Famous people who went to prison. How long have Russian celebrities been in prison and for what reasons? But which of the most famous actors was arrested and sentenced to real time in prison?

Our selection features celebrities who spent some time in prison. Why were the stars punished?

Tax evasion, drunk driving, petty hooliganism and something more serious... Read the dossier on criminal stars in our selection.

Yes, yes, the most beautiful Italian woman, Oscar winner and honorary citizen of Naples, was also in our selection. In 1982, Sophia Loren was jailed for 17 days for tax evasion. The actress’s prison cell was like a luxurious flower garden: fans constantly brought bouquets to their favorite.

In 2010, the notorious Lindsay Lohan went to prison for 14 days because she missed lectures on the dangers of alcohol, which she was required to attend by court order (the actress was repeatedly arrested for drunk driving). At the announcement of the verdict, Lohan cried and begged the judge to change the decision, but Themis was adamant. However, upon arriving at the prison, the actress quickly calmed down, because the prisoners greeted her with applause and joyful exclamations.

In 1980, the legendary musician was arrested at Tokyo airport for transporting marijuana. After this, McCartney had to spend a week in a prison cell.

The actor, known for his numerous negative roles, knows firsthand about the life of prisoners. He spent 12 years in prison for robbery and drugs. Subsequently, he completed a rehabilitation course using the 12 Steps program and completely got rid of his addictions. Prison experience, as well as boxing skills, helped Danny make a career: directors eagerly cast the former prisoner in the roles of gangsters and bandits.

The famous boxer was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for the rape of 18-year-old Miss Black America - Desiree Washington. Tyson spent 3 years behind bars, after which he was released early. By the way, he never admitted his guilt, claiming that everything happened between him and Desiree by mutual consent.

Robert Downey Jr

The actor became addicted to alcohol and drugs early on, which is why he repeatedly came to the attention of law enforcement agencies. In 1996, Downey Jr. received probation prison term for possession of drugs and weapons. The court also ruled that the actor must undergo treatment and undergo regular drug tests. After the convict ignored some of the court's orders, he was punished with a real prison sentence. Downey spent a whole year on the bunk.

Michelle Rodriguez was repeatedly fined and prosecuted public works for an accident involving her and driving while intoxicated. And in 2006, she even served 5 days in prison.

In 2007, Paris Hilton spent 23 days in jail for drunk driving and violating probationary period. When the rich heiress was released, she was greeted at the gate like a heroine by a crowd of fans and journalists, whom the royal prisoner gave only a meager smile.

In his youth, Mark Wahlberg had about 20 arrests with the police. The actor constantly got into fights and committed hooligan acts, and therefore was a frequent visitor to the police station. At the age of 16, while under the influence of drugs, Mark robbed a pharmacy and beat up two Vietnamese men. Subsequently, one of the victims became blind. The court sentenced Mark to two years in prison, but he served only 45 days and was released.

The American actor spent 3 years in a prison cell for tax evasion. He received the maximum sentence allowed in the United States for such an offense.

The musician, known for his hooligan antics, was jailed for four months after beating his wife Pamela Anderson. After the rowdy was released, the couple reunited again, although not for long.

Former lover Rihanna is known for his uncontrollable violent outbursts. In 2009, he beat and nearly strangled 21-year-old Rihanna, but escaped with a suspended prison sentence and community service. He was subsequently arrested for beating a man and admitted to a rehabilitation clinic, from which he was kicked out for bad behavior. And only after this the rowdy was sent to prison for several weeks.

For the first time, the famous rapper went to prison before he was born. His mother, Afeni Shakur, was a member of the center-left Black Panther movement and, while pregnant, spent several days in prison due to suspicions of organizing a terrorist attack.

In 1993, a 19-year-old girl accused Tupac of rape. The musician was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, but served only 8 months. In prison, he recorded his album “Me Against the World.”

50 Cent

In 1994, 19-year-old 50 Cent was arrested for drug possession and distribution. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison, of which he was in the cell for only six months. The rapper started selling drugs at the age of 12; His mother, who died at 23, did the same type of income.

