Idolized Celebs Who Did Terrible Things In Real Life

Posted by Noelle Montes on Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Rap icon and headphones pioneer Dr. Dre has a long history of committing violence toward women. 

In 1991, Dee Barnes had the audacity to criticize Dre's group, N.W.A., on her Fox TV rap video show called Pump It Up. According to Rolling Stone, "Dre picked her up and 'began slamming her face and the right side of her body repeatedly against a wall near the stairway' as his bodyguard held off the crowd. After Dre tried to throw her down the stairs and failed, he began kicking her in the ribs and hands. She escaped and ran into the women's restroom. Dre followed her and 'grabbed her from behind by the hair and proceeded to punch her in the back of the head.'" Dre's reasoning for such unhinged violence against a female critic? "People talk all this s**t, but you know, somebody f**ks with me, I'm gonna f**k with them. I just did it, you know. Ain't nothing you can do now by talking about it. Besides, it ain't no big thing — I just threw her through a door."

Dre's ex-fiancée, Michel'le, claimed beat her so badly in multiple incidents that she needed plastic surgery. A third alleged victim of Dre's, rapper Tairrie B, told The New York Times that he "punched [her] right in the mouth and again in the eye" after she insulted him in a song. 

The only legal repercussions the hip-hop legend ever faced were community service, probation, and a fine, after he pleaded no contest to assault and battery charges related to the Barnes incident. Dre did, however, vaguely confessed to the other allegations when he apologized to "the women I've hurt." He also told The New York Times, "Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. ... I'm doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again.

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