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00:00Is there something you can say about that?
00:02Have some comment from you, Mr. Boyne?
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today, we're looking at celebrity scandals that have either been downplayed over time
00:11or somehow just got overlooked.
00:14People thought I was crazy then, you know.
00:16I mean, they do anyway, but I mean, more so, you know, Lennon.
00:19Oh, you big-headed maniac.
00:22Bill Cosby's first allegation.
00:25The world was devastated by Bill Cosby's arrest in 2015,
00:29but shouldn't have been surprised.
00:31In 2005, Andrea Constand formally accused the comedian
00:36of sedating and assaulting her the previous year.
00:39I didn't think anybody would believe me.
00:41It was Bill Cosby.
00:43It was Dr. Huxtable.
00:45I thought I was the only person that he did this to.
00:48Who's going to believe me?
00:50When the charges were dropped following a brief investigation,
00:53the accuser filed a civil suit that Cosby settled out of court.
00:57The public generally dismissed the scandal as gossip,
01:00which brought severe backlash to Constand and her family.
01:05I've never seen anything like this.
01:07And reality is the situation.
01:14And I can't speak.
01:16It would almost be a decade before many women revealed her experience to be part of a pattern.
01:21Though Cosby's conviction would be overturned on a technicality,
01:26Constand has finally gained respect along with her fellow survivors as the first to come forward.
01:32Because I realized that you have to give up your privacy
01:38to have a voice for change and to stand up for others.
01:44While most publications were hyping up the final season of Mad Men in 2015,
01:49Star Magazine told a different story about star John Hamm from 1991.
01:54He was among the Sigma Nu fraternity members at the University of Texas
01:58who were arrested for excessively torturing Mark Allen Sanders during pledge hazing.
02:09This supposedly led to Sanders receiving medical care and withdrawing from the school.
02:15Hamm confessed at the time and transferred to the University of Missouri.
02:19Since the incident resurfaced, however,
02:21he's tried to downplay it as a, quote,
02:24sensationalized mistake from his youth.
02:26The public seems to have bought into that,
02:29but many struggle to get over Hamm's continued reluctance to address his past.
02:33Lindsay Lohan livestreams family harassment.
02:36One-time teen idol Lindsay Lohan courted enough controversy for a lifetime throughout her 20s.
02:43She's been having a gradual comeback since getting sober and starting anew in Dubai.
02:48If you don't want that, then change that.
02:51That's what I'm saying.
02:52If you don't want it, it's okay.
02:55No, I want it.
02:57But fans got worried in 2018,
02:59when she broadcast an argument with an unhoused Syrian refugee on Instagram Live.
03:06Lohan accused the woman of not working hard enough to support her two sons
03:10and offered to shelter them in a hotel.
03:12The video ended with a physical altercation
03:15after Lohan claimed the woman was trafficking the children.
03:18Little is known about the context of this video,
03:21but everyone agrees that it was deeply disturbing.
03:29Lohan's clean public record since then
03:31has allowed this controversy to be eclipsed by earlier ones.
03:35I'm just not used to it.
03:37And I'm learning how to deal with life
03:38in a different light than I have before
03:40and in a different way than I have before.
03:42Emma Roberts and Evan Peters' fight.
03:45The seven-year relationship between actors Emma Roberts and Evan Peters
03:49lost a lot of its fanfare on July 7, 2013.
03:53Police investigated reports of an altercation at a hotel in Montreal
03:57and arrested Roberts after finding Peters shockingly injured.
04:01He refused to press assault charges
04:03and dismissed the incident as a misunderstanding.
04:06So they immediately arrested Emma,
04:08took her to the cop station and processed her.
04:11The problem is Evan didn't want to press charges,
04:14so she was later released.
04:15The public, on the other hand,
04:16would reference it in discussions about how domestic violence
04:20is perceived based on gender.
04:22Their concerns largely died down
04:24as the couple got engaged the following year
04:26without Roberts' brand suffering in the long term.
04:29She and Peters nonetheless kept fans on edge
04:32until they permanently broke up in 2019.
04:35As long as I'm not boring.
04:37You're not boring.
04:38You're a weirdo.
04:39You are not normal.
04:42And it's inspiring.
04:44Ted Danson roasts Whoopi Goldberg.
04:46The press was all over the serious relationship
04:49between comedic actors Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg.
04:53That was particularly the case
04:54after Goldberg's Friars Club roast in 1993.
04:58Danson gave his speech in blackface,
05:00leaning on stereotypical humor
05:02that involved sexual references and racial slurs.
05:05And hopefully we'll get to do this a lot.
05:08Yes.
05:09Commercial, commercial.
05:10No, no, not yet.
05:11Not yet.
05:11No, no, I mean our own commercial.
