50 Celebrities Who Went To Jail For Minor and Severe Crimes

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., a winner of three Grammy statues, might have released 11 studio albums in his lifetime, some of which dominated the US Billboard 200 chart — this didn’t prevent him from being arrested and charged by the federal powers. In 2009, Harris Jr. got detained due to federal weapon charges and had to serve six months in prison.

Guidice and her ex-husband Joe accepted a plea agreement that included 41 charges of fraud, and as a result, she got sentenced to a 15-month jail term. The reality star turned herself into the authorities at FCI Danbury in January 2015 to begin her 15-month sentence, and she was freed on December 23, 2015, just after 13 months.

Joe Giudice was found guilty of fraud in October 2014 and received a sentence of 41 months in prison. In March 2016, he was required to check into a New Jersey prison. In 2018, the courts decided to deport Giudice after the sentence. Guidice spent months fighting his deportation, but it all was in vain.

A court sentenced Meek Mill to between two and four years in jail in November 2017 for violating the conditions of his probation after his arrest in 2007 on multiple charges when he was 19 years old. Before being granted early release in April 2018 by a Pennsylvania appeals court, the rapper completed five months of the sentence.

After his plea to charges of driving while intoxicated from a DUI incident in June 2010, Vince Neil was placed on lockdown at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas for ten days in 2011. Before that, he was imprisoned for 20 days in 1986 for vehicular manslaughter and drunk driving.

After shooting his cousin, Rick was found guilty of attempted homicide in 1991. He received a three to ten-year sentence but only served five. He came dangerously close to being deported as a foreigner who had spent more than five years inside an American prison. But, after successfully winning a lawsuit, he was allowed to reside in New York.

Lil Kim went to prison for a year for fabricating some information about a shooting her friend was in. For lying to a federal grand jury, Kim was found guilty in 2005 on three conspiracy charges and perjury. She spent a year at the Philadelphia Federal Prison Center and another 30 days in house detention.

The True Romance actor was initially detained for drunk driving in 1989 and jailed for ten days. Slater was arrested again in 1997 for attacking his fiancée and a law enforcement officer while under the influence. After being found guilty, he served three months in prison before completing three months of rehabilitation.

In 2007, Remy Ma entrusted her friend with her handbag. After Ma got it back, she thought she was $3000 short and thus assaulted her friend. Sadly, a gun went off, which hit the friend in the abdomen. While she claimed it was accidental, the jury didn’t believe her and sentenced her to eight years. She only served six years.

While nobody can beat Kim Kardashian popularity-wise, Mike Sorrentino came close. With earnings reportedly topping $5 million in 2014, he forgot to pay some of it that rightfully belonged to the government. In 2019, Sorrentino entered a New York correctional facility and was allowed to leave after serving eight months.