robert Blake
In 2002, Robert Blake was arrested and charged in connection with his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley's 2001 murder. Blake denied all charges and in 2005 he was found not guilty of the crime.
Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious was arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in 1978. Out on bail, Vicious died from an apparent heroin overdose in 1979.
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg was charged with murder for the shooting death of Phillip Woldemariam in 1993. He was acquitted of the charges in 1996.
O.J. Simpson
O.J. Simpson was charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman. After a much publicized trial, Simpson was found not guilty in 1995.