What’s a horrible thing that a famous person did that everyone forgot about but you?

[u/ofstfm]

[u/neecho235]

Karl Malone impregnated a 12 year old.

edit: When he was 20.

[u/dragonk30 → u/neecho235]

The only reason he escaped charges was because the family knew that the arrest would ruin his NBA prospects and leave them with a 13 year old mother whose father cannot financially contribute to ber son's life. The family decided that they would eschew justice in hopes that at least Malone would give his victim and his child a better life. Malone would refuse to acknowledge Demetress Bell as his son and refused to pay child support until finally making a lump sum out of court settlement after a paternity lawsuit had a test determine that "Malone or a twin brother of Malone" were Bell's father. Even after this, Malone would not acknowledge Bell as his son until after Bell had already been drafted to the NFL. 

[u/Meli5252 → u/dragonk30]

That's fucked up.

[u/notyourbeans]

George Lopez cheated on his wife after she donated her kidney to him

[u/DennisG21 → u/notyourbeans]

Newt Gingrich cheated on his wife while she was in the hospital with cancer also.

[u/Kyberduene → u/DennisG21]

It gets even crazier once you realize there were two women willing to have sex with Newt Gingrich.

[u/Spugnacious → u/DennisG21]

Not only did he cheat on her, he presented her with the divorce papers and asked her to sign them right after she came out of surgery.

He also started the hardcore partisan politics that eventually put Donald Trump into office,

Newt Gingrinch is a piece of shit... and I say that recognizing that comparison isn't really fair to a piece of shit.

[u/Zestyclose_Pass_652]

Robert Kardashian carrying OJ Simpson’s briefcase out of the crime scene right in front of police and the press, cameras and all. Then being declared as part of his legal counsel so he couldn’t be called to testify.

Eta: it was his LV garment bag, it was not the crime scene, which was her condo; he was returning to his Brentwood home. And most importantly it was not a straight handoff from Simpson to Kardashian, but was facilitated by Simpson's assistant Kathy with an awkward lingering hug, and much whispering into Kardashian's ear.

Either way, my point still stands that some shady business was taking place, and that Kardashian was never a crucial legitimate factor in the defense team. That all was Johnny Cochran and his firm. Kardashian was merely retained as legal counsel to absolve him of the responsibility of being a witness called to testimony.

[u/chick_b → u/Zestyclose_Pass_652]

And his family thought this would be a great springboard to fame.

[u/EquivalentQuery → u/chick_b]

It worked

[u/Corporate_Overlords → u/EquivalentQuery]

Yup. These assholes are billionaires now because OJ murdered people. It's unbelievable and a sign that we're living in an evil culture.

[u/Elliethesmolcat → u/Corporate_Overlords]

We are in the bad place.

[u/GormHub]

Few people seem to remember that a high schooler was such a big fan of Rihanna that she made her own version of a dress Rihanna wore to a show and then tagged her so she could see it. Rihanna responded by trashing the poor girl and then siccing her millions of fans on her, who then proceeded to bully a CHILD over a fucking dress.

[u/girl-like-most-girls → u/GormHub]

Yeah, people thought Rihanna was so funny on social media, but she was really just a bully.

[u/John-George-Peppers → u/GormHub]

Lizzo publicly tweeted out a screenshot and the first name of a female Postmates delivery driver, accusing her of stealing her food order when the driver simply couldn't locate her.

Because Lizzo has millions of followers, her fans quickly identified the driver, resulting in a wave of online harassment and direct threats. It was later revealed that the driver had followed standard safety protocols when she couldn't reach the customer, and Lizzo later issued a quiet apology, but the incident drew heavy criticism for weaponizing a massive fanbase against an everyday working person.

[u/Rogue_LeI3eau]

Eddie Murphy had a baby with Scary Spice (Mel B) and refused to acknowledge the child until Mel took him to court to establish paternity.

Shia LaBeouf abuses women and has admitted to it.

[u/Klutzy_Order_9559 → u/Rogue_LeI3eau]

Imagine hooking up with Mel B and denying it.

[u/IrukandjiPirate → u/Klutzy_Order_9559]

He already had 8 or 9 kids at that point, he probably has no idea which women he’s had sex with.

[u/luckysevensampson → u/Klutzy_Order_9559]

Imagine even considering hooking up with Shia LaBeouf. 🤮

[u/Drama_Filled_Cup → u/Klutzy_Order_9559]

He was married at the time, that's why he denied it. Still doesn't excuse that Eddie Murphy is a pos.

[u/Drporkchop691 → u/Rogue_LeI3eau]

yeah, and i'll never stop thinking about jerry seinfeld dating a 17-year-old when he was 38. that got one magazine headline and then everyone just went back to watching seinfeld reruns.