The fate of one of the most beautiful actresses Soviet cinema turned out to be sad. At 28, she gave birth to a daughter, who died of an infection a few weeks later. After this, Malyavina’s life went downhill; She left her husband and started drinking. In 1978, her partner Stanislav Zhdanko died from a knife blow to the chest. For his murder, Malyavin was sentenced to 9 years in prison. She served only 4 years and was then released under an amnesty. The actress never admitted her guilt in the death of her partner, claiming that he committed suicide.

The stars of Russian TV series, known throughout the country, who seemed ideal to us, ended up in the dock for very high-profile crimes. Why did popular actors receive long prison sentences?

Actor of the series “The Last of the Magikians”

Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev ended up in the dock and was sentenced to 22 years. The crime he committed is simply horrifying. According to the investigation, from 2012 to 2015, he raped the children of his relatives and acquaintances. In addition to all this, I made video recordings of everything that happened. An entire home archive of such pornographic films was confiscated from Gusengadzhiev. Initially, it became known that the artist seduced a 9-year-old girl of his friend. The evidence of this was found in video recordings.

Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev refutes the accusations brought against him and claims that everything was set up and the recordings were edited. He also states that they simply want to take away his apartment on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in Moscow, which is why they came up with everything. But the examinations carried out indicate the actor’s guilt. And who would have thought that a good actor and circus performer, who enjoys music and drawing, could be a pedophile.

Actor from the TV series "Brigada"

Dmitry Gumenetsky actor and former officer special forces officer was jailed for drug possession. 280 kg of synthetic concentrate were seized from Gumenetsky. From this amount of potion it was possible to produce 7 tons of spice and gain 16 billion rubles from sales in the Russian Federation.
The recognizable actor from the serial film “Brigade” will spend 8 years in a maximum security colony.

According to Dmitry Gumenetsky, he was not involved in the distribution of drugs, but only stored them. Low income pushed him to do this.

Actor of the series "High Stakes"

Konstantin Kordo-Sysoev brutally killed his wife and was sentenced to 11 years by the court Leningrad region and payment to the wife's relatives of one million rubles.
The murder occurred in April 2016. The couple went by car to visit relatives. In the Sinegeyka gardening area, Kordo-Sysoev beat his wife Natalya with a stick stuck big amount iron nails.

Experts determined that about 70 blows were struck. The girl was completely disfigured, including her face. After the brutal murder, the actor decided to get rid of the corpse and threw it into the nearest pond. At the trial, Konstantin denied his guilt, but it was established by irrefutable facts.

Actor from the TV series “Real Boys”

Alexander Kilin went to jail for 18 years for murder and rape. Alexander met a girl in a bar. After the party I went to see her off. He brought her home, said goodbye, but literally taking a few steps after parting, he came back and kicked the girl in the back. Then Kilin dragged the girl into the bushes and raped her, and then hit her on the head with a piece of concrete that came to hand.

Everyone can make a mistake in life. Even if you are famous and successful, you are not immune from prison! Today we will tell you about famous people: actors, singers, athletes, businessmen who happened to be behind bars. Despite their merits and great financial capabilities, these people crossed the line of the law and were arrested.

What motivated them and why the stars were arrested, the information and entertainment portal “Runet Hero” will now tell you about it.

Stars who were behind bars

Mike Tyson

The famous American boxer was always distinguished by his hot temper and often ended up in the police department! His problems with the police began when he was just 12 years old. While still a child, he was involved in thefts. He has over 40 arrests on his record!

In 1992, the famous boxer raped an 18-year-old beauty pageant participant, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Behind good behavior it was released in 1995.

An American actor was arrested by airport security for smuggling more than 1.5 pounds of cocaine. At that time the man was 25 years old.

Allen could have received a life sentence, but he admitted his guilt and reported law enforcement agencies names of twenty-one dealers. For the assistance provided, he received 5 years in prison, of which he spent 2.6 years behind bars.

Rapper Vanilla Ice has had regular brushes with the law. During his life, he accumulated a huge number of criminal cases: driving without a license, illegal racing, threats to life, etc.

His last case was breaking into an abandoned house in Florida. But Ice made a deal with the investigation and avoided prison time.

Actor Matthew McConaughey was arrested in 1999 while living in Texas. The prestigious Austin area was awakened in the middle of the night by strange sounds coming from Matthew's house. The police arrived and found the naked actor playing the bongos. The star was taken into custody. The police found that the actor was under the influence of marijuana.

