Famous Lies by Famous People

1. Richard Nixon: I’m not a crook.

2. Bill Clinton: I never had sexual relations with that woman.

3. Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie: We’re just friends.

4. Tiger Woods: I’m faithful to my wife.

5. Britney Spears: I don’t believe in sex before marriage.

6. Brian Williams: My helicopter was shot in Iraq.

7. Lance Armstrong: I never took enhancement drugs.

8. Kim Kardashian: There is no sex tape.

9. Pete Rose: I have never gambled. 

10. Bernie Madoff: Your money is safe with me.

11. Paris Hilton: told Larry King she never used drugs - was arrested for possession of cocaine.

12. Martha Stewart: lied to authorities about insider trading and went to prison for five months.

13. Elizabeth Holmes: said her machine could run thousands of tests from a drop of blood.

14. Kim Kardashian: denied the existence of a sex tape with her ex.

15. Actor Jussie Smollett: claimed he was the victim of a racist attack.

1. Charles Ponzi: Inventor of the Ponzi Scheme – Promised to double your money in 90 days (swindled $220 Million in today’s money)

2. Ana Anderson: Pretended to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna – youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (the Romanov family was assassinated in 1918)

3. Storming of the Bastille: Supposedly to liberate imprisoned revolutionaries – they were really after gunpowder (the prison was almost empty)

4. Christopher Columbus: Said the Earth was flat – when it had been known for years that it is round (needed money for his voyage around the World to India)

5. Thomas Edison: Inventor of the lightbulb – which was really invented by Warren de La Rue (Edison created the first commercially viable lightbulb)

6. Napoleon was short: He was 5’ 2” – the average height of men for his time (not short at all)

7. Titanic: The first unsinkable passenger liner – sank on April 15, 1912 during its maiden voyage.

8. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: It was under control – according to Soviet officials (released large amounts of radioactive substances into the air for 10 days)

9. Saddam Hussein: He has weapons of mass destruction – according to Dick Cheney and other US officials (triggered the invasion of Iraq but no WMDs were found)

10. Adolph Hitler: I will not start a war in Europe – started War World II (the deadliest conflict in history with over 85 Million fatalities)

11. Nikita Khrushchev: There are no missiles in Cuba – resulted in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis (which brought USA and Soviet Union to the brink of war)

12. Walter Ulbricht: We’re not building a wall – while building the Berlin Wall in 1961 (stood in place dividing Germany until 1989)