6. Rick Ross

Rick Ross first blew up on the rap scene in 2006. The rapper’s album, Port of Miami, focused a lot on being a criminal and drug dealer and people truly felt what he was putting down. They believed that he lived it. Then, in 2008, it came out that Rick Ross was a correctional officer in 1995. This instantly put into question his credibility as a hustler and a crook. In fact, it all seemed fabricated. But Ross denied the claims. He called the pictures fake. Then, more evidence came out and Ross was stuck, so he admitted to his past, but he called it “a job” and nothing more.

5. Brian Williams

Brian Williams gained a lot of fame covering stories as the anchor of NBC Nightly News. He was acclaimed and respected by many in the industry. In 2003, he told a harrowing tale about being in a helicopter during the Iraqi War that had been shot at and, in some versions, hit by an RPG. Even though the story was disputed by a few after that account, it wasn’t until 2015 that it became public knowledge that Williams’ story was greatly exaggerated. His helicopter was 30 minutes behind the helicopter that was attacked. That means that when Williams puffed out his chest and said heroically that he “looked down the tube of an RPG that had been fired at us,” he was fibbing just a bit. This then brought into question many more of this man’s claims. It was an awkward time for him.

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