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The Hollywood actress constantly gets into trouble due to her addiction to illegal drugs and alcohol. In 2007, Lindsay was taken into custody for driving while intoxicated. After that, she was caught by the police more than once for using cocaine and all kinds of fights.

Even this multi-billionaire founder of Microsoft broke the law! In 1975, Bill was arrested for driving without a license. But that didn't teach me famous businessman, and he has been caught more than once for driving violations.

One of the most popular Hollywood actors, Will Smith, was arrested in 1989 and almost went to prison! Together with his bodyguard, the actor attacked a man with whom he had quarreled. The star bully broke the victim's left cheekbone and almost deprived the poor guy of his sight.

Rapper Jay-Z stabbed a sound engineer in the stomach at a Manhattan nightclub. This happened in 1999, then the rapper did not admit his guilt, but in 2001 he admitted that he was guilty of his crime.

Wahlberg's problems with the law began as a child. At the age of 15, he was detained for racism. A year later, he was arrested for beating an elderly Vietnamese man, whom Mark nearly beat to death with a wooden stick.

Until the age of 19, the Hollywood actor was selling drugs and using them himself. His legal troubles ended when he joined music group own brother.

It's no secret that Snoop Dogg has an addiction to marijuana. He was repeatedly arrested for its possession and distribution. But even in his distant youth, he spent several years in prison and was a member of a criminal gang.

In 1993, he was accused of murdering a rival gang member, but was acquitted. The shooting was classified as self-defense.

On September 8, 1947, actress Zoya Fedorova was sentenced to 25 years in a forced labor colony. They say that one cannot swear off scrip and prison. Both can overtake anyone: both a peasant and a superstar. So nothing human is alien to celebrities.
Selection famous actors, which in different periods their careers ended up behind bars.
Zoya Fedorova All life is great Soviet actress Zoya Fedorova is like a movie drama. She had everything: success and fame, great love and a romantic relationship with a foreigner, the happiness of motherhood, arrest, torture in prison and death at the hands of a cold-blooded killer.
The path of young Zoya began in pre-revolutionary Russia. After 1917, the whole family (3 daughters, son, father and mother) moved to Moscow, where the head of the family made a rapid career in the Bolshevik Party. The girl already begins to like theater, but her family is against her hobbies; as a result, young Zoya Fedorova, at the age of 17, begins working at Gosstrakh.


In the 1920s, Zoya meets her first love - Kirill Prove. In 1927, the almost bookish novel was interrupted by the arrest of the young man and his accusation of espionage. Following Kirill, Fedorova is taken into custody; the girl was suspected of aiding an English spy. The case was closed in November of the same year due to insufficient evidence.


After a series of failures, periods when the girl was completely cut out of the paintings, it seemed that a white streak had arrived. The actress’s main debut was her role in the film “Accordion” (1933). After the release of the film, the talented actress receives many offers from directors. One after another, pictures with her participation come out. The actress is in demand and famous, her success is overshadowed by grief in the family - Zoya's father is arrested. Despite his personal acquaintance with Lenin, the man became a victim of slander and, on charges, he faced more than 10 years in prison.


Zoya Fedorova in the film “Girlfriends” 1936
To help her father, Zoya made an appointment with Lavrenty Beria. Had a soft spot for beautiful actresses, he invites her to the mansion. The father was released in the summer of 1941, and Zoya received the right to turn to Beria for help at any time.


In December 1946, the actress was arrested and accused of waging hostile propaganda, creating an anti-Soviet group, making malicious attacks against the Soviet government, and even being ready to carry out terrorist acts against the leadership. The actress turns to Beria for help, but she cannot avoid monstrous charges and a heavy sentence. Zoya Fedorova is sentenced to 25 years in a reinforced camp regime.


Only in 1955 was Zoya Fedorova rehabilitated, and after a while the charges were completely dropped.


Zoya Fedorova in the film “Wedding in Malinovka”
On December 11, 1981, the actress was found dead in her apartment. The cause of death was a shot to the head. It is unknown who shot Zoya Fedorova, the mystery of her death remains unsolved.

Tatiana Okunevskaya

Tatyana Okunevskaya did not wait for leniency from fate and the authorities. After the girl graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Tatyana began acting at the Moscow Realistic Theater. In August 1937, her father was arrested and less than two weeks later executed at the Butovo training ground.

