Nicki Minaj and More Stars Who Hang with Dictators
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Nicki Minaj is hardly the first celebrity to associate with a dictator: From Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea to the lavish Gaddafi parties, see more stars who got too close to bad guys.
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Mickey Rourke
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Steven Seagal and Vladimir Putin
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Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un
Kim Kwang Hyon/AP
Jennifer Lopez and Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
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Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman
Jason Mojica/VICE Media, via AP
Hilary Swank and Ramzan Kadyrov
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Nelly Furtado and Muammar Gaddafi
Matt Sayles / AP Photo; Franco Origlia / Getty Images
Mariah Carey, and Mutassim Gaddafi
Robert E. Klein / AP Photo; Dmitry Kostyukov, AFP /Getty Images
Beyoncé, Usher, and Hannibal Gaddafi
Dave Hogan / Getty Images; Mahmud Turkia, AFP / Getty Images
Michael Jackson, and Prince Abdullah al-Khalifa of Bahrain
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Naomi Campbell, and Charles Taylor
Joel Ryan / AP Photo; Jerry Lampen, Pool / AP Photo
Paul Robeson, and the U.S.S.R.
Charles Gorry / AP Photo
Kevin Spacey, Danny Glover, Sean Penn, and Hugo Chavez
Howard Yanes / AP Photo
Oliver Stone, and Hugo Chavez
Lydie, Sipa / AP Photo
James Brown, Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars, B. B. King, Miriam Makeba, the Spinners, Bill Withers, and Mobutu Sese Seko