10 Celebrities Who Preyed On Young Girls

Celebrities, whether they act, sing, play sports, or even just enjoy the spotlight as politicians, seem to get away with a lot more than the average person. Or maybe it’s just our perception, because what celebrities do is under intense scrutiny. But there’s a long history of famous men showing interest in surprisingly young women, aka children, that’s been going on for quite some time and is often overlooked or dismissed as just something these men do.

10. Pablo Escobar met his wife when she was 12 years old and cheated on many underage girls.

Pablo Escobar was famous for being one of the most notorious drug traffickers in the world. He was also one of the richest criminals in history, with an estimated fortune of at least 25 billion dollars He was a drug lord who reportedly killed around 4,000 people and met his wife, Maria Victoria Henao, when she was 12 years old At that time he was 23 years old.

They got married in 1976 , when Henao was just 15 years old. She said she fell in love with his intense desire to help people and his compassion, if that gives you any idea how good he was at pretending to be something he wasn't. And even though his true colors must have been revealed, she stayed with him until 1993, when he was killed, despite claiming to hate everything he had become.

Escobar also cheated on Henao frequently, including with underage girls , since he clearly had preferences. Show Narcos has been criticized for being unfairly romanticized and made to look almost like a hero, ignoring such details, like this one and many others.

9. Grover Cleveland met his wife as an infant.

Grover Cleveland has several claims to fame, one of which is that he is the only president in American history to be elected to two terms. consecutive terms In the modern age of social media, this may not have happened, as more people might have known that he met his wife when she was a child and then took on a semi-parental role for her after her parents died.

Cleveland married Francis Folsom, when she was 21 and he was 48. Folsom's father, a good friend of Cleveland's, died when she was 11. She called him Uncle Clive Some sources claim that at this point Cleveland became her legal guardian, while others say it was untrue What does seem true is that he, if not legal, certainly had a strong influence on her life.

Frances' mother, the widow of a friend of Cleveland's, expected the future president to ask her to marry him, since he had assumed the role of breadwinner for both mother and daughter. The press thought so too, and asked Cleveland why he had not married. His answer was, "I am waiting for my bride to grow up."

8. Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman slept with his wife when she was 14 years old.

If you're not familiar with the name Bill Wyman, he was the bass player for the Rolling Stones. Like many musicians, he's clearly had a pretty wild and crazy life. But Wyman's story goes to the point of being the kind of weird you'd expect from a soap opera, and it includes the fact that he started sleeping with his wife when she was 14.

Wyman was 47 when he first saw his future wife. She was 13, and he said he felt like he had been hit. hammer on the head They married when she was 18 and Bill was 52. His wife, Mandy Smith, long maintained the lie that they never had sex until she was an adult, but later backed down and admitted it started when she was 14 years They divorced when she was 20.

In a highly unexpected twist to the story, Wyman's son from another relationship marries mothers Mandy Smith, who was, at least for a time, his adoptive grandmother.

7. Steven Tyler gained custody of a 16-year-old girl and impregnated her

To this day, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is one of the biggest names and most iconic voices in all of rock and roll. The band rose to fame in the 1970s and had a string of huge hits in the '90s as well. All of that fame and notoriety was burdened by rumors about Tyler's behavior back in the '70s, when it involved a woman named Julia Holcomb.

Tyler was a rock star, a drug addict at the time, and a man in his early twenties. He met Holcomb when she was 16 and fell in love with her. He managed to convince Holcomb's mother to sign legal guardianship so he could cross state lines with the girl. Holcomb's mother had been through hard times herself, but Tyler apparently told the woman he needed the papers to help her daughter get into school. She didn't even hear about it from her own mom; it Tyler told her . A few months later, she became pregnant by him. She claims he later forced her to have an abortion. Tyler admitted that the relationship and abortion also happened.

6. Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old girl

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have made a career out of singing songs about California, and somehow, what's less well known is that singer Anthony Kiedis knowingly and admittedly slept with a teenage fan in Louisiana when he was 23. years He says they had sex just minutes after meeting and spent the night together.

The band was scheduled to play in Baton Rouge the next day, so they took the girl along. Kiedis said that on the way, she told him that her father was the chief of police in Baton Rouge, and the entire state was looking for her because she had been gone all night. Also, she was only 14 years old .

