20 Old Celebrity Scandals That Were Swept Under the Rug

[@loribernardisunwell9663]

The people who ignored the abuse of that woman and little girl are just as guilty.

[@kathypappas6867]

I always felt so bad for Judy Garland. What Hollywood did to her is a sin.

[@gloriavaldez1560]

Also her mom too. She was giving her drugs before the studio started so both are a sin

[@pamelasimone5084]

What her mother did to her was just as bad, if not worse. Then her family lived off her income.

[@zuzukris4952]

Her mom was a gaslighting, super toxic, abuser!! My grandmother was an actress with MGM at that time and was friends with Judy. Her mother was always telling her how fat she was, and how other actresses were better and prettier than her, and how no one would come see anything she was in if she didn’t lose weight and work on her looks. They used to put these things inside her nose to turn it up so she would look more attractive. Judy was in the cafeteria on the studio lot with my gram and some other younger actors (they all had the same required dance and voice classes together) just eating and hanging out. Her mom came in with a handful of pills, took the steak and fries that she was eating, put a bowl of broth and a glass of water in front of her. Made her take all the pills, and told her that she had to eat nothing but broth for the week and take her pills every day or Louie B. Mayer would put her on probation which included taking her pay, putting her on an extremely strict diet, and making her stay, for a week, in a room that was on the lot with no contact with friends or family until she complied. That’s no joke! The two of them (her mom and Mr. Mayer) had compete control over her and her mother worked her to death so she could keep control of her and take her money!! That poor girl was turned into an addict and had to deal with a lot of mental health issues because of her mother!

[@nes123ification]

Also, it trickled down to her daughter, Liza Minelli. Her life being fraught with struggles of addiction. Loved Judy Garland & always felt so sad about what Hollyweird did to her😌

[@serenabussell8489]

You're absolutely right 😢

[@dhenderson1810]

Not only did Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor make amends, but Debbie became Liz's carer in the last few years of Taylor's life.

[@missnerd1969]

Garland DID NOT willing take those drugs. She was berated by Studio heads and called FAT TO HER FACE! The Studio FORCED her on the drugs. Not only to slim down but to endure the grueling filming schedule. She was still a child and NO ONE protected her. The ADULTS are to blame for her addiction. Edit And she passed her addiction on to Liza. So sad. Both immensely talented women!

[@audrab27]

It started with her momma she's the one who started her on drugs

[@nicolebailey4426]

Judy was very, very talented she was a damn good singer . Studios were narrow-minded. Not all women were meant to be sex symbols, and I am not saying Judy was unattractive, but she could dance sing and act. I agree that her mother failed her. No wonder Shirley Temple left Hollywood while she was still young, although her career watered down once America recovered from the Great Depression.

[@gorey4more837]

@@audrab27It was production that started it. Maybe her mother supported it, but she didn’t demand it. The studios did.

[@audrab27]

@@gorey4more837 nope u need to Google it or read any number of books on it. It was good ol momma who started it.

[@gorey4more837]

@@audrab27 I just watched a documentary that said the studios did it so they could work longer hours, sleep on demand, and maintain weight. She wasn’t the only one who experienced this. It wasn’t just a Judy problem.

[@nicolebailey4426]

Poor Judith Barsi, she should have been protected she was so talented and cute 😢. Shame on her father's abuse.

[@ladynikkie]

People were trying to convince her mother to get out of that relationship to get away from him but the man was controlling. It is definitely one the most tragic stories

[@nicolebailey4426]

@ladynikkie yes I am aware, but Judith was followed up by a child psychiatrist because her agent viewed of being unhappy and pulling out her cats whiskers and her mother was telling everyone she was getting away from her rotten husband but too late. She had talent, and her future was taken away. SMH

[@gl3913]

Even though Judy Garland struggled with drug addiction for the majority of her very precious life, she did not die from an actual drug overdose at 47. The medical examiner in England who performed Garland's autopsy did an extensive toxicology analysis and it was discovered that there was not enough meds in Garland's system to cause an overdose. There was not enough meds to barely qualify for theraputic levels in Garland's system. In a nutshell, Judy Garland died from her body giving out from the longterm effects of the drug abuse and not from a drug overdose. RIP Judy Garland

[@safiremorningstar]

Yes but you're failing to realize she was put on these drugs as a child that is when they got her addicted to among other things what today we would call meth (I'm using that because voice to text won't allow me to say or to wait for me for right word I can't write my hands don't work) specifically but when that wouldn't allow her to sleep after a while they gave her drugs to help her to I got to a point that just like the Germans in not to Europe she became addicted to the drug she was given as a child by the adults around her were supposed to be protecting.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

I can believe that. Toward the end of her life, she looked like she weighed about 50 lbs, so I’m sure that there was some @n0r3xia going on as well.

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

I read studio executives gave her uppers during the filming of The Wizard of Oz to energize her during the long hours. That’s where and when her addiction began. Can you imagine giving a child drugs?

