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They say that one cannot swear off scrip and prison. Both can overtake anyone: both a peasant and a superstar. Although, of course, everything depends on the country, time, system, and so on.
So nothing human is alien to celebrities. Here are 10 famous actors and musicians who... different periods their careers ended up behind bars.
1. Vasily Lykshin.
An actor who gained fame after the release of the TV series “Gromovs” and the film “Bastards”. Vasily was raised in an orphanage from childhood. As the actor himself says: “From the age of 7 I smoked and drank vodka. For such a thing, money was needed every time, but there was nowhere to get it from. At the age of 15, my boys and I decided to rob the dacha of a general. They took money and some equipment there. The next day the police took me away - my neighbor at the dacha identified me.” Lykshin was given two years and sent to a colony. In 2002, when Vasily Lykshin was 15 years old, director Svetlana Stasenko invited him to try his hand at cinema and gave him one of the main roles in the film “Angel on the Sidelines.” Vasily managed to star in several films and TV series, and on October 18, 2009 he died from cardiovascular failure.


2. Igor Petrenko.
Actor Igor Petrenko, remembered by many from the film “A Driver for Vera,” became a suspect in a murder case 15 years ago. His friend Sasha, who owed his other friend Yegor 100,000 rubles, suggested Petrenko remove the creditor. The victim was shot, and the apartment was vandalized, simulating a robbery. Petrenko was given eight years probation, taking into account the fact that he was not yet 18 years old, as well as positive reviews about him at the Shchepkinsky Theater School, where he was already a student. The end of the term came at the very dawn of the actor’s career. But Igor flatly refuses to remember what happened: “We are all not saints. I don’t want to remember this, my past mistakes can harm my acting today.”


3. Savely Kramarov.
Saveliy Kramarov had a very good taste: He was very fond of beautiful, expensive things. After graduating from the Forestry Engineering Institute, there was no money for such a hobby, and young Sava made a living by walking with a friend to remote churches in Pskov and Novgorod and luring out icons for next to nothing. When Savely starred in “Gentlemen of Fortune” and became a popular favorite, there were many antique icon paintings in his apartment. These icons were kept in the actor’s house for quite a long time. The actor and his friend were caught smuggling some of the collection abroad. They were kept in police custody for several days, but then released due to the help of influential acquaintances.


4. Roma Zhigan (Roman Chumakov).
The famous Russian rap artist received his first sentence in 2002 for robbery and car theft. Then Roman was sentenced to 4 years and was released only in 2006. The musician had problems with the law for the second time in 2013. According to the verdict, Zhigan and four of his friends robbed young man, who was hired to promote the clips on YouTube. They invited him to a cafe, and then, threatening him with a knife, forced him to withdraw 100 thousand rubles from his card. Zhigan himself did not admit his guilt, but despite this, on June 3, 2014, the Savyolovsky Court of Moscow found the rapper guilty of robbery and sentenced him to 1 year in prison. Zhigan became most famous for his participation in the “Battle for Respect” project, in which he took first place and received an award from the hands of Vladimir Putin (at that time the Chairman of the Russian Government).


5. Vladimir Dolinsky.
In the early 70s, Vladimir, together with the Satire Theater, 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 fell through, Dolinsky sold this modest amount with a profit of 200 rubles. After this, Vladimir carried out several more foreign exchange transactions. “I didn’t do it for the love of the dollar,” says the actor. - And just because of the love for the ruble. Because for one dollar I received as much as five rubles! The main thing about money is the quantity!” In 1973, Vladimir was “covered” by the KGB. He spent a year in the Lefortovo detention center and then received five years in prison. At the request of his colleagues, Vladimir Dolinsky’s sentence was reduced to 4 years, after which he returned to his native theater.


6. Bogdan Titomir.
In the early 90s, singer Bogdan Titomir crossed the German border with Sweden, and drugs were found in his car. During his arrest, Titomir escaped and was put on the international wanted list. Four days later he was arrested, but Russian lawyers helped the singer win the case.


7. Nikolai Godovikov.
The same Petrukha from “White Sun of the Desert” has been stealing since childhood. And even when I started filming, something was constantly disappearing on set: either equipment or personal belongings of the group. But it is only now, when a criminal trail has appeared behind him, that all the losses are attributed to Godovikov, and then - who would have thought that these were the tricks of the young Kolka. After Godovikov was no longer offered roles in the 80s, he took the criminal path. Nikolai Lvovich sat there three times. At first he was involved in a case of burglary. The police even 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. Although now he says that all three times were solely for parasitism.


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


9. Archil Gomiashvili.
Ostap Bender from Gaidai’s film “The Twelve Chairs”... He 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...


