Dana Michelle Plato led quite an interesting life, full of dizzying heights and earth-shattering lows. She came to fame as a child star but found out soon enough that early fame often has its own pitfalls. Best known as Kimberly Drummond, the older sister on TV's "Diff'rent Strokes," Dana went through a lot while never quite escaping the scrutiny of the media and fans ...
Ronald, Sr. and Louise DeFeo lived with their five children at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. Although the DeFeo family was generally known as a "nice, normal" family with more money than anyone else on their street, the eldest son, Ron, Jr. was often in trouble with the law. He was known around town as a troublemaker of the worst variety. An admitted drug user, a petty criminal and a heavy drinker, Ron, Jr. also harbored a mile-long meanness streak. Many of Ron's acquaintances often stated that people "had trouble getting along with Ronnie. Most of Ron's co-workers at Brigante-Karl Buick dealership at 800 Coney Island Avenue, always said "please" and "thank you" to Ron, just to avoid any conflicts with the highly volatile service manager. Although he was "not known as a very good fighter" he seemed to have a knack for finding himself on the business end of other bargoers' fists ...
Listen to the 911 phone call made by Joaquin Phoenix from a pay phone after his brother, River, overdosed in the bathroom of The Viper Room. GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains disturbing content!

Although already attached to such fair-haired sexpots as Alice Faye, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe, the term Blond Bombshell wouldn't become fully defined until the arrival of Jayne Mansfield on...

After a June 28, 1967 evening engagement, actress Jayne Mansfield and the occupants of her car were traveling down a winding, narrow stretch of US Hwy 90 in rural Louisiana when the car would plow into the back of a stopped big rig...
Crime Scene Photos of The Wonderland Murders and Pictures of John Holmes's Penis - GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains Gruesome Photos!
If only walls could talk, they'd tell the truth about what went down during the early morning hours of July 1, 1981 at the modest house located at 8763 Wonderland Avenue. It was a very seedy place inhabited by...
Of all musicians of the '60s, none would embody the tumultuous spirit and self-destructive nature of that era more than Janis Lyn Joplin. The oldest of three children, she was born in Port Arthur Texas...
Crime Scene Photos of the Tate and LaBianca Murders - GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains Gruesome Photos!Below are the police investigation photos of the horrible offense that went down at the Tate and LaBianca Residences at the hands of the wacked-out Manson family on August 8 and 9, 1969. Many horrific things happened...
A Collection of Sharon Tate Photos - GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains some minor nudity
Where we feature the events, places, and timelines of many of Hollywood's Most Notorious Deaths... Including all the Morbid Details!
Americans loves their movie stars. We adore the movies they bring to life. We enjoy dreaming of one day becoming a movie star and living the jet-set lifestyle. But most of all, we love it when their wheels come off and they crash back down to earth like a skeleton hitting a gym floor.