Missing Celebrities Whose Disappearances Were Never Explained
It's a sad truth that thousands of people go missing every year, some without anyone even noticing. But something everyone does notice is a when a celebrity disappears. Sometimes they turn up alive, sometimes they've been met with some horrible fate, and sometimes it turns out they were never missing at all. There are, however, a few rare cases of missing celebrities that never get solved. Was it foul play? Were the pressures of celebrity life too much for them? Are they still living under a new identity? Many may speculate, but often these answers have been lost to history. Did these missing celebrities' stories shock you? Tell us about it, and don't forget to SHARE with anyone you know who loves a good mystery!
Theodosia Burr Alston
In the Broadway sensation Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr sing a duet lullaby to their respective newborn children, titled “Dear Theodosia.” It is seen later in the play that Hamilton’s son Philip dies in a duel, but many people don’t know that Burr’s daughter, Theodosia, also was met with a grim fate. She was defamed when Hamilton spread rumors that she had an incestuous relationship with her father (part of the reason for the infamous duel). Her character took another hit when she helped her father try to secede to the West, and subsequently fled the country when he was tried for treason. In 1813, following the death of her son, she boarded a small boat at the port of Georgetown and was never seen again. Some say she ran off with pirates, and others say she ran away to marry a Native American. However, it is more likely that her boat capsized on the rough seas.
Richey Edwards
Richey Edwards was a punk musician, guitarist, and lyricist for the band Manic Street Preachers, and he was unafraid to pull the occasional stunt to prove how real he was. In 1991, when questioned in an interview about the authenticity of his grim persona, he grabbed a razor blade and carved the phrase “4 REAL” into his arm right then and there. Many believed that his disappearance in 1995 was another publicity stunt until he had been missing for long enough that they had to presume him dead. His family swore that suicide was “never an option for him,” but his car was found abandoned near a bridge that was known for suicide jumps, so that seemed to be the most likely conclusion.
Harold Holt
In December 1967, Australia misplaced its 17th prime minister, Harold Holt. Seeing as he chose to go swimming at an otherwise deserted beach on what witnesses have described as a day when the surf was particularly rough, it’s most likely that he simply drowned and his body was never found. Of course, Occam's Razor did not stop people from forming wild conspiracy theories. Some say he was killed by the CIA for wanting to pull Australia out of Vietnam, while others say he was a Chinese spy and faked his death to defect back to China. Ironically, Austrailia decided to open a swimming center in his name and memory. Ouch.
Connie Converse
In the 1950s, Connie Converse was a relatively unknown and unsuccessful musician. Today, she is widely credited as the world’s first true singer-songwriter. Feeling like a failure, she quit music in 1961 and settled down into a quieter life. In 1974, still carrying the heavy burden of regret on her shoulders, she loaded her car, told her friends she was starting a new life, and disappeared, never to be heard from again. It’s possible she committed suicide or died in some other way, but it’s also possible that she was insanely successful in her fresh start, and lived to see herself get the credit she deserved.
Jim Sullivan
Jim Sullivan was a cult folk-rocker in the '60s and '70s who was just days away from his big break when he disappeared. This was a man who had all the talent, all the right connections, and had just landed a gig in Nashville, Tennessee, that would have been his big break ... if he had ever made it there. His car was found abandoned in New Mexico, outside of Santa Rosa. His belongings, including his guitar, were later found in a nearby motel, but there was no trace of the man himself. Some theorize that he simply chose to disappear, but all of his friends stated that he would never have left his guitar behind.
Barbara Newhall Follett
Barbara Newhall Follett was a bit of a writing prodigy in the Jazz Age. She published a critically acclaimed novel at age 13. Everybody agreed that she would be the next great American writer, and she probably would have been, if it hadn’t been for her father. He ran off with a younger woman, leaving her and her mother penniless. She started working as a typist at age 16 and was never known to write again. In 1939, after 10 years of this, Follett had an argument with her husband, left her house, and simply disappeared. He did not look very hard for her, and police and the press weren’t even notified until 1966. It’s possible that she died, but it’s also possible that she disappeared very successfully. Maybe we even know her now under another name?
