Top 10 Controversial Bollywood Wannabes: Number 10: Monica Bedi

Bollywood starlet Monica Bedi came in the limelight not because of her movies but for her relationship with the underworld don Abu Salem. The duo spent 39 months in a Portuguese prison and later were extradited in November 2005. Later She was seen as Bigg Boss contestant and in some movies.

Top 10 Scandalous Actors: Number 3: Monica bedi

The Bombay bomb blasts were one of the city's nastiest brushes with the underworld, a comeuppance supposedly for the Hindu-Muslim riots of early 1993. The culprit: Abu Salem. Flash forward to 2002. Location: Lisbon, Portugal. When Abu Salem was arrested, out from the woodwork emerged a lesser-known starlet, Monica Bedi. This failed actress it turned out had been playing homemaker to this gangster for close to a decade. It seems she had been his wife for many years and that they were shuttling between countries, while Abu was trying to make a life for himself as a fugitive. Despite her repeated denials of being Salem's wife, the gangster himself claims that they got married in a mosque in Los Angeles in November 2000. Monica Bedi found a short lease of life via reality show Bigg Boss, a haven for freaks of all ilk.