Think today’s celebrities are wild? Their nothing compared to the hell raisers of yesteryear. Forget Colin Farrell, how about Hugh Heffner! Think Kate Moss is a rock chick? Well Janice Dickenson the ‘original supermodel’ is still wreaking havoc! This article looks at the pretenders to the thrones and the well the kind and queen still rocking their crown.
No celebrity likes the intrusion of the paparazzi, but in the world of celebdom you have to take the good with the bad. 2003 saw Coldplay’s Chris Martin arrested in Australia for smashing a journalist’s car windscreen however the charges were later dropped. This was followed in 2008 with another attack on a journalist outside a New York hospital. Martin wasn’t the first celebrity to attack a member of the paparazzi, in 1972, Mick Jagger and friends were arrested for obstructing justice after fighting with a journalist. Despite pleading guilty, they were released and charges dropped.
The self-proclaimed ‘world’s first supermodel’, Janice Dickinson was one of the most successful models of the 1970’s & 80’s earning up to $2,000 per day. Despite her successful career, Dickinson has since told of how she suffered abuse at the hands of her paedophile father in her autobiography, ‘No Lifeguard on Duty’. She also talks of her torment with alcoholism, anorexia and bulimia. Following Dickinson in the 1990’s was “anti-supermodel” Kate Moss. Noted for the “heroin chic” look for a 1993 Calvin Klein campaign, Moss’s private life has been well documented in the media. 1995 saw the Daily Mirror run a front-page story about Moss snorting cocaine. This caused her to loose contracts with Dior, Burberry and H&M however she has since gone on to design a successful range of clothes for TopShop and continues to have a successful modelling career.
Hugh Hefner is the original ‘Playboy’ and is best known for being the founder and publisher of Playboy Magazine. First published in 1953, the first edition featured nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe and sold 50,000 copies. While his empire has grown, so has his list of women. Married in 1949, he had two children. During this marriage, his wife had an affair and they were later divorced. Over the next few years, Hefner admitted to entertaining around 11 Playmates and in 1989 he married Playmate of the Year, Kimberley Conrad. This marriage also resulted in two children but the couple separated 9 years later. After this, a myriad of girls moved into the Playboy mansion and Hefner is reported to have dated up to 6 girls at a time. After three of the Playmates left the mansion, he began to date Crystal Harris after to finally deciding to divorce from Conrad. Hefner proposed to Harris, who then called off the wedding 5 days before the big day. Hefner’s successor to the ‘playboy’ throne may come in the form of a certain Mr Colin Farrell. The Irish actor has starred in such films as Phone Booth and In Bruges, and is due to play a leading role in the remake of Total Recall. Farrell has two children by two mothers and is in a relationship with neither. 2005 saw Farrell revealed as propositioning Dame Eileen Atkins who is 42 years his senior however she turned him down. As if this wasn’t enough, former Playmate Nicole Narain attempted to sell a sex tape that the couple had made in 2003, but this was stopped by an injunction and the couple settled out of court settlement.
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