8. Rebel Wilson

Rebel Wilson is not a fraud, but she has been accused of being deceptive. While the term fraud doesn’t fit the alleged crime here, there was quite a bit of controversy surrounding the actress a couple of years ago when articles were published disputing Wilson’s backstory. Wilson would then sue (and win) a defamation case against the media company behind the articles. The core issue was about whether Wilson lied about her past or not. The reality is, regardless of whether she lied or simply deflected questions about her past, Wilson’s birth name is not Rebel. It is Melanie. It was also believed that Wilson was 29 in 2015 when she was actually 35. Another story that got attention was that Wilson claimed to be a distant relative. That claim, too, is disputed as Wilson’s family’s last name is Bownds and Disney’s wife was a Bounds.

7. Brian Dennehy

Before he was outed in the book Stolen Valor, actor Brian Dennehy would often speak about his five-year tour in Vietnam and how he was injured in action while fighting there. In First Blood, Dennehy was a rather convincing soldier. We loved him in Tommy Boy too, but this man never saw action in Vietnam. He did serve though, so we don’t want to take that away from him. Dennehy enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1958 until 1963, but he was in Okinawa, a long way from all the fighting.

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