05:12Oh, yes, yes.
05:13Please let us play together again.
05:14Please let us play together.
05:15This deeply offended attendees
05:17like New York City Mayor David Dinkins
05:19and very nearly destroyed Danson's career.
05:22Instead, Goldberg quelled much of the outrage
05:25by claiming that she came up with the skit
05:27and referred her boyfriend
05:29to a satirical makeup artist.
05:31Whoopi said that Ted wears blackface all the time.
05:34Well, Whoopi, I'm gonna let you in on something.
05:36There are a whole lot of men out there
05:38who really are black all the time.
05:41They're called black men.
05:43The scandal is still believed
05:44to have contributed to their breakup two weeks later.
05:47Danson has since become more beloved than ever,
05:50but that misguided dare earned him many permanent critics.
05:54Now listen, who's following who around?
05:56She came to me first.
05:57I tell you what, you keep her away from me.
05:59Are you giving me face?
06:02What the hell's at me?
06:03David Bowie's comments on fascism.
06:05It was always assumed
06:07that the forward-thinking musician David Bowie
06:09held very progressive views.
06:11Those who read his Playboy interview in 1976
06:14would assume differently.
06:15Bowie claimed to support fascism,
06:18going so far as to call Adolf Hitler,
06:20quote, the first rock star.
06:22How do you feel about the police?
06:24I just said.
06:26Well, specifically about the police.
06:28They were very, very kind.
06:29The ensuing outrage was spiked
06:31by the contemporary rise
06:32of far-right movements in the UK.
06:35Bowie quickly responded by asserting
06:37that his comments were a publicity stunt
06:39to promote his new thin white Duke persona.
06:42Eventually becoming more apologetic than defensive,
06:45he blamed substance use and mental health issues
06:48for driving him to such offensive extremes.
06:51The general public forgave him enough
06:52to let the ordeal fade into history,
06:54but the rock-against-racism movement it inspired
06:57is still going strong.
07:05John Lennon's violent side.
07:07The legacy of John Lennon is as tied to his pacifism
07:10as it is to his music.
07:11So fans tend to gloss over his heartbreaking confession
07:14in a Playboy interview he did in 1980.
07:17Already known to be aggressive in his youth,
07:20Lennon revealed that he used to be verbally
07:22and physically abusive toward women.
07:24What I did was, I had a person at my office
07:26keep sending me the top 10 from England
07:28because I have to find out what's going on, don't I?
07:30But I mean, if I'm fighting if by telly Savalas,
07:33well, I've got a long battle.
07:34This admission might have sparked a debate
07:36about whether it was in good taste
07:38and to what extent the activist could have changed.
07:41Instead, the controversy was overshadowed
07:43by Lennon's murder shortly before the interview was published.
07:46His violent past has thus become downplayed
07:49for the sake of his legacy, but many feel that it shouldn't be.
07:52As you heard Dr. Steven Lin at Roosevelt Hospital
07:54in New York City say, Lennon was shot and killed
07:57at about 11 o'clock last night outside his apartment building.
08:01News of the Lennon shooting, of course,
08:02spread quickly around the world.
08:04Elvis Costello's racially charged argument.
08:07If I adopted a sort of less cooperative personality
08:11when speaking to people, they would leave me alone.
08:13David Bowie's fascism comments
08:15and Eric Clapton's intoxicated rant at a concert
08:18put the British rock scene on high alert by 1979.
08:22The last person expected to be accused of racism
08:25was the hot-headed iconoclast Elvis Costello.
08:28During a run-in with Stephen Stills' band
08:30at a bar in Columbus, Ohio,
08:32he made racist comments about James Brown and Ray Charles.
08:36Well, that's what I'm wondering.
08:37I mean, but you think of it as a character.
08:39I mean, you're in...
08:40Not in a calculated way.
08:41It just happens spontaneously.
08:43And then you see the effect
08:45Costello's swift apology explained
08:47that he was in the middle of a drunken argument
08:49and that his slurs against these musicians
08:51he deeply respected were ironic.
08:53His fans somewhat reluctantly let go of the awkward affair,
08:56but with Costello's regular reference to it,
08:59he'd be the first to tell you
09:00that his mistake should not be forgotten.
09:02It's like a bit of a clue.
09:04It really wasn't that big a deal.
09:07In retrospect...
09:07People have written about it afterwards,
09:09but you know what?
09:09Nobody saw that because nobody had a VCR then.
09:11Nicolas Cage charged with domestic violence.
09:14As beloved as Nicolas Cage is for his intensity as an actor,
09:18fans often take for granted his history
09:20of often public struggles with substance use disorder.
09:23His rock bottom came in New Orleans in 2011
09:26when he was arrested for a drunken argument
09:28with then-wife Alice Kim that got physical.