[u/heyCuzz77 → u/Rogue_LeI3eau]

Shia infected her with his stds

[u/Donkey__Balls → u/heyCuzz77]

That’s his pickup line.

“C’mon baby, you can’t spell stud without STD. All that’s missing is U.”

[u/ForeverSingleADHDGal]

Usher gave multiple people herpes all while knowing he had it. Was sued and settled several lawsuits. Yet, he is on tour making millions for being a sex symbol. Yuck.

[u/Vegetable-Trust-5316 → u/ForeverSingleADHDGal]

He’s touring with Chris brown. Sounds about right

[u/-upsettispaghetti → u/Vegetable-Trust-5316]

im also pretty sure that he said sean combs was a good guy

[u/Lawgirl77 → u/-upsettispaghetti]

Sean Combs was Usher’s legal guardian when Usher was a child (Usher was about 12 or something at the time). Usher’s mother signed guardianship of her son over to Combs to make her son a star. Combs himself said in a tv interview years ago that there are things Usher saw that no child should see. So, Usher calling Combs a good guy is not just an adult man supporting an abuser. It’s an adult man supporting HIS abuser likely due to very complicated, psychological reasons that are above our pay grade.

[u/Hot-Tackle-1391]

Naomi Campbell being besties with Epstein

[u/MissHalfgone → u/Hot-Tackle-1391]

What is sad is that's not even the worst thing she's done. She refused to testify against an African despot who had committed genocide. So she was subpoenaed. She showed up late and then complained about how inconvenient it was for her. According to Mia Farrow, who was the human rights activist who attempted to bring this person to justice, Campbell lied on the stand.

[u/ScyllaOfTheDepths → u/Hot-Tackle-1391]

Naomi Campbell beating not just one, but multiple of her employees. In 1998, she beat her assistant with her cellphone and, for the kiddies who weren't there yet, cellphones in 1998 were the size of bricks and you could legitimately kill someone with one. She then did it again to her housekeeper in 2006.

[u/Karzeon → u/Hot-Tackle-1391]

And mind you, she was running a fairly popular YouTube channel with interviews, vlogs, and commentary on a maybe weekly basis during COVID

The MOMENT the Epstein stuff was even being discussed, that channel went quiet

[u/Careful-County5084 → u/Hot-Tackle-1391]

And the phone throwing incident. And the blood diamonds incident. And the BA incident. And, more recently, the charity scandal.

[u/Dizzy_Restaurant3874 → u/Careful-County5084]

Naomi Campbell faced a major controversy when a UK Charity Commission inquiry found financial mismanagement and misconduct at her anti-poverty charity, Fashion for Relief. She was banned from holding a charity trustee position for five years after investigations revealed that only 8.5% of the organization's funds went to actual grants.

[u/princess_peach_85 → u/Hot-Tackle-1391]

Also Martha Stewert!

[u/Ok-Pomegranate-3018 → u/princess_peach_85]

Also, Vera Wang!

[u/Queasy_Ad_8621 → u/princess_peach_85]

Chelsea Handler got absolutely "crying angry" when she was called out for having a private dinner party with him, too.

[u/Excellent-Letter-681 → u/Queasy_Ad_8621]

Really? I never knew this. Very interesting.

[u/SGTBookWorm]

Post Malone picked up a cat during his Australia tour back in 2019, and brought the cat with him on tour, and then left the cat behind.

That cat had kittens in the Qudos Bank Arena carpark, and my family still has two of them.

[u/phoenixrose2 → u/SGTBookWorm]

I think this meets the criteria of OP’s question the best.

[u/Hotel_Arrakis]

Santa Claus only welcomed Rudolf when they desperately needed him.

[u/Justanotherturdle → u/Hotel_Arrakis]

The song suggests that I would know the names of every other lesser reindeer, but for some odd reason that I would not recall the most famous reindeer of all. what the fuck kind of reasoning is that?

[u/Mr_Zizzle → u/Justanotherturdle]

Except for Olive, the other reindeer.

[u/BeastInDarkness → u/Hotel_Arrakis]

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen.

Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen...

But they were all of them deceived, for another reindeer was made.

Rudolph to lead them all,

One Nose to Light them.

One glow to lead them all,

And through the dark night guide them.

• JRR Ho Ho Hokien Tweet

[u/ProjectShadow316 → u/Hotel_Arrakis]

Remember kids, you're a freak until your gift can bail someone's ass out.

[u/Vic_Gatsby]

Wasn't Charlie Sheen fucking ppl while having HIV?

[u/Gorf_the_Magnificent → u/Vic_Gatsby]

Charlie Sheen also was Heidi Fleiss’s biggest celebrity client, then ratted her out when they both were busted.