Fan Bingbing
Fan Bingbing was one of the biggest actresses in China — and one of the only ones to become internationally successful — after her role in X-Men: Days of Future Past. However, the Chinese government discovered that she had been committing tax evasion, and on July 1, 2018, she disappeared. The Chinese government has been known to “disappear” artists for such crimes; artist Ai Weiwei once went missing for three months. She posted on social media, making an apology statement in October, but still has yet to be seen. Who knows where she is, or when she will be released?
Rico Harris
In 2000, Rico Harris was a promising basketball player and a member of the famous Harlem Globetrotters. His life slowly began to spiral downward due to alcoholism. He reached rock bottom when he was fired from his job as a security guard in LA for being drunk at work. He packed up his car to drive from his mother’s home to his girlfriend’s in Seattle. His car was found — with all of his stuff still in it —outside of Sacramento. For days afterward, people made reports of seeing a tall man wandering the side of the highway, and human footprints matching his approximate size were found, but they stopped abruptly. Many believe that he was picked up as a hitchhiker, but after that it is a mystery what happened to him.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the famous author of Le Petit Prince, one of the world’s most famous children’s books, also was an aviator who loved to perform complex and death-defying stunts. Later in his life, he was determined to enter World War II to do his duty for his native France. This was despite his advanced age, and to the disadvantage of many of the other air pilots assigned to work with him on missions. He was seen as a liability, and made several mistakes in his aviation career, but none more costly than the one he made on July 31, 1944. He crashed his plane taking off for a mission over the Mediterranean, and the wreckage was not found until 2000. His body was never located.
Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson was the businessman who turned Thai silk into a global commodity. A former agent of the OSS (basically the CIA before the CIA was a thing), he moved to Thailand and started one of the most successful business ventures in the history of the world, becoming a rich socialite by 1967. That was the year that he left for a biking trip in Malaysia. He never returned. Any number of things could have happened to him: He could have been taken out by other Bangkok businessmen, the Thai government, by an Asian anti-CIA faction, or even by the actual CIA. He definitely didn’t just die in the wilderness, though, because he had survival training. Something fishy happened to him, it’s just that nobody is sure what. His huge home, pictured above, is now a museum in Thailand.
John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan
In 1974, Lord Lucan (who was once considered for the role of James Bond) got fed up with battling his wife for custody of their three children, and with spying on them and recording their telephone conversations, and decided to simply bludgeon her to death in a darkened room. The problem with committing murder in a darkened room, though, is that you can’t verify your target. So instead of killing his hated wife, he ended up killing his children’s dearly beloved nanny, Sandra Rivett. Whoops. After the murder, he vanished, and was never found. Some say he disappeared to Africa and died in the wilderness, some say he jumped into a river, and some say that his friends fed his remains to tigers at a private zoo. No matter which way you slice it, though, this guy probably met the end he deserved.
Amelia Earhart
Everyone knows the famous story of Amelia Earhart, one of the greatest aviators of her time, who disappeared in 1937 in an attempt to fly around the world. The thing is, though, that that’s not the whole story. Her plane didn’t simply vanish, as everybody thought for years; naval ships were receiving radio transmissions from her for days after her plane landed on a small, uninhabited island in the Pacific, too low on fuel to carry on. Days after the transmissions stopped (after her plane was likely carried out to sea), the U.S. Navy sent planes to fly over the island. They didn’t see any planes or people, so they wrote off all the credible transmissions as a hoax. They never sent anyone down onto the island to check for sure. It is now believed, due to a dig that turned up artifacts from the time, that she survived on the island for many months. A body was likely never found because the island is inhabited by coconut crabs, large creatures that have been known to eat whole animals and carry off their bones.
Glenn Miller
Famed musician Glenn Miller joined the Army during WWII, though he was well above the draft age. He became part of a band that went around doing performances to boost troop morale, which was common for the younger male artists of the day. In December 1944, Miller was on his way to France for one such performance, when his plane disappeared over the English Channel. For years, the leading theory was that he was accidentally bombed by Allied planes, but new evidence that recently turned up indicates that the fuel intake froze over, causing the plane’s engine to stop working, the plane plummeting into the water as a result.