In 1937-1938, Tatyana Okunevskaya worked at the Gorky Theater; at the same time, the girl actively acted in films. Her main debut is still called main role in the film “Pyshka” directed by Mikhail Romm, which was released in 1934.


On November 13, 1948, Okunevskaya was arrested under Article 58.10 - anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. As Okunevskaya claimed, during the arrest she was allegedly not presented with any warrant, but was shown a short note: “You are subject to arrest. Abakumov."

Okunevskaya's daughter claims that her mother was arrested for having an affair with a foreigner, whom she does not name, and that an arrest warrant was presented when her mother was arrested. According to her testimony, no note from Abakumov was presented to her mother during her arrest. After her arrest, the actress spent 13 months in a common cell, then she was sentenced to 10 years and sent to Steplag in Dzhezkazgan, later she served time in Kargopollag, Vyatlag.


In 1954, Okunevskaya was released from the camp and returned to the troupe of the theater. Lenin Komsomol, where she worked until 1959.

A fearless woman at the age of 86 decided to plastic surgery. This was a fatal step: she was diagnosed with a severe infection (hepatitis), and Tatyana Kirillovna struggled with the disease for almost two years. Tatyana Okunevskaya died on May 15, 2002.

Valentina Malyavina

This is a woman with a very difficult fate - all-Union fame after the release of the film “Ivan’s Childhood”, a sea of ​​fans, a lot of leading roles, and a few years later trial, prison and oblivion. Moreover, at the beginning of the 21st century, Valentina Alexandrovna, after an accidental injury, became completely blind and now lives in a special shelter, where visitors are almost not allowed.


The young actress made her screen debut in the romantic melodrama “First Date.” And the next work, the role of paramedic Maria in war picture“Ivan’s Childhood” made Malyavina a real star of the Soviet screen. The production drama “Morning Trains”, the film about the Second World War “The Tunnel”, the light comedy “Literature Lesson” and the musical humorous fairy tale “The Deer King” were also very popular with viewers.


In one of the performances of Hamlet, Valentina saw the already popular actor Alexander Kaidanovsky. After the performance, they met and the amorous woman immediately became interested in the fatal handsome man, but fatal passion with constant quarrels did not give perfect union. It is Kaidanovsky who introduces Valentina to the young actor Stanislav Zhdanko, who will turn the artist’s entire life upside down.


Valentina Malyavina and Alexander Kaidanovsky
For the first time she saw a young man, who was 12 years younger than her, on the stage of the student theater at the Shchukin School. During subsequent communication, it turned out that the young man had long been selflessly in love with Malyavina and even hung her photo in his room above his bed. Their romance was short, stormy and incredibly tragic.

The young man wanted to quickly ascend to the star Olympus, and then suddenly the role on which he was betting was taken away from him. Stanislav began to experience depression, which Valentina and her husband did not want to see, so they drowned the surrounding problems in wine.


Another evening spent drinking alcohol ended in tragedy. In 1978, Stanislav Zhdanko was found with a knife in his heart. Initially, the police considered the incident a suicide. But five years later, after repeated petitions from the mother of the deceased, the case was raised again, and Valentina Malyavina was accused of premeditated murder. The court sentenced her to nine years in prison. But neither during the investigation, nor in the courtroom, nor subsequently after the amnesty in connection with the seventieth anniversary of Soviet power, the actress did not admit her guilt and insisted on the version of suicide.


There's no time today famous actress Malyavina lives in a boarding house for science veterans, where wealthy friends were able to place her. This is not an ordinary nursing home, but an institution of high comfort with excellent medical and social services, but a very strict regime. Visitors cannot enter there without special permission; residents have no connection with outside world– they are not even allowed to use the telephone, and they only go out for walks accompanied by staff. Valentina Aleksandrovna, who has almost completely lost her sight, spends most of my time in this boarding house.

Sergey Shevkunenko

Seryozha Shevkunenko was born into a “cinema” family. His father worked as the director of the Second Creative Association of the Mosfilm film studio, his mother worked there... In 1973, Sergei starred in the film "Dagger", in 1974 - in "The Bronze Bird", and in 1975 in the film "The Lost Expedition" ... Brilliant The young talent's beginning career was suddenly stopped after a banal fight. The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow sentenced the young artist to one year in prison under Article 206 Part II for “hooliganism with particular insolence and cruelty.”


