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The Truth About The Biggest Celebrity Sibling Feuds

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Hollywood’s happiest families make for boring television — it’s the siblings who can’t stand each other that keep the tabloids in business.

Nicki Swift’s June 11 video, “The Truth About The Biggest Celebrity Sibling Feuds,” runs through eleven of the ugliest, longest-running family blowups in entertainment, spanning rock bands, reality TV, the royal family, and Golden Age Hollywood. Some of these fights started over politics, some over stolen guitar riffs, and at least one ended with a restraining order. The common thread is that fame didn’t create these rifts so much as it put a spotlight on grudges that, in a normal family, might’ve stayed private.

• Liam and Noel Gallagher’s Oasis partnership ended for good backstage in Paris in 2009 after a guitar-smashing brawl.
• Julia Roberts publicly sided with brother Eric Roberts’ ex-partner in the custody fight over niece Emma Roberts.
• Samantha Markle has repeatedly gone public accusing half-sister Meghan Markle of having “no heart.”

Rock ‘n’ Roll Brothers Who Couldn’t Coexist

No sibling feud in music gets referenced more than Liam and Noel Gallagher’s. Oasis had already survived years of onstage sniping and canceled shows by the time the band finally imploded backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in August 2009, when a physical altercation reportedly involved a smashed guitar. Noel walked out that night and never rejoined the band, and the brothers have traded insults in the press ever since.

The Kinks’ Ray and Dave Davies had their own version of that dynamic decades earlier, built on the same mix of creative control disputes and old-fashioned brotherly resentment that made the band’s studio sessions notoriously combustible. The Baldwin brothers’ rift took a different shape entirely, splitting largely along political lines rather than career jealousy, proving that fame doesn’t need a stage or a recording contract to turn family disagreements into public spectacle.

The Gallaghers’ Paris blowup didn’t just end a tour — it ended Oasis.

Reality TV and Custody Battles

Not every feud on this list needed decades to build. Kim and Kyle Richards’ relationship on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has cycled through public reconciliations and relapses in front of cameras, giving Bravo viewers a real-time look at a sibling rivalry most families keep behind closed doors. It’s the kind of dynamic covered in reality stars who treat their co-stars like trash, except here the co-star is blood relative.

Julia Roberts’ feud with brother Eric Roberts took a heavier turn when it spilled into a custody battle over their niece, Emma Roberts. Julia publicly backed Eric’s ex-partner in that dispute, a move that deepened an estrangement between the Roberts siblings that has never fully healed.

Golden Age Grudges and Pop Star Restraining Orders

Long before reality TV existed, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were proving that sisterly hostility plays just as well in black and white. The two Oscar-winning actresses spent much of their careers competing for the same roles and the same awards, and their rivalry stayed bitter enough that they reportedly went years without speaking.

Madonna’s estrangement from brother Christopher Ciccone followed a more modern script: he wrote a tell-all memoir about their family and her career, and she cut him off. Jermaine Jackson’s professional jealousy toward younger brother Michael Jackson simmered for years inside one of music’s most famous families, a dynamic not unlike the sibling-against-sibling dysfunction chronicled in the biggest boy band beefs ever. Nick and Aaron Carter’s feud went further still, escalating into restraining orders and public accusations that played out across social media rather than staying inside the family.

Royals and Half-Siblings Airing It in Public

The royal fallout between Prince William and Prince Harry has become its own genre of tabloid coverage, with the brothers’ rift spilling from palace corridors into interviews and statements — the kind of family dysfunction detailed in royal family members that are nothing like they seem. Samantha Markle took a different approach with half-sister Meghan Markle, using interviews and social media to repeatedly claim Meghan has “no heart,” a public campaign that echoes the strained dynamics laid out in a timeline of Meghan Markle’s parents’ dysfunctional relationship.

What ties all eleven stories together in Nicki Swift’s breakdown is how differently each family chose to fight — some through lawyers and custody filings, some through memoirs, some through a smashed guitar in Paris. None of them got resolved quietly, and that’s exactly why they made the list.