09:31The presence of their young son
09:32also led to a child abuse charge.
09:34If I have a legitimate level of concern,
09:37because if you love your kids,
09:38you're going to worry,
09:39but I hope I'm not like Grug.
09:41Do you think I'm like Grug?
09:42Uh, not quite,
09:43but he's a protective dad for sure.
09:45The issue died out after Kim disputed the abuse allegations
09:48and police determined that Cage's conduct was not criminal.
09:52It did, however, have a lasting impact on his personal life.
09:55Cage achieved sobriety shortly after this disturbing episode.
09:59Everybody makes mistakes.
10:00Sure.
10:01It's part of being human, and when we make mistakes,
10:04I think sometimes it can be a great lesson
10:06because it puts you into looking for something.
10:09Terrence Howard's history of violence.
10:11Actor and armchair pseudoscientist Terrence Howard
10:15is more teased than scandalized for his bizarre beliefs.
10:19When I say one times one equals two,
10:23that's a metaphor for challenging the status quo.
10:27Despite the fact that the square root of two
10:29has all of its issues.
10:32Many argue that this distracts from more serious issues.
10:35As far back as 2000,
10:37Howard has faced public and legal charges of physical assault.
10:41His second wife filed a restraining order
10:43and divorced him on the grounds of severe abuse.
10:46And in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone magazine,
10:49Howard admitted to hitting his first wife
10:51in front of their children.
10:53However, he's maintained that his history of violence
10:55never constituted abuse.
10:57This blemish on Howard's public image
10:59has become overshadowed by viral moments
11:01of his eccentric behavior.
11:02But his apparent ego just disturbs
11:05those familiar with his controversies.
11:07Any prime number that you subtract
11:08from another prime number,
11:10you always get a composite number,
11:12except with the situation of the number two.
11:15And there's so many people that,
11:17and that's why the prime numbers are unpredictable.
11:19D'Angelo's solicitation arrest.
11:22Over the years, several high-profile careers
11:24have been completely or almost destroyed
11:26by scandals involving sex workers.
11:29Just ask Hollywood actor Hugh Grant
11:31and former New York governor Elliot Spitzer.
11:34I sinned.
11:35I heard.
11:36I, I, that is a fair critique.
11:38However, some stars like R&B singer D'Angelo
11:41have managed to emerge from such messes
11:43with their reputations barely scratched.
11:45Back in 2010,
11:46while on a prolonged hiatus from music,
11:49D'Angelo was caught allegedly trying
11:51to pay an undercover cop posing as a sex worker $40.
11:55The handcuffs were promptly slapped on his wrists
11:57and he was charged with solicitation.
12:00While the arrest made headlines briefly,
12:02it subsequently vanished into the abyss
12:04of forgotten tabloid news.
12:06It certainly had no bearing
12:07on the late great singer's legacy.
12:18In March of 2008,
12:21NFL player Dante Stallworth was riding high,
12:24having just signed a seven-year contract
12:26with the Cleveland Browns worth $35 million.
12:29However, just one year later,
12:31his life took a tragic detour.
12:33On the field,
12:34Dante Stallworth is known
12:35for his extraordinary hands.
12:37But now,
12:38it's his extraordinary sentence
12:40after a deadly drunk driving accident.
12:42In the early hours of March 14th, 2009,
12:45Stallworth,
12:46who had spent the night drinking at a hotel bar,
12:49fatally struck a 59-year-old pedestrian with his car.
12:52To his credit,
12:53he called 911 and remained at the scene,
12:55but his blood alcohol level
12:57was well above the legal limit.
12:59Stallworth was facing
13:00a potential 15-year prison sentence,
13:02but he pleaded guilty to manslaughter
13:04and only received a 30-day jail term.
13:07Perhaps aiming to avoid
13:08a prolonged media spectacle,
13:10he quickly settled with the victim's family
13:12for an undisclosed amount.
13:14I have to do this.
13:15There's no other way for me
13:19to make amends for what I did
13:23unless I'm out here speaking out.
13:26Something that will live with me
13:27for the rest of my life.
13:28Errol Flynn's sexual assault trial.
13:30You may have heard of Errol Flynn,
13:32the dashing Australian-born actor
13:34who charmed audiences
13:35during the golden age of Hollywood
13:36with his swashbuckling roles.
13:38Errol Flynn is a screen legend,
13:41an icon,
13:42whose film roles as the swashbuckling man of action
13:45and romantic lover remain unequaled.
13:47But you may not know why his career
13:49took a nosedive in the early 1940s.
13:51Flynn was just as famous for his on-screen roles
13:54as he was for his off-screen sexual escapades.
13:57This all came to a head in 1942
13:59when he was accused of statutory sexual assault
14:02by two underage girls.