[@georginareynoso7160]

Thst was very interesting information about the star's that look so wonderful and yet their lives are all mess up thanks for sharing this video with all of us who didn't know what happened to them 😮

[@brandy75]

Then why is it if you look at her death certificate dated June 25th, 1969 certified by G. Thurston Coroner for Inner West, London state that she died of barbiturate poisoning, incautious overdose, accidental?

[@debbiecameron6574]

I'm surprised there was no mention of the Chappaquidick Incident involving Ted Kennedy and a young gal who had attended a party that Senator Kennedy was at in 1969! The incident took the life of the young lady after Kennedy's car left the road and ended up in a body of water! There was a scandal but no charges were ever laid towards Kennedy who was driving under the influence of alcohol! This is the gist, I may have gotten a couple of things wrong or mixed up! Also I was surprised the drowning of Natalie Wood wasn't mentioned! For many years, Wood's husband from 1972 until her death in 1981, famous actor Robert Wagner, was believed to have pushed her off a boat leading to her drowning but nothing came of it because of lack of evidence and maybe because he was famous, even though there were witnesses who heard them argue, the captain of the yacht, and a couple on another boat heard her screams for help! Then there is the scandal involving Roman Polanski who fled to Europe after being accused and charged with sexual abuse to a 13-year old gal. He plead guilty to a lesser charge but after hearing that the judge was not going to accept his plea deal and give him prison time, that's when he left the US and fled to Europe! This is the director who was married to the late Sharon Tate who was murdered along with a group of friends by Charles Manson's cronies!

[@nicolebailey4426]

When we get to the dark side of politics, then you can comment on this essay. Ted Kennedy was not a Hollywood star. You mentioned Natalie Wood it was widely accepted accidentally at that time. Here's some mystery who killed William Desmond Taylor Marilyn Monroe suicide or murder who killed Bob Crane. Why did Gig Young did a murder suicide ? Why was John Lennon shot by a "fan" or FBI cover-up? Why did Cappucine kill herself? Why did Princess Grace die, or did she suffer a stroke along with a rebellious daughter? Did Lana Turner's daughter kill her mobster boyfriend

[@joybutterfly11]

Great call outs!

[@johnathanrush4666]

What part of one of the most famous political scandals of the 20th century was "swept under the rug", exactly?

[@nicolebailey4426]

@johnathanrush4666 well Watergate why did Sirhan Sirhan kill RFK? Where is Jimmy Hoffa 🤔 Did Charles Lindbergh really accidentally kill his son, and an innocent man Bruno Hauptman was electrocuted. How come J.Edgar Hoover was the longest FBI leader. Why did we bomb Japan, and in the USA, Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps. The mob influence on politics. 911, how come no real photo of the planes hit the Pentagon. Why did Tower 7 go down when nothing hit it. Was the Vietnam War necessary ? Where is Amelia Earhart? Feel free to discuss or additional questions 🤔

[@missnerd1969]

Going to comment the 80's aren't old Hollywood till I realize that's 40 years ago. Damn getting older is weird!

[@CraigGagnon-f7q]

true that

[@trishlangford5773]

There was no social media. That's how people kept their privacy.

[@pamelasimone5084]

Studios like MGM had “fixers” to keep things under wraps. There were Hedda Hopper, Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, and other gossip columnists. Sometimes studio publicists traded juicy items on an unruly actor to protect another star. It also didn’t hurt a career to stay on the good side of the columnists. People just had to wait for the entertainment section of the newspapers, trades, or fan magazines to come out. It was there, just slower.

[@nicoleterry5105]

I watched a whole documentary on Fatty Arbuckle, and it’s such a shame, because he was so talented, and the press really just ruined his entire reputation.

[@gaylegoodman9097]

John Lennon was one of my idols as I was growing up. One of my biggest letdowns was when I found out he violently abused his wifes (I was in an abusive relationship for 5 years starting at age 17). I was also extremely upset when I learned that, in his will, he left a substantial amount to Sean, but nothing to Julian. When asked, before he died, he stated that Sean was the child that was planned 😢.

[@miranduri]

He was a complete phony.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

John Lennon was a b@st@rd. He treated his first wife and eldest son like 💩, and he even treated Yoko Ono poorly in their early relationship where he ran around on her with another woman (May Pang).

[@kathleenchaffin2591]

Just horrible! Sorry you dealt with such crap. Hoping you're in a much better position now!

[@gaylegoodman9097]

@@kathleenchaffin2591 I am in a better place, and 3 grown children. They are wonderful.

[@KarmicSalt]

not true. he left plenty to Julian and Julian SOLD it. Look it up

[@joanhamilton2651]

Many of these stories were not swept under the rug. Some are false and time passage takes care of the rest.

[@michellebowers8652]

I don’t know how I didn’t know that Jackie Coogan was Uncle Fester!

