Daddy drama: Obama, Lohan & more
![Daddy drama: Lindsay Lohan at the premiere of 'Scary Movie 5' in April 2013]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/f7/86efab15ac80bb4de79aa2a1cd7f15/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Lindsay Lohan at the premiere of 'Scary Movie 5' in April 2013 (Newscom: RTR: Fred Prouser)")
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![Daddy drama: Angelina Jolie in 2012]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/af/39e44dc99c7b2b8a0a1f1ac1425b/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Angelina Jolie in 2012 (AP Photo: Evan Agostini, File)")
![Daddy drama: Dennis Rodman at 'So You Think You Can Roast?' event in March 2013]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/ff/6c992b484126cc60b51eec4ed4dfed/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Dennis Rodman at 'So You Think You Can Roast?' event in March 2013 (FilmMagic: Rob Kim)")
![Daddy drama: Beyoncé at 'Beyoncé: Life Is but a Dream' premiere in New York in February 2013]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/40/7ea3a086b887b821e018bcc8745378/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Beyoncé at 'Beyoncé: Life Is but a Dream' premiere in New York in February 2013 (WireImage: Jim Spellman)")
![Daddy drama: Sen. Scott Brown during an interview in 2011]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/7f/43985187849ebba3c4d1d8333ab1/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Sen. Scott Brown during an interview in 2011 (AP Photo: Josh Reynolds)")
![Daddy drama: J.K. Rowling during the launch of her new project www.pottermore.com in 2011]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/1b/eba12d88e1499bbf6551153d070d8/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: J.K. Rowling during the launch of her new project www.pottermore.com in 2011 (Getty Images: AFP: Carl Court)")
![Daddy drama: Prince Fielder hitting a home run in September 2012]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/6c/18f1f62159db21cb51e7eeb5ee40b/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Prince Fielder hitting a home run in September 2012 (AP Photo: Paul Sancya)")
![Daddy drama: Tatum O'Neal in 2008]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/82/9c3f65b69819f32fe44c7bdc37944/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Tatum O'Neal in 2008 (WireImage)")
![Daddy drama: Woody Harrelson at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in 2011]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/2b/f1815d7b10f2065936165fc2fef/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Woody Harrelson at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 (Reuters: Mark Blinch)")
![Daddy drama: Jelena Dokić at the 2012 Australian Open Players Party]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/5f/94c91fd8d9dac95bed2b126dcb4281/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Jelena Dokić at the 2012 Australian Open Players Party (Getty Images: Robert Prezioso)")
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![Daddy drama: Dominique Moceanu after a hearing in 1998 to determine whether she could become independent from her parents]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/16/72d75efb01bf578324e3bc111dac/_h353_w628_m6_ofalse_lfalse.jpg"}} "Daddy drama: Dominique Moceanu after a hearing in 1998 to determine whether she could become independent from her parents (AP Photo: Pat Sullivan)")
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Model parents they were not
Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman, and J.K. Rowling's dad became a villain in one of her books. Here's a list of dads who added lots of drama to their famous kids' lives. See gallery
Barack Obama wishes he'd 'had a father who was around'
President Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., is a central focus of the president's 2004 memoir "Dreams From My Father." But while the elder Obama provided inspiration and perspective on racial issues to his son, he also was largely absent from his life. Obama Sr. married the president's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in 1961, but separated soon afterward while both pursued educations in different parts of the world. The elder Obama eventually settled in his native Kenya as a governmental economist, and the future president was raised by his mother and grandparents. Obama Sr. died in a car crash in 1982. Not having a father around had a profound impact on the president, and at a speech in Chicago in February, the president told a crowd, "I wish I'd had a father who was around and involved."
Video: Obama talks fatherhood on Father's Day in 2008
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Lindsay Lohan's dad shares arrest and drug problems
For years, Lindsay Lohan and her family have provided endless fodder for tabloids and gossip websites. When it comes to Lohan's father, Michael Lohan, the drama has centered on his drug use, frequent arrests, bitter divorce from wife, Dina Lohan, and heavy involvement in his daughter's career and personal life. Michael Lohan spent three years in prison for insider trading and contempt of court and has been arrested for domestic violence. This hasn't stopped him from frequently weighing in on his daughter's legal and substance-abuse problems, and he has alternatively supported her efforts to remain sober and proclaimed them doomed to fail.