14:04The resulting trial became a media sensation
14:06as crowds flocked to the courthouse
14:08to show their support for Flynn.
14:10Though he was ultimately acquitted of the charges,
14:13the damage was done.
14:14The scandal left his reputation in tatters,
14:17effectively sinking his career
14:18as a romantic leading man.
14:19The trial changed everything for Flynn.
14:23Thereafter, the image of the great lover was a burden.
14:26It haunted him for the rest of his life.
14:28The Dave Matthews Band bus incident.
14:31For passengers aboard Chicago's Little Lady
14:33on August 8th, 2004,
14:35it was a messy case of right place, wrong time.
14:38There's a sticker on the Kinsey Street Bridge
14:41that's a reminder of a messy mistake
14:43made on August 8th, 2004.
14:46Just as the open-top sightseeing boat
14:48cruised underneath the Kinsey Street Bridge in Chicago,
14:51they were greeted by an unplanned
14:52and utterly disgusting shower
14:55of 800 pounds of human waste.
14:58The foul downpour came courtesy
15:00of a Dave Matthews Band tour bus,
15:02whose driver, Stefan Wohl,
15:04thought it wise to empty the vehicle's septic tank
15:06while crossing the bridge.
15:08Although the band wasn't on board
15:10at the time of the incident,
15:11they still faced legal fallout
15:13and had to cough up $200,000
15:16towards environmental protection.
15:18It certainly contributed to us
15:20being able to do the work we need to do
15:22to help people really think
15:23about the river differently.
15:25There's nothing that came good out of the event
15:26because what happened to those people on that boat
15:28is just too awful to imagine.
15:31As for Wohl,
15:32he pleaded guilty to reckless conduct,
15:34receiving 18 months probation
15:36and a $10,000 fine.
15:39Lena Dunham allegations.
15:41Throughout her career,
15:42writer and filmmaker Lena Dunham
15:44has found herself at the center
15:45of multiple controversies.
15:47So it's no surprise
15:48that this particular one
15:49slipped under the radar.
15:50I'm aware of the criticisms
15:52and I'm able to live with them.
15:55In September 2014,
15:57Dunham published her memoir,
15:59Not That Kind of Girl,
16:00which included a passage
16:01about her sexually experimenting
16:03with her younger sister in the past.
16:05Conservative commentator Kevin D. Williamson
16:07jumped on those excerpts,
16:09claiming it wasn't merely a case
16:10of innocent curiosity,
16:12as Dunham portrayed,
16:13but outright molestation.
16:15Dunham rejected this interpretation,
16:17emphasizing that she does not condone
16:19such behavior,
16:20quote,
16:20under any circumstances.
16:22Her stance found backing
16:23from some child psychologists
16:25who argued that the events described
16:27in the book fell,
16:28quote,
16:28within the norms
16:29of childhood sexual behavior.
16:31Child psychologist Dr. Fran Walfish
16:33says curiosity is normal
16:35for young children.
16:37It's helpful to normalize it,
16:40but still create reasonable boundaries
16:44for children.
16:45P.T. Barnum and the Joyce Heth hoax.
16:482017's The Greatest Showman
16:50spins a sanitized tale
16:52of P.T. Barnum's life,
16:53skipping over how he came into show business.
16:56Shame of the city.
16:57The protests cement Mr. Barnum's reputation
16:59as a purveyor of the offensive
17:01and indecent.
17:02In 1835,
17:04Barnum launched his career
17:05by exhibiting Joyce Heth,
17:07an enslaved black woman
17:08he claimed was 161 years old.
17:11Barnum reportedly made $1,500 weekly
17:14by showcasing Heth for prolonged periods.
17:17Although skeptics questioned his claims,
17:20many believed him
17:21thanks to Heth's frail appearance.
17:23Rumor has it that Barnum
17:24may have even removed her teeth
17:26to make her look older.
17:27After Heth's death in 1836,
17:30Barnum continued to exploit her,
17:32he arranged a public autopsy,
17:35charging spectators 50 cents for admission.
17:37The autopsy revealed that Heth
17:39was around 80 years old,
17:41exposing Barnum's deception,
17:42but this barely put a dent in his career.
17:45Bill O'Reilly's campaign
17:46against Dr. Tiller.
17:48As one of the only doctors in the U.S.
17:50specializing in late-term abortions,
17:52Dr. George Tiller attracted
17:54no shortage of detractors.
17:56Services had just begun
17:57when 67-year-old George Tiller,
17:59a doctor in the middle
18:00of the abortion debate
18:01for 35 years,
18:03was gunned down in the church lobby
18:05while serving as an usher.
18:07Leading the charge
18:07was conservative TV host Bill O'Reilly,
18:10who regularly attacked Tiller
18:12on his Fox News show.
