We think of celebrities as being larger than life, but they’re human just like us. The tabloids might be onto something with their unflattering photos of starlets lounging in sweats or eating burritos. Those pictures look downright beautiful compared to the mugshots featured on the infamous Avvo carpet in our Seattle office. This rug highlights a few of the most notorious celebrity crimes, as detailed below:
Andre the Giant.
Arguably the world’s most famous giant, Andre went one-on-one with a Cedar Rapids photojournalist after a wrestling match. The not-so-gentle giant — known by most for his WWF tenure and his cameo in The Princess Bride — knocked the camera away from the shocked newsman. Andre assumed that the cameraman had caught his loss on film. After ironing out the misunderstanding backstage, Andre agreed to a peaceful arrest.
Suzanne Somers.
Long before she became America’s favorite blonde on Three’s Company, Suzanne Somers was just another actress trying to make it in Hollywood. Struggling to get by, she passed bad checks all over town. The result? An arrest mugshot that could double as a headshot for Hollywood casting agents. In the end, the charges against Somers were dropped after she paid back all of the bad checks.