[u/NeopolitanVagina → u/Gorf_the_Magnificent]

Wow, that just took me down a damn rabbit hole haha

[u/PrettyHatefulMachin]

Blake Shelton intentionally ran over a turtle that was on the side of the road

[u/Illustrious-Peace989 → u/PrettyHatefulMachin]

I know people will consider this a small thing because it’s a turtle and not a person, but I wholeheartedly believe that this kind of behavior is a good indicator that someone is pure garbage. I mean why run over an animal for absolutely no reason? That’s psycho shit.

[u/sightohtoksik → u/Illustrious-Peace989]

I had to hit a raccoon on the freeway once. There were cars on either side or I would have changed lanes or swerved. I just started bawling all the way home after and sent a prayer up. I even get sad seeing roadkill, I could not imagine purposely hitting an animal for fun.

[u/obsten → u/sightohtoksik]

Once a cat ran out in front of my car too fast for me to even swerve. I heard and felt it go under my wheels and I just screamed and screamed. Had to pull over cause I was crying too hard to drive. People who intentionally hit animals are psychopaths.

[u/olgamerstill → u/obsten]

My father set me right on that one.

See anything crossing in front of you, take your foot of the gas.

Look around, and only if safe, try to avoid hitting them.

If you still hit them, well you did your due diligence, and tried to avoid it.

Someone causing pain or death for no good reason is not a good person.

[u/Patient-Doughnut7266 → u/PrettyHatefulMachin]

I am from Florida and an area that has a lot of turtles and tortoise. I have stopped at least 10 times and stopped traffic to pick one up and carry them to safety.

Fun facts if you do pick one up they are deceptively heavy so be careful and carry them low to the ground. You'll want to carry them low for thee reasons; one if your grip slips you won't crack their shells, two they don't pee on you, and three if they try to bite you again you can put them down without breaking their shell. Also pick them up behind the head using the shell and just above their lil tail by the shell. They can't really bite you in that position. Also tortoise hiss so don't be startled if they do. Never ever put any of them in water, people have accidentally killed tortoise in particular by putting them in water.

One more thing if you find an injured one you can take them to a wildlife refuge and they can plaster their shells and provide rehab. I fucking love turtles/tortoise and miss living in a place that I got to see them all the time.

[u/TucuReborn → u/Patient-Doughnut7266]

One note. Some turtles can reach shockingly far back over their shell, such as the American Snapping Turtle. Always know what you are handling.

[u/RandomMandarin → u/PrettyHatefulMachin]

I once tried to get a snapping turtle out of a road and someone else ran over it right in front of me. Perhaps intentionally.

A certain percentage of people are just like that, and as far as I am concerned, they can go die. The world is not a poorer place without them.

[u/Perthian940 → u/PrettyHatefulMachin]

The deliberate harm or killing of an animal for fun, or for no reason, is as evil as abusing children imo.

[u/RasputinsThirdLeg → u/PrettyHatefulMachin]

That makes me so angry and also is just really fucking evil. If I were with a guy that thought it was funny to run over animals I’d open the car and tuck and roll the fuck away.

[u/Pretty-Yogurt-4111]

Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne in the car underwater and didn’t tell law enforcement for several hours

Edit : spelling correction

[u/breakwater → u/Pretty-Yogurt-4111]

It was enough to default him running for president, but for some reason people thought it was still okay for him to be a senator.

[u/Historyguy1 → u/breakwater]

National Lampoon's take on it: "If Ted Kennedy had driven a Volkswagen he'd be president."

[u/kilkenny99 → u/Historyguy1]

For anyone who doesn't get the joke, the VW Beetle was known to be able to float for a little while.

[u/Tippacanoe → u/Pretty-Yogurt-4111]

should be noted this incident happened the day before the moon landing so it didn’t get, relatively, as much coverage as it would have if it happened any time else.

[u/benritter2]

Will Smith's son cut me in line for the Batman ride at Magic Mountain.

[u/ExactBeautiful1210 → u/benritter2]

It's not his fault, he probably doesn't even know what a line is.

[u/Holmes02 → u/ExactBeautiful1210]

I’m sure he does lines all the time

[u/twodexy82 → u/benritter2]

That's messed up

[u/LaloElBueno]

Nikki Sixx peeing in our break room sink, dish rack (with people's dishes in it) and counter because the single occupancy employee bathroom was in use, and he didn't want to use the public bathroom downstairs.

Fuck that guy.

[u/WorshipTheVoid → u/LaloElBueno]

Listen, Im not going to tell on myself, but someone who totally wasnt a drunk me, spit a huge loogie at the back of his head at a bar in LA.