18:13O'Reilly dubbed him
18:14Tiller the baby killer
18:16and even compared him
18:17to terrorist groups.
18:18So when Tiller was fatally shot
18:20on May 31st, 2009
18:22by an anti-abortion extremist,
18:24many couldn't help
18:25but connect the dots
18:26between O'Reilly's incendiary rhetoric
18:28and the heinous act.
18:30He was accused of painting
18:31a target on Tiller's back,
18:33especially since an earlier attempt
18:34on the doctor's life
18:35had already occurred in 1993.
18:38While he condemned the murderer,
18:40O'Reilly insisted his campaign
18:41wasn't to blame for the violence.
18:43The accusers object to my using the term
18:45Tiller the baby killer,
18:47which was the doctor's
18:48well-known nickname.
18:50Brandy's car collision.
18:51Singer and actress Brandy Norwood
18:54has spent most of her career
18:55steering clear of controversy,
18:57but in 2006, it found her.
19:00It's been four years.
19:01We know that the last two especially
19:03have been tough for you.
19:04Yes, absolutely.
19:05Almost two years to the day
19:06that you were involved in that accident
19:08that killed a young mother.
19:09On December 30th,
19:11Norwood's car rear-ended
19:12another vehicle
19:13during a multi-car collision
19:15on the 405 freeway
19:16in Los Angeles.
19:17The driver in the other car
19:19was a mother of two
19:20named Awatif Abutahaj,
19:22who sustained severe injuries,
19:24which she later succumbed to
19:25in the hospital.
19:26Brandy faced no criminal charges
19:28for the accident,
19:29as prosecutors lacked
19:30sufficient evidence
19:31to guarantee a conviction at trial.
19:34However, she was hit
19:35with four wrongful death lawsuits
19:37from Abutahaj's family
19:38and other drivers involved
19:40in the collision,
19:42all of which were eventually
19:43settled out of court.
19:44Being involved
19:46in something that tragic
19:50and...
19:54I just, I couldn't believe it
19:56and I don't like to think about it
19:58because I don't think
20:01that's something
20:01I could ever get over.
20:02Carl Malone impregnates minor.
20:05To date,
20:06Carl Malone remains
20:07one of the greatest
20:08power forwards
20:09in NBA history,
20:11earning the nickname
20:11The Mailman
20:12for his unmatched delivery skills.
20:1510 to go on the shot clock.
20:16It's Malone, wide open.
20:17Malone had enjoyed
20:18a pristine reputation
20:20since he began
20:20his professional career
20:21in 1985.
20:23But all that changed
20:24in 1998
20:25when the Globe
20:26dropped a bombshell.
20:27The tabloid alleged
20:29that Malone had fathered
20:30three children in the 80s
20:31with two women,
20:33one of whom
20:33was a teenager
20:34named Gloria Bell.
20:36While Malone managed
20:37to escape
20:37any legal repercussions
20:39for his crime,
20:40he had already reached
20:41a quiet settlement
20:42with Bell's family
20:43years before the story surfaced.
20:45Even after
20:45the controversial publication,
20:47Malone's career
20:48carried on without a hitch
20:49until he officially retired
20:51in 2005.
20:53Coco Chanel's ties
20:54to the Nazi party.
20:55A revolutionary fashion designer,
20:58Coco Chanel
20:58redefined women's style
21:00in the early 20th century.
21:02From impoverished orphan
21:03to international fashion icon,
21:06self-taught and self-made,
21:07Gabrielle Coco Chanel
21:09was one of the most
21:10emblematic designers
21:11of the 20th century.
21:12Her legacy remains iconic.
21:14However,
21:15it has been marred
21:16by the revelations
21:17about her ties
21:18to the Nazi party.
21:19During World War II,
21:21Chanel resided
21:21in the Hotel Ritz
21:22in Nazi-occupied Paris
21:24alongside high-profile
21:26German personnel.
21:27She became romantically involved
21:29with Hans-Gunther von Dinklage,
21:31a Nazi intelligence officer,
21:33and allegedly worked as a spy
21:35under the codename
21:36Westminster.
21:37That in 1940,
21:39Gabrielle Chanel
21:40worked as a Nazi spy,
21:42recruiting agents
21:43for the Third Reich
21:44across Europe.
21:45She was number F-7124.
21:49Her codename,
21:50Westminster.
21:51Chanel also reportedly
21:52participated
21:53in Operation Muddle Hut,
21:55a failed plot
21:56to exploit her connection
21:57to Winston Churchill
21:58to sway British diplomacy.
22:00After the war,
22:01she was investigated
22:02by French authorities
22:03but escaped prosecution
22:05supposedly due
22:06to Churchill's intervention.
