Celebrity Facts

When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.

Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.

When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name 'Allota Warmheart' so that nobody will recognize her.

President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!

Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.

Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.

Paul Walker was browsing a Santa Barbara jewelry store when he overheard a young couple - a veteran just back from Iraq and his fiancée - admiring an engagement ring they could not afford. Walker walked up to the manager and said put it on his tab. The price was nearly $10,000. He insisted on complete anonymity and the couple did not learn who paid for it for almost a decade. The truth only came out after he died.

Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!

Jackie Kennedy Onassis, despite her iconic public image, maintained a private habit as a heavy smoker, consuming up to three packs a day for over 40 years.

Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.

George Clooney once cleaned his roommate's cat litter box for four consecutive days, then crapped in it himself, causing his roommate to think it was from his constipated cat.

Ming-Na Wen, who portrays The Cavalry on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., was also the voice of Mulan. And she’s 50 years old.

Rihanna reportedly insured her legs for $1 million with Lloyd's of London after becoming a brand ambassador for Gillette's Venus razors in 2007.

Steve Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, managed a popular Mediterranean restaurant near San Jose. Jobs ate there a couple of times without knowing the owner was his father. Jandali didn't know either. Years later, when Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson tracked Jandali down, he casually boasted: "Even Steve Jobs used to eat there. He was a great tipper." That's how Jobs found out.

While filming Matilda, Mara Wilson's mother was dying of cancer. Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman quietly cared for Mara like their own daughter. DeVito secretly took an unfinished cut of the film to the hospital and screened it for her dying mother. He kept it quiet for years.

Hollywood casts Danny Trejo as the villain in over 400 films - because he spent 11 years in and out of prison. In August 2019, he was near a Sylmar intersection when a car ran a red light and flipped an SUV with a baby inside. Trejo crawled in through a broken window, and with bystander Monica Jackson freeing the car seat latch from the other side, pulled the child to safety. He kept the boy calm by yelling "superpowers" together. Hollywood was wrong about him.

Rob Lowe was offered the role of Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy. He turned it down for a CBS show called Dr. Vegas. CBS pulled it after five episodes. Patrick Dempsey took McDreamy instead. Grey's Anatomy ran for 21 seasons. Lowe later said the decision probably cost him $70 million.

Every December, Tom Cruise ships hundreds of white chocolate coconut bundt cakes from Doan's Bakery in Woodland Hills, California to co-stars, directors, crew members, and anyone who has ever worked with him - including people from a single film. Kirsten Dunst called it "the best coconut cake I've ever had in my life." Cruise can't eat it himself: he cuts sugar while training.

Dave Chappelle spent nearly $13 million to save and rebuild a landmark in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio. He bought the 1872 Union Schoolhouse - the first integrated school in the village - and turned it into a 19,000 sq ft home for public radio station WYSO. The station moved in and never looked back. "If you have the opportunity like I did, to invest in your community," he said, "then it's one of the greatest investments I've ever made."

Dr. Dre was about to become hip-hop's first billionaire when Apple bought his company Beats for $3 billion in 2014. Then he posted a video bragging about it, and Tim Cook used the leak to shave $200 million off - landing Dre just under a billion.

Eminem's mother sued him for $10 million in defamation over one line in "My Name Is." A judge ruled in her favor — for $25,000. Her lawyer took $23,354.25 in fees. She walked away with exactly $1,645.75.

Eminem won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2003 for "Lose Yourself" - the first rap song ever to win that award. He wasn't there. He was asleep in Detroit because his daughter Hailie had school early the next morning. He slept through history.

Beyonce submitted Cowboy Carter to the 2024 CMAs. The country establishment gave her zero nominations. She took the album on tour anyway, grossing over $400 million - the highest-grossing country tour in history - and Forbes declared her the fifth musician ever to become a billionaire.

50 Cent was offered a flat $5 million to be the face of Vitamin Water. He turned down the cash and negotiated for a minority equity stake in the company instead. When Coca-Cola bought Glacéau (Vitamin Water's parent company) for $4.1 billion in 2007, 50 Cent walked away with an estimated $100 million.