3. Lee Weaver, Badass Bodyguard To The Rich And Famous

Lee Weaver is another celebrity bodyguard who’s turned his experiences into a book, Memoirs of a Celebrity Bodyguard, that was published in 2011. Weaver’s career spanned decades, beginning with a stint with Eddie Murphy at the height of his career. In one incident, he rushed Eddie out of a nightclub when an aggressive autograph-seeker went too far and pulled out a gun. Another bodyguard was killed during the incident, but Weaver and Murphy made it out in time. On another occasion, Eddie and Sylvester Stallone almost got into it when Stallone thought Murphy was making time with his then-wife Brigitte Nielsen. Weaver says he had to put a choke hold on Stallone until he passed out to keep him from punching Murphy out. As fate would have it, he later worked for Stallone during the early 1990s and shared the story of when Sandra Bullock and the Rocky star re-enacted fight scenes from the movie in their underwear. Among the many other stories, he says he was once attacked by Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimp, and that he once had to pull a gun on Arsenio Hall‘s bodyguards to hold them off while Hall and his client, Wesley Snipes, fought over a woman.

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