Ian Curtis

Rock Robberies and Bling Bandits

In 2008, someone stole the gravestone of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis at the singer’s burial spot at the Macclesfield Cemetery in the U.K. (Photo Courtesy of myspace.com)

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Nelly In 2003, Nelly had approximately $1 million worth of jewelry lifted from his hotel room during the Radio Music Awards. In December of 2006, a man broke into Nelly's house in suburban St. Louis and was able to get away with a duffel bag of electronics, a video game system and video games. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The Beatles Five hundred priceless roles of Beatles tapes were stolen in the early 1970's. The tapes included footage of various retakes, false starts, musical drawings, arguments and conversations between the Fab Four and their producer George Martin shortly before the band split up. The tapes were eventually found in 2003 when they turned up as evidence in an English court after a long investigation into their whereabouts. In a separate instance of Beatles theft, in 2007, John Lennon's famous round glasses were stolen off his statue at the airport bearing his name in Liverpool. (AP Photo, File)
Coolio In 2009, the Grammy Award winning and multi-platinum selling rapper was robbed of his jewelry and shoes by numerous audience members after he attempted to do a stage dive into the crowd at Staffordshire University’s Students’ Union in Stoke-on-Trent, England. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Elvis A $30,000 nine millimeter black Smith and Wesson pistol was stolen from the "Elvis after Dark" museum in Memphis in 2007. A janitor eventually found and returned the gun after discovering it while cleaning a portable toilet behind the museum. (AP Photo/Louisiana Hayride)
Queen Latifah Queen Latifah had over $10,000 worth of jewelry stolen from her luxury villa in Tobago while on Christmas vacation in 2008.(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Will Smith In 2005 Carlos Lomax was sentenced to 37 months in jail for opening 14 bogus credit accounts using Will Smith's identity. Lomax was found to have charged nearly $33,000 on those accounts. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
Rick Ross In 2009, after the rapper had finished a show in Nashville, a group of women gained entry into Ross' hotel room and took jewelry and a laptop computer, all valued at close to $60,000. (AP Photo/ Jim Cooper)
Paris Hilton An estimated $2 million worth of jewelry and other belongings was stolen from the unlocked home of Paris Hilton in December of 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
Ruben Studdard In 2005 Studdard became a victim of identity theft when he claimed that his business manager had forged documents and owed him more than $250,000 in misappropriated monies. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Courtney Love In 2007, someone stole a $100,000 pair of pink diamond earrings from Love's room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City. However, hours after New York police launched an investigation into the incident, the earrings were mysteriously returned. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)
Lindsay Lohan In 2009, Lindsey's father reported a burglary at his daughter's home in Los Angeles. Michael Lohan reported that a safe was ripped off the wall and a couple of watches were taken. He claimed it was an inside job because the people that work for Lindsay failed to turn the house's alarm on. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Brisco The rapper was robbed at gunpoint inside a Miami barbershop in 2009. Brisco was pistol whipped before the thieves took $35,000 in jewelry, a Range Rover, a wallet, and $1,000 cash. (Photo courtesy of myspace.com)
Ashley Tisdale In October of 2009, a Hollywood burglary ring comprised of teenage thieves targeted Tisdale's home and made off with designer clothing, jewelry, and electronics. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
Jimmy Page In 1970, a Gibson "Black Beauty" Les Paul guitar was stolen from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page while the band was on tour. In July of 2007, Page gave testimony against a bootlegger who had been distributing CDs and DVDs from Page's personal collection that were stolen from his home in the early 1980s. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, file)
Michelle Branch In 2003, Branch's personal computer and some related equipment were stolen from her hotel room during the Radio Music Awards. The thief also escaped with approximately $1 million worth of rapper Nelly's jewelry. (Photo by Giulio Marcocchi/Getty Images)
Ian Curtis In 2008, someone stole the gravestone of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis at the singer’s burial spot at the Macclesfield Cemetery in the U.K. (Photo Courtesy of myspace.com)