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Mark Wahlberg when he was a teenager was He has been involved in numerous hate crimes. First, when he was 15 years old, he was charged with chasing black children with his friends, throwing rocks at them and shouting, “Kill the lads!” He continued to harass black children on the beach the next day. And at age 17, he assaulted two Vietnamese Americans, one of whom was a military veteran. He knocked one person unconscious, punched another and called them racial slurs. At the time he was high on his PCP. He ended up serving just 45 days in prison for the latter charge.
After Wahlberg became famous, asked for He wrote a pardon for the assault that landed him in prison, saying, “I am deeply sorry for my actions on the night of April 8, 1988, and for the lasting harm I may have caused to the victims. He has dedicated himself to becoming a better person and citizen so that he can be a role model for his children and others.” Although he eventually withdrew his pardon, he claimed in 2020 that he had truly changed. . I’m going to go and do my thing. ”
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Jon Hamm was a student at the University of Texas at Austin. accused An incident in which he violently abused a pledged member of his Sigma Nu fraternity. Mark Allen-Sanders said seven men, including Mr Ham, beat him, hit him with paddles, forced his face into the dirt, set his pants on fire and “put hammer claws under his genitals”. “I took him around,” he claimed. “His injuries included a fractured spine and he says he nearly lost a kidney. He was initially charged with assault, which was deferred and ultimately dropped. Although the entire lawsuit was ultimately dismissed, the incident prompted the University of Texas chapter of Sigma Nu to be permanently disbanded.
When asked about the incident in 2018, long after Hamm rose to fame, he replied: reportedly was furious, saying he was “effectively acquitted”, calling the report “sensational” and saying it was “unfortunate what happened”. Hamm also reportedly accused the reporter of writing a “hit piece.”
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During World War II, Coco Chanel named He was played as a Nazi informant by his friend Bela Beit (who himself confessed to being a German agent). The French government arrested Chanel, who had some ties to the Nazi intelligence organization Abwehr and its members. Chanel was eventually released due to his lack of evidence and the possible help of his friend Winston Churchill. Chanel’s “fear and hatred of Jews” was said to be “notorious,” but her ties to the Nazis remained hidden for decades.
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boy george is was found guilty Carlsen accused Boy George of beating Audun Carlsen, handcuffing him to a wall, and hitting him with a chain in a drug-fueled paranoid episode in which Boy George believed Carlsen had hacked his computer.
boy george was denied Although the assault took place, he admitted handcuffing Carlsen to a wall to find out if he had hacked his computer. O’Dowd (Boy George’s real last name) pleaded not guilty but was ultimately sentenced to 15 months in prison. He still performs. The photo below is from the 2023 performance.
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In 1991, Rick James and his girlfriend Tanya Ann Hijazi arrested He is accused of confining and torturing a 24-year-old woman for three days. The two allegedly threatened the victim with a gun, tied her up and set her on fire, forced her to have oral sex with Hijazi, and forced her to smoke crack cocaine. A year later, the two of them again allegedly kidnapped He then assaulted music executive Mary Sauger.eventually james provided 2 years or more in prison. He continued to compose and tour after that.
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Jack Nicholson has been accused of assaulting women numerous times throughout his career. In the 90’s he was accused Charged with assaulting a sex worker who refused to pay. Mr Nicholson settled the case with a woman named Katherine Sheehan, who claimed in 2000 that the damage to her brain stem “actually killed her” and she sued for more money. He claimed to have suffered intermittent blindness. Nicholson previously Paid After attacking a driver’s windshield in a road rage incident. accused In 1996, he was found guilty of punching a woman and causing her breast implants to explode. After that, he continued to work as an actor for many years and continued to receive prestigious awards.
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Michael Fassbender is accused In 2010, he filed for a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend, Sunawin “Lisi” Andrews, accusing him of domestic violence. The claims, which include that Andrews was taken to hospital for injuries sustained, were first reported in 2010 and have resurfaced in the years since. He eventually withdrew his petition after a temporary restraining order against Andrews expired. Fassbender has played a number of important roles since the allegations. x men series.
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In 1985, Vince Neil (lead singer of Motley Crue) was convicted of a crime He was charged with drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter for veering into traffic and colliding with another vehicle, killing his passenger and seriously injuring the occupants of the other vehicle.The man killed was Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas Dingley and later the band’s guitarist Andy McCoy. claimed Neil never apologized for the accident. Neal expressed his remorse for the incident and paid $2.6 million to the victim and her family. He spoke out against drink-driving and later admitted he “deserved to go to jail,” but said the “power of cash” stopped him from doing so and “it was a mess.” Motley Crue still tours.