In response to the news, Kiedis said he wanted her to come home, but then also admitted to having sex with her again, admitting he knew her age. He then wrote a song called "Catholic School Girl Rule" inspired by the event.

5. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl

If you've been following the news, this is the third story about a musician from a very popular band with a 14-year-old girl. This time, it's Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, and the girl was Laurie Maddox, who we'll see again soon. Maddox was a model, and Page saw her photos before meeting her in Los Angeles.

He tried to pick her up several times. He once followed her into the toilet at a club and began kissing and groping her in front of everyone in the room as she tried to get him to stop. She said her friends warned her he would be violent. At one point, Paige ordered the band's manager to " kidnap " her and bring her to Page's hotel. They had dinner together and then slept together, keeping the relationship a secret for a while, perhaps not so much because of her age but because he was in a relationship at the time. It ended when he went to a party with his real girlfriend but publicly left with Laurie .

4. Ted Nugent admitted that he dates many underage girls

These days, Ted Nugent is best known for his involvement in politics and even as an occasional pundit, but he made his name as a musician in the '70s. He has also long been rumored to have had several encounters with underage girls.

Nugent himself has admitted to many of his actions at one time or another. The man actually sang a song called "Jailbait." An episode of VH1's "Behind the Music" claims he had a relationship with 17 year old girl and got her parents to sign off on the guardianship, although this specific claim has never been substantiated. However, by his own account, he got her parents' "stamp of approval," whatever that means.

Nugent used the word " dependent " to describe his feelings for girls back in the '70s, and then explains that his parents were on board because "better Ted Nugent than some drug-addled punk in high school."

3. David Bowie also had a relationship with 14-year-old Laurie Maddox.

Remember Laurie Maddox? Also known as Laurie Mattix, she was the girl Jimmy Page was involved with. Well, before she met Page, she met David Bowie. He had a relationship with her when she was 14. At that time he was somewherefor 20 .

People love David Bowie, and his legacy is that of a brilliant musician who forged his own path, so few are willing to mention the fact that he did things like that, too. According to Maddox, he wanted to take her back to his hotel the moment he met her, but she refused. However, he returned to town five months later, and this time she wasn't there They had dinner and then went back to his hotel room with one of Maddox's friends. She said Bowie asked her to give him a bath and they later had sex. They later had a threesome with her friend.

2. The prince was the guardian of his future wife when she was 17 years old.

Prince died in 2016, but remains a beloved and influential musician whose style, voice, and quirky demeanor have made him an icon for decades. What’s less well known about the Purple One is that he was once married to a woman named Mayte Garcia. Prince met her in 1989 and announced that she was his future wife. At that time she was 16 years old . The prince was 31 years old. This was after his relationship with a 17-year-old Anna Garcia .

Garcia was a dancer and her parents wanted her to work with Prince, so she auditioned. Apparently he was impressed and a song was written about her, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World."

Garcia says they became friends and he called and texted her often. She was never allowed to call him. She started singing for him at 17, and at that time he became her legal guardian . She earned $300 a week and had to carry food from room service carts in the hotel hallways.

But when she turned 18, he promised she would dance on his tour. She says he once saw cookies at her station and, even though they weren't hers, he docked her the price because she needed to keep up her figure. He once sent her home for showing up in sweatpants.

When the tour ended, Prince told her it was time to go on birth control. By then, she was 19 and lost her virginity to him. The couple later had a child, but he died in 1996. She claims Prince avoided her and refused to visit her in the hospital after she developed an infection. She became depressed and later miscarried. She says Prince told her he needed to work. Then he met a fan online, invited her to work with him, and later made her his second wife.

After they divorced, Garcia discovered that he had burned everything that reminded him of her from their home. He even got rid of their son's ashes.

1. Larry Hillblom of DHL Shipping fathered many underage girls in Asia.

Larry Hillblom may not be a household name, but he was certainly a prominent figure in the business world. If you’ve heard of DHL, you know Hillblom. He was the “H” in the company’s name.

His business made him a millionaire, but the man also had a penchant for travel, and he often traveled to Asia. What no one knew for some time was that Hillblom was going to sex holidays , where he fathered at least four children in Palau, Vietnam and the Philippines. Hillblom traveled widely and paid for sex with underage girls Paternity tests confirmed he fathered multiple children after he died in a plane crash, forcing his estate to provide millions of dollars for the children after initially resisting the charges.