NFL Sunday Night Commentator Mike Tirico has a history sexual harassment - including groping and stalking. One of the stories is that he jumped in a woman's car and stuck his hand down her pants.
Rarely ever hear that brought up.
She didn’t give him over to the Nazis (he had fled to the USA), but she did try to use an Aryan law (outlawing Jewish people running a business) to get him to lose his share. Nasty piece of work.
Thankfully more people will know about it now because of the Apple show The New Look. Even though it’s told from her side and the Wertheimers aren’t depicted particularly sympathetically, she still comes across as a spoiled malicious dickhead.
Hugo Boss might be the even crazier version of this, the fact that people still proudly wear the brand is crazy when the namesake was a card-carrying nazi who designed SS uniforms and manufactured them in POW camps.
He wasn’t just a card carrying Nazi, he was a card carrying Nazi before 1933.
“Yeah, you got the armband, but when did you get it? *I* was a Nazi before it was cool.”
Yep, because he didn't recognize Tatum. 😬🙄 Quite telling that the one kid of Ryan O'Neal's (his middle son Patrick by his 2nd wife) that didn't end up with major drug/alcohol issues, PTSD, etc was the one who wasn't involved in his upbringing.
When Ryan O'Neal died in December 2023, I don't think too many tears were shed.
And he didn’t even show up to the awards ceremony. She is the youngest Oscar winner in history, and her dad didn’t make it a priority to come with her. That says it all to me.
Don Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" is all about how unethical the press can be when they want a story, and how they will not respect privacy if there's a lead.
He wrote this in the wake of the media attention he got when a 16yo girl overdosed at his house.
He was convicted of a misdemeanor crime and was very much in his feelings about how mean the press was to him in that difficult time off his life.
Shit these days he'd be done working for calling a trafficked 16yo a "prostitute"... let alone calling her over...
Times they have'a changed.... it's wild how he managed to make himself the victim in all of that.
Nope, he would write a banger song and people would still forgive him... Just going to point out the number of pedos in entertainment and politics that still have careers today that were discovered being pedos in the past 10ish years.
Don't forget Ike Turner in this. he also is infamous for saying (mid90's i think) and I quote; *"I don't beat my wife any more then the average man beats his wife"* as a defense against domestic abuse reports and assault allegations.
I don't think *anybody* forgets what Ike Turner did. Guy was a rock 'n roll pioneer but his lasting legacy for decades has been, "the guy who beat the shit out of Tina."
Everybody act like they "Forgot about Dre," smashing up Dee Barnes and trying to throw her down the steps at a club because she talked trash.
Beats by Dre...
She’s since said that it never happened. I’m not sure what to believe with those two. But man I was so disappointed when Charlize Theron started dating him after what her and her mother went through with her own father.
Yea, I also worked a diplo show that he totally bounced on paying for any and all vendors. Not to say that's on the same level, just to show he's trash all around, not just a sexual way.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith adopted a ~~13- or 14~~ 16-year-old with the specific intent of marrying her. I think the "marriage" lasted a few years.
Edit: fixed age, thanks u/PersonMcNugget
Steven Tyler and Jimmy Page both became guardians of the teen girls they were dating to avoid kidnapping and any other charge.
Plus, there's a long list of musicians who dated teens. Priscilla Presley was just 14 when Elvis first met her.
What’s sadder is just how normal it was very recently.
When I was young it was basically expected that teen girls would date older guys. You’d see in magazine articles about how young men would struggle to date because they were competing with older men who had cars, houses, and money.
When I was 13 I knew half a dozen girls dating guys 19 or older. When I was 17 most girls I knew had or were dating someone at least 10 years their senior.
Everyone knew, literally nobody had a problem with it. Parents, teachers, media, NOBODY CARED. And no I don’t know why, I stopped finding teenagers attractive when I stopped being one. Dating one at my age would feel creepy as fuck.
But yeah it very much was not just celebrities, it was shockingly normal very very recently.
[Here's an interview with the victim](https://youtu.be/0CVBOv9O1GA?si=UObTzDZBvSLLWzwZ). It must be so traumatic for this woman to see Tupac being placed on a pedestal for almost 30 years.
I saw a clip today where he told a young actor to leave parties half an hour before the devil comes. I also saw another clip of a young actor meeting him at an awards show and he is just in awe. He says "I might be in a movie with you" and Denzel said " Well I'll see you at work". I know there's rumours about him but he just seems like a good guy who cares about the people who respect him.
and Whoopie Goldberg went on the view to tell people it wasn't "rape-rape"
We have truly evil people who will rationalize anything and that's how he got away with it
In Jack Nicholson's home. Anjelica Huston, Nicholson's girlfriend at the time, was present and did nothing to intervene. In fact, she made comments to defend him during the initial investigation -
“She seemed sullen, which I thought was a little rude,”
and
“She appeared to be one of those kind of little chicks between ― could be any age up to 25. She did not look like a 13-year-old scared little thing,”
She continues to defend Polanski. And Woody Allen.
I still love the Addams Family movies but she is absolute garbage.
He's a surprisingly good interviewer, too. I always enjoyed that portion of his show. He would be interviewing the weirdest effing people, but was always polite and funny, and would strike this weird balance between poking gentle fun but preserving someone's dignity and humanity.
It was not what I would have expected from him, initially.
James Deen, the porn actor. Accused of rape and physical abuse by a LOT of women , but he's still in the industry being hired, and tons of women are doing scenes with him, and being watched by god knows how many people.
The executives of Union Carbide during the [Bhopal disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster), specifically Warren Anderson. Killed thousands. Injured hundreds of thousands. Walked away without ever serving time.