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Steve Jobs wrote off biological father
In the mid-1980s, Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs decided he would finally try to locate his biological parents. He was given up for adoption at birth by Abdulfattah "John" Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble, and through the help of private detectives, was able to locate both parents, who were by then long divorced. But while Jobs found and talked to his mother, his biological father was another story. In an interview with CBS, he said of his father, "I learned a little bit about him, and I didn't like what I learned." As a result, Jobs never talked at length to Jandali and was later quoted referring to his biological parents as merely his "sperm and egg bank."
Video: Biographer talks about Jobs meeting biological father
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Angelina Jolie's rocky relationship with dad Jon Voight
When actress Angelina Jolie recently announced that she had undergone a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, her father, Jon Voight, said he found out the same way most everyone else did: He read it online. Those who know about the relationship between Jolie and her dad likely weren't surprised that he wasn't in the know, as the two have long been in and out of speaking terms. Voight's infidelity in his marriage to Jolie's mother, his pronouncement to a tabloid that his daughter had "mental problems" and his staunch conservative political views have all contributed to Jolie's on-again, off-again estrangement from him.
Video: Jolie and Voight reconcile after long feud
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Dennis Rodman meets father 42 years and 28 kids later
Eccentric former NBA star Dennis Rodman had anything but a normal childhood. His father, Air Force pilot Philander Rodman Jr., abandoned his family when his son was very young, and Rodman, along with two younger sisters, was raised by a single mother in abject poverty in Dallas. Rodman finally met his father in 2012 at an exhibition game in the Philippines, where Philander Rodman had settled after leaving his family. It had been 42 years since the two had seen each other, and Rodman soon learned that his dad had fathered 29 children by 16 mothers. Despite expressing disgust with his dad previously, Rodman stated that the meeting "felt really good."
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Beyoncé and dad call it quits
In 1995, Mathew Knowles, the father of R&B superstar Beyoncé Knowles, quit his job as a medical supply salesman to manage his daughter's budding music career full time. Over the next several years, Knowles' career would explode through her group Destiny's Child and her solo career. But somewhere along the way, Beyoncé's relationship with her father began to unravel — both professionally and personally. There were allegations that he fathered a child with actress Alexsandra Wright and even that he stole money from his daughter. In 2010, Beyoncé and her father parted ways as business partners, and a year later he filed for divorce from his wife of 31 years. Since then, Matthew Knowles has lamented his fallout with his daughter, which he called "incredibly painful."
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Ex-Sen. Scott Brown abused by stepfathers
In former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown's 2011 memoir "Against All Odds," he describes a tough childhood that involved being shuffled from house to house and splitting time with divorced parents who struggled with poverty and alcoholism. But while his relationship with his biological father was difficult, Brown writes that his treatment at the hands of two consecutive stepfathers was far worse, and included several incidents of physical abuse. Brown writes of one of his stepfathers: "He rubbed his face and caught sight of the clock, and the next thing I knew, he balled his hands into fists and began smacking me around."
Video: Brown talks about stepfather's reaction to book
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J.K. Rowling bases fictional villain on real father
For nine years, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling and her father, aircraft-engine engineer Peter Rowling, didn't speak. Their tiff reportedly centered on her father selling a collection of rare "Harry Potter" first editions without his daughter's permission to cover some $150,000 in debt. Rowling has described having a troubled relationship with her father as a child as well, and after the book-selling slight, their relationship had deteriorated so much that she is said to have based a particularly evil character in her book "The Casual Vacancy" on her dad.
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Prince and Cecil Fielder's relationship strikes out
Legend has it that at 12 years old, Prince Fielder hit a home run into the upper deck of Detroit's Tiger Stadium while hanging out at his father Cecil Fielder's batting practice with the Detroit Tigers. Over the years, Prince became a fixture at his dad's practices and even appeared in TV ads with him. In 2007, when the younger Fielder had become a baseball star in his own right, he matched his father's feat of hitting 50 or more home runs in a season, thus becoming the only father-son duo to do so. But later, when the elder Fielder faced a messy divorce, gambling debts and financial ruin, he allegedly took $200,000 of his son's $2.4 million signing bonus without asking. In an interview afterward, Prince Fielder was quoted saying, "My father is dead to me."