22:08She subsequently fled
22:09to Switzerland
22:10before returning
22:11to Paris in 1954
22:12to revive her brand.
22:14Chuck Berry's voyeurism.
22:16The late Chuck Berry
22:17was a singer,
22:18songwriter,
22:19and guitarist
22:20who left a lasting legacy
22:21on R&B and rock music.
22:23Chuck Berry
22:24was a pioneer
22:25in his field,
22:26often referred to
22:27as the father
22:28of rock and roll,
22:29who influenced
22:30a generation
22:31of musicians.
22:32By the late 1980s,
22:33Berry branched out,
22:35notably purchasing
22:35the Southern Air restaurant
22:37in Wentzville, Missouri.
22:38To the oblivion
22:39of the employees
22:40and customers
22:41at his restaurant,
22:42Berry installed video cameras
22:44in private areas,
22:45which were eventually found
22:46by one of the cooks.
22:48A total of about 200 women
22:50filed a class action lawsuit
22:51against Berry in 1990
22:53for infringing
22:54on their rights to privacy.
22:56Although he claimed
22:57no wrongdoing,
22:58Berry opted
22:58to settle his accusers
23:00and paid out
23:01over $1.2 million.
23:03That margin of glory
23:05is not too high.
23:06That margin of defeat
23:07then is also not too low.
23:09So I live right through it
23:10without any pain.
23:12Bruno Mars' arrest.
23:13Just when his career
23:14as a solo pop star
23:15was taking off,
23:17Bruno Mars fell into
23:18some trouble
23:18with the police.
23:19Check out this mugshot
23:21of Bruno Mars,
23:22all smiles,
23:23after he was busted
23:24in Las Vegas
23:24early Sunday morning
23:25for narcotics possession.
23:27During an indulgent
23:28night out in Vegas,
23:29he was caught
23:29in possession
23:30of illicit substances
23:31at the Hard Rock Casino
23:32and was swiftly arrested.
23:35He ended up
23:35pleading guilty in court.
23:37The uptown funk crooner
23:38enrolled in an education program,
23:41doled out a few thousand dollars
23:42and put in hours
23:43of community service
23:44as penance.
23:45Sir Hernandez
23:46is to be placed
23:46on informal probation
23:48for one year.
23:49As such,
23:50his record was expunged
23:51and the story
23:52has largely remained obscure.
23:54That is,
23:55until today.
23:56Luckily,
23:56the incident
23:57taught Mars
23:57a big lesson
23:58that mistakes like this
24:00could flush
24:00all of his hard work
24:01down the drain.
24:02It's something
24:03that I moved past
24:06and I'm hoping
24:07everyone else
24:08I'd come across
24:09will move past it too.
24:10David Letterman's
24:11Secret Affairs
24:12David Letterman
24:13became one of the most
24:14beloved figures
24:15in America
24:15with his long-running
24:16late-night talk show.
24:17You've never been on this show.
24:18No, no, I haven't, Dave.
24:20If you were bald,
24:21I would have been on
24:2210 years ago.
24:22But the renowned host
24:23found himself
24:24in a scandal in 2009
24:26when Joe Halderman,
24:27one of the producers
24:28of 48 Hours,
24:30attempted to blackmail him
24:31for millions.
24:32Halderman has pleaded
24:33not guilty
24:34to attempted grand larceny.
24:35He's been suspended
24:36from his job
24:37at CBS News
24:37and if convicted,
24:39he could face
24:39up to 15 years in prison.
24:41Letterman had been
24:42romantically involved
24:43with some of the female
24:44staffers who worked for him
24:45and Halderman threatened
24:47to expose the affairs.
24:48Letterman got ahead of him,
24:50setting up a sting
24:51with the Manhattan
24:51District Attorney's Office,
24:53which resulted
24:54in Halderman's arrest.
24:55All of this was made public
24:57in an episode
24:57of The Late Show
24:58by the host himself.
25:00I have had sex
25:03with women
25:03who work for me
25:05on this show.
25:06Now,
25:08my response to that is,
25:10yes, I have.
25:11Lana Turner
25:12and the Johnny Stompanato scandal.
25:14As one of Hollywood's
25:16most glamorous
25:16leading ladies,
25:17Lana Turner's romantic life
25:19was the subject
25:19of much interest
25:20and talk.
25:21Lana led the kind
25:22of life
25:23that the writers
25:25of Melrose Place
25:26struggle to create.
25:28Lana lived her life
25:29the way she wanted to.
25:31By the late 50s,
25:32Turner became involved
25:33with Johnny Stompanato,
25:34a mobster
25:35who was reportedly
25:36very possessive
25:37and violent.
25:38On April 4th, 1958,
25:41the two had gotten
25:41into an intense fight
25:42while Turner's daughter,
25:44Cheryl Crane,
25:44was home.