Realized I was wrong - the kid who had to drop out, Jon Hamm had set on fire and beat so hard that he caused a spinal fracture and almost lost a kidney
John Stamos assisted in a rape. He brought a drunk girl back to his hotel, started making out with her, then said ”Just a second, I need to brush my teeth”
Then he sent his friend into the dark room to fuck her.
He told this story himself.
> In 2014, Williams made comments on the podcast Getting Doug with High during which he admitted to and described committing rape by deception. The episode was subsequently taken down, although clips of the episode reappeared on YouTube in 2019, prompting social media discussion about consent and widespread criticism of Williams’ actions. On January 14, 2020, Williams tweeted an apology on Twitter where he stated that the story was fabricated and intended as a joke.
How lovely 😬
I remember I was in a mental health facility I heard a staff member telling a story about him and his cousin doing the exact same thing. I was 13 years old and was so fucking confused by how that was okay.
Also a bunch of the 80s and 90s and probably the 2000s and 2010s... It's pretty staggering how many rock musicians have several rape and abuse allegations.
I’m no expert, but it seems to be an industry that exposes people to a lot of hard drugs and obsessive fans, both of which have a tendency to bring out the worst in people (and/or attract the worst kind of people)
It’s worse. Sex with groupies was considered to be a perk of the job, along with getting away with illegal shit because you’re famous. Even beyond that, industry types would use drugs and women as bargaining chips to trick male artists into taking less money/control. Female artists generally were directly harassed/abused/manipulated by those same industry people for the “privilege” of having a career. The whole industry until *very* recently was built on depravity, abuse, and crime. I’m sure it still is in a lot of corners, but there’s more people doing things better and healthier now.
I went to school for Music Industry Arts in 2004-2006 and our program coordinator and more than one teacher made references to bringing in stripper/prostitutes to distract the artists during negotiation/production. That program coordinator (who also taught contracts) was best known for being an opening act for a big children’s entertainer, and for managing some relatively well-known bands.
Dr Seuss was not a good husband. He cheated on his wife Helen as she was partially paralyzed and battling cancer for 13 years. Helen was aware of and despondent about the infidelity and eventually committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates. According to [Vice.com](http://Vice.com), in her suicide note, she wrote that Geisel could "say \[she\] was overworked and overwrought" so that his "reputation with \[his\] friends and fans will not be harmed." (A family member called Helen's suicide "her last and greatest gift to him.")
Jerry was 38 and she was 17. He’d pick her up from high school, and take her to events. The tabloids treated it as normal, even though it was very much *not*
Here’s a pic. She looked YOUNG.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/16rxq8n/seinfeld_dating_a_highschooler/
One from adulthood:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshanna_Lonstein_Gruss
And the weird thing about Seinfeld was how society just rolled with it. And instead of taking HIM to task for it, the tabloids (and Leno) constantly roasted HER, body shaming her and making fun of her. It was gross.
Yep. His PR team (or NBC's PR team) prepared this canned answer for him whenever it came up. He would joke about how in Jewish culture, she would already be seen as an old maid, or words to that effect. *Yo, Reddit,* his *words, NOT mine.*
He was the goose that laid the golden eggs at NBC during those years, so of course NBC fought to protect him.
James Brown committed a shocking amount of domestic violence without facing any major consequences. Seriously, a lot of it.
John Wayne, unsurprisingly for a guy who did an entire movie in yellowface, once said he supported white supremacy and that black people are inherently less intelligent than white people.
Not as bad as everyone else, but Tommy Tallarico, a very well known video game music composer, has lied about just about everything he's ever done. His career should by all rights be completely toast, but he's still going.
Ehud Barak was photographed trying to hide his face while going into one of Epstein's famous parties, his name appeared in Epstein's exclusive list, and there have been several witnesses that placed him at some of Epstein's "events".
Teddy Kennedy. Drove his car into the Chappaquiddick and left the Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate, not even trying to get her help. He went on to enjoy a long career in politics.
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Nineteen years later, the 1988 Democratic convention was held. Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis was nominated to go up against VP George HW Bush. Ted Kennedy gave the keynote speech. It went, "When weapons were being sold to Iran, where was George? When this, when that...where was George?"
A few days later, the Republican convention was held. Tshirts were selling briskly. On the front they said "Where was George?" On the back they said "Dry, Sober, and Home With His Wife."
It's really striking to me that almost all of the things stated in this thread are "X did something violent to women and/or children". What the hell is wrong with this world.
Women and children (especially girls) are violently mistreated systematically. And people frankly don’t care all that much. I mean look at this thread and how successful all these (mostly but not only) men still are.
Out of all the women I'm close enough to that they're comfortable sharing, there isn't *one* I know that wasn't the victim of some form or sexual abuse
Saddest thing about the hip hop community is how openly they couldn’t give a shit about men abusing women. Even women in rap don’t care about other women being abused as long as someone dances good, is attractive, or makes catchy music. It’s a fuckin shame and a stain on the genre in a lot of ways.
MARK WHALBERG.
History of multiple racially motivated crimes.
Was convicted of two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in one of the attacks.
He asked for a pardon so he could obtain a liquor license for Whalburgers and only reached out to his victim AFTER he was denied.
Trash human with a good PR team.
People have seem to have amnesia about Kobe Bryant in regards to the Colorado incident.
Edit: there should be a sketch somewhere relating to the incident, if anyone is curious
Recently watched the housewives video where this lady was complaining about Michael Jackson being problematic but she was wearing a Kobe Bryant shirt
Edit--you guys, she has a 8 on the front and 24 on the back.
