10 Famous people you didn’t know passed away in 2015 (With Pictures)

8. Amanda Peterson

“Who’s Amanda Peterson?” “Oh, yeah, that girl… she died?” Peterson rose to fame in the 1980s starring as the object of a young Patrick Dempsey’s affection in Can’t Buy Me Love. There were a handful of follow-up roles, but Peterson never escaped the shadow of that film, and it may have been a contributing factor to the drug and alcohol problems she suffered, resulting in five arrests over a 12-year period. Her family claimed that she was clean at the time of her death, but toxicology reports stated Peterson died of an accidental overdose due to combining medications on July 3, 2015.