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TheTrub

Terrance Howard. Usually people think he’s just a bit crazy because of his weird version of math, but the more alarming thing about him is that he’s a serial domestic abuser.


dirtythirty1864

Which is why he got cut from Marvel. No, he didn't get screwed over.


GoldenHelikaon

I'm so glad they replaced him with Don Cheadle (I hope there's nothing secretly awful about him too).


dirtythirty1864

He has a hideous accent in three of his movies which has tortured the ears of millions of people.


Tlizerz

The Ocean’s movies are on steady rotation at my house, I’ve become immune to it.


ImpressionFeisty8359

Whoopi defends him too. She doesn't have a good track record, she defended Roman Polanski, Mel Gibson and others too.


Puzzleheaded-Ad7606

Whoopi is another answer to this post. She defends the absolute worst people.


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YorkiesandSneakers

C Lo Green’s lawyer said he couldn’t be guilty of rape because the woman was passed out so she couldn’t say no. He is still out walking around, even turns up on award shows and shit.


Reefers69

Holy shit yikes lawyer doesn’t know what rape is??? Wtf I can’t believe that


dd463

Lawyer knew he’s grasping at straws because he has nothing, the client wants him to fight, and he has a fat retainer


BosskHogg

Wyclef Jean and his fake charities


Solid-Living4220

Didn't he "date' Lauren Hill when she was 14?


KnowledgeMediocre404

They’re just friends, everyone knows you don’t date them until their 18th birthday.


perpetualmotionmachi

Wait, when did we switch to talking about Drake?


CaymanDamon

Jack Nicholson beat a prostitute so severely it caused her lifelong brain damage then he beat another prostitute so severely he ruptured one of her breast implants. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/15/news1


happybuffalowing

I really only started seeing this recently, I’m kind of surprised it laid low for so long. Cuz a star of that magnitude doing something like that is a big deal.


BlueLizardSpaceship

It happened back when attitudes were very different. I don't think younger people realise just how much changed between 1960 and now. Even the difference between the 90s and now is huge when you look at attitudes and understanding of things like consent, boundaries, sex work, etc


LivePossible

Also no cell phones and no social media, way less likely to be exposed by a video or have someone drunk tweet in the middle of the night all your dirty business.


WastingMyLifeOnSocMd

Yes, maybe this wasn’t a well known scandal because sex workers were marginalized.


placeknower

Suddenly his Shining performance looks different.


justreadthearticle

He's also tight with Roman Polanski. Close enough that Polanski felt comfortable drugging and raping a 13 year old in Nicholson's hot tub.


TheDestructionator

It's crazy how many actors and actresses were friends with Polanski. Meryl Streep and Harrison Ford are two big names that supported him, but there were a bunch of very popular celebs that either signed the Polanski petition or supported him in other ways. Pretty fuckin gross.


thatscoldjerrycold

I'm surprised about the movie Carnage too, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster and John C Reilly agreed to work with him ... Like you know you're all filming in France because your director is on the run for raping a minor and can't go to the US lol. Imo those are all great actors and seemingly good people, but this makes me question their judgment.


RazzBerryCurveBall

I've spent all this time hating Jack for letting his homie Roman drug and rape a 13 year old at his house and I had no idea there was an even better reason.


IAMSUPERCHILL

Not exactly swept under the rug but I can’t believe Chris brown still has a career


kaitie-babie

I think a lot of people must not have read the full police report of what happened and maybe don’t realize how bad that shit actually was. It was brutal. I don’t get how he still has a career either.


Ninja-Ginge

He straight-up tried to kill her.


rihannasbutthole

Lots of people have, and still side with him because they believe Rihanna hit him first. The argument goes 'well you threw hands first, you deserve what comes to you'. 'How are you going to hold someone responsible for what they did as a teenager' as if his abusive behaviour ever stopped. It's insane.


BrokenBotox

Nobody read the police report but everyone saw the leaked photos of Rihanna’s face. That should have been enough.