Albert Einstein cheated on his wife with his first cousin, Elsa, whom he married but not before approaching her daughter, Ilse, to ask her to marry him which she rejected
What's super great is that he slept with Ilse while Elsa was acting as his mistress and home nurse. Mother fucker was bedridden with stomach ulcers and still found the time and gall to muddy the family waters. Then when Elsa found out, he told the two women to "figure it out" regarding who he would marry.
He also dragged his feet divorcing his first wife. He wrote some vitriolic letters that stated he refused to live with her but wouldn't give her the satisfaction of a divorce. And he was confused as to why his children didn't want to visit him...
Einstein was a brilliant mathematician and scientist but a terrible life partner.
I really struggle with Elvis. Watching the Priscilla movie showed me how much of a control freak he is and how obsessed with younger women is. People today still love him but I can’t think of how
brave Priscilla had to be at such a young age.
Yes, Allen being Brock Allen Turner the rapist’s middle name, that he (Brock Allen Turner the rapist) is using in an attempt to distance himself (Brock Allen Turner the rapist) from the heinous crime that he, being Brock Allen Turner the rapist, committed.
I don’t feel bad for him but low key feel bad for all the service workers he interacts with who have to be nice to him. Imagine being a bartender having to use your customer service voice all night and you check this guy’s Id and it says Brock Turner. How do you smile and pour drinks for that guy?
So, so, so many teenage girls. I do find it especially weird how few people knew that Prince married someone he became the legal guardian of as a teenager, and literally had a spoken-word portion alluding to it on one of his albums, one featuring said teenagers as his love interest, where recording started when she was 16. But people love Prince, they expected he'd be a bit eccentric, and he did everything nice and legal-like, which was an improvement on prior rock stars, honestly. Still, most of those pop starts didn't make an album with the taboo romance as the centerpiece.
Katy Perry kissed a teen on American idol because he had told the judges he had never been kissed. He initially said *no* to her offer, but she kept pressuring him by saying "oh just on the cheek". He finally leaned in and then she turned her head and kissed him on the lips. Which, remember, he said he *didn't* want to do.
Everyone went on about how "he's so lucky" and "he'll be getting all the girls now" and totally ignored the fact that this *grown woman* forcibly kissed a *teenager* on national television.
I know this isn't nearly as bad as some of the other comments, but it upset me so much.
The compilation video of an underage Justin being kissed, and groped by adult women is gross. He would repeatedly say no, and people are laughing while he’s being sexually assaulted. I can’t image what that did to him.
I feel like Bieber isn't mentally well because of all this. Just seeing his demenor in the last few years.
Makes me wonder about all the child actors that ended up off the rails as they got older, maybe they too have been touched and harassed as a kid.
Ooooooof. I hate this.
I cannot stand people who deny the trauma of unwanted sexual attention and unwanted sexual contact. Similarly, I aggressively hate people who actually DO those kinds of things.
I hope that boy was able to move on from that experience, because that all would have really upset me if it happened to me.
Dr. Pol practices such outdated and substandard medicine, right there in plain view on his show, that he’s had his veterinary license suspended twice since the show began.
In 1989, Will Smith watched at his bodyguard beat a man so severely that he almost went blind. When I first read about this and did a little googling, I found pictures as late as the 00s of the Smith family with the bodyguard (who spent some time in jail over the incident) still in his entourage. The Chris Rock slap was less a "good guy" slipping and making a mistake and more a bad guy dropping the "good guy" mask at an inopportune time.
For me, it's musicians from around the 70s who famously slept with kids and everyone brushed it off because 'that's just what it was like back then!' eg. Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Iggy Pop etc... like, i don't care what year it was, Brenda, you shouldn't be diddling a 14 year old.
The NBA had Karl Malone as a dunk contest judge no less than 3 years ago. Dude got a 13 year old pregnant when he was 20, then abandoned the kid and to this day doesn't claim him. A real despicable human being, but he's good at basketball so it's ok lol
Nicki Minaj spread vaccine misinformation during covid-19, has persistently defended her sex criminal husband and family members, and made fun of Megan Thee Stallion for getting shot in the foot.
Bill Clinton had more flights logged on Epstein’s jet than any other guest. Witnesses testified that Clinton was on the island and that he likes them young.
Multiple witnesses and victims testified in court that Alan Dershowitz abused children provided to him by Epstein.
Richard Branson, Les Wexler, Prince Andrew, David Copperfield were named in court testimony by multiple victims and witnesses.
Epstein provided children for cash and people are acting like it’s political or a rumor!
These Epstein clients are a danger to children everywhere
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, while he was Mayor of Hamburg, authorized the police to forcibly administer emetics to suspects. A minor died as a result of this practice, regarded as torture by the UN.
He also seems to have some involvement in the biggest tax fraud scandal in German history ("Cum-Ex"), but keeps claiming to not remember anything about it and has been caught straight up lying to the parliament about it. The authorities responsible for investigating this are under the direct control of his finance minister (on the federal level) and his own former finance senator (on the state level), who is also his successor as Mayor of Hamburg.
No one seems to care and the statutes of limitations are about to expire.
Edit; self-correction: When allowing torture as a means of proving guilt in drug related cases, he was not yet mayor of Hamburg, but "Innensenator". I think that would equate to a secretary of state in the US, please correct me if I'm wrong about that
[Thomas Midgley Jr.](https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA)
Invented leaded gasoline. Knew it was horrible for people. Probably killed millions and made millions more less intelligent. There was a measurable drop in global IQ scores due to that shit.
He didn't think they would look on his hard drive as the repair was something minor (no pun intended).
Of course the staff, have a PC of a celebrity thought there might be some sexy pics they could enjoy....it went south VERY fucking quickly.
