D.The last decade of the 20th century was a strange historical period. Everyone was talking about JNCO mules and jeans, everyone was worried about the year 2000, and Vanilla Ice was a successful rapper. Unsurprisingly, some of the strangest celebrity rumors emerged during this time.
Since the internet wasn’t widely available yet, there were few ways to verify the facts, unless you had the patience to wait for people to stop using the phone so you could use the dial-up connection. Scroll through the gallery to see how some of the greatest mysteries of the 1990s were debunked.
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Marilyn Manson
One of the many strange rumors surrounding shock rocker Marilyn Manson was that one of his ribs had been surgically removed.
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Marilyn Manson
For what reason? So that he could perform a certain sexual act on himself that would require him to bend over quite a bit. Manson has never directly commented on this claim, but that’s probably because it contributes to the disturbing myth of him.
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Richard Gere and the Gerbil
This is where it gets scary (er). Rumors of a bizarre obsession were circulating in the 1990s and Richard Gere was inexplicably swept away by that tide.
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Richard Gere and the Gerbil
Was it is saidthat some people can insert a gerbil through a tube into their rectum for sexual gratification. Somehow word got around that Richard Gere was an enthusiastic participant in this fictional craze. It has also been claimed that he was once hospitalized for an emergency “gerbilectomy”.
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is available for comment known, which is said to have made in the 1990s. In it, she claimed she was jealous of the hungry children she saw in TV commercials because they were so skinny.
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Mariah Carey
The quote was actually from a parodied interview, but unfortunately it spread like wildfire in the news and hasn’t let them go since!
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Tupac Tod
You should be living under a rock for not hearing the rumor that Tupac Shakur is not actually dead. There are all kinds of conspiracy theories out there these days, but in the 1990s there was even less evidence to support this claim!
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Tupac and Biggie’s wife
Tupac and Biggie Smalls were the biggest rivals in rap history. In one song, Tupac claims he slept with Smalls’ wife, Faith Evans. Evans denies these claims. She was probably just a dig at Smalls’ ego.
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The blood violets
During her wild days, Angelina Jolie had an intense public relationship with Billy Bob Thornton. She even got her name tattooed on her arm! There were rumors that she carried a vial of her blood around her neck.
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The blood violets
While that’s not entirely true, they wore lockets with a small stain of each other’s blood on them, which the media exaggerated. Then of course it’s completely normal …
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Kurt Cobains Tod
Kurt Cobain’s 1994 suicide was a major blow to the world and his fans. His wife Courtney Love was a controversial figure who got a lot of media coverage as she was no ordinary female celebrity.
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Kurt Cobains Tod
After Cobain’s death, desperate fans looked for someone to blame and settled on Courtney Love. Rumors circulated that she had killed him and staged him as if Cobain had taken his own life, but in the end the case was declared suicidal.
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Jack and Rose forever
As the co-stars and romantic leads of “Titanic,” one of the greatest love stories of all time, it was inevitable that rumors of a romance between Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio would surface.
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Jack and Rose forever
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The death scene
Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, was building an acting career in the 1990s. He then tragically died in 1993 while filming the movie “Crow”.
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The death scene
The prop gun fired a real bullet instead of a blank bullet, seriously injuring Lee in front of the camera. He was taken to the hospital and later died. It circulated voicesthat the actual scene of his death was captured on film, but that’s not true.
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Oprah and Gayle
Then there was voicesrevealed that Oprah was having a secret love affair with her best friend and CBS host Gayle King. The two may be inseparable, but the rumors are unfounded.
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Die Saga and “California High School”
The cast of the 90s high school sitcom California High School was plagued with rumors after the series ended.
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Die Saga and “California High School”
The first was the false claim that the actor who played Zach, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, would die in a car accident. Not even close! He is still alive, even though he looks very different now.
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Die Saga and “California High School”
Another gossipWhat was circulating was that actor Dustin Diamond, who played Screech, became a movie star in adult films. In reality, only a questionable video was shot. She heard that the infamous Paris Hilton video made her millions. She decided to fake her own video using a stunt double and some fake body parts of her to make money.
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Lauryn Hill hates whites
Lauryn Hill was a legend in the 90s as a member of the band The Fugees. In an interview with MTV, she is said to have controversially expressed that she would rather die than sell one of her albums of hers to a white man.
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Lauryn Hill hates whites
Unsurprisingly, not a single interview was found. A man called a well-known radio station and launched this voice out of nowhere.
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The vanilla ice cream accident
Vanilla Ice’s song “Ice Ice Baby” was a smash hit in 1990. He gave up some of the credits for the song to famed music producer Suge Knight, which was too outrageous. voices carried.
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The vanilla ice cream accident
Allegedly, Knight grabbed Vanilla Ice and hung him by the ankles on a balcony until he agreed to pay him. In fact, according to Mr. Ice, they simply engaged in a frank conversation on the balcony, which ended with him graciously agreeing to pay.
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“Blue’s Clues” -Todesscherz
Steve Burns was the original host of the hit children’s television show Blue’s Clues. After the show ended, they remained stubborn voiceswho died in various cruel ways. In fact, Burns has worked as a voice actor and musician for the past few decades.
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Michael Jello Fox
Actor Michael J. Fox starred in the Back to the Future films, making him one of the biggest stars of the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, people began to speculate on what the “J.” it’s in his name.
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Michael Jello Fox
A gossip claims that his parents allowed him to choose his middle name himself when he was six, and he chose Jello. His middle name is actually Andrew, but he thought Michael J. Fox sounded his best.
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Marisa Tomei did not win an Oscar
In 1993, Marisa Tomei won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in My Cousin Winnie. Tomei was relatively new to the scene and was not considered the favorite for the win.
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Marisa Tomei did not win an Oscar
This led to voicesthat the moderator actually read the wrong name and the academy just took it to cover up his mistake! This theory has been largely invalidated and disproved by all involved.
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Barneys Kokainsucht
Have you ever heard that famous children’s show host Barney the Dinosaur keeps cocaine in his costume? Apparently a lot of people have heard it! There is no evidence for this complaintbut it may have been confused with other reports, which revealed that drug traffickers had filled one of Barney’s soft toys with cocaine to hide it.
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