Sergei served his first term, like all subsequent ones, “from bell to bell.” Upon release, he got a job at Mosfilm as a lighting technician, but a year later, in 1978, he was jailed again for stealing snacks from the Mosfilm buffet, which the tipsy company lacked. This time the sentence was even more severe. Sergei was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Then 4.5 years for theft and possession of drugs, then 1.5 years for disobedience to camp authorities and repeated violation of the regime.


In places of imprisonment, Sergei Shevkunenko acquired the nicknames “Chief” and “Actor” and considerable authority in criminal circles. In 1989, he got married, but it just so happened that in the same year he again received a year for possession of weapons, 49 days after his release, another arrest for possession of stolen icons and a new sentence of 3 years. Sergei served his fifth term in a special maximum security Vladimir colony as a repeat offender...
Upon release, Shevkunenko went into business. IN short term The chief put together a team that began to control a number of points in the Mosfilmovskaya Street area. The Chief's group became part of the Ossetian criminal group, which specialized in banditry, extortion and kidnapping. She is also known for her successful financial transactions. In February 1995, Shevkunenko was killed.

Spartak Mishulin

The Mishulin family lived in the very center of Moscow - on Nastasinsky Lane. Spartak with early years was passionate about theater and dreamed of becoming an artist. In 1937, Anna Mishulina was arrested as an enemy of the people and exiled to Tashkent. Spartak remained in the care of her uncle Alexander Mishulin, who served as rector of the Academy. social sciences at the Party Central Committee.


In 1941, Spartak Mishulin entered the special artillery school in Anzhero-Sudzhensk. After studying at the artillery school, he suffered for art - he was convicted by denunciation of “stealing” light bulbs (for reasons of extreme necessity, for a performance), then he was caught stealing a book from the library and using portraits of the leader as writing paper, for which he was sentenced to imprisonment. Served three years. But even in the camp he did not stop doing amateur activities.

In the early 1950s, after failure to enter GITIS, Spartak Mishulin was sent to auxiliary staff Kalinin Drama Theater; having graduated theater studio at this theater and during the first five years of work on stage, having played about 40 roles, Mishulin moved to the troupe of the Omsk Drama Theater.


In 1960 he was invited to the Satire Theater, where he served continuously for 45 years. The actor became widely famous thanks to the very first episodes of the television series “Zucchini “13 Chairs””, in which he played the role of Pan Director. His popularity increased even more after playing the role of Tarakanov in the film “Property of the Republic”, as well as the demonstration on television of the Satire Theater’s performances “The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Roof” and “Little Comedies big house“, but especially after playing the role of Said in Vladimir Motyl’s film “White Sun of the Desert”.


Spartak Mishulin died on July 17, 2005, at the age of 79, from heart failure.

Nikolay Godovikov

Nikolai Godovikov - Petrukha from the famous film “White Sun of the Desert”, has been a petty thief since childhood. When he started filming, something was constantly disappearing on set: equipment, personal belongings... Later he started burglary. The police called him a “noble thief” because he “cleaned” only the rich.


In addition to being convicted of theft, he had served time for banditry and parasitism. Last time Godovikov ended up in the zone after being seriously stabbed and barely survived.

Archil Gomiashvili

He who played the role of Ostap Bender from Gaidai’s film “The Twelve Chairs” was imprisoned several times for hooliganism and theft.


In 1943, Gomiashvili got a job at the Tbilisi Russian Drama Theater. Griboedova. One night, he and a friend cut the leather from all the chairs and sold it to a shoemaker. The friends were arrested. Archil received two years in a correctional camp near Tbilisi...

Vladimir Dolinsky

One day, the Satire Theater, where actor Vladimir Dolinsky served, was preparing to go on tour to Sweden. During the years of Soviet power, it was allowed to exchange no more than 30 US dollars for a trip to a capitalist country. When the trip failed, Dolinsky sold this modest amount with a profit of 200 rubles, which at that time was the monthly salary of a skilled worker...

After this, Vladimir began to engage in currency speculation and in 1973 he was “caught” by the KGB. He spent a year in the Lefortovo detention center and then received five years in prison. At the request of many famous actors, Dolinsky’s sentence was reduced to 4 years.