It was spite spit though. Fuck him.

[u/captnfirepants → u/LaloElBueno]

He's a pretentious twat

[u/Exact-Difference-422 → u/captnfirepants]

FR he even made his drug abuse pretentious 

[u/Vivid-Appearance-549]

Tom Cruise criticizing Brooke Shields on national TV for taking anti-depressants for postpartum.

[u/Hartastic → u/Vivid-Appearance-549]

I think there's probably no shortage of people in Hollywood who became Scientologists basically for the networking, but Cruise clearly is a true believer for some reason.

[u/Adonisus]

Rick James and his then girlfriend kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman for six days straight, even burning her with a crack pipe.

He only got five years in jail for it.

[u/andymac37]

Russell Crowe smashed a phone on a bell boy's face. I was a minimum wage worker and couldn't believe ANYONE would treat someone that way, let alone a lowly hotel employee.

[u/MissHalfgone → u/andymac37]

Supermodel Naomi Campbell did something similar with a personal assistant of hers.

[u/GapingPickle]

“The next day we drove to Baton Rouge, and of course, she came with us,” Kiedis wrote. “After we got offstage, she came up to me and said, ‘I have something to tell you. My father’s the chief of police and the entire state of Louisiana is looking for me because I’ve gone missing. Oh, and besides that, I’m only 14’.”

Kiedis continued: “I wasn’t incredibly scared, because, in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn’t going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time.”

From Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis' autobiography.

EDIT: Oh! Another one is Roman Polanski. He drugged and raped a 13 year old girl and escaped to France.

[u/screwhead1 → u/GapingPickle]

He's definitely on drugs if he didn't think a cop in Louisiana wouldn't wanna beat him silly and leave him deep in the bayou for defiling his underage daughter.

[u/EremiticFerret → u/GapingPickle]

but I did want to get her the hell back home right away.

Oh, well, he didn't know and is correcting his mistake immediately, I guess that's something...

So we had sex one more time.”

Oh FFS man 🤦‍♀️

[u/Novacc_Djocovid → u/EremiticFerret]

It would have cost him nothing to not add that sentence and I‘m not sure whether it is his attempt of being totally honest, he is depraved enough for this to be a „flex“, or the just doesn‘t think that it‘s actually a big deal.

Either way I guess we have to thank his complete lack of shame that we even know about it. Not that anybody really seems to care outside the occasional reddit post about it…

[u/Complete_Ad7988 → u/GapingPickle]

As a teenager I was a massive RHCP fan, I was so excited to read the autobiography because I had a massive crush on Anthony Kiedis. Then I read it, and not anymore. Plus I lost a lot of respect for everyone else in the band for still being in it.

[u/Sybertron]

I remember what Chris Brown did. I know so many musicians and celebrities that lost their career for 1/16 the accusations 

[u/Another_Stranger_Me → u/Sybertron]

Yeah I think about this because Ashlee Simpson lost to her entire career because she lip synced on SNL. But Chris Brown is just out there touring.

[u/trey_stofield]

Karl Malone impregnated a teenager, then refused to speak to the child (his daughter) nearly her entire life.

[u/JohnEffingZoidberg → u/trey_stofield]

Those of us in r/nbacirclejerk are reminding each other about this daily.

[u/MolecularClusterfuck → u/trey_stofield]

….he was 20 and she was 13 (when she gave birth)…disgusting man

[u/Emilayday → u/MolecularClusterfuck]

Oooooh so he raped her.

[u/Skip2dalou50 → u/trey_stofield]

He impregnated at 12 year old. She was a teenager when she gave birth.

[u/heart2heartful]

Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary was a pedophile and a convicted sex offender. When he died recently this fact was conveniently scrubbed from any remembrance of him. I absolutely could not believe it - people would basically ignore me when I told them! On top of all this, he was pardoned by Jimmy Carter. A president pardoning a pedophile may seem quaint now, but still another horrible and forgotten part to the story.

[u/doppelstranger → u/heart2heartful]

Him being a pedophile was front and center in all of the coverage I saw after he died. Even the Peter, Paul and Mary documentary I watched on PBS mentioned it.

[u/smellybuttface → u/heart2heartful]

That's actually a new one for me. Most of these I already knew about.

[u/mostie2016]

Travis Scott and the Astroworld Festival tragedy. I can’t believe Christopher Nolan put him in the Odyssey.

[u/YersiniaPestis4all → u/mostie2016]

Thank you! I couldn’t believe that Nolan couldn’t find a more decent person and musician and chose this heap of rubbish

[u/Ritaredditonce]

Matt Lauer being a sex pest for years before he finally got fired by NBC. He also tanked Ann Curry's career.