[@u4riahsc]

I did not know that either.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

Yes it’s a surprise to a lot of people who know him as Uncle Fester that he’s the one who’s credited for protecting child actors by requiring a percentage of their pay in a trust.

[@dhenderson1810]

​@@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living The same thing happened to "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman, whose parents ripped off all his acting money, leaving him broke, and he had to get emancipated from them.

[@mildredpierce4506]

I saw a documentary on fatty Arbuckle and it stated that Virginia Rappe had an abortion earlier that day which were illegal. This is why she had a ruptured bladder.

[@CatherineLeighe]

This has not been proven, although it is true she was not well.

[@rucianapollard7098]

I've heard that too!

[@CatherineLeighe]

@homo.incurvatus We just won’t ever know for sure.

[@hannahfinlay4941]

I read Fatty molested her wth a Coca-Cola long neck bottle

[@lauriewarner4848]

I get so tired at female blaming. Yes Virginia did have a procedure done a few days before. But, she was I’ll, she drank, and fatty was alone with her passed out, and something penetrating her is what caused her death. He was involved.

[@danielclaeys7598]

Used to be in several southern states 13 with parental consent was legal for marriage. Lewis's career really wasn't hurt that badly and Great Balls o' Fire is still his biggest,most memorable hit. Coogan 's law covered the earnings for the work done. Marian Ross, the Mom on Happy Days, went after and won monies made from royalties of the work that was done by the actors. Royalties became part of contract. Just in time, Carrie Fisher was offered 50K or 1/2 of 1% of all future revenue from the Star Wars franchise. She took the percent and never had to work again.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

Jerry Lee Lewis’s situation was a big scandal at the time - his career was affected for a while - but he was able to recover, and he became a country star.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Jerry lee Lewis bought his 13 year old cousin from her parents who pimped her out. People care more about money than they do of own kids.

[@kathleenchaffin2591]

Cool! Ty for sharing

[@rucianapollard7098]

Jerry Lee Lewis's career was over after he married his cousin! Name 2 songs he released after the marriage that became hits!

[@jegsthewegs]

grown men wanting to have sex with 13 Yr old girls is paedophilia

[@margiemillard2293]

Roscoe was at that party he threw it to celebrate a new contract, but he did not do what they said.

[@tj921able]

I feel bad the most for Fatty Arbuckle & Judy Garland. I guess I would even include Sandra Dee. They were all done wrong by Hollywood & money-hungry people. TY for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.

[@phantomstrangermedia]

You are very right. Sandra Dee was s*xually abused by her step father from a young age. She was selfishly used as a source of income & the people who should have protected her, backed up the producers who made her feel fat & unattractive.

[@carag2567]

Wait wait wait just a minute! Judy Garland did not just "succumb" to pill addiction. Long before The Wizard of Oz, MGM already had her on a grueling schedule with the Andy Hardy series featuring her and Mickey Rooney. It was during this time that the MGM studio physicians put her on prescription stimulants to keep her energized and focused during her long work days and depressants to make her sleep until she had to awake and do it all over again. Judy was a CHILD when this happened to her and had no say or choice in the matter. She was contractually obligated to the studio, and a minor. It was here, at the hands of Louis B. Mayer, the man who created "Judy Garland" out of Frances "Baby" Gumm, his "little hunchback", where her struggles with substance use began. It was inflicted upon her as a term of her employment. Judy never stood a chance against what was done to her and please do not make the mistake of characterizing her addiction as a choice, nor anyone else's.

[@bcaye]

I think Jacqueline Susanne did a great job illustrating that mind f**k stars back then received and how messed up their thought processes would have been.

[@evaadams8298]

Hello and how dare he call her the little hunchback when he was an absolute Toad!

[@carag2567]

@@evaadams8298 I know, it's awful. Apparently Judy's posture was less than straight when she signed with MGM and they started putting her in corsets and other binding garments to improve it and also to minimize her breast development so she would appear younger before they figured out what to do with her. But Mayer putting the word "little" in front of the insult doesn't make it not an insult. He was still calling her a hunchback. And she was still just a little girl.

[@evaadams8298]

@@carag2567 so sad and terrible…. I watched a tv special about early Hollywood and all of those movie moguls except one, were so ugly like toads (inside and out), similar to Harvey Weinstein actually. And they were especially diabolical to females. Makes me sick 🤢

[@phantomstrangermedia]

Roscoe Arbuckle was not even at the party where the actress died. He was the victim of an ambitious DA & a money hungry witness who changed her story repeatedly.

[@safiremorningstar]

Thank you for putting this up most people don't know the story of fatty Arbuckle and so it's very good that you have put this piece up, especially a lot of these things that talk about scandals, they don't do their homework and they don't care because the truth is far more people want Scandal and they don't care what the truth is that's just the way the world is things like this really make me hate the world. On the bright side I think it was supposedly buster Keaton I'm not sure but I think it was he who in fact took care of mr. Arbuckle he gave him a place to live he gave the money he literally looked after him because he remembered when he was an up-and-coming actor, after it was Fatty Arbuckle who was kind to him and often times took him him under his wing and protected him and he never forgot it, it was because of Buster Keaton. He started to make a come back he was supposed to do a big movie and certainly die before he could do it. I think it was a heart attack, but don’t quote me some thing I remember either hearing or seeing.

