3. Mark Wahlberg
On April 8th, 1988 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Wahlberg violently attacked local Vietnamese resident Thanh Lam as Lam walked to his car with some beer he had just bought. According to reports, Wahlberg spewed racial epithets as he smashed Lam over the head with a five-foot-long wooden stick, leaving him unconscious. While evading police, he approached another Vietnamese man, Hoa Trinh, and punched him in the eye.
Wahlberg initially believed that he had blinded Trinh, but it was later revealed that Trinh had already lost that eye in the Vietnam War. Wahlberg was initially charged with attempted murder, but later plead guilty to the lesser charge of criminal contempt.
He was given a two-year sentence, but only served 45 days at Boston’s Deer Island House of Correction. Many believe that this stint in the brig incentivized him to turn his life around. And thank goodness it did, or we may have been forever deprived of the exquisite melodies of that super group we all came to know and love – The Funky Bunch.
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