10. Alexey Romanov.
The permanent leader and main songwriter of the Resurrection group. In 1983, charges were brought against him and the group’s sound engineer, Alexander Arutyunov, in the so-called “leftist concerts” case. In August 1983, Romanov and Arutyunov were arrested. They were accused of private entrepreneurial activity in the form of selling tickets to one of the concerts. Alexey Romanov spent nine months in Butyrskaya prison, then two in Serpukhov (the musician’s TV was confiscated, a non-working Corvette player, for which they later took 170 rubles in court, a Comet tape recorder, two chairs, his guitar - a red Fender - and that’s all money from a savings book). In May 1984, the case was sent to trial. The meeting took place in the city of Zheleznodorozhny. The court sentenced: Romanov - three and a half years probation and confiscation of property, Arutyunov - three years in prison.

Having seen the photographs of the actors further, you may be surprised, because you did not even imagine that these stars of Russian cinema, whose films are known throughout the country, were sitting in. However, this is true. Actors, no matter how ideal they may seem to us, first of all remain just people who have their own weaknesses and shortcomings. The actions of the past led them to the dock, and ultimately to prison terms.

Russian actors who were in prison photos

Nikolai Godovikov played in many films, but became best known after his role as Petrukha in the legendary film “White Sun of the Desert.” Since childhood, he had been a thief and was considered a “difficult teenager.” For the first time I went to prison for 1 year for parasitism. After that, he was imprisoned for theft - 4 years and 2.5 years.

Archil Gomiashvili, who played the main cinematic swindler Ostap Bender in the film “The Twelve Chairs,” was in prison. In 1943, Archil Gomiashvili got a job at the Tbilisi Russian Drama Theater. Griboedova. One day, together with a friend, he cut leather from chairs, after which they sold it to a shoemaker. For this crime, the artist received two years in prison. Earlier, when Gomiashvili was still in at a young age, he served sentences in prison several times for hooliganism and theft.

Valentina Malyavina is known to many for such films as “Ivan’s Childhood”, “The Deer King” and “The Literature Lesson”. The actress was accused of murdering her own husband, actor Stas Zhdanko. According to investigators, she stabbed him several times with a knife. In 1983, she was given nine years on a charge of premeditated murder. Four years later she was granted amnesty.

Vasily Lykshin, known to many viewers from such films as the TV series “Gromovs” and the film “Bastards,” was sent to prison for two years. As the actor himself said, this happened when he was 15 years old. Together with his friends, he robbed the general's dacha. After Vasily Lykshin was identified by the general’s neighbor at the dacha, he was arrested and convicted.

Vladimir Dolinsky served 4 years for currency transactions. In the early 70s, the actor was preparing to go on tour to Sweden with the Satire Theater. Then they were allowed to exchange rubles for dollars, but the trip fell through, after which Dolinsky exchanged dollars for a small profit. After that, he performed several more similar operations. In 1973, the KGB became interested in his actions. He spent one year in the Lefortovo detention center, and then was sentenced to five years, but served 4 years, after which he returned to theater and cinema.

The legendary Soviet and Russian actor Georgy Zhzhenov, who played in many great films, was also in prison. In 1938 he was accused of espionage. The reason for this was that the actor met an American during the filming of the film “Komsomolets”. After that, he spent 7 years in the camp. A new charge was brought against him in 1949, after which he was exiled to Norilsk. In 1955, Georgy Zhzhenov was completely rehabilitated.

Georgy Yumatov, who starred in several dozen films, shot a man with a hunting rifle in 1994. The dead man turned out to be a janitor who was helping the actor bury his dog Frosya. The actor was arrested and placed in “Matrosskaya Tishina”. He was threatened long years conclusions, but the lawyer proved that the janitor was the first to attack Yumatov with a knife. After serving two months, he was released on his own recognizance, and in 1995, as a front-line soldier, he was granted an amnesty.

Sergei Shevkunenko already at a young age became a real cinema legend. He starred in such films as “Dirk”, “Bronze Bird”, “The Lost Expedition”. In 1976, he was sentenced to one year in prison for fighting. In 1978 he received four years for theft and was released in 1981. In 1982, he received 4.5 years for theft and drug possession. For attempting to escape and refusing to cooperate with the administration, his sentence was extended by 1.5 years. Later he was also imprisoned for possession of weapons and possession of stolen icons. He was the leader of an organized crime group. Spent 14.5 years in prison. He was shot and killed on February 11, 1995.

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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.

Famous boxer was sentenced to 6 years in prison for raping 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.

The actor became addicted to alcohol and drugs early on, which is why he repeatedly came into the spotlight law enforcement. 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 term. Downey spent a whole year on the bunk.

Michelle Rodriguez was repeatedly fined and sentenced to community service for accidents involving her and drunk driving. And in 2006, she even served 5 days in prison.

In 2007, Paris Hilton spent 23 days in jail for drunk driving and violating her probation. 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.”

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 of 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.

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.
A selection of famous actors who ended up behind bars at different points in their careers.
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 makes fast 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 pictures, it would seem that the time has come white stripe. 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

Valentina Malyavina

Sergey Shevkunenko

Spartak Mishulin

Nikolay Godovikov

Archil Gomiashvili

Vladimir Dolinsky

Boris Yurchenko

Georgy Yumatov

Arkady Shalolashvili

Sergei Parajanov

Georgy Zhzhenov

Igor Petrenko

In the biography of a handsome actor, State Prize laureate and father of many children there is a terrible episode from my early youth, which took place in the “dashing 90s”. 15-year-old Igor, who hated school but was fond of sports and wrestling, made friends with an older guy, a small businessman. One day they decided to make a speculative deal, for which they borrowed 100 thousand rubles from a friend. But in the end they just wasted money. There was no way to repay the debt.

