Legendary actor Marlon Brando never got along very well with celebrity photographers. In fact, the notoriously difficult thespian clocked "the Godfather of U.S. paparazzi culture," Ron Galella, after a taping of The Dick Cavett Show in 1973. Brando paid a $40K settlement to cover Galella's broken jaw and suffered an infected hand as the result of the incident.

Perhaps that's what drove him to seek refuge on hyper-remote Tetiaroa, a twelve-island Tahitian atoll he purchased in 1967 for $270K. Brando later constructed a rustic resort on the atoll, and once attempted to use a shipwrecked yacht's wooden hull as a bar before the irate owner salvaged the vessel. Mr. Mumbles was hardly the only A-lister to seek asylum on a private island.