[@safiremorningstar]

A money-hungry witness sound familiar in recent years where have we heard that and how many lawyers would rather tell their client to pay the person off rather than basically show them as lying b...

[@phantomstrangermedia]

@@safiremorningstar Roscoe Arbuckle was a kind & generous man who gave laughter to millions; but he became the victim of a dishonest & status-hungry DA who had no real evidence against an innocent man, but put him through 3 maliciously concocted trials rather than give up on his scheme. The DA bent laws & violated Arbuckle’s constitutional rights to prevent his case being thrown out of court - 2 of the trials were declared mistrials. He was aided by a vile & greedy woman who was stupid enough to change her story whenever the DA’s fabrications painted him into a corner. I hope to make a video which presents the true facts. Anyone who is interested is welcome to stay in touch with me.

[@shirleytyler-szkolny6981]

The party was not at Arbuckle's home. It was at a hotel.

[@phantomstrangermedia]

@@shirleytyler-szkolny6981 That is right. Arbuckle retired to his suite & went to sleep.

[@robingottlieb7229]

Fatty Arbuckle's party was at a San Francisco hotel not at his home.

[@hensonlaura]

Peg Entwhistle looks a lot like Anne Heche.

[@DeidreL9]

Absolutely. It’s quite eerie.

[@safiremorningstar]

A lot of people have mentioned the Judy Garland did not die from a drug overdose, and according to the coroner that is correct however because of years of substance abuse caused by the adults were supposed to be protecting her from her early childhood stage 10 onward it wouldn't be hard to imagine how addicted she got by the time she was 14, how long it would take for it that substance abuse liver and other organs.

[@carolinebyrne9392]

THERE STILL ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH IT TODAY

[@eunicestone6532]

No more wire hangers!!!!!

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

Yikes

[@peterstephens6168]

Same old stale stories told countless times before. Nothing "Swept under the rug" here.

[@bcgrote]

Child marriages continue, and are still legal in the US. A child in double digits can be r-ped and the parents then force her to marry her attacker. Children as young as 15 can willingly marry with parental permission in many US states.

[@kathyw3466]

Just looked up our laws in Australia . 18 years is the legal age . One party can be 16 or 17 and under exceptional circumstances with court approval can marry. That's crazy in the US because that puts them under the age of consent (but apparently not if they are married.)

[@danielpseery6861]

13 in missouri

[@jannythomas3104]

So backward.

[@kathypappas6867]

Joan Crawford looked like a horrible cruel cold woman.

[@nicolebailey4426]

Her twins' daughters stated she was strict but lovable. Notice they were omitted from the movie. Even on a live interview, one of the twins stated that Joan was nothing like the movie. I can't dispute who was right, but tell all books are frown upon. Even Bette Davis, her nemesis, didn't like the idea of tell all book. Funny, her daughter did the same thing once Davis died.

[@raymondhopwood9393]

I was waiting for the murder of director William Desmond Taylor in 1922, and the scandal surrounding it.

[@ladynikkie]

What's really dark and ironic for peg egwhistle was one week after her death. She received a note from a Hollywood studio wanting her to come and audition for a part playing a suicide victim.

[@frankchristian8354]

😢

[@asarose4680]

They were still more Celeb than what we see today.

[@jamesmichalek5406]

because we know about all the pecadilloes of today's celebrities

[@eviehammond9509]

No George Reeves death?????

[@frankiefranklin9761]

I discovered john Lennon's abuse researching him in primary school 😅 no one believed me!

[@shannonblanchard8195]

I could tell be the way he treated julien like nothing. And of course because he just up and left Cynthia, and Yoko ono was in such denial and so submissive.

[@nes123ification]

My husband is the same. We’ve had some heated disagreements about it. He will not have it!!

[@cynthialagreca]

Arbuckle is innocent and that was hardly swept under the rug. He went through multiple trials and lost his career.

[@rucianapollard7098]

Chris Farley was supposed to play Arbuckle in a movie

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

Rappe had had a botched abortion not long before she turned up with Margot Delmont, her 'friend'. She was a failed actress who had become a professional 'friend', a parasite who lived off her 'friend' who gatecrashed Arbuckle's party. Embittered at losing her 'meal ticket' it was she who spread the gory rumours about Arbuckle, that proved the old saying that a lie can get around the world twice before truth can get its boots on. William Randolph Hearst once boasted he made more money out of Arbuckle than out of the sinking of the "Maine"

[@kathleenwisialowski4558]

He was Johhny Depped.