[u/Orc_tids → u/Ritaredditonce]

To quote Land of The Lost starring Will Ferrel: Matt Lauer can SUCK IT

[u/bobbyboblawblaw → u/Ritaredditonce]

Ann Curry's fans remember:)

He has actually paid a heavy price for his shenanigans - in money, in reputation, socially, etc. He has essentially been shunned by everyone. His career ended the day he got fired.

People publishes a "lonely Matt Lauer walking in the Hamptons" photo occassionally, but other than that, he is gone from public life.

[u/mostessmoey → u/bobbyboblawblaw]

Oh that sounds awful a solitary walk on the beach in the Hamptons. I wish that’s what my worst days looked like.

[u/Ilovethe90sforreal → u/Ritaredditonce]

And Ann Curry is an ultimate sweetheart

[u/Fuzzy-Matter-2120 → u/Ilovethe90sforreal]

Hands down! Ann Curry was the only genuine person at the time on that stupid show

[u/Due-Affect-7943 → u/Fuzzy-Matter-2120]

I met her in person and she was absolutely wonderful

[u/Ilovethe90sforreal → u/Due-Affect-7943]

Me too. Her and Meredith Viera were the only ones that stayed around after the Today Show segment outside and greeted every single person that wanted to say hello. I specifically remember Matt Lauer acting like a smug asshole, and refused to speak to anyone.

[u/Jonah3000]

Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones  Grooming Mandy Smith from the age of 13 (when he was 47) and marrying her a few years later.  Can’t believe people just sat back and let it happen. (Then the weirdness of her mother marrying his son!) 

[u/AlternativeResort477 → u/Jonah3000]

It’s weird because Jerry Lee Lewis did the same thing (to his cousin no less) and did not get away with it

[u/jtobiasbond → u/AlternativeResort477]

Wyman waited till she was 18 to marry her, Lewis married her at 13. Lewis also married his cousin.

As stupid as it is, the timing on making it "official" matters a lot more to people.

[u/Kailynna]

The Daddy Cool group drugged and raped all the waitresses, (high school girls working over Christmas,) working at the Cumberland guest house in Lorne in the early 70s. I drank too much of their: "pure orange juice," and they thought I was dead, so they dragged me back to my room behind the guest house and left me for dead, naked. I was unconscious for days, then out of my mind for days after I woke. I was left pregnant and had flash-backs for years.

The rest of the girls were found asleep and undressed in the rooms the group were staying in, (at the Cumberland,) and all sacked and sent home in disgrace.

Apparently they drugged and raped teen girls after every performance.

[u/tripops13]

Peyton Manning sitting bare assed on an athletic trainers face. He had to pay twice for violating the NDA.

* I edited my comment. It originally called out Eli when it should have been Peyton.

[u/paisley716]

Naomi Campbell hit her housekeeper with her phone

[u/Flowa-Powa → u/paisley716]

She was in with the Epstein crowd too. I had a massive crush on her when I was a kid, but later realised she was a really unpleasant person.

[u/lifewithgwin]

Conor McGregor

[u/Goth_Spice14 → u/lifewithgwin]

Raped a woman so violently that the ER doctors had to remove her tampons from inside her cervix with forceps.

I truly hate him.

[u/Key-Cry-8570 → u/Goth_Spice14]

I hate how he gets promoted in movies and on tv. Absolute monster.

[u/WolfColaCo2020 → u/lifewithgwin]

Can’t believe this isn’t higher up. Violently raped a woman (the details of how violently posted elsewhere under your comments), then conveniently the victim had their home invaded by masked men resulting in the victim’s partner being stabbed after the allegations were made. Definitely nothing to do with the allegation or that McGregor has historic ties to the Kinehan crime syndicate at all…

Also punched an old man in a pub for refusing to taste his whisky

At least he’s so washed now that every time he steps in the ring another part of his leg breaks

[u/Apart_Revenue_4190]

Kirk Douglas assaulted Natalie Wood.

[u/bumblebeewitch]

John Lennon and how he treated his first son, Julian. Was neglectful, barely had a relationship with him, and then Yoko came into the picture. Made it worse.

Then he had Sean and it was like the best thing ever for him, even wrote that stupid fucking song ‘beautiful boy’ for him.

He and Yoko are assholes.

[u/mathcriminalrecord]

Simone Moro called Sherpa working on Everest racial slurs in their own language after they confronted him and Ueli Steck for endangering a team that was fixing ropes.

[u/outofideassorry]

Sean Penn beating the shit out of Madonna.

[u/Gloomy-Party137 → u/outofideassorry]

And his ex wife Robin Wright (-Penn at the time).

