Victims, survivors, killers and suicides: all the people in this book are celebrities whose lives have gone awry. Celebrity has always come at a cost. If there were such a thing as a manual for how to survive celebrity, one of its key points would have to be: ‘Abandon all hope of a private life, ye who enter here.’ Celebrities have, almost by definition, always had to make deals with the devil—fame and fortune and access to extraordinary experiences and really great bananas in exchange for being public property. From Wild Bill Hickock and Jesse James, and the Drugs and Deaths in the Silent Era to the mystery murder of Joy and George ‘Born Free’ Adamson and the tragedies of celebrities like Versace, this book has all the killings, suicides, victims of crime and drug crimes that shocked the world. The tragedies of the deaths of the Beatles stars John Lennon and George Harrison are included, as are the ‘trials of the centuries’, like OJ Simpson and Lana Turner and her daughter and then there are the misadventures—Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the tragic lives of the former child stars—River Phoenix and Dano Plato....