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Today I will talk you about some artists who due to their excesses, ways of thinking or bad decisions ended their careers.
Joaquin Phoenix.
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The actor nominated for Oscar was very successful after his role as a villain in Gladiator, he star and was a supporting actor in several successful films.
Until in 2008 he announced his retirement from the big screen stating that his intention was to dedicate himself to rap. After that, he looked scruffy and rambling, so there were speculated that he was abusing drugs and alcohol. Since then he has not had a success.
Shia LaBeouf.
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After the success he obtained with
Transformers, he got more important roles as in the fourth installment of the
Indiana Jones franchise.
However, he starred in several incidents that led to suppose drug use. Had several arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol and a car accident in 2014. After that he was arrested while shouting racist messages, which ended up sinking his public image.
Michael Richards.
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After working on the series
Seinfeld, the future for Richards seemed different from his colleagues in the series. He had won a prize
Emmy, there was raining deals to him.
Until one night in 2006, the actor made several racist statements about the audience in a local. His words were recorded on video and it was made public. The video went viral and his figure of humorist was broken.
Roman Polanski.
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This film director has starred in several controversies, such as the murder of his ex-wife, Sharon Tate, at the hands of Charles Manson. Son of Polish parents of Jewish origin, he was born in Paris but moved with his parents to Poland shortly before the beginning of World War II.
This meant that he spent the first years of his life in the Poland occupied by the Nazis.
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As a director he has been highly acclaimed and has garnered many awards.
However there was an incident that truncated his career in the
United States. The director was accused of rape the 13-year-old adolescent
Samantha Geimer in 1977.
When he was must to serve sentence he took a secret flight to London and another one immediately to Paris. Since then he has continued his career with great success, but he has not stepped on American soil again.
Veronica Lake.
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This actress was an icon of Hollywood noir cinema of the 40s, her characteristic hairstyle that covered one eye, set a trend very imitated by women of the time.
This fashion was such that the Department of War of the United States prohibited the female workers who worked in the armament factories to wear that hairstyle, due to numerous accidents were produced.
She was very successful for a while and reap many successes, although she had a bad personal reputation. Her co-workers complained that it was impossible to work with her. Due to this when his contract expired in 1948, her film company not renewed her contract.
After several professional and sentimental failures between the late 40s and early 50s she began to drink.
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Her bad luck did not end and her mother took her to court demanding financial compensation for all the years she has dedicated to the girl becoming an actress. Veronica was sentenced to pay her a pension for life.
He suffered embargoes for not paying taxes. Got divorced. I end up resigning to work as a theater actress. In 1959 she broke an ankle so she could not work as an actress anymore. She started living in cheap hotels and was arrested several times for drunkenness and public scandal.
She achieve remake herself and publish an autobiography. At that time he moved to the United Kingdom where he contracted a brief marriage.
In 1973, she returned to United States, where she had to be hospitalized immediately. On enmity with her family and children, she did not receive any visits. That same year the actress died at the age of 50, with a diagnosis of hepatitis and kidney failure resulting from her alcoholism.
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