[@larrycamarillo3775]

I totally agree as this shallow video passes half truth information.

[@ladynikkie]

That man was the true victim mostly from a scandalous media and people who testified against them were actually taking brides.

[@Leader-fq1dq]

Natalie Woods death should be added to this list. Also stop with the story that James Dean died because he was speeding. Not true. Saw a documentary that said he could not have been going more than 45 the way his car ended up

[@pamelasimone5084]

True. The other driver’s car went into Dean’s lane.

[@DeidreL9]

Natalie should absolutely be here on this list. A case of hush up and heads in the sand. She deserved so, so much better.

[@pamelasimone5084]

You are correct. The real problem was the other driver sped out in front of Dean cutting him off. The other driver misjudged his timing causing the accident.

[@tmamaqueen55]

Thank you for reminding people of these true Hollywood royalty.the little bit of scandals they had is nothing compared to today's Hollywood people.back then they still had more looks daring and grace than today

[@nickiewilson9134]

Mild compared to what's going down today.

[@Theywaswrong]

The Fatty Arbuckle incident was tried in court three times, resulting in an innocent ruling and an APOLOGY to Arbuckle by the court. It's well accepted that Rappe's friend was a chronic liar and had many legal issues and her blackmail attempt of Arbuckle was not successful. Rappe's health also was documented as being poor before the Arbuckle party. That death has been put to rest.

[@mangot589]

Creepy, but it wasn’t illegal for Jerry Lee to marry his cousin even though she was 13. And the party wasn’t at Arbuckles home. But I believe he was innocent.

[@jprez7295]

Judith Barsi"s mother was greedy and selfish and put the dollar bill before her daughter's safety!! 😡

[@nicolebailey4426]

Hate to agree with you, it's true. I know that both parents were Hungarian immigrants, and I don't know how domestic violence was dealt with, say, a private matter or public problem. I do believe that precious child should have been protected. As much work she was making for the studios and nobody saw the abuse this displayed when off camera . There were too many red flags all in all the Dad was a jerk for his jealousy.

[@safiremorningstar]

You say they brought pressure to bear as if she had any say in the matter and not unlike Judy Garland she was not given a choice call it what it was physical psychological speaking the same methodology as pimps do when they want to keep their underage hooker under their thumb.

[@safiremorningstar]

Joan Crawford what also a child stealer, most of her adoption would be considered illegal, and when that aspect of her life came up sheet enough money to make sure that it was squashed...

[@shirleytyler-szkolny6981]

Black market babies

[@safiremorningstar]

@@shirleytyler-szkolny6981 yep in a manner of speaking yep, in fact from one of the mothers try to claim her child and that would have been Christine and by the way some say he paid the woman off others say she made her disappear disappear part is correct because he never came back even though she'd badly wanted Christine. They were Hollywood actresses who saw the incident in question and ask her about it and she immediately changed the subject and basically the quote one of them you can't couldn't get her to talk about what was going on that one minute the woman relieve demanded her daughter back and said that she wanted her back in that given the right taking her and this has been witnessed by one of her actress friends who stopped being her friend because she suspected that she had stolen Christine and they saw how she treated her which was fireworks after the incident in question. I've always wondered why Christine herself considering her book came out in the late 70s early 80s didn't bother to do a DNA test then that became available and find out who her mother was and where she came from but like I said Joan Crawford with a baby Snatcher. Do a lot of celebrities who legally adopted children and it was well-known how they went about doing that but not Joan Crawford and her lawyers in fact when the movie got a little too close to the truth that movie too was squashed. But a lot of the Hollywood celebs knew about Joan Crawford and you about her illegal adoption. One was actually asked if he thought it was illegal that she kidnapped her kids and their reply was it's questionable back in the thirties when these adoptions were taking place thirties and forties the husband have the right to do whatever he wanted Sosa husband gave permission but the wife did not even though California would have put that as a questionable adoption if you had enough money you could squash it.

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

What’s sad is this was common with the rich and famous to adopt stolen babies.

[@CatherineLeighe]

Joan Crawford was not a child stealer. I don’t think she was all that loving a mother. She had a hard scrabble life & had been on her own since her early teens. She used what she had to get ahead, didn’t fall down the drinking or drug rabbit holes. Joan was sexual for sure & used it to her advantage & good for her. I don’t think she was too kind to the older two children & leaving them out of her will was harsh & spiteful. Arguing any point about her on this thread is useless. There are a couple of very good bios on her read one of them & get a more accurate picture of who she was.

[@Deborahtunes]

​@@CatherineLeighe ~ It was true that JC illegally adopted Christopher. His birth mother tried to get him back, but was unsuccessful...

[@jewelmayfield2381]

Sandra Dee was absolutely beautiful! Wow

[@bekaska6615]

Cruella Crawford 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆👹🖤

[@ForeverAlansGirl]

Olive Thomas was so beautiful. 🌹 & JD Salinger & Rudy Valentino = ❤❤

[@bcgrote]

Oona and Charlie Chaplin had 8 children! His great granddaughter Oona is a lively actor.

