Top 15 Celebs Still Loved Despite Checkered Pasts

14. Jack Gantos

Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award for Writers of Children’s Fiction, Gantos was an entirely different person during high school, when as a twelfth-grader he was running drugs, specifically hashish, between New York City and the Virgin Islands. After serving one year of a six-year sentence, Gantos was paroled.