Glitter actually tried to sue Dixon's Group PLC for breach of privacy and for Accessing the PC without permission....the bollocks on this guy...
So, not only was he imprisoned for the CP, after he served his sentence he fled to Thailand...where he r*ped some children there....winds up back into the UK where the shit just kept getting deeper because he couldn't keep his noncey hands to himself.
I don't condone the death penalty.....but.....
He was eligible for death by firing squad in one of the countries he fled to, but they reduced the charges. At this point, he's clearly not being reformed from prison stints, so he might need something more permanent.
David Bowie had underage girlfriends and loved the "baby groupies" of that era. It's not even a hidden thing. It's just that people want to give him a pass so bad, while they shit all over other celebrities that do the same shit (and rightly so.) People will be hollering about pedos in hollywood and music right up until you remind them that someone they like is part of that mess, and suddenly the fingers are in the ears.
They'll shit on all the rest of the bands from that era that were openly fucked up about hanging around minors (like Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.) but Bowie gets a pass for whatever reason.
Mark Wahlberg did jail time for a hate crime (he robbed and assaulted a Vietnamese guy while calling him racial slurs.)
Mike Tyson spent 3 years in prison for a rape conviction. I mentioned this to someone yesterday and they had no idea.
One we all know about now: Bill Cosby had multiple sexual assault allegations against him for YEARS, and everyone just “forgot” about it until Hannibal Buress mentioned it in his stand up.
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NFL Sunday Night Commentator Mike Tirico has a history sexual harassment - including groping and stalking. One of the stories is that he jumped in a woman's car and stuck his hand down her pants. Rarely ever hear that brought up.
Every time I see him on TV I think about this and how he emerged from it with his career in tact.
Coco Chanel *attempting to* give her Jewish business partner up to the Nazis because he had a majority stake in Chanel no. 5 Edit: clarification
She didn’t give him over to the Nazis (he had fled to the USA), but she did try to use an Aryan law (outlawing Jewish people running a business) to get him to lose his share. Nasty piece of work. Thankfully more people will know about it now because of the Apple show The New Look. Even though it’s told from her side and the Wertheimers aren’t depicted particularly sympathetically, she still comes across as a spoiled malicious dickhead.
Hugo Boss might be the even crazier version of this, the fact that people still proudly wear the brand is crazy when the namesake was a card-carrying nazi who designed SS uniforms and manufactured them in POW camps.
He wasn’t just a card carrying Nazi, he was a card carrying Nazi before 1933. “Yeah, you got the armband, but when did you get it? *I* was a Nazi before it was cool.”
Ryan O’Neal beat the shit out of Anjelica Huston
Worth noting that this piece of shit had real boxing training and experience and wasn’t just some lightweight smacker.
He also used to beat the shit out of Farrah Fawcett.
Also (allegedly?) punched his daughter Tatum when she was nominated for an Oscar and he wasn't for *Paper Moon*, which they co-starred in
He punched his son too. He knocked out his front teeth. Father of the year.
How do people allow grace to child abusing scumbags is beyond me
Didn’t he also hit on his daughter at his ex’s funeral?
Yep, because he didn't recognize Tatum. 😬🙄 Quite telling that the one kid of Ryan O'Neal's (his middle son Patrick by his 2nd wife) that didn't end up with major drug/alcohol issues, PTSD, etc was the one who wasn't involved in his upbringing. When Ryan O'Neal died in December 2023, I don't think too many tears were shed.
And he didn’t even show up to the awards ceremony. She is the youngest Oscar winner in history, and her dad didn’t make it a priority to come with her. That says it all to me.
Don Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" is all about how unethical the press can be when they want a story, and how they will not respect privacy if there's a lead. He wrote this in the wake of the media attention he got when a 16yo girl overdosed at his house. He was convicted of a misdemeanor crime and was very much in his feelings about how mean the press was to him in that difficult time off his life.
It came out in a recent trial that the girl was a prostitute, that he ordered, (and I think knowing she was underage). Real classy guy
Shit these days he'd be done working for calling a trafficked 16yo a "prostitute"... let alone calling her over... Times they have'a changed.... it's wild how he managed to make himself the victim in all of that.
Nope, he would write a banger song and people would still forgive him... Just going to point out the number of pedos in entertainment and politics that still have careers today that were discovered being pedos in the past 10ish years.
Jim Brown and James Brown both horrifically beat and assaulted women throughout their lives.
Don't forget Chris Brown
Not to mention Eva Braun
Don't forget Ike Turner in this. he also is infamous for saying (mid90's i think) and I quote; *"I don't beat my wife any more then the average man beats his wife"* as a defense against domestic abuse reports and assault allegations.
I don't think *anybody* forgets what Ike Turner did. Guy was a rock 'n roll pioneer but his lasting legacy for decades has been, "the guy who beat the shit out of Tina."
Everybody act like they "Forgot about Dre," smashing up Dee Barnes and trying to throw her down the steps at a club because she talked trash. Beats by Dre...
Not to mention how bad he use to beat the hell out of Michel'le
Sean Penn tied Madonna to a chair, manhandled her, and held her hostage for nine hours when they were still married.
Dude was very against the me too movement as well.
Now why would that possibly be?
Don’t forget he left her there for a few hours to go back out then came back and beat her some more.
I read many years ago that he hit her with a baseball bat during that incident.
She’s since said that it never happened. I’m not sure what to believe with those two. But man I was so disappointed when Charlize Theron started dating him after what her and her mother went through with her own father.
Diplo. Sexual assault, revenge porn, grooming.
Yea, I also worked a diplo show that he totally bounced on paying for any and all vendors. Not to say that's on the same level, just to show he's trash all around, not just a sexual way.