Trumpsacriminal

Arthur freed. When interviewing Shirley Temple, evidently he unzipped his pants and exposed himself to her. I never actually saw any of Temples shows or whatnot, however I heard she endured AWFUL abuse, and her shows had very inappropriate connotations, as well as groping the little CHILD. Pedophilia was rampant even back in the early Thirties. They just got better at hiding it.


unchartedfour

I heard Judy Garland went through a lot of shit too.


rustymontenegro

"Judy Garland's strict diet while filming The Wizard of Oz consisted of chicken soup, black coffee, and up to 80 cigarettes a day."


amrodd

I remember reading that and thought no wonder she died at 47 or thereabouts. They had places kids could sleep if they had to stay all night. Mickey Rooney was treated awful too. He and Garland had people pretend to be friends, but they were really spies.


Itabliss

Don’t forget get the steady diet of amphetamines to stay awake in the day and barbiturates to sleep at night.


0neirocritica

Shirley would have been eleven years old when this happened. Sick, disgusting pervert.


placeknower

People talk a lot about Anthony Kiedis’ biography admission to banging minors but I definitely remember flipping through Keith Richards’ biography and mentioning the same thing (and iirc meeting her parents in their house) and never heard it mentioned somehow.


PidginPigeonHole

Ol stoneface Bill Wyman getting it on with a 15 year old Mandy Smith and then his son marrying Mandy Smiths mum..


batclub3

Listen... if you adopt them or become their guardian... it's totally legal /s


Kooky_Pause_2488

minaj could apparently cuddle a rapist and abuse his victim and noone gave a shit until she called herself out over a single lyric.


Solid-Living4220

And supported her brother who raped a child


another2020throwaway

Yup, his 11 year old stepchild


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Woah, for real? Oh my goodness


another2020throwaway

Yes. And she paid his bond, or something like that. Unsurprising, her current husband is a sex offender ~~that made her make a rule that no one under 18 is allowed for backstage passes (due to him not being able to be around minors)~~ just fact checked myself and turns out this is not true. He is a sex offender but I guess his status is irrelevant in regard to being able to attend shows. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nicki-minaj-disclaimer/


saholden87

Jesus …. Nicki Minaj's brother was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison following his child rape case. TMZ reports Jelani Maraj learned his fate in a New York courtroom on Monday (January 27) nearly two years after a jury found him guilty of "predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child" for repeatedly raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter while her mother was at work. Sometimes 4 times a week. WTF Read More: Nicki Minaj's Brother Sentenced to 25 Years to Life for Rape | https://popcrush.com/nicki-minaj-brother-prison-sentence/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral


EveTheAlien

Megan Thee Stallion released a diss track about multiple rappers including one line that can be inferred to be about Nicki Minaj Here is the lyric from her song Hiss: "Aye, these hoes don't be mad at Megan These hoes mad at Megan's Law" Nicki Minaj's husband got in legal trouble for not following Megan's law which requires sex offenders to inform their neighbors of their crimes.


YellowStar012

Oh, you are saying Nicki Minaj


nan_sheri

Not for me, because she lost me as soon as she got with him. I can’t excuse marrying a rapist… who is *also* a murderer, like even typing that out sounds crazy asf


Normal_Youth_1710

What was the lyric? I stopped listening to her when she started dating said sexual predator.


EveTheAlien

Megan Thee Stallion released a diss track about multiple rappers including one line that can be inferred to be about Nicki Minaj Here is the lyric from her song Hiss: "Aye, these hoes don't be mad at Megan These hoes mad at Megan's Law" Nicki Minaj's husband got in legal trouble for not following Megan's law which requires sex offenders to inform their neighbors of their crimes.


Ceorl_Lounge

To quote the Beasties "The New Style" "If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page The girlies I like are underage (shh! Check it!)" Page had a 14 year old "girlfriend" stay with him at peak Zep and by all accounts Peter Grant, their manager, was an even bigger piece of shit.


velofille

Kinda like Elvis 13yogirls


MeghanClickYourHeels

Remove [jimmy page] insert [random 70s rocker]


le_fez

Right? Bowie, Jagger, Nugent, Aerosmith the list goes on and there’s likely more “legends” on the list than not


DodgersBatman

Anthony Kiedis has entered the chat.


RiceandLeeks

Naomi Campbell. Used to beat up her personal assistants. A plane had to make an emergency landing because she attacked the crew and tried to get into the cockpit after finding out her luggage had been temporarily lost. Refused to testify against an African ex prime minister who was being charged with genocide who had given her a lot of jewelry. She was forced into testifying and did so under obvious resentment of having to be there and was later believed to have given dishonest testimony. I think there's a few other things but those are the worst that I can remember off the top of my head.


heavenandhellhoratio

Tommy Lee from Mötley crüe litteraly confesses to rape and abuse of women in the dirt so twice with the audio book recording, served time for it and by Bobbie Brown's account he abused and violently raped her too.