Dorothy Arnold
The disappearance of Dorothy Arnold was the most-talked-about scandal in 1910 Manhattan. A wealthy socialite, the 25-year-old aspiring writer went out one day, telling her mother she was going to buy a new evening gown. She ran into a friend, whom she told that she was going for a walk in Central Park. That was the last anyone saw of her. She had a lunch appointment with her mother that she never kept, and her family, not wanting the bad publicity, hired private investigators instead of notifying the police. By the time they did notify the police months later, the trail had gone cold. Some people suspect she committed suicide over a rejected manuscript or died of a botched abortion, but those who saw her that day said she was in excellent spirits, so that seems unlikely. Others suspected that her 40-something boyfriend, George C. Griscom Jr., murdered her, but he was in Italy at the time. Her disappearance remains one of the country’s great unsolved mysteries.
Bison Dele
NBA star Brian Williams was famously eccentric before leaving sports and changing his name to Bison Dele to become a sort of wealthy nomad, roaming Asian countries and going to Lebanese deserts to fire bazookas for fun. In 2007, he bought a boat, named it Hakuna Matata, and said he was going to sail from Tahiti to Hawaii with a captain, his girlfriend, and his brother. Well, the boat never made it to Hawaii, and the only member of that party who was ever heard from again was Dele’s brother, Miles Dabord. He was arrested in Phoenix two months later for trying to buy gold with one of his brother’s checks. It’s pretty easy to connect the dots as to what happened, but the murders have never been confirmed since Dabord overdosed on insulin while he was released on bail.
Joe Pichler
Joe Pichler — featured actor in the Beethoven movies, Varsity Blues, and a few other pieces —would probably have had a great future in acting. He took a break after his childhood career in order to finish high school. He had just gotten his braces off and was planning to move back to LA to start acting again when he went missing. It was 2006, and he had just finished an evening of playing cards with his friends. They all said he was in good spirits that night, but later, around 4 a.m., he called one of the friends, who said he was “inconsolable.” Pichler told his friend he would call back in an hour, but never did. His car was later found at an intersection near a bridge, and a suicide note was found in his apartment saying he wished that he had been a “stronger brother,” and willed all of his possessions to his younger brother. All signs pointed to a suicide jump, but no traces of his body were ever found. His family insisted that he would never commit suicide and that there must have been foul play.
Jean Spangler
Jean Spangler was a '40s actress on the brink of becoming a star. One evening in 1949, she told her sister-in-law that she was going to meet her ex-husband, and then to a film shoot that would last into the night. She never returned. Later, her purse was found in a park with the straps ripped. Inside, there was a note that read: “Can’t wait any longer. Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away.” The note was addressed to a Kirk. Famous actor Kirk Douglas called police specifically to say that it wasn’t him, but Spangler had been in his last film, and Kirk isn’t all that common a name. Plus, calling police specifically to tell them they shouldn’t suspect you is, well, a little suspicious. A friend of Spangler’s would later say that she was on her way to have an abortion, which was illegal at the time and usually done unsafely. Whether she died in the process, or something happened to her on the way there, nobody is quite sure.
Sean Flynn
For years, Sean Flynn lived in the shadow of his golden-age Hollywood father, Errol Flynn. He tried acting for a time, but with little success, as most of his pictures turned out to be flops. He got his big break, however, not with a film, but with the Vietnam War. He signed up to be a photojournalist and was sent to Vietnam, consistently sending back chilling photos of the war that helped spur the anti-war movement. On April 6, 1970, however, that all came to an end. He and journalist Dana Stone went to take photographs at a Viet Cong checkpoint and were never seen or heard from again. Sadly, it’s not hard to imagine what happened to them.
Michael Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller was governor of New York and vice president under Gerald Ford, but it was his son who met with a suspicious demise. Michael Rockefeller was collecting artifacts in New Guinea when he vanished, his boat found floating 12 miles from shore. Given the lack of evidence, his death was officially ruled a drowning. In 2014, Carl Hoffman published a book titled Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, in which he claims to have gone deep into the culture of the land’s native tribes of Asmat, immersing himself in a warring culture that often performs ritualistic cannibalism. In this book, witnesses come forward and admit to killing and consuming Rockefeller, as rumors at the time often alleged had happened. However, given the lack of actual evidence, this case still remains officially "unsolved."
Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi
Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi was the daughter of two famous Italian actors and was basically the Italian Vanna White, turning the letters on their version of Wheel of Fortune in the early '90s. In 1994, while on a backpacking journey in Central America, Carrisi went missing near New Orleans. A security guard, when questioned about the case, stated that he saw someone vaguely matching her description jump into the Mississippi River, shouting “I belong in the water,” before swimming around and eventually being forced under by the undertow of a barge. However, there is no way to confirm that this was her. Twenty years later, Carrisi’s mother and the detective she hired to work the case still believe that she is alive somewhere.
Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
Daniel Lind Lagerlöf is a Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter. In October 2011, Lagerlöf was out scouting for his next film, Camilla Läckberg's Fjällbackamorden - Strandriddaren. He was in the Tjurpannan nature reserve near the steep cliffs outside Tanumshede in Bohuslän. It's believed large waves crashed onto the shoreline where Lagerlöf was scouting and knocked him off his feet. Due to the slippery rocks all around, Lagerlöf was unlikely to regain his footing and was likely swept out to sea. There were no other witnesses around. He is presumed dead.
Scott Smith
Canadian band, Loverboy, was one of the biggest rock bands of the early '80s with hard-charging hits like "Hot Girls in Love" and "Working for the Weekend" which are still well-known and played around the world. Scott Smith was a founding member, staying with the group all the way until his strange disappearance at sea on November 30, 2000.
"Sweet Jimmy" Robinson
Jimmy Robinson had fought Muhammad Ali in Miami Beach on February 7th, 1961. Reporters tried everything to find out what happened to one of the lucky men to step in the right with the great one, but their hunt was only met by a dead end. In fact, he had no known data of birth, no known full name, no family, and no public records linking him to a single time or place. It was almost as if he never existed.
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Portrayed by Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Oscar Zeta Acosta was a Mexican-American lawyer and activist. He lived a crazy lifestyle as it was portrayed in the cult-classic film, but nevertheless, Acosta vanished in 1974 while traveling through Mexico when he was 39-years-old.
Zahir Raihan
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Zahir Raihan was arguably the most prominent Bangladeshi writer, filmmaker, and political activist in the world. His best known film is the 1971 short documentary film Stop Genocide which documented "the killings and atrocities carried out by the Pakistan Army on the people of the then East Pakistan." The following year, Raihan disappeared while searching for his brother Shahidullah Kaiser, who was captured and killed by the Pakistan army. It's believed that Zahir Raihan was killed in a surprise attack by members of the Pakistani army.
Weldon Kees
Weldon Kees was considered by some one of the finest up-and-coming American poets in the early 1950s. However, he disappeared before he could achieve superstardom. In July of 1952, Kees' car was found abandoned near the Golden Gate Bridge. While a body was never found, many assumed he jumped. However, others contend that Kees fled to Mexico, citing the fact that his wallet, sleeping bag, and account savings book were also missing.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was one of America's most successful short story writers in the later half of the 1800s and early 1900s. The Civil War veteran's book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature." In 1914, the 71-year-old went in a tour of Civil War battlefields before disappearing somewhere in the American southwest. Many theorize he was caught up in the Mexican Revolution, while others claim he committed suicide near the Grand Canyon, however no proof has been found of either.
Hale Boggs
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Hale Was arguably one of the most famous Democratic politicians in the country. The Louisiana congressman was the House Majority Leader, and served on the Warren Commission which investigated the death of JFK. In 1972 Boggs and Alaska congressman Nick Begich were on a fundraising trip in Alaska when their twin engine airplane disappeared while flying from Anchorage to Juneau. The wreckage was never found, and man conspiracists believe Boggs was eliminated because he publicly challenged the lone gunman theory of the Kennedy Assassination.
Jimmy Hoffa
Union leader Jimmy Hoffa's might be the most famous disappearance in American history. The longtime Teamsters head was very well-respected by his union members, but was also heavily involved in organized crime. In 1975 Hoffa, who had just gotten out of prison, was planning to meet with two Detroit mobsters as part of his quest to reclaim leadership of the teamsters. Hoffa was waiting for two men in the parking lot of a restaurant the last time he was seen. For decades, Hoffa's true fate has been hotly debated, with the most famous theory being that he was buried in the end zone of Giants Stadium.
D.B. Cooper
The most famous person to have ever disappeared in American history also may have never existed. A man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 traveling between Portland and Seattle on November 24, 1971. After he had the plane stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes, the alleged Cooper leapt from the plane over southwestern Washington, never to be seen again. Despite over 40 years of investigation and thousands of theories, no one has been able to locate D.B. Cooper or identify his real name.
