15 Hollywood stars with shocking criminal records (With Pictures)

9. 50 Cent

It’s quite possible to imagine that most rappers are simply putting on an image for the publicity, but when 50 Cent raps about drugs, women, and fighting, he’s speaking from experience. At age 19 in 1994, he was sentenced to a boot camp prison, where he spent six months. The charge? Selling heroin and crack cocaine, to which he pled guilty. He was later sentenced to two years’ probation in 2002 after he was found guilty of assault and battery. It’s also a reasonably well-known fact that he survived being shot multiple times early in his life, prior to his music career taking off.