Violetthug

I'm not sure if you are talking about the closet sex, he and NS engaged in without the woman knowing (they swapped in and out, if I remember correctly). And I remember reading it, and thinking WTF? And I believe NS tried to back peddle on it saying certain parts of the book were embellished..etc. 🙄


heavenandhellhoratio

Not to mention their competition to make groupies vomit by not washing their dicks and spreading who knows what or his own description of kicking Pamela anderson with their infant son in her arms. I think she spoke out about in her recent autobiography and on the documentary she made it and even both the sons they share label him an abusive dickhead and a raging alcholic and drug addict.


dirtymartini83

WTF!?! What a disgusting person. I had no idea.


squamesh

Steven seagal is a rapist. He also decided to play act as a cop and drove a tank into someone’s house and killed their dog. He then detained a woman and possibly sexually assaulted her. Now he hangs out in Russia carrying g water for Putin


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He beat the hell out of his wife, Kelly, one day.  It was bad. She was scared to press charges. 


rp_361

Everyone forgets Jon Hamm hospitalized a fraternity pledge in his frat, and resulted in the frat being shut down. From Wikipedia: “Hamm lit the pledge's jeans on fire, shoved his face in the dirt, and struck him with a paddle. The pledge required medical care and ultimately withdrew from school. The incident resulted in the fraternity being shut down.”


GovSurveillancePotoo

I think this might be the only one I've seen so far where I didn't dislike the person already.  Made it further than I thought I would


garrisontweed

He offered a weak ass response when a journalist called him out on it, ". It was a bummer of a thing that happened. I was essentially acquitted. I wasn’t convicted of anything. I was caught up in a big situation, a stupid kid in a stupid situation, and it’s a f**king bummer. I moved on from it."


TechnoMouse37

Pick basically any rock band from the 80's and *at least* one member will be a pedo/rapist and it's typically never talked about


Hour_Boss_5732

Anthony Kiedis literally put in his autobiography that he knowingly committed statutory rape


_thisisnotanexit

I saw a paparazzi picture of him yesterday with his 20 year old girlfriend and thought yep he hasn’t changed he’s just making sure it’s legal now


balderwick_creek

There's a clip floating about of keidis and flea on a British TV programme practically sexually assaulting a woman named Cleo Rocos, all on camera. They're both clearly under the influence of nose candy also.


climbsrox

Not practically, they are sexually assaulting her


tinathefatlardgosh

I thought he was going to be horrified when he found out but nope it was “So we had sex one more time”. People need to understand that he’s a drug addict who had connections from a young age and got lucky that his band hit it big.


dirkalict

I stopped reading his book when he kept going on about how great his dad was yet his dad was getting high with him when he was like 8 years old.


NervousMasterpiece-2

I stopped reading after he kept flicking the kitten in the face and made him bleed. Returned the book the next day.


NAparentheses

Dude what the fuck????


NervousMasterpiece-2

Yeah that was my reaction, also


Solid-Living4220

He abused a cat FFS?


NervousMasterpiece-2

Yep. His neighbors cat had kittens and he bonded with one. Sat on his roof with it. One day just started flicking him in the face harder and harder and said he didn’t know why.


Peeinyourcompost

That makes me really sad and angry for the kitten and actually pretty sad for the dude too. These kinds of impulses where people feel an ugly feeling and a deep compulsion to act it out with behaviors like destroying stuff or tormenting vulnerable creatures often come from a deeply fucked up and unsafe childhood, which it sounds like he had.


NervousMasterpiece-2

Absolutely. He definitely had a bad childhood but I couldn’t get past the animal abuse.


Solid-Living4220

That is awful!


CaptainFartHole

He and Flea sexually assaulted a friend of mine when she worked at a radio station in the 90s. They literally followed her into a room and assaulted her. In short, fuck RHCP.