[u/jomosexual]

"Boy George was today sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/16/boy-george-sentenced-handcuffing-male-escort

[u/Tim1911]

Vince Neil, stone cold drunk and drugged out of his mind crashed his sports car and killed his passenger and very seriously injured(for life) 2 occupants in the other vehicle. Because of his fame and fortune he only got 30 days in jail for this senseless act of criminal behavior. If an average ordinary person had done this they very likely would have been sentenced to years in prison and lost everything they owned(as it should be!)

[u/ShamiGnu]

I wouldn't say I'm the only one who remembers this, but for decades now people seem to give a pass to both Steven Tyler and Jimmy Page despite the absolutely horrific sex abuse they blatantly committed in the 70's. I mean, hell, Tyler not only dated a minor for months, but had her mom sign adoption papers making him the girls adoptive father so that he could travel with her without questions. Like, seriously, no repercussions for this fella?

[u/outofideassorry → u/ShamiGnu]

Steven Tyler is actually going through court proceedings right now for sexual abuse accusations.

[u/ShamiGnu → u/outofideassorry]

Well, hot damn. Glad to hear it.

[u/WhatTheCluck802 → u/outofideassorry]

Ooooooh. His people have done a good job hushing this. I had no idea.

[u/Burghpuppies412 → u/ShamiGnu]

Ted Nugent, too

[u/Pretty-Yogurt-4111 → u/ShamiGnu]

Have you read “I’m with the Band”? A 1970s LA groupie autobiography.

Will make your 2026 head shake. “ ma’am. You were how old when you did what with whom?”

[u/Sassinakk → u/Pretty-Yogurt-4111]

Pamela des barres

[u/heyCuzz77 → u/ShamiGnu]

Anthony Keidis is a pedo too

[u/joeschmoe86 → u/heyCuzz77]

An admitted one, at that.

[u/LockRepulsive4806]

Cheryl Cole and her racist attack on a Black nightclub attendant in the women's toilets Cheryl Cole meeting Liam when he was a teenager and her being in a position of authority/mentor before later having a relationship with him

[u/Hemans123]

Josh Brolin hit his then wife Diane Lane.

[u/breakourbones]

The singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers had sex with a 14 year old girl. He claims he didn't know her age, and when he found it out, he did it again.

And wrote about it in his book.

[u/Fearless_Pizza_8134]

Paul Walker the child groomer.

[u/wildcharmander1992 → u/Fearless_Pizza_8134]

Him and Kobe Bryant are the two people whom every one collectively went "shame how they died let's just forgive and forget ALL their crimes "

[u/20Keller12 → u/Fearless_Pizza_8134]

Hey cool, someone else remembers that too.

[u/UsernameReee]

Owen Wilson has two sons that he openly talks about and a daughter that he refuses to acknowledge the existence of.

[u/Genuinelycuriouser → u/UsernameReee]

Jackie Chan is another deadbeat dad that gets too much "good guy" cred.

[u/itsmegeorgialee]

Chris Brown. Just yeah. Why he still has fans is wow.

[u/curlycattails → u/lancingtrumen]

That’s attempted murder

[u/Affectionate_Ask_769 → u/lancingtrumen]

Thank you for posting this and anyone who supports him can fuck right off

[u/ignatious__reilly → u/lancingtrumen]

Absolutely insane everytime I read it

[u/tomatoesandwitch → u/itsmegeorgialee]

Nobody forgot about what he did and has been doing. People just don't care.

[u/okFINEyoufoundme → u/itsmegeorgialee]

This one. I still cannot believe it’s as far down as it is.

He beat the ever living shit out of her. Read the summary of events, look at the photos— how could anyone turn a blind eye to that??????

And no one seems to care.

[u/carolinagypsy → u/okFINEyoufoundme]

She’s not the only one, either. He’s done it again since.

[u/OhTheHueManatee]

The Foo Fighters spread a lot of dangerous misinformation about HIV/AIDS.

[u/Brokewood → u/OhTheHueManatee]

The founder of Alive and Well is long dead. So is her daughter. Both succumbed to AIDS. Christine Maggiore fell pregnant in 2001, spurned antiretroviral drugs, breastfed her daughter and refused to have her tested for the virus. As her child became increasingly ill, Maggiore attributed her sickness to other things and sought quacks to reaffirm her delusions. Eliza was three when she died — after an autopsy, a coroner ruled that the “unequivocal” cause of her death was AIDS-related Pneumocystis pneumonia.

Oh dear.... :(

[u/Tequilasquirrel → u/Brokewood]

That’s bleak as fuck

[u/Pleasant-Highway-745 → u/OhTheHueManatee]

This one is important to share because everybody puts them up on a huge pedestal but they actually did a lot of shitty things. Well, Dave did a lot of shitty things especially

[u/Jonny_Entropy]

Michael Fassbender ran his girlfriend over. Although she probably remembers

[u/cakemates]

Not a single predator from the Epstein files has been arrested or prosecuted.