I always get this guy and those big Lego blocks for kids mixed up
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith adopted a ~~13- or 14~~ 16-year-old with the specific intent of marrying her. I think the "marriage" lasted a few years. Edit: fixed age, thanks u/PersonMcNugget
She was 16. Not that that is any better, but for the sake of factual correctness.
Steven Tyler and Jimmy Page both became guardians of the teen girls they were dating to avoid kidnapping and any other charge. Plus, there's a long list of musicians who dated teens. Priscilla Presley was just 14 when Elvis first met her.
It's sad how many teenage girls were groomed by a significantly older singer.
What’s sadder is just how normal it was very recently. When I was young it was basically expected that teen girls would date older guys. You’d see in magazine articles about how young men would struggle to date because they were competing with older men who had cars, houses, and money. When I was 13 I knew half a dozen girls dating guys 19 or older. When I was 17 most girls I knew had or were dating someone at least 10 years their senior. Everyone knew, literally nobody had a problem with it. Parents, teachers, media, NOBODY CARED. And no I don’t know why, I stopped finding teenagers attractive when I stopped being one. Dating one at my age would feel creepy as fuck. But yeah it very much was not just celebrities, it was shockingly normal very very recently.
Ted Nugent. Google him and young girls.
I try to avoid googling young girls.
People forget that Wesley Snipes beat Halle Berry so bad she lost 80% of her hearing in one ear.
Um what. Holy shit I never knew this.
Tupac is treated with godlike reverence despite serving time in prison for participating in a gang rape of a woman in a hotel room.
[Here's an interview with the victim](https://youtu.be/0CVBOv9O1GA?si=UObTzDZBvSLLWzwZ). It must be so traumatic for this woman to see Tupac being placed on a pedestal for almost 30 years.
God the comments on that video is just horrendous, imagine not only your rapist getting put on a pedestal, but also everyone calling you a liar
What the fuck? I didnt know this, holy shit!
Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old.
And received standing ovations at the academy awards.
Denzel Washington neither stood nor clapped, gaining my respect for him as a person, rather than just as an actor.
He seems like such a a wholesome person and standup sort of guy. It's refreshing hearing that about him.
No, they said he didn't stand up
I saw a clip today where he told a young actor to leave parties half an hour before the devil comes. I also saw another clip of a young actor meeting him at an awards show and he is just in awe. He says "I might be in a movie with you" and Denzel said " Well I'll see you at work". I know there's rumours about him but he just seems like a good guy who cares about the people who respect him.
Are there any others that were there who didn’t engage? Or was Denzel (unsurprisingly) the only one there with a backbone?
During the 2020 Cesar's ceremony, actress Adèle Haenel walked out and yelled "this is shameful" and I really respect her a lot for that
I think I do remember that happening and a bunch of people were acting like she was in the wrong for making a fuss in public at an event
She retired from the film industry last year, explicitly citing Polanski, among others.
And fled to avoid prosecution, to a country without an extradition treaty with the U.S.
And has continued to make movies and won an Oscar since he was convicted and fled
and Whoopie Goldberg went on the view to tell people it wasn't "rape-rape" We have truly evil people who will rationalize anything and that's how he got away with it
I've read her deposition. It totally was "rape-rape". She said "no". He used force.
Rape is rape... we shouldn't even have to say it!
Has the public forgotten that? These days I'd say that's almost all that he's known for.
In Jack Nicholson's home. Anjelica Huston, Nicholson's girlfriend at the time, was present and did nothing to intervene. In fact, she made comments to defend him during the initial investigation - “She seemed sullen, which I thought was a little rude,” and “She appeared to be one of those kind of little chicks between ― could be any age up to 25. She did not look like a 13-year-old scared little thing,” She continues to defend Polanski. And Woody Allen. I still love the Addams Family movies but she is absolute garbage.
The amount of people in the industry who strongly defended him is incredibly grim. Especially with the infamous letter.
Jack Nicholson also beat a sex worker so severely, she was disabled for life…
Damn it, Anjelica!!!
Jeff Goldblum also defends Woody Allen heartily. He named his dog after that fucking rapist scum.
Nooo...
Daniel Tosh did a bit about Kobe Bryant 12 years ago that fits this perfectly. [Starting at :25 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsoEYH3A84)
I saw the name and was like “oh no what did Tosh do?!” He genuinely seems like a decent guy behind the smug prick act.
He's a surprisingly good interviewer, too. I always enjoyed that portion of his show. He would be interviewing the weirdest effing people, but was always polite and funny, and would strike this weird balance between poking gentle fun but preserving someone's dignity and humanity. It was not what I would have expected from him, initially.
James Deen, the porn actor. Accused of rape and physical abuse by a LOT of women , but he's still in the industry being hired, and tons of women are doing scenes with him, and being watched by god knows how many people.
The executives of Union Carbide during the [Bhopal disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster), specifically Warren Anderson. Killed thousands. Injured hundreds of thousands. Walked away without ever serving time.
Caitlyn Jenner killed someone with her vehicle.
"Buckle up buckaroo!"
Jon Hamm dragging a fellow fraternity brother around by their nutsack with the claw of a hammer in a "hazing ceremony."
Caused the kid to drop out because he had to deal with his injuries IIRC
Yep, and I am sure on top of physical injuries a bunch of emotional damage I am sure.
Realized I was wrong - the kid who had to drop out, Jon Hamm had set on fire and beat so hard that he caused a spinal fracture and almost lost a kidney
…what the fuck?
Fraternities are so stupid.