[@gloriavaldez1560]

Also his daughter Geraldine is a good actress herself. She played her grandma in Chaplin

[@shannonblanchard8195]

Oona was in love, it didn’t really look like Jerry lees cousin was happy, she looked scared.

[@bekaska6615]

Eddie Fisher... heartthrob???????????? 😒🙄😲🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘🤘🤘🗽🗽🗽🗽🛳️🌆🌆🌆🌆😵

[@c.joyceb.8991]

Arbuckle..... Hollywood ruined his life..but why? He was a moneymaker for Hollywood.

[@CatherineLeighe]

Paramount regretted his million dollar contract. Times were changing, the bare knuckle slapstick stars were being replaced with younger & better looking actors to play the roles.

[@phantomstrangermedia]

Arbuckle was falsely accused of a terrible crime. An ambitious & dishonest DA & a woman willing to perjure herself for money invented depraved & brutal ‘details’ which were said to be reflected in the actor’s appearance. He was eventually cleared, but, long before that happened, the grotesque descriptions of him as a monster & hulking beast caused Paramount Studios to disassociate themselves from him - in effect it was like modern cancel culture on steroids, but with the added horror that Arbuckle could have gone to prison forever if the frame up had succeeded. Though vindicated in court, Arbuckle was blacklisted by all the studios & it was a long time before he could even work behind the camera using another name. The court cases ruined him financially, professionally & emotionally.

[@CatherineLeighe]

@@phantomstrangermedia It was a scandal that played out in real time. The newspapers filled their front pages with lurid descriptions of Roscoe’s wild party. It must have brought excitement & a disapproving clicking of the tongue to many a reader. He was tried & convicted in the daily paper & no acquittal would change their minds as to his degenerative character. As stated the studio could have shut all this down & choose not to. Not everyone believed that silly stupid woman. The juries sure didn’t.

[@robertmotrie4407]

Several of these stories you’re just perpetuating lies and rumors

[@evaadams8298]

I think there were loads of parents and managers that stole the money of their “actors” so awful.

[@bcgrote]

"Mildred Pierce" is loosely based on the Lana Turner story. Fabulous film!

[@Lily-wp8ol]

Uh, Mildred Pierce was a film in 1945. Lana Turners scandal with Johnny Stompanato was in 1957.

[@pamelasimone5084]

@@Lily-wp8olI was about to say the same thing. BTW, James Cain’s novel ends differently.

[@kathleenwisialowski4558]

How, MP came out in 1945 and the murder occured in 1958?

[@brandy_lish]

according to …who?,you? it was out before it happened so explain that? i don’t get how n why people just say things bc it seems likely

[@susannehand1395]

Charlie Chaplin = Cradle Snatcher 🥴 No offense to this, like I watched his funny films and I really liked them and I actually like Charlie Chaplin too so don't be offended with what I have said I am stating the obvious that's all Folks 😊 😉 ...

[@heathervelasco5159]

Don't forget. Jerry Lee Lewis second or third wife he killed her according to her sister

[@janethollman7894]

Joan Crawfords eyebrows are scary. But they probably were just of that era.

[@pattycake-gu6de]

Arbuckle didn't even touch her, she had just come from having a 4th abortion which was botched.

[@zuzukris4952]

Judy didn’t do that to herself. Her mother put her on weight lose and energy pills when she was 14!! By the time she was 15, her mother and Louie B. Mayer were mentally, and emotionally abusing her, forcing her to take handfuls of pills every day, telling her she ass fat amd ugly, and had complete control over her! This would go on for years! Even after she got married to her first husband. Her mother told him that Judy had a set schedule and could only eat certain foods and had to take all these pills. Judy was 20 at the time, and her mother and her husband were completely controlling and abusing her! That poor girl didn’t stand a chance!

[@jaggg.3821]

The jokes about Southerner's marrying their cousin's seemed too only happen too them; both were from Louisiana!

[@jimmiemurvin1871]

Several of these stories were well known at the time and some were revealed later. How does that qualify them as haaving been "swept under the rug"? You folks need to work on your headlines.

[@WhatReally980]

They got away because no social media

[@julianneremley4430]

Alot of this I knew but I still found it interesting

[@wellston2826]

The incident in the Fatty Arbuckle scandal did not take place in his home. It took place in a hotel suite in San Francisco, some 400 miles away from Hollywood.

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

The Francis Drake Hotel.😮

[@Sonormuseum]

Swept under the rug? These scandals ended up costing most of these people their careers and/or their lives. Hardly example of “sweeping under the rug”. Also, have an actual human read your copy.

[@dianaprince3176]

First cousin =/= first cousin once removed First cousins have parents who are siblings; they share one set of grandparents. First cousins once removed do not share a set of grandparents.