The businessman had no other choice but to kill the creditor. Having chosen the moment, he shot him with a sawn-off shotgun in the apartment. Although the minor Petrenko did not kill himself, he helped in developing the plan and was present during the massacre, providing “safety net.” As an accomplice, he spent about a year in Matrosskaya Tishina, then was released pending trial.

The process took place only 5 years later, in 1997, when the future artist was a first-year student at Shchepka. Taking into account all the circumstances (age at the time of the crime, degree of participation, positive characteristics neighbors, teachers and colleagues) Petrenko received a suspended sentence (8 years with a probationary period of 3 years).

Leonid Yakubovich

On August 19, 2001, the famous actor and showman killed a pedestrian in the Moscow region, but was found not guilty. As the investigation established, his victim, a 30-year-old merchant from Kyrgyzstan, was drunk and thoughtlessly crossed the road under the very nose of an approaching car. Although the Hyundai Accent was moving at a speed of only 50 km/h, and Yakubovich slammed on the brakes, a collision was inevitable. The man who was hit died in hospital a few days later. In October of the same year, the case was closed for lack of evidence of a crime.

Mikhail Kazakov

On the eve of his 17th birthday in 2005, the “Jumble” actor and future Ilya Polezhaikin from “Daddy’s Daughters” got involved in teenage street fights and stabbed his opponent to death. Misha, whom everyone knew exclusively as a “good-natured and open” person, struck like a professional killer directly in the heart and carotid artery. During interrogations, he said that he went to the showdown at the request of a school friend who had quarreled with her boyfriend and wanted to reason with him, and took out a knife when he suddenly attacked the girl in a rage.

During the investigation, the murder case was reclassified as excess of self-defense, and then the relatives of the murdered man unexpectedly stood up for Kazakov, declaring that his family had fully compensated them for moral and material damage. Taking this into account, as well as Mikhail’s “sincere repentance” for what happened, the court decided to dismiss the case.

Alexander Kilin

A monstrous murder with rape ruined the life and career of the aspiring actor, who managed to play episodic roles in the series “Real Boys” and the film “The Geographer Drank the Globe Away.” In August 2014, the body of a 19-year-old student was found on a playground in Perm, hit on the head with a stone and strangled. Having established her identity, investigators found out that the night before she had been in beer bar, where I met a group of guys. Already late at night, she was accompanied by one of them, 22-year-old student of the Perm Institute of Culture Sasha Kilin. According to investigators, the guy persuaded her to be intimate along the way, and at some point simply threw her to the ground, raped and killed her.

Before the start of the trial in May 2015, it was reported that Alexander partially admitted guilt, but later he changed his testimony and completely denied his involvement in the crime. Nevertheless, the jury found Kilin guilty on all counts, and the court sentenced the actor to 18 years in a maximum security colony and a year of restricted freedom after that. In an attempt to achieve mitigation, lawyers went all the way to the Supreme Court, but it upheld the verdict.

Valentina Malyavina

The Honored Artist of Russia, who at the age of 20 starred in Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood and later played the main role in the musical fairy tale The Deer King, served five years in prison on charges of murdering her husband. 24-year-old actor Stas Zhdanko died in April 1978 from a blow to the chest kitchen knife, this happened in Valentina’s apartment on Arbat.

That evening the couple, together with their guest, famous actor They washed the premiere of his play with Viktor Proskurin, and when he left, they quarreled. It is still not clear how exactly Stas received the fatal wound, but Malyavina, who is now 74 years old, still does not admit her guilt and insists on the version of suicide through negligence. At first, the investigators also decided so and closed the case.

However, after Brezhnev’s death in 1982, the new Secretary General Andropov began to shake up the police and prosecutor’s offices, revealing abuses and violations. Among the cases that were ordered to be raised and reviewed was the Malyavina case. The 42-year-old actress was brought to court; according to eyewitnesses, she was judged very biasedly. She was found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

So the actress ended up in Butyrka, then there was the Krasnopresnenskaya prison, the Mozhaisk zone, the Voronezh prison and a settlement in Rostov region. Valentina Malyavina was released under Gorbachev’s amnesty in 1987 and later released an amazing confessional book, “Hear Me, Pure in Heart,” in which she described her prison life, judicial ordeals and episodes from her past “free” life, including that fateful evening. She dedicated these memoirs to Stas Zhdanko.

Georgy Yumatov

On March 6, 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 after the lawyer was able to prove that his client’s actions were not premeditated murder, but went beyond the scope of necessary defense, two months after his arrest, Georgy Alexandrovich was released from Matrosskaya Tishina on his own recognizance. 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.