Leggy supermodel Naomi Campbell once declared that her very favorite sports star was... Mike Tyson? "I know it's not a popular view," she explained, "but I admire Tyson's passion and his self-belief. He started with nothing, but succeeded."

Note to Campbell: In 1992, Tyson's "passion" led to a conviction and three-year imprisonment for raping a beauty queen. "I just hate her guts," he later remarked. "Now I really do want to rape her and her f---ing mama..."

[On another occasion, Campbell called Cuban dictator Fidel Castro "a source of inspiration to the world." "Pure ignorance," Daisy Fuentes remarked. "There are very few hard-core evils left in the world, and Castro is no doubt one of them. It's like saying, 'I'm going to go have tea with bin Laden.'"]