mug shotn. Informal A photograph of a person's face, especially one made for police files.
Hugh Grant stunned the world when L.A. Vice busted him for getting a gobby in his car in 1995 near Sunset Boulevard from then unknown hooker, Devine Brown.
What was more baffling was the fact that he was going out with supermodel/actress Elizabeth Hurley at the time. As if mirroring his on-screen persona of the babbling English cad, Hugh handled the situation with frank satirical wit and famously stated on the
Jay Leno Show that, “I think you know in life what’s a good thing and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.”
In 2006
Mel Gibson scored his un-flattering mugshot in Malibu for DUI (driving under the influence) and for verbally abusing his arresting officer.
Mad Mel had been getting stuck into a bottle of Tequila just before he got pulled over and began to wax-lyrical with lines like,”F@#king Jews…Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” It was just-desserts for Mel, who happened to spout his anti-Semitic tirade to the officer who was of Jewish origin.
Down at the station Gibbo reportedly made another quip at a female sergeant asking, “What are you looking at, sugar tits?”
Mel has since made lengthy formal apologies to the Jewish community.
Famous Hungarian-born American actress and socialite,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, opened a serious can of whoop-ass on a police officer that had pulled her over for a traffic violation in 1989.
Despite her short stature and the fact that she was 72 at the time, Zsa Zsa single-handedly debunked the myth that people mellow with age and slapped Beverly Hills cop, Paul Kramer across the face.
Gabor later appeared as herself in an episode of
The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, which parodied the infamous incident and said this line, “Yes, I did it…and he deserved to be slapped.”
Legendary crooner/actor
Frank Sinatra was way ahead of the pack in regards to celebs getting nabbed by Johnny Law.
In 1938 Ol’ Blue Eyes got thrown in the slammer in Hackensack, New Jersey by the sheriff and charged with what was then known as "seduction". The then 23-year old Sinatra was accused of getting jiggy with a single female who was formerly in good repute, which was against the law at the time.
The charge was dismissed but later revised to "adultery" when the woman of "good repute" turned out to be married. The charge was eventually dropped but the singers’ mug-shot remains one of the most iconic images of the 20th century.
- By Jordan Bloomer