Shad Gaspard
Former WWE wrestler and actor Shad Gaspard disappeared off the coast of California in May of 2020. Gaspard, a former tag team champion as part of the Crime Tyme stable, had been caught in a riptide along with his son. Gaspard told lifeguards to save the boy first, and by they time they returned to his location the wrestler was gone. over the next two days the U.S. Coast Guard, along with several of Gaspard's fellow professional wrestlers desperately searched for him, however all hope was extinguished when the 39-year-old's body was found on May 20th.
Frank Morris
Unlike many of the other entries on our list, Frank Morris's fame is directly attributable to his disappearance. Morris was a career criminal who was convicted for numerous crimes throughout his life including armed robbery and narcotics possession, all despite having an above average IQ of 133. By 1960, Morris found himself locked up in the legendary Alcatraz penitentiary in San Francisco. In 1962, Morris and two other inmates - brothers John and Clarence Anglin - escaped from the island prison, and into the waters of San Francisco Bay. Prison officials insisted the three drowned, but without any bodies, many believed that they had successfully made it to land. In 2013, a letter was sent to the San Francisco Police from someone claiming to be John Anglin. The letter claimed that all three had all escaped from Alcatraz in June 1962 and that Morris had died in 2008.
Heinrich Muller
Henrich Muller was one of the most infamous members of Hitler's Third Reich during World War II. The sadistic chief of the Gestapo, Muller helped "advance false information used in the justification of invading Poland as well as helping to carry out the Holocaust" among other crimes. He was last seen shortly after Hitler took his own life. Most believe that Muller committed suicide instead of being captured by invading Soviet forces, but no concrete evidence has ever been found.
Soloman Northup
Solomon Northup grew up in early 1800s New York as a free black man, though his father had been slave. Northup was married with children by 1840 when he was abducted - after being tricked with an offer of a job as a fiddler - and sold into slavery. Northup remained in slavery for over a decade, before he was freed thanks to the help the New York Governor and positioning from his family. In 1853, Northup published the memoir Twelve Years a Slave, which detailed his experiences. Furthermore, Northup went on a speaking tour describing the horrors of slavery. Northup disappears from the historical record in the late 1850s, with historians divided as to what happened to him. Some claim he died of natural causes, others that he was abducted back into slavery, while still others feel his political outspokenness led to his murder. Northup's life story was adapted for the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave.
Azaria Chamberlain
There's perhaps no more famous missing person's case in Australian history than that of Azaria Chamberlain. In 1980, the nine-week-old infant disappeared while on an Australian Outback camping trip with her parents. The tot's devastated mother Linda claimed a dingo had "eaten her baby"- yes, there is were that joke comes from - but authorities believed this was a cover story for murder, and both parents were eventually brought up on chargers. However, three years later, some the child's clothes were found in a ding dean near the campsite, verifying the parents story and leading to Linda Chamberlain's release from jail.
Scott Hutchison
Scott Hutchison, the lead singer of the Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit, disappeared in 2018 after writing "Be so good to everyone you love. It's not a given. I'm so annoyed that it’s not. I didn't live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones... I''m away now. Thanks" on his Twitter account. The band released messages on social media urging fans to report any sightings, as they said Hutchison was Ian a fragile mental state. Unfortunately the singer's body was found several days after he disappeared, his family later confirming he died by suicide.
J-Kwon
In February of 2010, pop star J-Kwon mysteriously disappeared. Friends and fans alike desperately searched for the singer, and inundated social media with posts. A month later, he resurfaced and contacted his production company, simply saying he had been "taking some time to himself as he sometimes does, not realizing that people would start to worry after a while."
Phillip Taylor Kramer
Phillip Taylor Kramer was once a member of the successful 1960s rock & roll band Iron Butterfly (known for the hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") before leaving music behind for the world of science. By 1995, Kramer had become a respected aerospace engineer, and allegedly discovered a formula for "transmissions at 'faster than light' speed"... which his family believes got him killed. One day in February of 1995, Kramer began making strange phone calls. First he told his wife, "Whatever happens, I'll always be with you," then he called 911 and told the dispatcher, "This is Philip Taylor Kramer, and I am going to kill myself." From there, Kramer disappeared. Four years later, skeletal remains identified as those of Philip Taylor Kramer were found inside a minivan in Decker Canyon, just outside of Malibu. Police ruled the death of suicide, but Kramer's family alleges that he was killed for his scientific knowledge.