Video: Watch Cecil and Prince Fielder in a 1992 McDonald's commercial
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Tatum O'Neal and father Ryan try to mend 25-year estrangement
In 1973, at the age of 10, actress Tatum O'Neal became the youngest person in history to win a competitive Academy Award for her role in "Paper Moon," in which she starred opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. The award marked perhaps the high point in her relationship with her father, as the two would become estranged for roughly 25 years once Tatum became an adult. Alleging emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her father in her 2005 autobiography "A Paper Life," Tatum wrote about the crippling drug addiction that she battled and the betrayal she felt when her father left her family to be with the late actress Farrah Fawcett. In 2011, the two did their best to mend old wounds through the reality TV show "Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals," though it's unclear if the reconciliation has had a lasting effect.
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Woody Harrelson's father dies in prison after life as a hitman
Many actors have come from troubled households, but few can claim a father who was a bona fide hitman. Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, was a contract killer who was first convicted of murdering Texas grain dealer Sam Degelia in 1973. After being granted parole in 1978, he was convicted of killing U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979 and sentenced to life in prison. Despite the elder Harrelson's life of crime and leaving Woody and his mother and siblings to fend for themselves, the actor stood by his father and visited him in prison, even once describing him as "one of the most articulate, well-read, charming people I've ever known." Harrelson Sr. died in prison in 2007 of coronary heart disease.
Video: The murder of Judge John H. Wood
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Jelena Dokić's dad's behavior makes headlines and headaches
On the one hand, Damir Dokić coached his daughter Jelena Dokić to a wildly successful career in professional tennis. On the other hand, his disruptive and sometimes violent behavior at matches and elsewhere frequently made a spectacle of her tournaments. Besides admittedly physically and verbally abusing his daughter, Damir Dokić has been banned from a match for calling the members of a tennis club "Nazis"; suspended from tournaments for throwing a tantrum in the players' lounge over the price of salmon; and even convicted for threatening an Australian diplomat with a grenade. As Jelena Dokić prepares for a possible comeback after an injury, there is word that she is trying to move on without her father as coach.
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Edgar Allan Poe abandoned by father
It will likely surprise very few people to learn that famed poet and author of the mysterious and macabre Edgar Allan Poe had a troubled childhood. Born in Boston in 1809 to English-born thespians Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and David Poe Jr., the young Poe lived with his biological parents for barely a year before his father — a noted alcoholic — abandoned the family and disappeared from public records. A year later his mother died of tuberculosis and Poe went to live with Scottish merchant John Allan. Allan never formally adopted Poe, but provided for his upbringing and education. The two were often at odds, however, and his foster father is said to have alternately spoiled and harshly punished Poe.
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Dominique Moceanu emancipated from parents
Dominique Moceanu was only 15 years old when she catapulted onto the world stage as the youngest member of the United States' gold-medal winning Magnificent Seven gymnastics squad at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. But only two years after the Games, Moceanu shocked the world when she filed for emancipation from her parents, telling the court that her ever-present father, Dumitru Moceanu, had squandered her earnings and was abusive and controlling toward her. The court granted her emancipation request and even granted a protection order against him. Years later, after Moceanu's father died, the gymnast dropped another bombshell, revealing that she just found out she had a sister who was born without legs and had been given up at birth.
Video: Moceanu talks about meeting sister she never knew
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Eleanor Roosevelt's father dies in exile
Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife (and fifth cousin, once removed) of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the longest-serving first lady in American history. Her father, Elliott Roosevelt, was the brother of President Theodore Roosevelt and a member of the upper echelons of New York's privileged class. Unfortunately, he never saw his daughter become first lady or his brother become president. His long and serious drinking problem caused Elliott to be exiled from the Roosevelt family and confined to a sanitarium. In exile he is said to have written frequently to his daughter, but in 1894 he leapt from a high window and died at 34 years old.
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