25:45Concerned for her mother's safety,
25:47Crane fatally wounded Stompanato.
25:49The story of what happened
25:51immediately after
25:51the stabbing of Stompanato
25:53goes like this.
25:54Cheryl called her father
25:55Stephen Crane,
25:57Lana called her mother
25:58and she called a doctor.
25:59The doctor,
26:00unable to revive Stompanato,
26:02suggested Lana
26:03call herself
26:03a really good lawyer.
26:05The death
26:06and subsequent trial
26:07became the talk
26:07of the town,
26:09with dozens of reporters
26:10swarming the court
26:11during the hearings.
26:12Both Turner and Crane
26:13were exonerated,
26:14but that didn't stop
26:15the rumors around Tinseltown.
26:17And I know the rumor
26:18has been rampant for years
26:19that Cheryl was taking
26:23the rap for Lana.
26:25And that's not true.
26:26Lana did not do it.
26:28That I know.
26:29Still, this story
26:30has since largely been forgotten.
26:32Charlie Chaplin's marriages.
26:34You can't talk about
26:36the silent era of film
26:37without mentioning
26:38Charlie Chaplin
26:39and his body of work.
26:44Through his tramp persona,
26:46he charmed his way
26:47into the hearts of millions
26:48around the world.
26:49But what many may not know
26:51about Chaplin
26:51is that behind
26:52the on-screen antics,
26:54he showed a disturbing attraction
26:55for much younger women.
26:57There's aspects
26:58of Chaplin's behavior,
26:59of his relationships
27:00with young girls
27:01that we found
27:03really troubling.
27:03Indeed,
27:04three of his marriages
27:05were with minors,
27:07despite the fact
27:07that he was well
27:08into his adult years.
27:10These stories
27:10made some waves
27:11at the time.
27:12Yet despite
27:13the unlawful activity,
27:14Chaplin's name
27:15and legacy
27:15don't seem
27:16to have been tarnished
27:17too badly.
27:18Chaplin returned
27:19to the U.S.
27:20to receive
27:21an honorary Oscar
27:22in 1972.
27:24In 1975,
27:25he was knighted
27:26by Queen Elizabeth.
27:27Manny Pacquiao's
27:28harmful remarks.
27:30The world-famous boxer
27:31Manny Pacquiao
27:32hung up his gloves
27:33briefly in 2015
27:34when he decided
27:35to run for a Senate seat
27:36in his home country
27:37of the Philippines.
27:39The 36-year-old
27:40will face
27:40his greatest
27:41political challenge
27:42yet.
27:42He's named
27:43a candidate
27:44for senator
27:44in next year's election.
27:46During his campaign
27:47the next year,
27:48he made disparaging
27:49remarks about
27:50the LGBTQ plus
27:51community
27:51in a televised setting.
27:53You've caused
27:54quite a controversy
27:55with what people
27:57are saying
27:58is your statement.
27:59After the segment
28:00aired,
28:01Pacquiao was hit
28:02in the face
28:02with a flood
28:02of criticism,
28:03with many local
28:04celebrities calling
28:05for a boycott
28:06of the famed boxer.
28:08In addition to
28:08the online backlash,
28:10he lost his
28:10endorsement deal
28:11with Nike.
28:12We find Manny Pacquiao's
28:13comments to be abhorrent.
28:15Nike strongly opposes
28:16discrimination of any kind
28:18and has a long history
28:19of supporting
28:20and standing up
28:21for the rights
28:21of the LGBT community.
28:23Pacquiao eventually
28:24apologized for his statements,
28:26although he didn't
28:27exactly change his stance.
28:29Still, he was elected.
28:31Mae West's salacious plays
28:33Throughout her
28:34limitless career,
28:35Mae West was
28:36known for heralding
28:37sexual liberation
28:38through her art.
28:39She created
28:40this absolute goddess
28:42that was synonymous
28:44with sex
28:45and sex appeal
28:46for years.
28:47She was seen
28:47as rather bold
28:48for her time period
28:49and was therefore
28:50no stranger
28:51to controversy.
28:52Before she drew
28:53large audiences
28:54to the box office
28:55for her steamy movies,
28:57West was already
28:58an established playwright
28:59and stage actress.
29:01Using the pseudonym
29:02Jane Mast,
29:03she penned
29:03a highly controversial
29:04Broadway play
29:05that debuted
29:06in 1926.
29:07At first,
29:08the conservative reviewers
29:10savaged the play,
29:11but then
29:12the New York police
29:13did Mae West a favor.
29:15They closed the play
29:17for three days.
29:18The show was deemed
29:19too indecent
29:20for public viewing,
29:21leading to West
29:22being arrested
29:22and spending
29:2310 days in prison.
