16 Respected Celebrities Who Committed Heinous Crimes

3. Charlie Sheen

Sheen is no stranger to controversy, so it’s no surprise that he appears on this list of celebrities who’ve committed horrible crimes. On Christmas morning 2009, the Two and a Half Men star was arrested in Aspen, Colorado for assaulting his third wife, Brooke Mueller. Sheen plead guilty to misdemeanor assault in August 2010. Mueller allegedly told police that Sheen had pinned her on the bed and held a knife to her throat. Later, an arrest warrant affidavit released described Sheen as “straddling her on a bed with one hand grasping her neck and the other holding the knife.” She said Sheen told her, “You better be in fear. If you tell anybody, I’ll kill you.” Sheen denied the claims that he had threatened and choked his wife saying, “we had slapped each other on the arms” and “I had snapped two pairs of her eyeglasses in front of her.” Sheen was eventually sentenced to 30 days in a drug rehabilitation center, 30 days probation, and 36 hours of anger management.