Kurt Cobain
The fact that Nirvana lead singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain died by suicide is relatively common knowledge, but what many may not know is that the 90s icon had disappeared before his death. For several days before his death, Cobain was completely MIA to all those in his life, to the point where his wife Courtney Love allegedly hired a private investigator to track him down. This mysterious period has led to numerous conspiracy theories about what really happened in the final days of the singer's life.
James Allan
In the early 2010s, Scottish rockers Glasvegas seemed poised to break through as international superstars... until lease singer James Allan went missing just before a worldwide television performance at the Mercury Awards. Eventually, the singer was found safe and sound in New York City. In later years, Allan has confirmed he was dealing with substance abuse issues at the time.
Jason Mewes
Jason Mewes, of Jay and Silent Bob fame, has long been open about his substance abuse issues. The actor reached his nadir in 2002 when, excommunicated from longtime friend and collaborator Kevin Smith (above at right), Mewes disappeared after missing a mandatory court hearing. Thankfully, Mewes got clean and sober after turning himself in in 2003, and has continued working and podcasting about his struggles to this day.
Margot Kidder
In 1996 Margot Kidder - best known for playing Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve Superman films - disappeared for four days before being found incoherent, disheveled, and missing two front teeth in a stranger's backyard. Kidder's behavior mystified many, until she finally revealed that she'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had initially refused to take medication, leading a breakdown. Kidder relented to medical treatment, and lived for another 22 years. Unfortunately, Kidder's demons overtook her once again and she took her life in 2018.
Andrew Koenig
Andrew Koenig, best known for portraying Boner on Growing Pains as well as being the son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, had battled depression for most of his life. In February of 2010, the actor disappeared in Vancouver, British Columbia after sending worrying messages to friends. Despite the efforts of friends, family, and police, Koenig was found dead by suicide in Vancouver's Stanley Park.
Katherine Jackson
Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the famous Jackson family, was reported missing by her nephew Trent Jackson in 2012. However, the missing person's report quickly proved to just be a ploy, as Katherine was safely with family in Arizona. The issue stemmed from family squabbles over the will of the late King of Pop, and Katherine's most famous child, Michael Jackson.
Nick Stahl
In May of 2012, the estranged wife of Terminator 3 actor Nick Stahl reported the actor missing, and told police she feared he overdosed. Stahl was reportedly found in an LA crack house several days later, and checked into rehab.
Casey Kasem
In May of 2014, legendary radio host Casey Kasem's daughter Kerri Kasem was granted temporary conservatorship for her father as the then-82-yer-old was suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease. According to Kerri, her stepmother Jean Kasem had not allowed Kasem to see his children for some time, and his whereabouts at the time were unknown. Eventually, Kasem and his wife were found in Washington State, where Jean claimed the couple were on vacation. Kasem passed away less than two months later.
Chelsea O'Donnell
Chelsea O'Donnell, the daughter of comedian and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, disappeared for a week in the summer of 2015. The elder O'Donnell took to Twitter and Instagram begging the public for any signs of her daughter. Eventually, Chelsea was found to have been hiding out with a 25-year-old convicted drug dealer who she'd met on Tinder. According to police she was with him of her own accord.
Ozzy Osbourne
In May of 2016, rock star Ozzy Osbourne disappeared briefly after his wife Sharon kicked him out of their home for infidelity. For several days, the couple's children couldn't find Ozzy, leading to one friend remarking “...he is not brilliant on his own and is a bit like a puppy — he goes missing but then usually turns up sooner or later.” Eventually he resurfaced, and the couple reunited.
Sinéad O'Connor
Irish singing superstar Sinéad O'Connor disappeared while on an early morning bike ride in the suburbs Chicago in 2016. The singer's friends reported her missing after she hadn't returned by the following, as they were concerned she was depressed due to her strained relationship with her son. Eventually O'Conner returned home.
Jesse Camp
Former MTV VJ and TRL host-turned musician Jesse Camp was reported missing by his sister Marisha to the Riverside Police Department stating that her brother was missing. She told police that she hadn't heard from her brother since "around the 11th or 12th," of July, which she told police was "unusual." Two weeks later, officials announced they'd located Camp and said he is "not in need of any assistance."