Charlie Sheen: Notorious Hollywood Hellraiser

Charlie Sheen was once the highest paid actor on television but it is his actions off screen which have kept him in the public eye more recently.

The 50-year-old has maintained a reputation as one of Hollywood's most notorious hellraisers for the past 20 years.

Alcoholism, drug abuse, allegations of domestic violence and a very public meltdown have defined him as much as his philandering - Sheen has racked up five engagements, three wives, five children, countless flings, and even a few months living with two girlfriends he called "goddesses".

The youngest son of movie star Martin Sheen rose to fame in the 1980s after starring in films such as Platoon and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

He was born Carlos Irwin Estevez in 1965 but like his father, who was originally known as Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez, he took a stage name: Charlie Sheen.

Being expelled from school for poor grades and low attendance did not stop Sheen junior from breaking into film by the end of his teens.

But as he started to make his name in film, his actions off set were also making the headlines.

Having split up with his childhood sweetheart, with whom he had one daughter, Sheen accidentally shot his new fiancee, Kelly Preston, in the arm in 1990.

She broke off the engagement, and Sheen soon married Donna Peele, a model, but they divorced in 1996 when it emerged he had been a client of a prostitution ring run by Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood madam.

By the late nineties, Sheen's over-indulgences were threatening his health. He suffered a stroke after injecting cocaine in 1998, but fled rehab after just a few hours.

He married actress Denise Richards in 2002, and the couple had two daughters, but she divorced him in 2006 accusing him of alcohol and drug abuse and threats of violence.

Despite off-screen chaos, Sheen helped Two And A Half Men to win award after award from 2003 - his role as bad boy Charlie Harper having more than a little in common with his private life.

Between May 2010 and 2011, he was the highest paid actor on television earning $40m (£26m), according to Forbes.

A three-year marriage to the actress Brooke Mueller ended in early 2011. Sheen assaulted her in 2009 and was forced into rehab once more.

Social services took Sheen and Mueller's twin sons.

Sheen then had a very public meltdown, which began with him being fired from Two And A Half Men earlier that year after a series of incoherent rants directed towards Chuck Lorre, the show's creator.

Claiming that he was a "warlock" with "tiger blood", Sheen, by now living with his two "goddesses", released a video in which he told viewers, "I'm not bi-polar, I'm bi-winning."

The "goddesses", former porn star Bree Olson and model and designer Natalie Kenly, left Sheen by the summer of 2011.

Sheen recovered from his meltdown to star in Anger Management, a sitcom that lasted until 2014 despite being panned by critics, as a baseball player-turned-therapist - also called Charlie.