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What's the most truly horrific, disturbing or extremely important Celebrity or Media scandal that virtually no one talks about? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 hours ago by SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Rick James kidnapping and trafficking a woman with his 21 year old girlfriend whom he forced the victim to preform oral acts on her as he tuned in and is she objected, he would severely abuse her with a scorching crack pipe.

Dave Chappelle and Charlie Murphy basically revived the legacy and reputation of a horrendously deranged cocaine addicted sex pest.

As if Chappelle isn't already falling off hard enough I candidly pointed out how even his golden years weren't as golden as they seemed either.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago

I was looking at Depp's wikipedia page recently and I noticed a Polanski film. I never really looked into all that but I knew that was kind of sketchy. Turns out Polanski plead guilty to raping a child in the 70s and has been a fugitive from the State of California ever since. It's not like it's a secret, everyone knows, and they still keep working in his fucking movies. Depp just wanted to work with him so bad, he didn't give a fuck. Likewise a bunch of other A-list stars, producers, publishers... and then every one of them acts like they give such a big fuck about Weinstein. It's so performative, it's sickening.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 21 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Rockstars and underage groupies. Steven Tyler, Jimmy Page, and Anthony Kiedis to name a few. I think even David Bowie had some questionable stuff too.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 hours ago

Steve Tyler also basically bought an underage girl to take on tour with him. He admitted to having sex with her while underage in his book. In court he argued since he was her legal guardian it was okay for him to have sex with her.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Oh and Frank Zappa's band/roadies were pretty insane to groupies...

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 7 hours ago

The grammar in OP's first paragraph is a disturbing crime but doesn't meet the other criteria.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago) (4 children)

Not too long ago I met this girl, who had dated this waiter who once served Madonna a whiskey sour in a bar in Luton, and apparently she fished the ice out of her glass with her FINGERS. And she had a bit of parsley stuck between her front teeth.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's fucking disgusting. I bet she didn't even traffic any children that year either.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 31 minutes ago

That was the year she assassinated Weird Al

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago

Oh yeah? This makes me like Madonna more. I would assumed real assholes would tell the waiter to remake their drink instead of just fixing it herself. Good for her.

Who cares about the parsley?

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Oh no, Madonna is a human!

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip -1 points 8 hours ago

"Ray of light" was originally a unit of distance used to measure the gap between her two front teeth

[–] Float@startrek.website 26 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Matthew Broderick killed 2 people while drunk driving in 1987 and got away with it

Edit: he was not drunk, he swerved into oncoming traffic. He was in northern Ireland and his reason for doing so is unknown by his account, he can't remember anything about it.

[–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I did not find any evidence anywhere that he was drunk or intoxicated.

It seems he was driving on the wrong side of the road because he's used to driving on the other side, because he's from America and he was in Northern Ireland.

The last part I'm not entirely sure about. But I did not find any evidence of him being drunk or intoxicated in any way.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

James Willems, is that you?

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago

https://www.disgracelandpod.com/

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

You just wanted to shit on Chappelle. You just dressed it up as something else.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Like there's something wrong with shitting on Chappelle?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Chappelle’s views on trans people is enough that I won’t watch any of his content anymore.