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Fame doesn't always bring out the best in people. Join us as we count down ordinary individuals who found themselves on the receiving end of a celebrity's wrath! From paparazzi clashes to bitter legal battles, these everyday people never expected to become part of a star's most controversial moments. Have you ever had an unexpected run-in with a famous face? Tell us in the comments!
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00:00I know that I'm going to hurt the people closest to me, who I've talked to and apologized to, being
00:05my wife and my kids.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at non-public figures who faced very public disdain from famous people.
00:12What mistakes would you say you'd make?
00:14I've done so many mistakes.
00:15So many.
00:16Daniel Ramos, hated by Kanye West.
00:19Can we talk to you, Kanye?
00:22What's going on, man?
00:24What was up with all that stuff?
00:25You want to just squash all that?
00:27Yeezy has not had an easy relationship with media people in general.
00:31Take Daniel Ramos, a freelance cameraman who joined the paparazzi in meeting Kanye West at a Los Angeles airport in
00:362013.
00:37The agitated rapper tried to snatch Ramos' camera away, leading to a scuffle, a misdemeanor assault charge, and a civil
00:44suit.
00:44What you're trying to do is get me in trouble, so I'll step off you and have to pay you
00:49like $250,000.
00:50No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:52West defended himself by claiming that Ramos represented the worst of media exploitation.
00:56But after completing court-ordered anger management, he settled with Ramos and issued a public apology for the fight.
01:02West said that there should be mutual respect between public figures and the paparazzi,
01:06who remains a stern advocate for reform in their legal interactions.
01:09Ilser Oliver and Simonette Dacosta, hated by Mariah Carey.
01:13Mariah Carey is known for her spectacular high notes.
01:17But tonight, a professional relationship has ended on a decidedly sour note.
01:21With the recently divorced star being sued by her former nanny.
01:24Her family's supposed dirty laundry now being aired out in court.
01:27The Songbird Supreme had her wings clipped in 2014, when a former assistant sued her for withheld wages.
01:33Ilser Oliver claimed to have gone beyond the call of duty in caring for Mariah Carey during a hectic period
01:38in 2007.
01:40The singer was allegedly hostile toward her staff, and ultimately stiffed Oliver on overtime.
01:44This scandal prompted nanny, Simonette Dacosta, to file a separate lawsuit, alleging that Carey was abusively demanding, without providing compensation.
01:53Carey's nanny of four months filing a lawsuit against her and her husband, Nick Cannon, just weeks after the couple
01:59filed for divorce.
02:00The lawsuit accuses the couple of forcing her to work 100 hours a week and failing to pay her overtime.
02:06The plaintiff even claimed that her relationship with Carey's kids sparked jealousy.
02:11Whatever validity there was to these accusations, they couldn't have ingratiated these women to their former employer.
02:16It's just love. It's a beautiful place to be.
02:19Carey settled both lawsuits out of court in 2015.
02:22Carl Westcott, hated by Katy Perry.
02:25An ideal pop image might not hold up under business and real estate.
02:28It wasn't a good look when Katy Perry got into a heated legal battle with sister Catherine Rose Holzman over
02:33the 2015 sale of a Los Angeles convent.
02:36Now to a tragic turn on the oncoming feud between pop star Katy Perry and a group of nuns trying
02:42to stop the singer from moving into their former convent.
02:45Holzman died in court while appealing Perry's win in 2018.
02:48Even more high profile was the drama that started two years later, when Carl Westcott tried to buy back his
02:54LA home.
02:54Katy Perry is roaring back into the spotlight with a new law that could have an impact on how housing
03:00negotiations are arranged and handled.
03:02The senior citizen claimed that the sale to Perry was made under the influence of treatment for his Huntington's disease.
03:08Perry later won nearly $2 million in a countersuit over lost lease income.
03:12Also known as the Katy Perry Act.
03:14As contentious as these legal battles have been, they sure didn't win her any fans.
03:19Orlinda Elliman, hated by Sharon Stone.
