Being famous makes you rich no doubt and you have the best of everything but along with the glitz and glamour comes along potential dangers like stalkers and kidnappers. There are several celebrities who at least once found out the hard way experiencing traumatic incidents which may not be forgotten. Here are 12 celebrities kidnapped in real life.
Kim Kardashian lived through a nightmare when she was in Paris for the Paris Fashion week. Burglars broke into her hotel room one day when she was alone. The gang posed as police officers forced a concierge to open her door, they then bound and gagged her and left her in a bathtub while making off with all her valuables. Kim was so traumatized that she left Paris the next day.
In 2013 Calling Band lead singer was viciously attacked and kidnapped in the United States during a music festival in Michigan. He was abducted at gunpoint and kidnapped for money after which he was also beaten and injured grievously. He was later dumped on train tracks when he told his kidnappers “I just found out a few weeks ago that I’m going to be a dad. You do not need to go to the extent of killing me and making a child not have a father.”
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Actor Jeremy London was once kidnapped in 2010 while he was changing a flat tire on the road. His kidnappers pretended to help him and then abducted him at gunpoint. They drove him around the area, forced him to purchase alcohol and drugs which they made him take. AT the time London was a known addict. In spite of being released, not many believed London until his kidnappers were caught but they said that London drank and got high with then voluntarily.
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On New Year’s Eve 1989, Madonna was found bound gagged and injured from a beating. How true it was or not but She was supposedly found tied to a chair and people felt it was her husband Sean Penn at the time who had taken his drunken tirades too far. What was truly sensational about the vent is the fact that years later Madonna denied it ever happened even though reports exists that it did.
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When Benedict Cumberbatch was filming for a BBC series “To the Ends of the Earth”, in South Africa, he was attacked by six armed men. Cumberbatch was in the process of having his car tire changed when the incident happened on the way back to their hotel. Along with him were Denise Black and another friend. All three were tied up and thrown into the car. The men tried putting Cumberbatch in the trunk when he told them that he might die because of his health problems. After an argument between the abductors themselves, Cumberbatch was set free.
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When Clooney was filming a documentary in Darfur the capital of war ravaged Sudan in 2007, his crew was stopped by a ten-year-old wielding an AK 47. Soon other weapon toting youngsters joined and one of them even pointed a gun at Clooney’s head. The gang after robbing items from the vehicle attempted to kidnap the team but decided against it after being satisfied with their booty from the truck carrying Clooney and his team.
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While filming on the sets of Flipper, Jessica Alba started receiving strange calls which she dismissed as a prank. But then she was kidnapped from the sets and went missing for 14 hours. She was ultimately found bound and gagged in the trunk of a car. What was bizarre was the fact that the case was dismissed as Alba couldn’t provide any information and it was regarded as Alba acting out a fantasy.
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This is one funny story among celebrities kidnapped. Jazz singer, composer, pianist and guitarist Fats Waller was once kidnapped in 1926 b y Al Capone’s gangsters just after he had finished performing in a hotel. He was taken to salon and made to play. While he played, he looked around and who should he see but none other than Capone who was appreciating his music. He was even freed after a few days and paid a few thousand dollars for his ordeal. The first time someone actually got paid by the kidnappers.
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Patti Hearst granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst was kidnapped by the leftist terrorist group the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. She was only 19 at the time and held captive for 19 months during which she was brainwashed into joining her abductors in crime. She even took part in a bank robbery and went on to become the country’s most wanted fugitive. She was eventually arrested but given a pardon later.
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The Meenakshi Thapar incident gained global coverage when the Bollywood actress was kidnapped by a minor actor and his girlfriend who thought she was rich enough to arrange a ransom. When they found Meenakshi wasn’t exactly the wealthy socialite she projected herself to be as was her habit, they strangled her to death. They then decapitated her body and threw her head out of a moving bus. Her body was found in a water tank.
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Cordelia Gonzalez the Puerto Rican actress was kidnapped at gun point from a parking lot in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her Kidnappers then proceeded to an ATM where they made her withdraw a huge sum of cash. They then took her to her house where they robbed several items including phones, computers, money and jewelry as well as her car. She was released after a few hours.
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Among celebrities who were kidnapped, the former Miss Venezuela was kidnapped for three hours in 2003. Her abductors did not harm her but robbed her of her belongings which included a box of calendars that portrayed Veruska in the nude. The kidnappers did not leave that and even made her sign every single one before releasing her in the street. Somehow they did not realize who they had kidnapped until they saw the calendars.
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