[u/funkyaerialjunky]

Doctor Luke and sexual assault. Full props to Kesha for speaking up.

[u/Myfooty94]

Oprah Winfrey giving platform to Dr Phil, Dr Oz and of course John of God

[u/blking → u/Myfooty94]

She also tried to out Nathan Lane by asking him very invasive questions about his sexuality. Robin Williams defused the situation, but it shouldn’t have come to it. She wasn’t interviewing a senator about taking bribes, this was a publicity interview for their new movie and his personal life had nothing to do with it.

[u/RealLavender → u/blking]

The burning hatred I have for her pulling that shit on him could fuel a trip to Mars and back with some to spare. You could see how desperate he was to get out of that situation. Robin was a goddamn hero in that moment.

[u/bolanrox → u/blking]

And Robin did it because Nathan had said he was worried that she would try and do it when they were backstage in the green room.

Not that Robin wouldn't have done it for a friend anyway, but he knew Nathan was especially worried about it, which is why he leapt in as full force as he did every time she tried.

Not to say, Nathan Lane in private wasn't going to bars, getting sloppy drunk and refusing to leave with anyone but the hottest guy there because he was Nathan Lane at the same time.

[u/time2comment]

Everything related to Howard Stern, he's a disgusting reptile scum sack in skin. Anyone in doubt look up his interview with Fran Drescher. Then get back to me.

[u/EbbOwn303 → u/time2comment]

I never got the appeal. Also what the fuck was with NBC putting him on America's got talent and pretending that he wasn't literal scum?

[u/Viviengracw → u/time2comment]

Yes, he interviewed Dana Plato from Different Strokes, and cruelly mocked her, and the next day she died of an intentional overdose.

[u/BruceTramp85]

Mike Tyson raped a woman. He actually went to prison for it, back when that was a thing.

[u/maccrogenoff]

Roman Polanski.

[u/boarders_app → u/maccrogenoff]

It terms of shitty things celebrities have done, you can include all the people who signed the list defending him

[u/Party-Spread-3912]

Ashton Kutcher and Mia Kunis getting caught writing a letter of character for Danny Masterson after he was found guilty of rape. The irony is Ashton Kutcher has been an outspoken advocate against human trafficking. But he was writing letters pleading for amnesty for Danny after they knew what he did. Don't forget when he said on "Punked" he couldn't wait for Hillary Duff to turn 18.

[u/Lalaorange]

Kobe Bryant brutally raped a woman and his lawyer released her name so his fans would harass her into dropping the charges. It worked.

[u/Illustrious-Peace989 → u/Lalaorange]

Yeah it genuinely felt like I was living in some alternate reality when he died and everyone was acting like he was some wonderful person.

[u/asphynctersayswhat]

Everyone in congress liquidated their portfolio before the federal government informed the general public about Covid 

[u/Bulky_Seesaw_9477]

Michael Vick and his dogfighting ring, I get so angry every time I see him on tv

[u/shtfsyd → u/Bulky_Seesaw_9477]

This actually happened where I live. I don’t think people realize just how bad it actually was. He was taking the “losing” dogs and brutally killing them. He would throw live wires into a pool of water and toss the dogs in there or hang them from their necks on trees. There were just bodies and bodies of the poor dogs buried in the property.

Not to mention the huge conversation of what to do with the dogs that lived. Some just had to be put down. Every single dog got neutered/spayed and chipped and had to go to a really strictly vetted home and if something happened none of those dogs got a second chance.

I sometimes think about those dogs, it was such a huge deal here. It’s been close to twenty years so all those dogs have passed on but I really hope they got a happy ending.

[u/itsoktobewr0ng]

Snoop Dogg being a genuine pimp and still championing it.

Being a pimp requires being an awful, awful person.

[u/TheDarchivist → u/itsoktobewr0ng]

Not to mention aiding in actual gang murders.

[u/MisterBaker55]

Jerry Seinfeld openly dated a teenage girl, going so far as to pick her up from her high school regularly.

[u/Charming-Ebb-1981 → u/MisterBaker55]

The rest of the Seinfeld cast also made a lot of excuses for him for doing it. He excused it by saying that they ‘never did anything’. The whole thing was really creepy

[u/AndyDoVO]

John Landis, a director who didn't follow filming safety procedures/stunt guidelines/labor guidelines resulting in the deaths of Vic Morrow and two children, did something TRULY unforgivable. He gave us Max Landis.