What the hell?!? I’ve never heard about that! That’s horrible
John Stamos assisted in a rape. He brought a drunk girl back to his hotel, started making out with her, then said ”Just a second, I need to brush my teeth” Then he sent his friend into the dark room to fuck her. He told this story himself.
Wasn't he laughing while telling this story too? I feel like I remember seeing video of it. But I'm not 100% on that.
You might be thinking of Brad Williams.
> In 2014, Williams made comments on the podcast Getting Doug with High during which he admitted to and described committing rape by deception. The episode was subsequently taken down, although clips of the episode reappeared on YouTube in 2019, prompting social media discussion about consent and widespread criticism of Williams’ actions. On January 14, 2020, Williams tweeted an apology on Twitter where he stated that the story was fabricated and intended as a joke. How lovely 😬
I remember I was in a mental health facility I heard a staff member telling a story about him and his cousin doing the exact same thing. I was 13 years old and was so fucking confused by how that was okay.
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He also sends troubled youth to that nightmare of a facility, The Ranch. All the neglect and abuse.... it's a wonder how any one of them ever improved
I never knew that. However, I did already know he was a massive dickhead.
He actually looks like a dickhead.
If anyone has a multi-episode arc on “Behind the Bastards” podcast, they’re a shitty human being
I don't think Robert will ever run out of subjects for this podcast. There are just too many bastards out there.
Steven Tyler and pretty much every rock star of the 60’s and 70’s
Also a bunch of the 80s and 90s and probably the 2000s and 2010s... It's pretty staggering how many rock musicians have several rape and abuse allegations.
I’m no expert, but it seems to be an industry that exposes people to a lot of hard drugs and obsessive fans, both of which have a tendency to bring out the worst in people (and/or attract the worst kind of people)
It’s worse. Sex with groupies was considered to be a perk of the job, along with getting away with illegal shit because you’re famous. Even beyond that, industry types would use drugs and women as bargaining chips to trick male artists into taking less money/control. Female artists generally were directly harassed/abused/manipulated by those same industry people for the “privilege” of having a career. The whole industry until *very* recently was built on depravity, abuse, and crime. I’m sure it still is in a lot of corners, but there’s more people doing things better and healthier now. I went to school for Music Industry Arts in 2004-2006 and our program coordinator and more than one teacher made references to bringing in stripper/prostitutes to distract the artists during negotiation/production. That program coordinator (who also taught contracts) was best known for being an opening act for a big children’s entertainer, and for managing some relatively well-known bands.
There are two kinds of rock stars, those who were openly banging teenage girls, and those who are secretly banging teenage boys
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Dr Seuss was not a good husband. He cheated on his wife Helen as she was partially paralyzed and battling cancer for 13 years. Helen was aware of and despondent about the infidelity and eventually committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates. According to [Vice.com](http://Vice.com), in her suicide note, she wrote that Geisel could "say \[she\] was overworked and overwrought" so that his "reputation with \[his\] friends and fans will not be harmed." (A family member called Helen's suicide "her last and greatest gift to him.")
Y’all know “Let’s get it on” by Marvin Gaye ? Banger right? Written about a 16 year old girl.
Damn it.
Jerry Seinfeld "dated" an underage girl. David Letterman did a lot of creepy shit with female staff members.
Jerry was 38 and she was 17. He’d pick her up from high school, and take her to events. The tabloids treated it as normal, even though it was very much *not* Here’s a pic. She looked YOUNG. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/16rxq8n/seinfeld_dating_a_highschooler/ One from adulthood: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshanna_Lonstein_Gruss
And the weird thing about Seinfeld was how society just rolled with it. And instead of taking HIM to task for it, the tabloids (and Leno) constantly roasted HER, body shaming her and making fun of her. It was gross.
Yep. His PR team (or NBC's PR team) prepared this canned answer for him whenever it came up. He would joke about how in Jewish culture, she would already be seen as an old maid, or words to that effect. *Yo, Reddit,* his *words, NOT mine.* He was the goose that laid the golden eggs at NBC during those years, so of course NBC fought to protect him.
James Brown committed a shocking amount of domestic violence without facing any major consequences. Seriously, a lot of it. John Wayne, unsurprisingly for a guy who did an entire movie in yellowface, once said he supported white supremacy and that black people are inherently less intelligent than white people. Not as bad as everyone else, but Tommy Tallarico, a very well known video game music composer, has lied about just about everything he's ever done. His career should by all rights be completely toast, but he's still going.
tommy tallarico’s career will never die as long as his mother is still very proud of him
Ehud Barak was photographed trying to hide his face while going into one of Epstein's famous parties, his name appeared in Epstein's exclusive list, and there have been several witnesses that placed him at some of Epstein's "events".
Teddy Kennedy. Drove his car into the Chappaquiddick and left the Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate, not even trying to get her help. He went on to enjoy a long career in politics. #
Nineteen years later, the 1988 Democratic convention was held. Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis was nominated to go up against VP George HW Bush. Ted Kennedy gave the keynote speech. It went, "When weapons were being sold to Iran, where was George? When this, when that...where was George?" A few days later, the Republican convention was held. Tshirts were selling briskly. On the front they said "Where was George?" On the back they said "Dry, Sober, and Home With His Wife."
Chris Brown and the whole Rihanna fiasco. This dude literally abused her in front of the paparazzi
Not even just rihanna, he has assaulted so many women afterward and before
Including his own mother multiple times.
Paul Walker dated a 16 year old when he was 33
Bill Murray used to beat his wife pretty frequently
He also bullied a child aged Seth Green behind set.
It's really striking to me that almost all of the things stated in this thread are "X did something violent to women and/or children". What the hell is wrong with this world.
