Celebrities attract all kinds of unwell people who occasionally decide they’d like them better dead, but some go beyond the “everyday stalker” pale. They spend a long time plotting detailed murder schemes, for reasons ranging from political dissention to dating someone they think is wrong for them. Fortunately, these attempts often fail, sometimes hilariously.
15 Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol in 1973
Probably the most famous attempted celebrity assassination was the June 3, 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol by writer Valerie Solanas, who suspected Warhol of stealing her manuscript and later suffered the further indignity of being played by Lena Dunham. She served a few years for assault and died 20 years later, the year after Warhol, having apparently survived just long enough to see the job done.
14 Justin Bieber
Bieber in 2012
In 2012, an incarcerated murderer put a hit on Biebs and even a bounty on his testicles. The hitmen only failed because they took a wrong turn and ended up at the Canadian border, where one of them was arrested on a warrant for violating parole.
