Cee Lo Green. After tweeting that it’s “only rape if the victim is conscious,” his career took a predictable nose dive.

Jerry Lee Lewis. Marrying your 13 year old cousin is a sure fire way to kill any career.

Jennifer Grey. After getting two nose jobs (the second of which was necessary to fix problems with the first), Jennifer’s career took a nose dive…

Oscar Pistorius. He was once looked up to as an example of what hard work can achieve. Being convicted as a murderer isn’t as inspirational as sprinting with blades instead of legs.

Brian Williams. Brian proved that lying is the fastest way to destroy a career in journalism.

Ashlee Simpson. Getting caught lip-syncing didn’t help her “credible musician” image very much.

Megan Fox. After comparing Michael Bay to Hitler, her career went into a downward spiral.

Gary Busey. Shortly after announcing he was anti-helmet, Gary got in a motorcycle crash and hasn’t been the same since, mentally speaking.

Tonya Harding. Although she did fairly well in other areas, after hiring someone to break her competitor’s leg she never recovered in the figure skating department.

Lee Ryan. As a member of British boy band Blue, he was about to get a record deal in the US. It was right after 9/11, and he was recorded as saying, “the New York thing was blown out of proportion,” and “what about the whales?” Blue didn’t get the deal and never broke into the US market.

Jeffrey Jones. After playing in some big movies, child pornography killed his career pretty quickly.

Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson. The worst thing they ever did was leave M*A*S*H. It went on to become one of the most popular sitcoms in history. Neither Wayne nor McLean ever got significant roles again.

Len Bias. He was considered to be just as good as Michael Jordan, but on the night he was drafted, he overdosed on cocaine.

OJ Simpson. He was beloved, both in sports and on the camera. According to James Cameron in 1984, he was even considered for the role of the Terminator but was thought to be “too nice of a guy” to be a believable killer.

Mark Salling. He was a fan favorite on Glee but then went and got arrested for child pornography.

Chris Benoit. He had a larger-than-life reputation in the WWE, and then he murdered his family and committed suicide. It was a pretty drastic fall from grace.

Natalia Kills and Willy Moon. After completely humiliating one of the contestants on New Zealand X Factor (it led to public outcry), both Natalia and her husband were fired as hosts.

Jeb Bush. You know things are bad when you have to ask the audience to clap.

Halle Berry. It didn’t take long to go from Oscars to Cat Woman.

Billy Squier. He was moving up the music industry ladder when he let a director come up with a music video that pretty much put a stop to his ascent.

Howard Dean. In what is probably the most innocent bad-move on this list, Howard pretty much lost the presidential bid because of “the scream.”

Jared Fogle. Child pornography brought Jared’s rise to fame to a quick halt.

Aaron Hernandez. He got a multimillion dollar contract with the New England Patriots and then murdered his friend.

Paula Deen. After the racial epithet trial, her TV career was done.

Lance Armstrong. It’s hard to go from so high to so low in such a short period of time. Don’t do drugs, kids.