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Sean Penn is accused Attacking Madonna during her wedding. He allegedly tied her to her chair for nine hours until she escaped and ran to her police station. Penn was originally charged with assault and inflicting “bodily injury and traumatic disease,” but Madonna later dropped her charges, although she filed for divorce. Penn began to gain widespread fame in Hollywood.
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kobe bryant is accused In 2003, he was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old employee at the lodge and spa where he was staying. She ultimately decided not to testify and the case was dismissed. Bryant admitted that the two had sex and that he did not ask for consent, but maintained that the sex was consensual. Later, he said, “After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even hearing her testimony in person, I now feel that she did not consent to this encounter.” I understand,” he said, and reached a settlement with the victim in civil court.
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Mike Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992.That year, another woman filed a lawsuit against him for sexually assaulting her in the early 90s. She claims Tyson violently raped her in his limousine after they met at a club. Tyson continued her competition in boxing after that.
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Cristiano Ronaldo is another athlete accused of rape.american woman accused The soccer star was paid $375,000 in “hush money” and signed an NDA after accusing him of sexual assault in Las Vegas in 2009.That woman, Kathryn Mayorga, then claimed She was forced to sign an NDA and asked for it to be revoked (especially considering the court documents had already been leaked).
However, the civil suit against Ronaldo Dropped After Mayorga’s lawyers were involved in serious misconduct, they not only contacted the sources of the document leaks and obtained their own copies, but also the reports between Ronaldo’s lawyers and the investigators in the case. I also obtained a copy of the exchange. Mayorga’s misconduct tarnished the case and Ronaldo’s image, and his lawyer was forced to pay back Ronaldo’s legal fees.
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rita marley Suspect in her book No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley that Marley forced himself on her after she refused sex (because of his infidelity). She described it as rape in an interview with newspaper The Voice, but she later said that “the way the guy put it in the paper made it look like Bob raped me.” She blamed it out of proportion. When you think about it, you end up asking yourself if her husband can actually rape his wife. ”
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John Lennon himself Admitted In a 1980 Playboy interview, he spoke about violence against women: “It was all me, ‘I was cruel to the woman, I beat her, I kept her from the things she loved.’ “And physically, any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself and I hit. I fought with men and I hit women,” he said. “That’s why I always think about peace. It’s the most violent people who want love and peace. Everything is the other way around. But I really believe in love and peace.”
“I am not a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets my violence. I need to be older to face publicly how I treated women when I was younger. “I have to,” he continued. Outside claims of violence from John Lennon include those from his ex-wife Cynthia Lennon and an instance in which he nearly beat a friend to death for calling him gay.
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Sinead O’connor accused Prince says in his memoir that he was a ‘violent abuser of women’ (posthumously) memory, details an incident in which she fled his home in the middle of the night after being physically assaulted. After suggesting a pillow fight with her, the man allegedly hit her with a hard object wrapped in her pillow case, chased her in her car as she tried to leave, and then chased her on foot. threatening “Kick the shit out.” [her.]“She also claimed in a previous interview that he beat several women and that the women were taken to the hospital.
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The Who’s Pete Townshend arrested In 2003, after it was discovered that his credit card had been used to access a child sex image site, Mr Townsend became involved in an investigation into child abuse, attempting to prove financial links between a Russian orphanage and a British bank. He claimed to have accessed the site as part of research for a campaign against sexual images. He was not allowed to possess any images but was placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years. The Who toured as recently as last year.
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Horatio Sands is accused He was accused of assaulting an underage fan at the venue. SNL after party SNL Alumni Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Rachel Dratch were also said to be in attendance. She said the woman was 15 years old when she started talking to Sanz online. She said Sanchez trained her for cybersex and assaulted her in the early 2000s.Sanchez and NBC was denied They settled the allegations with an anonymous woman in 2022.
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We tend to ignore the fact that Angelina Jolie accused Brad Pitt is accused of assaulting Jolie and her children on a plane in 2016. Court documents say Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head, shook her and pushed her against a wall. When their children tried to intervene, Pitt allegedly strangled one of them and punched another. Pitt’s representatives vehemently denied these accusations. No charges were pursued, and the two ended up in 50/50 detention (although the judge was later disqualified, and it appears they were taken into custody). Custody disputes and legal issues (This is still ongoing).
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And finally, I can’t write this article without talking about Michael Jackson.I’m sure you’ve heard some reliable stories. Child sexual abuse allegations But Jackson is notable in that, despite his history of sharing beds with boys, his legacy remains largely intact.
he was there investigated In 1993, he was arrested on suspicion of molestation, and in 2003 he was again charged with molestation, but was acquitted. In the 2010s, two men with documented relationships with Jackson filed lawsuits against Jackson’s estate and company, alleging that he sexually abused them on multiple occasions. Both men later told their stories on an HBO special. leave neverland — Michael Jackson’s estate denies all allegations and has sued HBO over the documentary.
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