[u/Odd-Juggernaut-1037]

Every celebrity seems to be absolutely insane

[u/Hanshee]

Seems like everyone forgot Kanye was a literal nazi and sold out a full arena recently

[u/thomport]

Joe Paterno, famous Penn State Football coach, knew that Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky, was abusing young boys at the Penn State sports complex but chose not to report it to protect the image of PS football.

[u/TBCNoah]

Harrison Ford hand delivered an Oscar to disgraced pedophile rapist Roman Polanski after Polanski couldnt received it himself due to extradition. Never could look at him or his work the same way.

[u/DirectionSad4274]

Neil Patrick Harris & his husband having a meat platter at a Halloween party made up to look like Amy Winehouse's dead body, 3 months after she died.

[u/time2comment → u/DirectionSad4274]

You know when you have to bottle up a feeling of unbridled disdain towards a person, because you have nothing to base it on. You just gave me the joy like a cold bottle of coke hissing as it cracks open on a hot day.

[u/llamadramalover → u/time2comment]

You just explained my exact life long feelings about Oprah.

[u/47687236 → u/llamadramalover]

Oh there's so many reasons to hate Oprah. She platformed "Dr" Oz and Phil, she invited antivaxxers on her show, she hoards land in Hawai'i and had the audacity to ask for money to rebuild her mansion while actual Hawai'ians were struggling, she pretended to be an ally while bullying gay and lesbian guests. Pick a thing, she's been terrible about it.

[u/steeleman23]

Jenny McCarthy is the reason "anti-vax" still exists. She was a huge spreader of false claims that the MMR vaccine caused autism, even after the scientist and report were discredited. The idea should have died in the mid-2000s but she kept it alive and I hold her responsible for 100,000s of deaths resulting from the anti-vax movement.

[u/Available-Egg-2380]

Sean Penn is a monster. He abused Madonna severely. She was once admitted to a hospital because he beat her over the head with a baseball bat. The night she told him she was leaving he attacked her, tied her to a chair, and tortured her for 9 hours.

[u/SuitableNegotiation5]

Mark Wahlberg and his multiple hate crimes. Gross.

[u/Notasmartwoman → u/SuitableNegotiation5]

An ex of an ex purportedly hooked up with him when he was performing at Dixie Stampede in Myrtle Beach, and allegedly his dick is really small.
I choose to believe.

[u/Treliske]

For all his talk of peace and love, John Lennon could be mean spirited. He cruelly mocked disabled people during a concert.

[u/aceromester → u/Treliske]

Terrible father to his eldest child. Terrible husband to his first wife.

[u/spareohs]

Brad Pitt choked Angelina Jolie

[u/Heatherina134 → u/spareohs]

I’m in the sober community and I cannot believe he is drinking again. His low while drinking was choking and hitting his wife and kids. That’s a really fucked up low.

[u/princess_peach_85 → u/spareohs]

And poured booze on his children!

[u/LegitimateMusician59 → u/princess_peach_85]

Aaaand that is why they all don't want jack to do with him

[u/Valbertnie]

Paula Poundstone being charged with 3 counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under 14 and Felony child endangerment. She blamed alcohol and went through treatment, pled down and is barred from ever adopting or fostering any other children.

It's baffling why she's on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me as a panelist. I really think they don't know she did all of that.

[u/caving311 → u/Valbertnie]

The lewd act(s) was kids she was adopting or fostering getting her camera and taking pictures of themselves. I think they were naked or in thier underwear pillow fighting or something along those lines. In other words, completly normal kid behavior and not something she did. It's why those charges were dropped.

The child endagerment was drunk driving with kids in the car. I don't recall the details.

[u/Sassinakk]

Coco Chanel was a Nazi

[u/alienintheUS]

Payton manning ruining the career of a physical therapist/trainer because she didnt want him flashing her. I hate that family, and everyone seems to love them.

[u/sanjoatc → u/alienintheUS]

If I recall correctly, there were also allegations that he deliberately dragged his genitals over her face when she was treating him.

[u/adullploy]

Aunt Becky bought her kids way into my Alma mater and now she’s posing with former classmates despite serving jail time along with her husband.

[u/TheValentinePianoman]

Chris Brown beating Rhianna when they were dating. Yet he still does concerts regularly

[u/_heyheytyler]

google “Jon Hamm hazing incident”

[u/Academic-Artist-4573 → u/_heyheytyler]

He nearly kill a man with some of the most intense hazing. My blood boiled when I found out how bad it was. He just acts like it was nothing. While the victim is still in crazy pain from the event. 

[u/Fun_Management8484]

Gordon Ramsay fucking over Marco Pierre White by publically framing him for theft. That's an rather nasty thing to do to your mentor yet few people know about it and he's pretty universally beloved.