Bin Laden’s Foiled Plot to Kidnap Russell Crowe
The FBI told the Gladiator star of the suspected al-Qaeda terrorists who wanted to abduct him ahead of the Oscars.
3 min readOct 29, 2021
A few months before Russell Crowe won an Oscar for his role as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator, a group of FBI agents knocked on his hotel room door.