Jessica Hahn's public rape allegation against televangelist con-man Jim Bakker propelled this 21-year-old church secretary into the spotlight as a well-known model and actress.

Rachel Uchitel is widely known for her involvement in the Tiger Woods cheating scandal; shocking messages with the acclaimed golfer led her to become the face of Woods' career and marriage collapsing before the entire world.

Mary Kay Letourneau is the vilified former teacher that began a sexual relationship with one of her 12-year-old students in the late 1990's; after spending time in prison, they eventually married and have been raising their six children together.

Heidi Fleiss was a well-known former madam in the early 1990s; Heidi's famous journal was the talk of Los Angeles because it revealed very famous clients.

Jennifer Wilbanks was the subject of a media circus known all over the world in 2005 when she faked her own kidnapping and claimed that she was sexually abused.

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.

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.

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.

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.