03:21In Los Angeles, a superior court judge has given the green light for a Filipina nanny to pursue her allegations
03:28of harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination against actress Sharon Stone.
03:34In 2012, Orlinda Elliman sued Sharon Stone for wrongful termination after the actress allegedly compared overtime pay for her nanny
03:41of five years to stealing.
03:43The Filipina immigrant even claimed that she was subjected to racism and harassment in the year leading up to her
03:49dismissal.
03:49She was the target of derogatory comments and slurs by Stone who allegedly picked on her Filipino accent, religion and
03:58made fun of Filipino food.
04:00Stone countersued on the grounds that these defamatory claims were completely fabricated.
04:05In the end, she settled out of court after the judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence to support Elliman's
04:10claims.
04:10We may never know the true circumstances of her termination or relationship with Stone.
04:15We can be sure that if there wasn't really bad blood before the legal battle, there certainly was in the
04:20midst of it.
04:21If I was guilty and I wanted to beat that machine, it wouldn't be hard.
04:25Reed and Sharon Jacobs, hated by Kelly Pickler.
04:28I thought I'd start off with something a little smaller.
04:30Songwriter Kyle Jacobs and singer Kelly Pickler both came from humble beginnings to become a country music power couple.
04:37Pickler's relationship with parents-in-law, Reed and Sharon at the time, is a lot less documented.
04:41But after Kyle's shocking death in 2023, the grief and conflict entered the spotlight through a legal dispute over the
04:48Jacobs' ownership of their son's estate.
04:50And I look across the room and I see this guy, Kyle.
04:53I didn't know who he was or what he did.
04:54We just locked eyes and I went, I gotta know everything about this person.
04:58His widow has spent years airing her grievances with her parents-in-law in court, with 2025 seeing subpoenas and
05:04contempt allegations.
05:05It's a high-profile testament to how a family's grief can manifest into disdain over legal matters, especially when there's
05:12such a glaring difference of status.
05:16J.T. Jackson, hated by Kevin Hart.
05:20He claimed someone was demanding millions of dollars over a sexually suggested video and now he's posting an emotional apology
05:25to his wife and family.
05:27In 2017, comedian Kevin Hart went public with an attempt to extort him, with footage of him cheating on his
05:33wife.
05:33The FBI ultimately identified Jonathan J.T. Jackson, an aspiring actor and Hart's best friend of 16 years.
05:40Although the charges were dropped, and Hart exonerated Jackson as part of a settlement, the ordeal ended their relationship.
05:46That is, until allegedly defamatory language prompted Jackson to sue Hart for breach of contract in 2024.
05:59He has since finally achieved status as a public figure, after the initial incident derailed Jackson's rise in the entertainment
06:05industry.
06:06Still, there's not much triumph in claiming fame over a falling out with a beloved funny man.
06:10That window, that door is closed on this.
06:13Like, we ain't got to talk about nothing right now.
06:16We, you know, you made your choice, bro.
06:19Employees, hated by Naomi Campbell.
06:22Supermodel Naomi Campbell has built a less glamorous reputation behind the scenes, with heated feuds extending to people who used
06:28to be on her staff.
06:29It all started in 2000, when she confessed to physically and verbally assaulting former assistant Georgina Gallonis two years prior.
06:36I mean, I've definitely done wrong in growing up in this business since I was 15 years old, in terms
06:42of making my mistakes and learning from them.
06:44I'm not a sane.
06:45I'm a human being.
06:46Over the next decade, Campbell faced lawsuits from multiple assistants and housekeepers, some choosing to remain anonymous.
06:53Amanda Brack even claimed to have been abandoned in Morocco, after Campbell destroyed her passport.
06:58Let's tell me, you took this business of people not liking you to the courts, when, in fact, you actually
07:04sued the mirror.
07:04It wasn't so much people not liking me.
07:07I think with the mirror situation, it was more about me wanting to go to my recovery and privacy.
