Celebrities who broke the law and went to jail

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

As the old, popular wisdom sounds: "Do not exclude yourself from the bag and from the prison." No one is immune from mistakes. Someone commits minor offenses, and someone will remember the punishment all their lives. Not only ordinary mortals are serving sentences in places of deprivation of the free. Among the actors and musicians who have earned popular recognition and respect, there are also those who broke the law. For some, this was a lesson for life, and in the future, a person led a humble lifestyle, and for others, it was a tragedy that influenced fate and led to death. In our article, we'll talk about which celebrity was in prison and for what crimes.

Georgy Zhzhonov

Favorite actor was born in March 1915 in a peasant family and spent the first years of his life on Vasilievsky Island. The future actor graduated from school with a mathematical bias and decided to enter a circus school. Since the age was still too young, the actor entered according to the documents of his brother Boris, later the deception was revealed, but Georgy Stepanovich escaped punishment. Together with his partner, he came up with a circus act and performed with him. A little later his career in the circus was over, as the director from Lenfilm noticed him and offered to play a role in the film “Hero's Error”. After that, without hesitation for a long time, Zhzhenov decided to study acting, and his teacher, by a happy coincidence, was Sergei Gerasimov. Even before graduating from college, the actor had several roles.

But in the pre-war years, the situation in the country was tense. Many have suffered from repression and Zhzhenov is no exception. During filming, the actor met the US military attaché on the train. Colleagues noticed such a strange acquaintance and denounced the NKVD. After that, the actor was sent to the gold mines in Kolyma, where he spent five years since 1939, working as a dispatcher and driver. Despite his stay in correctional camps, the actor performed on stage. After the imprisonment, there were numerous wanderings from one city to another and playing on the local stage. Only in 1955 he was completely rehabilitated and returned to his native Leningrad.

Nikolay Godovikov

Who does not know the famous Petrukha from “The White Sun of the Desert”. He had a very sad fate, and his favorite profession could not positively influence his life. The actor was born into a simple St. Petersburg family. The parents did not have time to take care of the child and he was sent to a permanent garden. Only on weekends did the boy come home. This gave both pros and cons. Nikolai was smart and showed good results in training, but he was not disciplined, often got into trouble and even was registered in the police room.

Parents wanted to send Nikolai to a class with a mathematical and technical bias, but he went against them, passed tests in the film "Republic Shkid", a couple of years later there was the film "White Sun of the Desert", which brought the actor nationwide love. But after filming the tape, life did not work out. The actor was imprisoned several times for theft, and the last time in a maximum security colony as a repeat offender. In the 2000s, the actor managed to star in several TV series, but he died of kidney cancer in 2017.

Alexey Romanov

All fans of the group "Resurrection" probably know the story that the irreplaceable leader of the group and the songwriter was in prison. In Soviet times, it was illegal to engage in private activities. Romanov, together with his friend, the sound engineer of the group, Arutyunov, was accused of organizing the so-called “left concerts”, which were held illegally. First, the artist spent nine months in Butyrka, then two months in Serpukhov. As a result, he received three and a half years in prison, but conditionally. All things were confiscated from him, and money was written off from his savings book. And Arutyunov's accomplice was sentenced to three years, which he served in a colony.

Igor Petrenko

It's hard to believe, but this actor was also behind bars. Igor Petrenko was born in Germany, where his father, a military man and a candidate of chemical sciences, served, his mother was a translator. When the boy was three years old, the family returned to the capital of his homeland. In childhood, the future actor was not distinguished by discipline, despite the fact that he grew up in a military family. I did not want to study and constantly disappeared in a company that was not the best for myself. It so happened that Igor Petrenko became an accomplice in the murder. His friend, who was owed a large sum of money, called his friends, among whom was Igor, to take revenge on the debtor and take the money. The man was shot to death in his own apartment, and everything was furnished like a robbery. The crime was solved, and while the investigation was going on, Igor Petrenko was in custody in Matrosskaya Tishina. Then he was treated in a psychiatric hospital for eight months. He was given a suspended sentence of eight years and three years probation, since the crime was committed by another person and at the time of its commission the actor was a minor. And besides, the court's decision was influenced by positive reviews from the Schepkinsky school, in which the young man studied at that time.

Eduard Izotov

The actor received national love thanks to the role of Ivanushka in the children's fairy tale "Morozko". But on account of his many great roles and a crime that ruined his whole life.

Eduard Izotov was born in Belarus in a military family. He successfully graduated from VGIK and began acting. The tale "Frost" by Alexander Rowe brought him love and recognition. After his triumph, the actor continued to act in films and play in the theater. But by coincidence, the actor and his wife received three years in prison. They were detained in a cafe in the center of Moscow, when they tried to exchange a small amount of dollars for rubles, the actor needed money to finish building a country house. After the actor was released, he was often sick, suffered several strokes, began to forget the words of the role, and then of his relatives.

Savely Kramarov

A magnificent, charismatic actor who shone on Soviet screens almost got a serious sentence for smuggling. The actor had a hobby, he collected icons. Together with accomplices, he traveled around the small towns of the country and exchanged valuable copies for next to nothing.

Years passed, the actor converted to Judaism, began to go to synagogue, took up yoga and icons did not fit into his new way of life. Then the actor decided to get rid of the impressive collection of antiques as soon as possible and sold icons abroad. On which he was caught and spent several days in the cell. But thanks to the powers that be, he was justified and after a while he emigrated to America. Unfortunately, he never managed to make a career in Hollywood. The actor died of a serious illness.

Vladimir Dolinsky

Another brilliant actor who suffered for his greed. The actor was born into the family of an engineer. He was an obedient and hardworking child. He entered the Shchukin School. He acted in films and played in the theater. But he did not achieve much success in his career. In 1977 he was sentenced to five years for illegal currency exchange. After his release, which was early, the actor returned to his work and became famous in the films "An Ordinary Miracle", "The Same Munchausen" and other, less significant roles. Then he began to broadcast children's, culinary and travel programs on television.

Yuri Aizenshpis

If not for the coup d'état, the producer would most likely be an inveterate repeat offender. Since all his terms took a total of seventeen years of life. For the first time, the future producer was convicted of currency fraud. He was given ten years, but released on parole. Then, less than a year later, Aizenshpis was again sent to jail for currency counterfeiting. True, now he was in charge of an entire enterprise in places of imprisonment and even had his own office. For the third time, the producer was never convicted, but spent some time in the bullpen. A coup began in the country and he was released. The connections with the bandits helped Aizenshpis on his way in the career of a producer and he took under his wing the group of Kino, Linda, Vlad Stashevsky and a number of other famous performers in the nineties.

Georgy Yumatov

The actor had a rather difficult fate. Front-line soldier, participant of the Great Patriotic War. The actor defended his homeland and honored the memory of his colleagues. I never forgot about the heroism of the soldiers. He was a very successful actor and loving husband. But the craving for alcohol did its job. In 1994, he shot and killed his neighbor, a janitor who was helping with the dog's funeral. As it turned out later, he spoke impartially about the front-line soldiers and said that it would be better for Germany to win the war. For such a crime, the actor was up to ten years old. But thanks to a lawyer, he was amnestied. After the tragedy, he hardly got any movie roles. The directors were afraid to invite Yumatov because of alcohol problems and aggression. The actor managed to defeat alcoholism, he began to go to church. But he died of a ruptured aorta.