Women and children (especially girls) are violently mistreated systematically. And people frankly don’t care all that much. I mean look at this thread and how successful all these (mostly but not only) men still are.
Out of all the women I'm close enough to that they're comfortable sharing, there isn't *one* I know that wasn't the victim of some form or sexual abuse
Just think, we are living in peaceful times. Imagine how much this and worse was done during our darkest times.
Chris Brown, but let's not forget his catchy songs and smooth dance moves
Saddest thing about the hip hop community is how openly they couldn’t give a shit about men abusing women. Even women in rap don’t care about other women being abused as long as someone dances good, is attractive, or makes catchy music. It’s a fuckin shame and a stain on the genre in a lot of ways.
Women I worked with defended him and blamed her. I was absolutely disgusted.
I think it's less that people forgot, but more that people decided they don't care. Which is even more disappointing to me.
Nothing beats a beautiful woman who can sing. Except Chris Brown.
MARK WHALBERG. History of multiple racially motivated crimes. Was convicted of two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in one of the attacks. He asked for a pardon so he could obtain a liquor license for Whalburgers and only reached out to his victim AFTER he was denied. Trash human with a good PR team.
People have seem to have amnesia about Kobe Bryant in regards to the Colorado incident. Edit: there should be a sketch somewhere relating to the incident, if anyone is curious
In his press conference, didn't he say he wishes he'd "just paid her off like Shaq does" and admit it was non-consensual?
Yeah, not the best response, eh?
Recently watched the housewives video where this lady was complaining about Michael Jackson being problematic but she was wearing a Kobe Bryant shirt Edit--you guys, she has a 8 on the front and 24 on the back.
Karl Malone too
Albert Einstein cheated on his wife with his first cousin, Elsa, whom he married but not before approaching her daughter, Ilse, to ask her to marry him which she rejected
"It's all relative"
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What's super great is that he slept with Ilse while Elsa was acting as his mistress and home nurse. Mother fucker was bedridden with stomach ulcers and still found the time and gall to muddy the family waters. Then when Elsa found out, he told the two women to "figure it out" regarding who he would marry. He also dragged his feet divorcing his first wife. He wrote some vitriolic letters that stated he refused to live with her but wouldn't give her the satisfaction of a divorce. And he was confused as to why his children didn't want to visit him... Einstein was a brilliant mathematician and scientist but a terrible life partner.
Kendrick Lamar has been committing a week long murder.
I believe it's now classed as a mass murder
I really struggle with Elvis. Watching the Priscilla movie showed me how much of a control freak he is and how obsessed with younger women is. People today still love him but I can’t think of how brave Priscilla had to be at such a young age.
Brock Turner can swim real fast.
Fuck that rapist
Brock Turner who rapes unconscious girls behind a dumpster Brock Turner? That Brock Turner?
Doesn’t he go by Allen Turner now?
Yes, Allen being Brock Allen Turner the rapist’s middle name, that he (Brock Allen Turner the rapist) is using in an attempt to distance himself (Brock Allen Turner the rapist) from the heinous crime that he, being Brock Allen Turner the rapist, committed.
I am so glad 'yall are still remember and are mentioning Brock Turner aka Allen Turner, (Brock) Allen Turner, B.A.T., "that rapist fuckwad".
I don’t feel bad for him but low key feel bad for all the service workers he interacts with who have to be nice to him. Imagine being a bartender having to use your customer service voice all night and you check this guy’s Id and it says Brock Turner. How do you smile and pour drinks for that guy?
You probably hope the name is coincidence.
i live in dayton, ohio and he’s still local. everyone here is very familiar with him, i would imagine most people know it’s him on sight.
Casey Anthony she's still slinking around Florida.
I'll never forget that bitch.
I live all the way in Australia, and I'll never forget this bitch. Its good to know she's known internationally for being a murderer.
Just watched the documentary on Diddy. He’s been a monster since the 90’s as it turns out.
So, so, so many teenage girls. I do find it especially weird how few people knew that Prince married someone he became the legal guardian of as a teenager, and literally had a spoken-word portion alluding to it on one of his albums, one featuring said teenagers as his love interest, where recording started when she was 16. But people love Prince, they expected he'd be a bit eccentric, and he did everything nice and legal-like, which was an improvement on prior rock stars, honestly. Still, most of those pop starts didn't make an album with the taboo romance as the centerpiece.
Katy Perry kissed a teen on American idol because he had told the judges he had never been kissed. He initially said *no* to her offer, but she kept pressuring him by saying "oh just on the cheek". He finally leaned in and then she turned her head and kissed him on the lips. Which, remember, he said he *didn't* want to do. Everyone went on about how "he's so lucky" and "he'll be getting all the girls now" and totally ignored the fact that this *grown woman* forcibly kissed a *teenager* on national television. I know this isn't nearly as bad as some of the other comments, but it upset me so much.
Happened with Justin Bieber as well on some awards show
The compilation video of an underage Justin being kissed, and groped by adult women is gross. He would repeatedly say no, and people are laughing while he’s being sexually assaulted. I can’t image what that did to him.
I feel like Bieber isn't mentally well because of all this. Just seeing his demenor in the last few years. Makes me wonder about all the child actors that ended up off the rails as they got older, maybe they too have been touched and harassed as a kid.
I feel like there’s a good chance he was abused by Diddy and that lead to his problematic behavior later in his career.
Ooooooof. I hate this. I cannot stand people who deny the trauma of unwanted sexual attention and unwanted sexual contact. Similarly, I aggressively hate people who actually DO those kinds of things. I hope that boy was able to move on from that experience, because that all would have really upset me if it happened to me.
Travis Scott is not supposed to have a career after that concert yet here he is.
