15 Celebrities Whose Parents Were Murdered

In 1991, Charlize Theron’s mother Gerda shot and killed Charlize’s father Charles. According to Gerda’s testimony, Charles drunkenly threatened to kill her and Charlize. The actress’s mother wasn’t prosecuted, as the attorney general determined that Gerda had shot Charles in defense of her daughter and herself.

Michael Jordan’s father, James Jordan, was killed in 1993. He was lethally shot in an apparent carjacking, in which the killer or killers took two NBA championship rings that Michael had given as gifts. In 1996, Daniel Green and Larry Demery were sentenced to life in prison in relation to the shooting.

Jennifer Hudson

In 2008, Jennifer Hudson’s mother Darnell Donerson, brother Jason Hudson, and nephew Julian King were shot and killed. Hudson’s brother-in-law William Balfour – Julia’s estranged husband – was convicted of the killings and sentenced to three life sentences.

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