Boris Yurchenko

Boris Yurchenko, who played in the film “The Living and the Dead,” was in prison for hooliganism in his youth. Once, after drinking heavily with friends, he beat a man very badly. Witnesses to the crime called the police, and the guy was restrained on the spot.


Boris spent a year in Butyrka, working as a servant in the catering department. He came out, almost immediately returned to cinema, got married and starred in several dozen films.

Georgy Yumatov

In March 1994, Georgy Yumatov shot a janitor who was helping the actor bury his beloved dog Frosya, who had died the day before, with a hunting rifle.


Yumatov, according to Article 103 of the Criminal Code, faced imprisonment for a term of 3 to 10 years. But the lawyer was able to prove that the janitor was the first to attack the actor with a knife. As a result, two months later Georgy Alexandrovich was released from Matrosskaya Tishina on a written undertaking not to leave. Then, as a front-line soldier, he was granted an amnesty on the 50th anniversary of the Victory, and at the end of 1995 the case was closed.

Arkady Shalolashvili

Actor Arkady Shalolashvili worked at the Maly Drama Theater in St. Petersburg. He starred in 18 films, the most famous of which are “The Island of Lost Ships”, “A Lost Cause”, “He Came on Memorial Day”, “Three Percent Risk”... Unfortunately, he used his talent not only on stage and the silver screen, but also in for criminal purposes. Part of the criminal group of the Sediuk brothers, better known as Kolya-Karate and McKenna, he used his acting and directing talent to defraud businessmen and did it brilliantly.


Members of the gang, which included more than 100 fighters, greatly respected Shalolashvili and called him nothing less than Arkady Palych. When he was arrested, the following interceded for him famous people, like Mikhail Boyarsky and Konstantin Raikin. In 1995, Arkady Shalolashvili died from cirrhosis of the liver.

Sergei Parajanov

On December 17, 1973, film director Sergei Parajanov was arrested on charges of homosexuality with the use of violence (Article 122, parts 1, 2 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR)

Parajanov was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but could have served a long term - Sergei Iosifovich was accused under five articles of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, which he allegedly violated, in particular, “nationalism”, “speculation in antiques”, “violence against members of the CPSU” ...


At the heart of Parajanov’s case, his friends and biographers say, is a joint action by the cultural department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the republican KGB. It turns out that Parajanov constantly reviled some employee of the Central Committee in the field of culture... The authorities acted very carefully - they imprisoned Parajanov for homosexuality. They say that in the USSR this is punishable by law... and there is no politics...

Georgy Zhzhenov

Georgy Stepanovich's brother Boris was convicted of not going to the mourning demonstration after the murder of Kirov. The family was deported, but Zhzhenov refused the deportation and was arrested. Thanks to the efforts of S.A. Gerasimova was released and began working at the Lenfilm film studio.

This was followed by an arrest for acquaintance with an American diplomat. In 1938 he was convicted of espionage. He served his sentence in Kolyma. Released on March 16, 1945.


The actor’s later roles and the popularity that came to the actor already in mature age- the result of life’s difficulties that George and his family dealt with for most of their adult life.

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Fates are not only ordinary people, but celebrities are often able to accept unexpected turn and turn onto the criminal road. It’s not for nothing that they say - don’t swear off scrip and prison. In this article we will tell you about 10 famous actors and musicians who ended up behind bars at a certain period in their lives.

1. Igor Petrenko

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15 years ago, Igor Petrenko, who gained fame after the film “Driver for Vera,” became a murder suspect. His friend Sasha, who owed his friend 100,000 rubles, suggested Petrenko “remove” the creditor. The victim was found shot dead in his own apartment, where they staged a pogrom to simulate a robbery. Petrenko was not yet eighteen at that time, so he was given a suspended sentence of 8 years. In addition, at the Shchepkinsky Theater School, where he was a student at that time, they spoke positively about the young man. Today Petrenko tries not to remember his criminal past, fearing that it could harm him acting career.

