▲Rafael Vergara was 27 when he was shot in a kidnapping attempt gone wrong in Colombia, according to the New York Post.

▲The Colombian actress's older brother was kidnapped and murdered in 1998.

▲James Jordan was parked on the side of the road when two men recognized his license plate as belonging to the cherry-red Lexus MJ gave him. The men killed Jordan and stole the vehicle.

▲The father of the basketball legend was gunned down while taking a nap in his car in 1993.

▲The South African actress's Benoni home became the scene of her father's murder in 1991 when her mother shot and killed him.

▲Her mother, Gerda Maritz, acted in self-defense after Charles Theron pulled a gun on his wife and daughter in a drunken fit. Maritz did not face charges.

▲The actor's brother, Scott Ruffalo, was found with gun wounds in a Beverly Hills condo in 2008. He later died in the hospital.

▲Investigators initially believed he had shot himself in a game of Russian roulette, but this theory was later dismissed. The case remains unsolved.

▲Her brother-in-law was in the process of separating from Hudson's sister Julia when he killed the family in their Chicago home.

▲The singer and actress lost her mother, brother, and nephew in a 2008 tragedy.

▲The son of the former comedian, Ennis, was shot and killed near Interstate 405 in Los Angeles during a robbery attempt in 1997.

▲The then-18-year-old Mikhail Markhasev (pictured) was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. After years of insisting he was innocent, Markhasev confessed to the murder in 2001.

▲Sponza, who police said had ties to organized crime, alleged that she had accidentally shot herself after picking up a gun he had been cleaning. Sponza himself was murdered five years later.

▲The actor best known for his role in the series 'The Practice' lost his mother to murder when he was five years old, after she was reportedly shot by her live-in boyfriend John Sponza.

▲The Jane's Addiction guitarist and former member of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers lost his mother to murder in 1983 when he was a teenager.

▲Navarro's mother was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Riccardi. Riccardi was arrested eight years later after Navarro appeared on 'America's Most Wanted,' which led to a tip from a viewer.

▲Price was riding in an SUV driven by her boyfriend, who police reported was the intended victim. Robert Edward Maxfield, a member of the gang Crips, was sentenced to 15 years for voluntary manslaughter.

▲The tennis legend's half sister and personal assistant Yetunde Price was killed in a 2003 drive-by shooting in Compton, near Los Angeles.

▲Seven years later, Grammer's sister Karen was raped and murdered during a 1975 killing spree committed by Freddie Lee Glenn (pictured) and two other men.

▲The 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' actor lost both his father and younger sister to murder. His father was shot in 1968 after a man set fire to his car in front of the Grammer home. Upon going outside to check on the commotion, he was shot twice.

▲The 32-year-old mother of four was hit when two men exchanged gunfire nearby. Her child was unharmed.

▲The basketball player lost his first cousin, Nykea Aldridge, who was fatally shot while pushing her child in a stroller in Chicago's Parkway Gardens in 2016.

▲Beverly Jean Brown was 22 when her husband shot and killed her before turning the gun on himself.

▲The rapper's half sister was killed in 1981 when he was 12 years old.

▲Tate was almost nine months pregnant with the couple's son when four members of the Manson Family invaded Tate and Polanski's Los Angeles home and stabbed her. She and four others died in the attack.

▲The infamous French-Polish filmmaker's wife, actress Sharon Tate, was killed by members of the Manson Family.

▲The elder Combs, who was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas, died as a consequence of a drug deal gone bad, P. Diddy has said according to XXL magazine.

▲The rapper's father, Melvin Combs, was shot and killed while sitting in his car on Central Park West. P. Diddy was a toddler.

▲The soap opera actor lost both parents at the hands of two teenagers during an armed robbery in 1986.

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Duffy's parents were the owners of a Montana tavern, which was the target of the robbery gone wrong.

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It's easy to assume that celebrities lead perfect, privileged lives, but that doesn't protect them from life's trials and tribulations. Some of the world's most famous faces have lost loved ones to unnecessary violence and crime.

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