Scandal Made Fame

Heiress Patty Hearst becomes known for events following her 1974 kidnapping by a domestic terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army; abductee Hearst appears in a surveillance video carrying out a bank robbery in San Francisco.

Lisa Nowak was an American astronaut and national hero until in 2007 when she allegedly wore a diaper so she could drive straight from Houston to Orlando without stopping; her sole intention was to kidnap her long-time lover's new girlfriend.

A teen from an affluent family drunkenly runs down a disabled SUV killing four people and injuring nine; the trial thrusts Ethan and his family into the spotlight when his lawyers claim he cannot serve jail time due to Affluenza.

TV personality Kim Kardashian builds a multi-million-dollar empire and becomes a pop culture phenomena; Kardashian's leaked sex tape thrusts her into the limelight, and her nude backside famously "broke" the internet in 2014.