2. Vladimir Dolinsky

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In the 70s, Vladimir, together with the Satire Theater, was preparing for a tour to Sweden. In those years, for a trip to a capitalist country, it was allowed to exchange no more than 30 dollars. However, the trip fell through, and Dolinsky exchanged them back - however, he made as much as 200 rubles on it. After this incident, the actor carried out several more currency transactions. “I did this not because of the love of the dollar, but because of the love of the ruble!” - says Dolinsky. In 1973, Vladimir was visited by the KGB, as a result of which he spent a year in the Lefortovo detention center, and then received another 5 years in prison. At the request of his colleagues, the actor’s sentence was reduced to 4 years, after which he returned to his native theater.

3. Archil Gomiashvili

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The great schemer from Gaidai’s film “12 Chairs” had to break the law in his life. He was imprisoned several times for theft and hooliganism. In 1943, Gomiashvili worked at the Tbilisi Russian Drama Theater. Griboedova. One night, together with a friend, they cut the leather from all the theater seats and sold it to a shoemaker, for which they both received two years in a correctional camp.

4. Vasily Lykshin

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Fame and fame came to Lykshin after the release of the film “Bastards” and the TV series “Gromovs”. Vasily was raised in an orphanage from childhood. According to the actor, he started smoking and drinking vodka at the age of 7. This required money, but there was nowhere to get it from. At the age of 15, he and his friends decided to rob the dacha of a general, from where they took money and some equipment. The next day, Lykshin was taken away by the police - his neighbor at the dacha recognized him. The young man was given two years in prison. Unfortunately, the actor’s fate was sad - in 2009, at the age of 22, Vasily died from cardiovascular failure.

5. Bogdan Titomir

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In the early 90s, when singer Bogdan Titomir crossed the German border with Sweden, drugs were found in his car. When they tried to detain him, Titomir escaped and he was put on the international wanted list. After 4 days, he was nevertheless arrested, but, thanks to Russian lawyers, the singer managed to win the trial.

6. Savely Kramarov

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Savely Kramarov was known for his good taste: he had a passion for beautiful and expensive things. But, since after graduating from the Forestry Engineering Institute he did not have the money to buy them, Savely and his friend began to visit remote churches in Pskov and Novgorod and lure out icons for almost nothing. At the time of filming the film “Gentlemen of Fortune,” which brought Kramarov national fame, he kept many antique icons in his apartment. The actor was caught only when Savely and a friend tried to smuggle something from their collection abroad. They were kept in the isolation ward for several days, but were soon released - with the help of influential acquaintances.

7. Nikolai Godovikov

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Petrukha from " White sun Desert" had been stealing since childhood. Even when he started acting in films, personal belongings of the group and equipment were constantly disappearing on the set. Then no one could have thought that these were the tricks of young Kolka. After several failures in his acting career, Godovikov set foot on the criminal road and served three terms for theft, banditry and parasitism.

8. Roma Zhigan (Roman Chumakov)

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The Russian rapper received his first sentence in 2002, when he was sentenced to 4 years for robbery and car theft. After this, in 2013, Zhigan and his friends were robbed young man, who was hired to promote the clips on YouTube. They called him to a cafe, and then, threatening him with a knife, forced him to withdraw 100,000 rubles from his card. The rapper himself did not admit his guilt, but a Moscow court sentenced him to 1 year in prison.

9. Alexey Romanov

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In 1983, charges were brought against the immortal leader of the Resurrection group and sound engineer Alexander Arutyunov in the case of so-called “leftist concerts”, as a result of which both were arrested. First, Alexey Romanov served nine months in Butyrka prison, then two more in Serpukhov. In May 1984, the case was referred to the court, the hearing of which was held in the city of Zheleznodorozhny. As a result, Romanov was sentenced to three and a half years probation with confiscation of property, and Arutyunov was sentenced to three years in prison.

10. Georgy Yumatov

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In 1994, Georgy Yumatov shot a janitor who was helping to bury his beloved dog Frosya with a hunting rifle. The actor was threatened with imprisonment for a term of 3 to 10 years, but the lawyer was able to prove that the janitor was the first to attack Georgy with a knife. As a result, after two months, Yumatov was released from “Matrosskaya Tishina” with an undertaking not to leave the place. Later, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, he, as a front-line soldier, was granted an amnesty, and by the end of 1995 the case was closed.

This once again proves that in some cases, no amount of fame and money can protect celebrities from serving punishment for their misdeeds.