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Lawrence Pfohl, better known as the wrestler Lex Luger, was charged with possession of an illegal substance in May 2003. While investigating the death of Pfohl’s live-in girlfriend, wresting personality Miss Elizabeth (Elizabeth Hulette), Cobb County, Georgia, police found illegal bodybuilding drugs in his home. This arrest came on the heels of another arrest; a few weeks earlier Pfohl had been charged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly striking Hulette during a domestic dispute.
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Activist Jesse Jackson was arrested in December 1999 and charged with criminal trespass when he walked onto the grounds of an Illinois high school where a debate was raging around the penalization of several students expelled for fighting. Jackson was recently arrested and charged again for the same crime in connection with a demonstration at a gun shop in Riverdale, Illinois, when he refused to leave the store as ordered by police.
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Actress and activist Jane Fonda was arrested in November 1970 for allegedly kicking a police officer who was trying to arrest her on drug charges. Fonda was in possession of numerous bottles of pills, later proven to be vitamins and legally-prescribed medication. All charges were subsequently dropped.
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New Jersey crooner Frank Sinatra was arrested by police in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1938 on charges of adultery and seduction. The charges were later dismissed. Sinatra remained under surveillance by the FBI through the course of his life under suspicion of Mafia-related activity. Despite over two thousand pages of allegations, Sinatra was never charged.
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Eminem (whose legal name is Marshall Mathers, III) faced two arrests in Michigan in June 2000. Warren authorities charged the rapper with carrying a concealed weapon and assault, stemming from a fight with a man who kissed Eminem’s estranged wife, Kim. Meanwhile, Royal Oak authorities charged him with brandishing a weapon during a fight in a parking lot with members of Insane Clown Posse, a rival rap group. He received probation in both cases.
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Miami Beach police arrested Tara Patrick (better known as Carmen Electra) in November 1999 on battery charges after a fight in her hotel room with former NBA-star Dennis Rodman, her husband. However, police later dropped the charges against the Baywatch star after both she and Rodman refused to press charges. A judge did, however, order the pair to stay at least 500 feet away from each other.