29:25Another work of hers,
29:26The Drag,
29:27which was about
29:28a gay socialite,
29:29was similarly controversial
29:31and didn't even
29:32make it to Broadway.
29:34She did deal
29:34with subjects
29:35that were not
29:36considered normal subjects
29:38for theater comedy
29:40then.
29:41Homosexuality,
29:42black,
29:43quiet relationships,
29:45things like that.
29:46David O. Russell's
29:47assault allegations.
29:48In between
29:49his acclaimed movies,
29:51The Fighter
29:51and Silver Linings Playbook,
29:53David O. Russell
29:54got embroiled
29:55in a huge scandal
29:55that somehow
29:56flew under the radar.
29:58The Hollywood director
29:59was alleged
29:59to have assaulted
30:00his then-underage niece,
30:02Nicole Pelican.
30:03According to Pelican,
30:05Russell had been
30:05assisting her
30:06during a gym session
30:07when he engaged
30:08in non-consensual touching.
30:10It just makes me
30:11just want to feel like
30:12just never have
30:12that kind of vibe ever.
30:14Although he admitted
30:15to the occurrence,
30:16Russell asserted
30:17his innocence,
30:18claiming that Pelican
30:19had invited
30:20the interaction.
30:21At the end of the day,
30:22no charges were filed
30:23against the director
30:24due to a lack of evidence,
30:25so the case never even
30:27went before a court of law.
30:28Of course,
30:29they're terribly embarrassing.
30:30Those are my worst moments.
30:31Matthew Broderick's
30:32costly accident.
30:33In the summer of 1987,
30:35Hollywood actor
30:36Matthew Broderick
30:37was vacationing
30:38in Northern Ireland
30:39with his then-girlfriend,
30:40actress Jennifer Grey.
30:42Grey's star
30:42was on the rise
30:43when she landed
30:44her breakout role
30:45in the 1986 film
30:46Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
30:48where she met her boyfriend,
30:49Matthew Broderick.
30:50The two had hit it off
30:51on the set of
30:52Ferris Bueller's Day Off
30:53and began a relationship,
30:54which they had largely
30:56kept hidden from the media.
30:57While driving one night,
30:59Broderick crashed
31:00directly into another car
31:01after veering off
31:02into the wrong lane.
31:04Broderick and Grey
31:05survived the accident
31:06with significant injuries,
31:08but the passengers
31:09in the other car,
31:10mother-daughter duo,
31:11Anna Gallagher,
31:12Margaret Doherty,
31:13Broderick and Grey
31:14survived the accident
31:15with significant injuries,
31:17but the passengers
31:18in the other car,
31:19mother-daughter duo,
31:20Anna Gallagher
31:21and Margaret Doherty,
31:23passed away.
31:24I was in shock
31:25because I was
31:26the only living witness
31:27and Matthew was unconscious
31:29and had amnesia
31:30and the other two women died.
31:32Broderick got off
31:33on a careless driving charge
31:34and was ordered
31:35to pay a small fine,
31:37a move that was referred to
31:38as, quote,
31:39a travesty of justice
31:41by the family of those lost.
31:43And it had very serious,
31:47traumatic, lasting effects
31:48on, I'm sure, Matthew
31:50and the family
31:51of the other women
31:52and me.
31:54Ben Affleck's family history.
31:56The PBS documentary series
31:58Finding Your Roots
31:58brings on different celebrities
32:00every episode
32:01and traces their ancestral roots.
32:03In 2014,
32:05Ben Affleck appeared on the show
32:06and found out,
32:07along with everyone watching,
32:09about some of his relatives,
32:10like his mom,
32:11who was a civil rights activist.
32:13Behind the scenes, however,
32:15the program's genealogists
32:16had discovered
32:17that one of Affleck's ancestors
32:19was a slave owner in Georgia.
32:21His name was Benjamin Cole.
32:23Lived in Georgia
32:24on my mom's side
32:25about six generations back.
32:27Feeling embarrassed
32:27about the revelation
32:28and not wanting
32:29the information out in public,
32:31Affleck pressured
32:32the show's producers
32:33to edit that segment out.
32:35It all came to light
32:36during the 2015
32:37Sony Pictures hacking scandal
32:38when the story
32:39was leaked to the public.
32:41Last July,
32:42the series executive producer,
32:44Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
32:45emailed Sony Entertainment CEO,
32:47Michael Linton,
32:48to ask for advice.
32:50Quote,
32:50we've never had anyone
32:51ever try to censor
32:53or edit what we found.
32:54He's a megastar.
32:56What do we do?
32:57What are some other
32:57would-be high-profile scandals
32:59that most might not know about?
33:01Dish in the comments below.
33:02What is it?
33:02.
33:02.
33:03.
33:04.
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