11. Sid Vicious

The most famous and the nastiest Sex Pistol of them all, had many legal issues throughout his brief but eventful life as a rock star. However, the most serious one was the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

On the morning of October 12th, 1978, Vicious claimed to have awoken from a drugged stupor to find Nancy dead on the bathroom floor of their room in the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, New York. She had suffered a single stab wound to her abdomen and appeared to have bled to death.

The knife that had been used as a murder weapon had been bought by Vicious on 42nd Street and was identical to a “007” flip-knife given to punk rock vocalist Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys by Dee Dee Ramone. According to Dee Dee’s wife at the time, Vera King Ramone, Vicious had bought the knife after seeing Stiv’s.

Vicious was later arrested and charged with murder. During a hearing, Sid stated “I stabbed her, but I never meant to kill her.”