I’m obsessed with this article that I read about Wesley Snipes in EW, it has gems like this sprinkled throughout.

 ”In the late ’90s, the actor started a security firm called the Royal Guard of Amen-Ra (named after the Egyptian king of the gods) to provide VIPs with bodyguards trained in law enforcement, the military, and martial arts. But in 2000, this sideline business took center stage when wild reports surfaced about supposed ties between the Royal Guard and a Georgia-based religious cult, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. At the time, the Nuwaubians were based on a 476-acre compound in rural Putnam County, Ga. And their precepts ranged from ancient Egyptian mythology to black nationalism to a belief in extraterrestrials. They were also armed to the teeth. Anyone driving past their property in Georgia might not have known about the gun-toting sentries guarding the compound, but they would’ve noticed a giant pyramid and sphinx visible from the road. Snipes and his brother (who’s also named Wesley Snipes, albeit with a different middle name) tried to purchase some 200 acres of land a couple of miles down the road from the Nuwaubians for the Royal Guard’s training academy. Needless to say, the proximity of the two properties, both with ancient Egyptian motifs and members with gun permits, caught the attention of the Putnam County sheriff — and the imaginations of the tabloids. Snipes denies any connection to the Nuwaubians and chalks the whole thing up to an unlucky coincidence. ”It was interpreted as an attempt on my part to start a militia,” he says. ”This is all false…. I had no idea they were down there. I didn’t know who they were!” Snipes begins to crack up. ”That’s crazy. I’m making movies, man. Who the hell wants to start a militia when you’re in the movies?”