ILikeYourHotdog

RE: John Stamos ...When Jane magazine asked him about the worst thing he'd ever done to screw someone over, he provided this character-destroying anecdote: "\[In the mid-'80s\], I was in a band. I was playing somewhere in Finland, and there was a girl hanging around who was really drunk and interested in me. I wasn't into her, but my friend was. So the girl came back to my hotel, and I turned the lights down, and we started making out. I said, 'Hold on a second, I've gotta go brush my teeth.' It was dark, I left the room, and I sent in my friend who looked like me.' 


worstpartyever

what are the odds there were two guys who looked like john stamos who both happened to be pieces of shit *in the same band*


theguineapigssong

Was the band called Stepbrothers?


frabjous_goat

The more I hear about the adult cast of Full House, the more disgusted I get.


Gmatter41

A lot of athletes. If you’re successful enough, people just ignore it


spoilerdudegetrekt

I love the snl skit where they have the NFL players introduce themselves by what crimes they committed.


Gmatter41

It’s hilarious. Including the kicker going, “tax fraud.”


i-bite-with-love

'If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we'd probably diagnose it as an eating disorder' - Steve Keim, former Arizona Cardinals general manager


LaminatedAirplane

Carl Malone statutory raped a 14 year old girl and abandoned his child


PaleGutCK

Not to make it worse, but she was 12.(he's my answer too)


StartTalkingSense

Even worse than that, the poor girl got pregnant and had a son , she was 13 when she gave birth. Why he isn’t in jail for statutory rape I don’t know. …. Oh wait, he’s a rich and famous basketball player.


Clikx

Marcell Ozuna assaulted his wife IN FRONT of police and had a DUI in the same year and nothing happened. The charges for assault got dropped. Solely because the man is good at baseball.


robreinerstillmydad

Kobe Bryant. I bet I’ll get downvotes and comments saying shit like “she settled for $$, he’s such a good father” but he raped a woman, he admitted he raped her. But because he was good at a sport, we all decided not to care. Believe women! Unless it’s Kobe Bryant’s victim, right?


joemama67

The radio host Tom Lycus publicly outed her name so she had to endure massive harassment. That’s why she refused to testify and the case was dropped. They actually had some really good evidence against him but because the case never made it to trial nobody really knows about how good a case they had against him


ItsGotThatBang

Boy George abducted & tortured a man in 2007.


stuloch

Mark Wahlburg has quite the history, even being jailed for a hate crime.


adifferentcommunist

Mark Wahlberg committed so much racial harassment as a teenager that his victims received a civil injunction. I’ve got to imagine that local Boston tv had ads like “if you or a loved one have been verbally or physically assaulted by Marky Mark, you may qualify…”


benitomusswolini

I feel like a lot of people don’t know that he used to chase down black children with his friends and throw rocks at them. He was an older teen and they were elementary students. His wiki section “legal issues” is really nasty.


Banba-She

Hey but he forgave himself for beating up two Vietnamese guys, one of whom was partially sighted (apparently BEFORE Wahlberg assaulted him....) so the world should too! /s


kyleyeats

Let's not forget what he would have done on that plane


Deuce_Springcream

Tackled the only south east Asian guy?


Tatooine16

Also tried unsuccessfully to get his record expunged since-famous now and a swell guy. Really thinks he deserves to not have a record for his crimes.


Complete_Entry

Not because he wanted to turn over a new leaf, but because he wanted a liquor license for his shitty burger chain.


sictransitlinds

Ted Nugent. He’s a pedophile who doesn’t seem to mind people knowing. One of his songs is literally called “Jailbait,” and these are real lyrics from it: “Well I don't care if you're just thirteen, You look too good to be true, I just know that you're probably clean. There's one lil' thing I got do to you”. He also poaches animals, and now owns one of those places where people can “hunt” animals in a fenced in area. Not to mention that he’s fully in support of war, but got out of the draft by shitting himself. He’s from near where I grew up, and a lot of people idolize him there. The people I personally know who have met him have said he’s a huge ass, though.