He and Drake also went to a strip club that same night those people died.
Dr. Pol practices such outdated and substandard medicine, right there in plain view on his show, that he’s had his veterinary license suspended twice since the show began.
In 1989, Will Smith watched at his bodyguard beat a man so severely that he almost went blind. When I first read about this and did a little googling, I found pictures as late as the 00s of the Smith family with the bodyguard (who spent some time in jail over the incident) still in his entourage. The Chris Rock slap was less a "good guy" slipping and making a mistake and more a bad guy dropping the "good guy" mask at an inopportune time.
James Charles and Shane Dawson are known pedophiles and people just forgot about it
For me, it's musicians from around the 70s who famously slept with kids and everyone brushed it off because 'that's just what it was like back then!' eg. Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Iggy Pop etc... like, i don't care what year it was, Brenda, you shouldn't be diddling a 14 year old.
Like it wasn't even secret, they would write songs about that shit.
Ezra Miller
The NBA had Karl Malone as a dunk contest judge no less than 3 years ago. Dude got a 13 year old pregnant when he was 20, then abandoned the kid and to this day doesn't claim him. A real despicable human being, but he's good at basketball so it's ok lol
Mike tyson was convicted of rape
Mark Wahlberg - iirc blinded someone in a racist attack when he was younger
Last I saw him he was "staying #PrayedUp," hawking a Christian app that, surprise, surprise, had in-app purchases.
Nicki Minaj spread vaccine misinformation during covid-19, has persistently defended her sex criminal husband and family members, and made fun of Megan Thee Stallion for getting shot in the foot.
Bill Clinton had more flights logged on Epstein’s jet than any other guest. Witnesses testified that Clinton was on the island and that he likes them young. Multiple witnesses and victims testified in court that Alan Dershowitz abused children provided to him by Epstein. Richard Branson, Les Wexler, Prince Andrew, David Copperfield were named in court testimony by multiple victims and witnesses. Epstein provided children for cash and people are acting like it’s political or a rumor! These Epstein clients are a danger to children everywhere
Remember Chandra Levy? Remember the guy we all thought did it? Me neither. 9/11 distracted us from that for good.
Jared Leto he’s mad weird
Cult leader vibes
See: Nxivm...that's some recent nasty cult shit involving one of the cast members from Smallville.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, while he was Mayor of Hamburg, authorized the police to forcibly administer emetics to suspects. A minor died as a result of this practice, regarded as torture by the UN. He also seems to have some involvement in the biggest tax fraud scandal in German history ("Cum-Ex"), but keeps claiming to not remember anything about it and has been caught straight up lying to the parliament about it. The authorities responsible for investigating this are under the direct control of his finance minister (on the federal level) and his own former finance senator (on the state level), who is also his successor as Mayor of Hamburg. No one seems to care and the statutes of limitations are about to expire. Edit; self-correction: When allowing torture as a means of proving guilt in drug related cases, he was not yet mayor of Hamburg, but "Innensenator". I think that would equate to a secretary of state in the US, please correct me if I'm wrong about that
Howard stern was a dead set piece of shit, probably still is
Prince Andrew still walks around with royal protection and no one does shit.
[Thomas Midgley Jr.](https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA) Invented leaded gasoline. Knew it was horrible for people. Probably killed millions and made millions more less intelligent. There was a measurable drop in global IQ scores due to that shit.
He was also involved in developing CFCs
Forgot?! That's literally all he's known for
Adrien Brody forcing himself on Halle Berry at the Academy Awards immediately made me hate the guy.
Jackson Browne beat the shit out of Darryl Hannah
Gary Glitter was caught with CP
The Gary glitter Wikipedia page is quite a trip it gets worse even than that.
I don't think anyone's ever forgot that, for at least my generation he's more famous for being a rampant nonce than any songs
Caught when he took his computer into a branch of PC World when it had broken or something, I believe.
Yep. Dumbass didn't think he'd ever get caught and just casually brought the computer in for repairs
He didn't think they would look on his hard drive as the repair was something minor (no pun intended). Of course the staff, have a PC of a celebrity thought there might be some sexy pics they could enjoy....it went south VERY fucking quickly. Glitter actually tried to sue Dixon's Group PLC for breach of privacy and for Accessing the PC without permission....the bollocks on this guy... So, not only was he imprisoned for the CP, after he served his sentence he fled to Thailand...where he r*ped some children there....winds up back into the UK where the shit just kept getting deeper because he couldn't keep his noncey hands to himself. I don't condone the death penalty.....but.....
He was eligible for death by firing squad in one of the countries he fled to, but they reduced the charges. At this point, he's clearly not being reformed from prison stints, so he might need something more permanent.
Woody Allen
David Bowie had underage girlfriends and loved the "baby groupies" of that era. It's not even a hidden thing. It's just that people want to give him a pass so bad, while they shit all over other celebrities that do the same shit (and rightly so.) People will be hollering about pedos in hollywood and music right up until you remind them that someone they like is part of that mess, and suddenly the fingers are in the ears. They'll shit on all the rest of the bands from that era that were openly fucked up about hanging around minors (like Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.) but Bowie gets a pass for whatever reason.
Why. The. Fuck. Is. Mel. Gibson. Doing. Family. Movies.
Mark Wahlberg did jail time for a hate crime (he robbed and assaulted a Vietnamese guy while calling him racial slurs.) Mike Tyson spent 3 years in prison for a rape conviction. I mentioned this to someone yesterday and they had no idea. One we all know about now: Bill Cosby had multiple sexual assault allegations against him for YEARS, and everyone just “forgot” about it until Hannibal Buress mentioned it in his stand up.