Celebrities who were conned of their hard earned money

Bollywood actor Karan Singh Grover has fallen prey to the notoriousNigerian online lottery scam.
The Alone actor lodged a complaint with the Mumbai police on Friday that he paid Rs 5.5 lakh as processing fee to claim his winning prize money. He made the payment following an email he had received informing him that he had won a lottery online. After making the said payment, Grover didn't receive the prize money promised to him and in fact was asked to further pay Rs 12 lakh to get the money. Smelling a foul rat, Grover then contacted the people whom he had been in touch with through mail, but on getting no reply from them, he lodged a police complain. But Grover is not the only celebrity to have been conned. Over theyears, several Bollywood as well as Hollywood celebrities have beenduped of their hard earned money.
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WHERE ARE THE SPONSORS? Legendary actor Dilip Kumar was also not spared by dupesters as he filed a police complaint in July last year against Anand Rahuilkar and Suresh Kurpad, alleging the latter had duped him of Rs 5 crore. According to the actor, Rahuilkar and Anand had promised him to sponsor his book launch event and had assured him that they would raise Rs. 5 crore from sponsors for it. At the time of the talks, the duo had also shown agreements signed by three sponsors and a cheque of Rs 4 crore. After the event, which had stars like Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan in attendance, Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu learnt that the said sponsors had never signed any contract with Rahuilkar and his partner and nor was any money paid to them.
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INVESTMENT RACKET - In October 2013, actor Akshaye Khanna lodged a complaint with the Mumbai police against an investment firm owned by a Bengali couple Satyabrata and Shona Chakrabarti for duping him of Rs 50 lakh. The Dil Chahta Hai actor alleged that the Chakrabartis asked the actor to invest his money in their company Intex Immijet Private Limited, which dealt in the commodity market, promising to double his investment in a year. Khanna says he waited for two years to get returns on his investment but the duo kept postponing the payment and ignoring his calls.
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IDENTITY THEFT - Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher also became a victim of cyber scam as he too fell prey to scammers Luis Flores and Kyah Green in Agust 2013. According to the complain filed by the actor, an imposter called up American Express on May 30, 2013, claiming to be the Hollywood star himself and also provided the company with Kutcher's personal information as well as answers to his security questions to gain access to the account. The caller then requested that the primary account phone number of the actor be changed to his number and an emergency replacement card be sent to an address in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. Kutcher was lucky enough to not have any money withdrawn from his account.
RIPPING OFF CREDIT CARDS - Not one but several Hollywood celebrities including Cher, Jennifer Aniston, Liv Tyler, Melanie Griffith, Anne Hathaway were duped to the tune of $511,000 when their stylist and and facialist Maria Gabriela Hashemipour took advantage of them by ripping off their credit card numbers. Her act was blown when the management company representing actor and her client Liv Tyler saw unexplained charges of $214,000 on the actress’ account. Later, a case was registered against the facialist and she was sentenced to five years’ probation and was ordered to pay $511,000 in restitution.
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CATTLE TRADING GONE WRONG - Actor Kiefer Sutherland paid the price of being too benevolent when he lent con man Michael Wayne Carr $869,000 to purchase cattle in Mexico and then be resold in America at a profit. Allegedly, Carr had taken large amounts of money from others too but never returned it nor was any cattle purchased. He was ultimately arrested and was ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution.
INVESTMENT GONE AWRY - The year 2008 was rocked by the arrest of Bernie Madoff who ruined many a lives in the USA with his ponzi scheme. Actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick were also victims of the conman and though the couple didn't disclose the money they had invested in the scheme, Bacon was quoted as saying that he and Sedgwick had no choice but to keep on working for their living.
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CHEATED BY THE MANAGER - Kenneth Starr had been the manager of big stars like Uma Thurman, Neil Simon and ran a scheme netting himself more than $30 million from 2005 until he was caught in 2010. He siphoned off millions from his client's accounts till director Mike Nichols got suspicious and chose to get out of the scheme early. Similarly for actor Uma Thurman who noticed a million dollars missing from her account and browbeat Starr until he returned her money. But others weren't so lucky and Starr was sentenced and asked to repay more than $29 million and serve up to seven and a half years in prison.

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