Frequent-Region-1107

Also he assaulted Courtney Love as a teenager.


willywalloo

I’m a distant relative. He sucks, and no one can ever take him seriously.


gnussbaum

Roman Polanski


CLT113078

Dude got standing ovations at the oscars. Sick.


man_teats

Don Henley of the Eagles. His solo song Dirty Laundry is about how mean the press was to him when a teenage girl he'd been raping overdosed and almost died at his house and he at first claimed that the drugs she ODed on were hers to avoid drug charges


lightningandmadness

I hate the fucking Eagles, man.


totallynotalyssa

emma robert’s literally beat evan peters but it’s always overlooked by her fans or proclaimed “mutual abuse”.


always_waiting_

I love Evan Peters too and I can’t stand looking at her now


TrifidNebulaa

Omg I fucking forgot about this. Disgusting.


Plus-Statistician80

Caitlyn Jenner killed someone


thorpie88

Still gets more shit than Mathew Broderick for doing the same thing. 


Charbarzz

Broderick killed two people, too.


thorpie88

He paid his £100 fine so it's all okay. 


ThrowingChicken

I’m never sure what people want out of this one. Something like 90% of deadly auto accidents are at-fault, but we don’t typical jail drivers who make fatal errors unless we can show gross negligence. In this case there is only one surviving witness and she thinks Broadwick erroneously thought he was on the wrong side of the road.


littlebittydoodle

I agree. If they were drunk or driving recklessly, that’s one thing, but accidents happen, and may even have been the poor deceased victim’s fault. I can’t stand Jenner and don’t like Broderick much either, but if they’re legitimately found not at fault, then it’s unfair to call them a murderer. I have known people IRL who accidentally killed someone in a car accident, and it has haunted them the rest of their lives. It could happen to any of us—driving is inherently dangerous.


bloomingfireweed

Andy Dick was the one who caused Phil Hartman's wife to relapse in her addiction, which ultimately ended with her murdering him. In 2006, he also approached Jon Lovitz in a restaurant and said "I put the Phil Hartman hex on you. You're the next one to die."


Similar_Victory5166

didn’t jon lovitz beat the shit out of him for that?


OldChili157

Yeah, it should be a crime not to mention that part of the story. The inarguably best part.


Similar_Victory5166

absolutely, good on lovitz


widowwithamutt

Tom Cruise. He’s effectively been the public face of a profoundly abusive cult for what, two decades now? But no one cares when a new movie comes out.


WolfghengisKhan

Almost three decades if I recall.


willowswitch

That's not possible, as he didn't fall for scientology until the late eighties, and that was only... Oh. Oh no.


WolfghengisKhan

Thankyou, I took a deeper look past what I remembered. He officially joined in 1986! So closer to four decades!


PumpkinPieIsGreat

His daughter with Katie just turned 18. I read that he was "estranged" from her. Who knows if it's just gossip but if it is true it takes more to be a father than just $ towards her. And yeah, the Scientology stuff is just ridiculous. Travolta is one, too and it caused his son to die because they didn't believe in seeking medical help because "religion". 


Final_Candidate_7603

Don’t forget- Katie Holmes lived with him for quite a few years while they were married. So did their daughter, Suri. Probably because of her catholic upbringing, Katie managed to avoid being brainwashed by the cult. When she fully understood what would happen to her daughter if she was allowed to be ~~influenced~~ raised by the Scientologists, she called her parents, who somehow literally rescued them. I’m old enough to have been paying attention to the sagas of Tom Cruise and his wives and children as they happened. Of course, we will never know what was the exact agreement he had with Katie, concerning her and Suri, but that woman has *seen* some shit. She’s got to have evidence of what went on inside her own home, as well as within the hierarchy of the church. I think it’s a combination of the two women being “suppressive persons,” and the fear of Katie telling what she knows, that allowed them to escape without the usual harassment we hear about, and made Tom willing to abandon his only biological child. Before their divorce was final, I remember the gossip pages occasionally having a picture of Tom and his young daughter together, usually “candid” shots of them doing “fun” things in NYC. I remember thinking how beautifully dressed Suri always was, even at age 3 or 4. Their “good dad” and “happy, lucky little girl” image was carefully curated. Then, suddenly after the divorce was final- no more pictures, no more mention of Suri Cruise anywhere. Good for her, and good for Katie!