07:13The model has long attributed her temper to substance and mental health struggles, but has clearly shown her staff a
07:18disdain that was compounded by legal conflicts.
07:21I know a lot of you have been asking me to show my skincare routine, so I thought I'm going
07:25to show it to you in little bits and parts.
07:27So this is a skincare routine after New Year's Eve, going into New Year's morning, early hours, of Elsa Majumbo
07:36and I taking off our makeup and trying to make ourselves look pampered and fresh for New Year's Day.
07:41The 2024 revelation of protege-turned-influencer Elsa Majumbo's traumatizing falling-out shows that working under Campbell remains risky.
07:50Tiffany Wells, hated by Lizzo.
07:52Where the hell my phone?
07:53Is anonymity really that important for food delivery workers?
07:57Perhaps, if they've earned the ire of powerful pop icon Lizzo, who in 2019 tweeted a photo of Postmates courier
08:03Tiffany W. with accusations of stealing food.
08:06She soon deleted the post and apologized after fans began threatening the woman.
08:10And Lizzo said she stole my food, and she didn't.
08:15And it's really...
08:15I said, stole food.
08:16She's lucky I don't find her.
08:17Tiffany is being traumatized as a result of this.
08:20The full name of Tiffany Wells went public a few months later, as she filed a lawsuit for libel and
08:25invasion of privacy.
08:26She asserted that she simply left Lizzo's residence after the customer failed to pick up her food in time.
08:31Lizzo should take responsibility for blasting the woman, because this is someone whose life is at stake, and defamation is
08:38a real thing.
08:38And I think that Tiffany should sue Lizzo for putting her out there like that.
08:42This incident surely came with backlash against the superstar, but her notorious heat hits differently for someone like Wells.
08:48Her lawsuit was dismissed in 2021.
08:51Dawn at Night.
08:52Hated by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
08:54In the Michael Douglas-Catherine Zeta-Jones stalking case, these two celebrities were being pursued by a woman they'd never
09:02met before.
09:04She talks about cutting up Catherine Zeta-Jones and feeding her parts to her dog.
09:11Stalkers are a bigger risk in celebrity than many want to admit.
09:14Catherine Zeta-Jones couldn't just hope for Dawn at King to get the help she needs after her arrest in
09:192004.
09:20The LA woman was so infatuated with the actress's husband, Michael Douglas, that when she heard a tabloid rumor about
09:26Zeta-Jones having an affair, she began sending death threats.
09:28And this woman really imposed herself not only on him, but on the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction.
09:38She became someone who believed that Michael was in love with her.
09:43And that the only thing keeping him from marrying her was this little annoyance called Catherine Zeta-Jones.
09:50More than two dozen detailed letters were sent before Knight's arrest and public apology to the victim.
09:56Zeta-Jones responded by testifying at the trial that the terror she experienced left her permanently traumatized.
10:01The public hasn't heard from Knight since she was sentenced to five years in prison.
10:04But that testimony demonstrates the fear ordinary people can instill in idols.
10:08When I first read the letters, saw the hatred, saw the violence in the letters, it was very concerning.
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10:31Ronald Fenty, Hated by Rihanna
10:33Rihanna is serving her dad court papers.
10:36Guys, this is Fenty over family in this case.
10:40Rihanna is suing her father, Ronald Fenty, and Fenty Entertainment over claims that he's using her brand and his relationship
10:46to her to launch his own business.
10:49Many great artists come from conflict.
10:51An R&B icon, Rihanna has been very open about her conflicts with her father, Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor
10:57in Barbados.
10:58His substance use disorder and abuse of her mother scarred Rihanna, who rarely said a kind word about the man
11:03before 2019.
11:04It was then that she sued Fenty for launching a company that tried to book Rihanna tours without authorization.
11:09This legal battle unexpectedly allowed father and daughter to finally come to terms with their relationship.
11:14Rihanna dropped the suit in 21 and bonded with Fenty until his passing four years later.
11:32This particularly notable case of family overcoming hatred shows how complicated the relationship between public and private figures can be.
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