{"id":320722,"date":"2025-11-29T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:49:08","slug":"jack-osbourne-says-sharons-crook-father-don-arden-would-threaten-and-firebomb-rival-record-labels-and-send-hitmen-after-late-dad-ozzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320722\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Osbourne says Sharon’s “crook” father Don Arden would threaten and “firebomb” rival record labels and send hitmen after late dad Ozzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a recent episode of I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 Get Me Out Of Here!, Jack Osbourne claimed that his late grandfather, Don Arden would threaten and \u201cfirebomb\u201d rival record labels, as well as send \u2018hitmen\u2019 after Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Arden, the late music mogul and father of Sharon Osbourne, managed acts including Black Sabbath<\/a>, ELO and The Small Faces. He later became estranged from Sharon after she fought for control of Ozzy\u2019s career, although they reconciled in 2002 after he developed Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

Explaining how Arden reacted to Sharon taking over his role as Ozzy\u2019s manager, Jack alleged: \u201cHe sent hitmen after them, mobsters would show up with guns at gigs,\u201d and added that Sharon was his \u201cprot\u00e9g\u00e9\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe taught her everything, and he did all sorts of screwed up things,\u201d he said during last night\u2019s (November 28) episode, where he referred to Arden \u2013 who he didn\u2019t actually meet until his late teens \u2013 as a \u201ccrook\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had my mum sign all these documents, and everything was in her name, so he would never get in trouble,\u201d he said. \u201cThey would firebomb other record companies. That\u2019s why my grandfather knew the Krays.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his time, Arden was infamous for his fierce temper, and in one incident, was said to have hung rival manager Robert Stigwood from a fourth-floor balcony for trying to lure away one of his acts.<\/p>\n

When asked by campmate Kelly Brook if the rumours about Arden\u2019s actions were true, he confirmed, saying: \u201cHe pulled guns on people, everything.\u201d Jack went on to reveal that Sharon eventually discovered her dad was stealing money from bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter she left and took management of my dad,\u201d he told the camp, \u201cthey took them to court, they had to essentially pay him a million dollars to break the contract.\u2019<\/p>\n

Prior to his stint in the jungle, Jack revealed that Sharon had wanted Ozzy to make a \u201cduets album with all female vocalists\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with his half-brother Louis on the Trying Not To Die\u00a0podcast, the pair spoke about his love for \u201980s music and female artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t really listen to rock, he would appreciate it, he could understand it but he was more intrigued with music with really amazing production and melody,\u201d Jack said before Louis added: \u201cHe\u2019d listen to things like\u00a0Tears For Fears<\/a>\u00a0and quite a lot of \u201980s music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack went on: \u201cHe loved music from the \u201980s. He went through a heavy\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/a>\u00a0phase over the last couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, the pair\u00a0opened up about a long-lost song that saw their father\u2019s vocals feature<\/a>\u00a0alongside those of\u00a0Madonna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The metal icon passed away on July 22 at the age of 76<\/a>, just over two weeks after he played\u00a0his last ever show as the frontman of Black Sabbath<\/a>\u00a0at a concert at Villa Park in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0was laid to rest in the grounds of his UK mansion<\/a>\u00a0during a private ceremony that was attended by\u00a0Elton John<\/a>, members of\u00a0Metallica<\/a>\u00a0and more, and his cortege had previously travelled through his home city of Birmingham\u00a0in a procession attended by thousands of fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent episode of I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 Get Me Out Of Here!, Jack Osbourne claimed that his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,1739,1740],"class_list":{"0":"post-320722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-metal","11":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}