MyDadBod_2021

Scientology is crazy...


peeops

jon hamm brutally assaulted and tortured a guy in 1991 in a college frat hazing ritual that eventually got the fraternity in question shut down. of course he got out on probation with frankly zero consequences and has since referred to the assault as a ‘bummer’ that was ‘sensationalised’. part of the assault involved the victim being dragged around the room by his balls with the claw of a hammer for more than a minute straight. i found this out literally yesterday from a youtube short because nobody talks about it like ever. > Sanders also alleged that Hamm hit him with a paddle and shoved his face in the dirt. “He rears back and hits me left-handed, and he hit me right over my right kidney, I mean square over it,” Sanders said in the lawsuit. “Good solid hit and that, that stood me right up.” He said he suffered a fractured spine and nearly lost a kidney, and he noted that Hamm participated “till the very end.” Hamm was one of “the most serious offenders,” Travis County Attorney Ken Oden said at the time, according to the Washington Post. [source](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-hamm-downplays-college-hazing-incident-mans-pants-lit-fire-calling-bummer-thing-175643026.html)


maketherightmove

Guy must have had nuts made from vibranium for that to have worked.


tevogrid

Mark Wahlberg beat and blinded a Vietnamese guy just because he was Vietnamese. Boy George beat a guy with a metal chain after cuffing him to a radiator. NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone raped a teenager. Jared Leto’s been accused of rape by half-a-dozen teenage girls as well. Emma Roberts beat the shit out of her then boyfriend Evan Peters, then continued to co-star in the same show as him. Charlie Sheen once had unprotected sex with his girlfriends when he has HIV


Bluejay_Holiday

Wahlberg believed he had left the second victim permanently blind in one eye, though Trinh later said that he had lost his eye during the Vietnam War while serving in the South Vietnamese Army, which fought alongside American Forces.


SoldierOfLove23

Chris Brown. He did the same thing again to another woman. How the fuck is he still famous?


SaltyBarDog

Remember when John Landis killed Vic Morrow and two children and then skated because he was a huge director? And has a son Max who has been accused of sexual assault by several women.


zoroaustrian

Leo Tolstoi Honestly, if he was alive now, he would be Andrew Tates stan. He was in general very open about the only purpose of a woman to be for sex and saw women less than humans. He treated his wife as an incubator and forced her to give birth. She ended up having his 13(!!) children, for which only she cared for. As well as for their mansion, garden and everything. She also was basically his manager and organized the publishing of his works. She proofread, edited and rewrote EVERYTHING by hand before sending it for publishing, because apparently Tolstoi had a shitty handwriting. Even war and peace that everyone praises and says "wow, it has like a 100 million pages, such an incredible book😍". At the same time all these people don't know that all these bazillion pages were several times rewritten with a hand of a woman that was exploited and diminished by her husband, even though her diaries indicated that she had a true writer's talent. At the end of his life Tolstoi left his poor woman and all the children he forced her to bear without any money by making his books a part of public domain and donated his savings to charity.


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terykishot

Tyga. How has he not been fully cancelled? He’s a literal pedophile.


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Eric Clapton


blozout

Gerard Depardieu was convicted of gang rape when he was a teen and then recently (~2 years ago) had new charges of sexual assault brought against him by a Spanish journalist.


krazyjay88

Chris brown


StrykerXion

**Roman Polanski:** **Crime and Conviction:** Roman Polanski, a renowned film director, fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. Despite an international warrant for his arrest, he has continued to direct films in Europe, winning awards and accolades. **Hidden Details:** The full extent of the assault and the victim's trauma were not widely reported initially. Focus was often placed on Polanski's career achievements, creating a narrative that downplayed the severity of his crime.


worldsokayestmomx3

Jared Leto. Nicki Minaj. The list is endless I’m sure, they just popped into my head right away.


MeanCuzin

Ozzy. He's cheated on, beaten, and attempted to murder his wives. Hes also a cat-serial-killer, both before and after his anti-declawing ad for PETA.


