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Bodyguards Gone Wild! Drugs, Murder, Assault & Other Crimes Committed By Hollywood's Hired Muscle

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Dec. 9 2014, Updated 1:58 p.m. ET

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No one is closer to celebrities than the men and women protecting their lives. But do these A-listers really know who they're dealing with? RadarOnline.com has uncovered some of the most disturbing secrets and scandals involving Hollywood hired muscle. Is anyone in Tinseltown safe?

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Chris Brown

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Chris Brown's bodyguard was accused of beating up a man who worked out at the same gym as Brown in 2009. "I honestly thought the guy was going to kill me!" the victim claimed, explaining that the bodyguard must have thought he was a paparazzo.

Justin Bieber

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Oh baby! Justin Bieber's bodyguard pounced on an aggressive paparazzo in 2012, punching him in the face and knocking him out when he refused to stop taking photos in front of Beibs' Biebs’ SUV. According to later reports, it all started when the pap hit the bodyguard with his camera.

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Justin Timberlake

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Justin Timberlake's bodyguard was arrested in London in 2011 after he allegedly punched out a photographer trying to get snaps of Timberlake and Mila Kunis dining out at Nobu.

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Sean Kingston and his bodyguard were accused of taking part in a gang rape back in 2010. In April of this year, the case was settled.

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Bodyguard to the stars Lee Weaver claims that one night when he was guarding Eddie Murphy, a crazed fan pulled a gun. During the incident, a bodyguard of Eddie's friend, R&B singer Johnny Gill, was killed in the incident

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Another night, Weaver says, he had to protect Murphy from Rambo star Sylvester Stallone, who thought he was having an affair with then-wife Brigitte Nielsen. Weaver says Sly attacked Murphy and he was forced to choke him until he passed out. After that, Stallone hired him as his own bodyguard.

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In a simliar situation, Weaver claims, he held Arsenio Hall's bodyguards at gunpoint while his client Wesley Snipes and Hall fought over a woman.

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In April 2012, a woman filed papers in LA Superior Court claiming that bodyguards for Johnny Depp assaulted her at a 2011 concert. She alleged that the bodyguards restrained her, confiscated her cell phone, handcuffed her, and then dragged her on the ground exposing her buttocks to other concert-goers, leaving her bruised and injured.

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Lady Gaga's bodyguards got rough with a man who tried to take her picture at at party at the Standard hotel in NYC during the summer of 2011.

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50 Cent's bodyguard allegedly got into a fight with a pap in Copenhagen in 2010 and was jailed for smashing his camera.

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Former Real Housewife of D.C. Michaele Salahi's bodyguard was also arrested for trying to bring a gun through La Guardia Airport in NYC.

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Anti-gun activist Michael Moore's bodyguard, Patrick Burke, was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in JFK airport in NYC in January, 2005.

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Justin Bieber

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Justin Bieber's bodyguards were banned from leaving Argentina this weekend after allegedly being involved in an early-morning scuffle with paps outside of a Buenos Aires nightclub.

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Last month, Chris Brown's bodyguard Christopher Hollosy was arrested, along with the singer, after allegedly getting into an early-morning fight with a man outside of a Washington D.C. hotel. Both of their cases are ongoing.

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As RadarOnline.com has reported, Sean Ringgold,a former bodyguard for Tom Cruise, Queen Latifah, Ludacris, LL Cool J and others was accused of sexually assaulting a woman this summer. RadarOnline.com obtained court documents that revealed he was facing a grand jury investigation over a complaint of "criminal sexual contact."

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As RadarOnline.com has reported, Sean Ringgold,a former bodyguard for Tom Cruise, Queen Latifah, Ludacris, LL Cool J and others was accused of sexually assaulting a woman this summer. RadarOnline.com obtained court documents that revealed he was facing a grand jury investigation over a complaint of "criminal sexual contact."

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In 2007, one of Lindsay Lohan's bodyguards was accused of kicking a fan who got too close.

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Televangelist Joyce Meyer was forced to testify in court when her former bodyguard, Christopher Coleman, strangled his wife and two sons in 2009. He is in prison after being found guilty in 2011.

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Kenneth Hamilton and Justin Bieber

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Bodyguard Kenneth Hamilton was arrested in NYC in 2011 after he was accused offor shoving a paparazzo up against a car while he was trying to get a picture of Justin Bieber.

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Leopold McLean, a longtime NYPD cop who worked as a bodyguard for NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was convicted of attempted murder this May after shooting his girlfriend's ex.

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Norman Oosterbroek

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In September, "The Dutch Giant," celebrity bodyguard Norman Oosterbroek, was shot and killed by Miami cops after going on a naked drug rampage in his neighbor's house. Oosterbroek had been a bodyguard for Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and more.

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