[@embyquinn]

How DARE you even HINT that Roscoe Arbuckle had anything to do with that poor girl's death? Stop reading Anger's trashy book and do some actual research. 6:01 6:02

[@pattypark8548]

😂😅🤓👽🤠🥳🧐😎🤪uppers and downers. Is that the technical term for amphetamines and valiums? 😊

[@kathleenwisialowski4558]

And all arounders. Not valium, that was Mother's Little Helpers. Downers are seconal and the like.

[@c.alexander4622]

Crap Crap Crap Tell us crap we HAVEN'T heard

[@racheljersey8247]

So sad, hollyweird does a bang up job on these stars. Their lives are taken when they start in hollywood. R.i.p too all the ones we've lost. ❤❤

[@stuhuggens9297]

Taylor’s career survived, Eddie’s went down the tube.

[@kafferdoodle]

I hope Joe Barsi gets all the worst afterlives. Like, I hope that there is an afterlife, just so he can continue on in misery.

[@nzr3756]

It was at a hotel where the party was thrown that resulted in the actress Rappe's death, not Arbuckle's home. She & a cohort had a plan for blackmailing him, and, she had insisted on laying down in his room.

[@robins.9700]

Some of these weren't swept under the rug very well because I've heard of most of them lol That being said, i hadn't heard about the Led Zeppelin violating a groupie with a fish thing, but something tells me it's too bizarre to have been made up lol

[@manonlaviggne1085]

The Led Zeppelin fish story is true but it wasn’t a shark

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

It was a goldfish.

[@Theworldisyouroyster156]

Famous Led Zep story. Their manager allegedly hit a woman in the breast with a pool cue.

[@stuhuggens9297]

There was no proof Arbuckle had any thing to do with her death.

[@revcounselor]

Many of these examples didn't seem to be "swept under the rug" as the title suggests. Cheryl Crane was found not guilty, Fatty Arbuckle's career tanked, even though he was found not guilty, Jerry Lee Lewis's career also took a nose-dive when he was found out. Not a very good title but the stories are interesting.

[@bekaska6615]

Word! Sandra Dee was da best n dat film of da 50s' Imitation of Life🤘🤘🤘🤘🗽🗽🗽🗽🌆🌆🌆🌆🎬🎬🎬🎬🎥🎥🎥🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️

[@oot8089]

Would be nice to watch...wont go past warning even tho I agreed to proceed.

[@jaggg.3821]

That wasn't as much a shock nearly everybody within Hollywood knew it; before talk show's like Phil Donahue/Sally Jesse Raphael/Oprah Winfrey/The Jenny Jones Show/Jerry Springer/Montell William's/Ricky; there were Talk shows seen on TV and the very guys who interviewed guest that they invited up on the show. both Christine and her brother say that this indeed happened. I wasn't in the house so I can't say it that it never occurreded!

[@ruthmenchaca6688]

They are still getting away with it!

[@heathervelasco5159]

And Judy Garland her mother got her hooked on them she could have said no

[@anitapotts9630]

I don't believe a few of these tales. Let them RIP.

[@safiremorningstar]

Paula negri again I need your voice to text this is not something to write things correctly not even name so please bear that in mind when you read this I'm handicap and this is the only tool I can use. Miss negri claim and may have actually been originated with the Hollywood system in the bosses of the Studio may not have wanted it to come out that Rudolph Valentino was actually gay. Far better to take a Starlit like Negron allow her to say that she was his fiance make very well within truth and it may have been arranged by the studio because she was his beard. It also might explain some things about how she died and we will leave it there.😊

[@christinetitus6388]

It’s been proven that in recent times that Valentino was not gay. That lie came out in the 1970’s. About 50 years after his death. As for Negri all she wanted was to be in the limelight at Valentinos funeral. She probably lied about being engaged to him because not long after she got married

[@safiremorningstar]