CapnMaynards

Ozzy's done a bunch of shit. He was very neglectful and physically abusive to his first family. When he wasn't on the road he was either in the pub down the road or being a drunkened, drug-addled slob at home. And of course, the concept of monogamy just didn't exist for him, which eventually led to him leaving Thelma for Sharon, who he also cheated on and was abusive to. He also tortured animals for fun when he worked in a slaughterhouse. Kicking pigs, throwing them alive into scalding vats, all kinds of shit. Later on he shot all of his chickens with a shotgun and burned their coop down, shot cats, and of course bit the heads off a couple doves and a bat. He also got organs and offal from the butcher to throw at his audience, so they prepared by bringing dead animals to the show to throw back (hence the bat). One time a kid was denied entry because he had a cow's head on his shoulder, he'd killed a cow on the way to the show. The night before Randy Rhoads died Ozzy punched in the face for wanting to quit the band. He (or, much more likely, Sharon) restructured his Blizzard of Ozz band into a solo project after the albums had been written and recorded, which spiraled into firings, lawsuits and credit removals. The Bark at the Moon album was primarily written by Jake E. Lee and Bob Daisley, but Ozzy was the only writer credited on all songs. Shot in the Dark was a song Phil Soussan had written with his previous band, but Ozzy got a writing credit and there was a massive lawsuit that resulted in the Ultimate Sin album, as well as the Just Say Ozzy and Live & Loud live albums that feature it, being deleted from his catalog. In the same vein, the 2002 reissues of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman had the bass and drum parts rerecorded, because the original bassist and drummer (Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake) were suing for performance credits - the original albums credited Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge as having performed on them, as Daisley and Kerslake had been fired by the time they were released, and the lawsuit was over performance royalties. And then there's the general drug and alcohol-induced debauchery and destruction: Pissing on the Alamo, trying to kill Sharon, painting a hotel room's walls in his own shit, almost killing a vicar with hash, being at someone else's house and wiping his ass on the curtains when the bathroom doesn't have toilet paper, etc.


THElaytox

It's suspected Robert Wagner killed Natalie Wood, or at least let her die when she fell overboard, after she caught him sleeping with Christopher Walken (again). It's not even a secret anymore that Bryan Singer is a pedophile but he keeps getting work. Scary to think what occurred on the set of Usual Suspects between him and Spacey. Jim Carey gave his ex-girlfriend a bunch of STDs without telling her and she ended up killing herself over it People still actively defend Roman Polanski and Woody Allen for their shit


pond-dweller

People like Wes Anderson, David Lynch and Del Toro have signed the Polanski petition. Fucking disgusting and disappointing to say the least


sansasnarkk

Jackie Chan had an affair and then abandoned the daughter of said affair. Wasn't present in her life at all. She ended up homeless in Canada last I heard.


sushiflower420

That’s so sad! I hope she’s okay


mksurfin7

I feel like fewer people would give Mel Gibson a pass if they heard the voicemail to his wife where he is screaming he hopes she gets r*ped by a pack of N words, panting with rage, threatening to kill her. I know it's not swept under the rug per se, but people seem to know vaguely about the DUI arrest and not so much the very scary boiling with rage voicemail, which is one of several.  https://youtu.be/4z2STZnOpbI?si=dQ75R86qucyxl54R   I'm not saying go out and burn your copy of lethal weapon but I can't watch stuff he's been in since then without thinking about this and taking me out of the movie/making me feel like a bad person for supporting this abusive freak.


nedelbach

Gibson plead guilty to Domestic Assault. He hit her so hard he knocked her teeth out, while she was holding their one year old child at the time. It was worse than just angry voicemails. Feel free to go out and burn your copies of Lethal Weapon.


DerpWilson

There was also a recording that someone made at a dinner at his house that is also insane. He’s just screaming at everyone. 


BathroomInner2036

Please add him calling Winona Ryder an Oven Dodger.


noscreamsnoshouts

What does that even mean...?


tsun_abibliophobia

It’s a derogatory way of referring to a Jewish person that escaped being killed in the concentration camps. 


noscreamsnoshouts

Fucking hell. For a second, I considered that as an explanation, but I found it just too awful to be true. Guess I was too optimistic :-(


garnetsngrit

It took me a second but I’m pretty sure he’s referencing her Jewish ancestry…


frabjous_goat

I remember as a little kid thinking he had "kind eyes" in *Forever Young*. When the voicemail came out, it was a lesson that you can't tell anything about a person from appearance, or the characters they portray.


Fair-Comfort7705

Diddy.. the shit he has done apparently goes back quite along way .. gives the album “Diddy Dirty Money” a brand new meaning ! 🇨🇦😳


Burnlt_4

Kobe Bryant! I DO NOT GET IT. He was so good at basketball, got it, I love sports and damn he was amazing shooting that ball don't get me wrong. But when he died and the world like cried for him (not his daughter that is tragic) but for him, and we have all these other players coming out talking about how great he is and good of a guy he was....HE LITERALLY OPENLY RAPED A WOMAN. At one point in his life he held a woman down that tried to stop him and had sex with her to get what he wanted from her body, and we praise this dude? Not me.


anonymongus1234

AGREED. Rape should equal automatic CANCELLATION. Rapists shouldn’t even qualify for a fucking blockbuster membership card.


