18 Popular Celebrities Believed To Have Faked Deaths

Not nearly the most well-known person on our list, but someone who definitely deserves to make it here. Not because of some ingenious conspiracy theories, but because Stonehouse has the distinction of being the only one to have gone through the indignation of faking his death, and then getting caught while trying to hide. Trying to run away from corruption charges levelled at him, Stonehouse channelled his inner Hollywood and tossed some of his clothes on a beach at Miami, to make it appear that either he drowned or was dinner for some sharks. Obituaries, and tributes poured in before a body was even found, and they were ultimately proven to have been unnecessary. The reason for that was because Stonehouse had jetted away to Australia with his mistress and secretary while under a false identity. He was caught and arrested while trying to transfer his money, a vigilant bank clerk proving to be Stonehouse’s undoing. Coming back to Parliament, but now not as an MP but as a fugitive in handcuffs was quite the image, and Stonehouse ensured that with this act, he would forever be etched in history.