@@christinetitus6388 more than likely he might’ve been by, but based on certain factors and certain people he was known to hang out with, and it was one of the reasons that people thought he was gay. Me personally I don’t think that, he had a lot of women hanging off of him, but we know from people like Matt Bomer that you don’t wanna lose your job you pretend to be straight and you have all these pretty beards hanging off of you and if you do it right people believe you’re not gay. Some of the people he hung with and I mean guys by the way we’re known to be gay but then again, some of the women he hung out with we’re known to be vamps I mean they were known to be very straight, so maybe he was by the truth is he isn’t alive to tell the tale and Negrete was there to make sure his mystique as the Hollywood execs would put it didn’t get tarnished because they had a few movies, one of which he just completed that they would not have been able to sell otherwise. by the way, I’m using voice to text and it writes things as it wants and I cannot fix it and the reason I’m saying he could very well be by even the gay for all we know is because just because a man has children or has had a woman in his life does not necessarily mean he was not gay, I say this because of the fact that back in the battle all days before you could be openly gay and there were a few exceptions by the way, one in particular, I can think of is it became known you were gay you lost your job it was in the morality clause that all actors have to sign and I can think of like I said a few that had beards. And at least three actors to the present day had children who came from the period of the 60s up to the 1960s I should say who had children and relations with women in order to cover up the fact that they were gay. I still wonder because it says that David Ogden Stiers I hope I got the first name correct by the way I have problems remembering things it says that he had one child in a previous liaison back in the 60s, he would’ve needed to if he wanted to keep from being found out he would have needed at least one relation of the opposite sex so that if he was ever caught or if somebody ever accused him of being gay, he would have a way of countering that as somebody who is ace I can tell you that they were constantly trying to get you to take off a box. You read the one thing or the other and I haven’t help you if you mark down that you were gay if anybody found out you were gay, you could lose your job. You could be blacklisted immediately if you were an actor and if you were anything else, you would certainly lose your job it would always be an excuse for why you lost your job. Hollywood had a habit of if the actor was very popular of giving him a beard. It was usually one of their actresses if she was pregnant at the time that was perfect. Why, because then how could you say that the guy is gay? He’s got a wife and a kid, so like I said, he may have had some lady friends if you wanna call it that, but he was known to traveling in a manner of speaking in the circles of certain gay known gay actors that doesn’t necessarily make him gay like I said, but it does bring up a lot of questions, especially why did the Hollywood execs go along with the whole Negri being his fiancé think about that for a minute there’s only a need for that if there were suspicions, he might’ve only been friends with those actors, but that would not have mattered as far as public was concerned, and one thing you can say about Hollywood they don’t like scandals at least not back then. They didn’t even like hint of a scandal either.

[@Linda-bf4pt]

The marriage Jerry Lee was legal. His first so called marriage was one where he shàcked up with a girl. I knew a couple in Virginia between first cousins. If people don't like it, they need to change the law.

[@CraigGagnon-f7q]

Reality is that "back in the day" was much better than today. Wish I could time travel back to the 1940's.

[@gloriatagnosky5813]

After 3 trials. He was guilty because of a mouthy Hollywood wan a be. The press loved it!

[@CraigGagnon-f7q]

crawfords kids only bad mouthed her after she cut them from her will. Everyone who was around them say it was all BS

[@marymcnary3413]

What about the gf he threw in jail and married Michelle Stephens and killed her 3 months later???

[@vickyvixen2010]

Side note: does anyone else think peg entwistle looked eerily like reese witherspoon? I wonder if theyre related somehow

[@cindyx92130]

John Lennon story is false. I don’t know where you get your facts from

[@GoldBawls]

They still threatening anyone who talks about the Steven Tyler ‘thing’ eh?

[@cindyx92130]

These (aside from #1) are the same old tired dang stories. Nothing new there.

[@colinwoods9601]

Surprised Natalie Wood didn’t make the list.

[@CindyLouWho77]

RE: Jerry Lee Lewis. Many would be surprised to learn the age at which some young children are allowed to marry with parental consent; some states don’t even have a minimum age, which is absolutely disgusting and bonkers. People would be shocked by the number of states where it’s completely legal for first cousins to marry (and West Virginia is not on the list, which may be a surprise). The final shock would be to learn when states enacted the legislation. People in the US like to attack Muslims for not discouraging child marriages (much like all religions, this occurs within fundamentalist sects. It isn’t a widely accepted practice), when states across the Bible Belt (and outside of it) allow the same.

[@mrsbee5056]

This is banned in the UK.Must be too many fibs in it

[@susannedoe9320]

Myra gale didnt even look older. She looked 13

[@ruththompson9369]

I was 13 and married in 1971 it happen a lot.. 50 some years we still married.. quit making this time our time.. there so many reason we married so many why a man took us.. quit making today life with that time.. I happy always have been.. love my family.: love the man who save my ass.. beats be on the streets of the city children find themselves today..

[@dianehebel1834]

Sad that these things happened to all these people😂

[@gogoyubari366]

Marilyn Monroe was so beautiful!

[@adairadair9490]

John Lennon never ever liked this bad man 🤮

[@DreDaDon16]

R Kelly in jail whike Elvis get to be remembered as a legend that shit don't sit right with me but its abiut white

[@evaadams8298]

I’m white and I agree with you 💯

[@jamellfoster6029]

Rudolph Valentino even looked gay.

[@melaniegerard2582]

Well done.

[@ricardorussell6046]

What's my brother is also mine.

[@MishaSims]

joan crawford has two other kids that say christina and christopher are lying about being abused

[@hauntedbelle]

There's a big enough age difference that they can both be right. Joan could have been extremely abusive to Christina and Christopher but really good to the twins leaving them oblivious. The same thing happened with me and my sister. I went through a hell that my sister called me a liar which was good, I accepted it because it meant she didn't live through it. I was grateful she didn't live through it but I wasn't lying. She was just too young to remember, she believes me now though. Thanks me for protecting her.