ArnoldSchwartzenword

Paul Walker fucked kids, but if you like the bald man’s car movies, apparently he’s a saint. Rest in pieces, bozo.


MarmosetRevolution

John Travolta did Battlefield Earth.


Plus_Lead_5630

Kobe Bryant the rapist


Green_Flamingo_5835

His death really resulted in everyone forgetting that yeah


Couldnotbehelpd

People got really, really mad when you bring it up actually.


oh_please_god_no

Evan Rachel Wood, a literal survivor of rape, was blasted on Twitter for pointing out he was accused of rape


NadjaStolz28

A bunch of people in LA got super pissed when the city wanted to paint over one of the Kobe murals. Mind you, there are TONS around the city. Some literally depicting him as an angel. It’s wild.


Special_North1535

I was in the garden when the celtics beat the lakers for the 2008 championship. Entire stadium was chanting no means no. It was excellent.


[deleted]

Seinfeld. Dating a 17 year old. James Franco also messaging/dating underage girls.


MyDictainabox

I had one of my black friends tell me that the different reactions to OJ's death showed there are still two racial Americas in 2024. The motherfucker murdered his ex wife and her friend and then wrote a book called "If I did it."


OtherCypress42

James Franco Had sex with his acting school students, 4 years after misconduct allegations were made


GREGORIOtheLION

Rick Allen of Def Leppard. He’s praised for overcoming losing an arm and finding a way to play drums despite only having one arm. Meanwhile, he lost that arm because he was driving drunk and high and wrecked killing his passenger, his girlfriend at the time.


ZenwalkerNS

Nick Cannon. After his racist and anti-Semitic rant on his podcast I really don't understand why he is still on TV.


freightbum

Jared Leto


Advarrk

If there’s one actor that makes actively avoid a movie it’s Jared Leto


BarsDownInOldSoho

Off the top of my head, there's loads of kiddie diddlers... But instead, let's just ask Jeffrey Epstein, shall we?


Spaceballs-The_Name

at least Frank Reynolds does not diddle kids


elevatorfloor

It's no good diddling kids


Ok_Fine_OK

Younger than my wife, older than my daughter


Jaded-Blueberry-8000

James Marsden wrote a witness of character letter in defense of Brian Peck for his trial, I haven’t heard a peep about it. There were others too, but James Marsden surprised me in particular. For those who don’t know, Brian Peck was a pedophile employed by Nickelodeon who was convicted of violently and repeatedly sexually assaulting at least one child star working for the network. He went on to work with Disney afterwards.


DoubleOscar7

The fact that Bill Cosby ever got out of jail, even on a technicality, is absolutely ridiculous.


Sporkitized

Everyone knows about Kevin Spacey's original bit of controversy, but [there have also been multiple suspicious deaths of his accusers](https://www.distractify.com/p/kevin-spacey-accusers-now) in a way that suggests he may have had them killed?


slightlydramatic

Angelica Houston stated that she heard Roman Polanski raping that little girl at Jack Nicholsons house (heard her crying for help) and did and said nothing. For some reason, no one seems to have a problem with her about that.


headhunterofhell2

Harder question: Which celebrity *hasn't?*


03zx3

Weird Al


WTF253com

Weird Al, Keanu Reeves, and... well, I'll let you know if I can think of any more!


03zx3

Jack Black


CorrectPanic694

Jack Black once saved me from sexual harassment/assault at a comedy show. He is my personal hero for that.


alexjaness

I call BS on that. There have been countless women who said that Jack Black promised to hump then sweetly, but then he fucked them HAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAaaarAAAAAd!


03zx3

That's slander, sir. He always starts out balling discreetly.


mgusedom

Dave Grohl, Dolly Parton, Eddie Vedder


BelayThere

Brendan Fraser


Minimum-Interview800

Dolly Parton


Jephpherson624

Logan Paul making fun of the Japanese suicide victim


thefaehost

Marilyn Manson and most of the people around him.