25 Famous Celebs Who Got Away With Unethical Behaviour

Being rich and famous doesn't automatically absolve you of any responsibility but the power, money and connections sure do seem to help with getting away with questionable actions. In a time when a celeb can potentially get cancelled for suing another celebrity, it's hard to accept that there are much more serious accusations that famous people have managed to get away with. A recent AskReddit thread inspired by user, u/aesthetic3, hopes to destroy society's leniancy and complacency towards such instances. Below are some of the named and shamed superstars who have been caught doing abominable things but society-at-large has forgiven and forgotten over time, unless we hold them accountable for it. Warning: some of the topics below may be triggering and disturbing.

#1

Image source: deekaph, Simon Fernandez / Wikipedia Here's a list I compiled earlier this year: Jimmy Page was 26 when he started calling 14 year old Lori Maddox his girlfriend. Mick Jagger had a few rounds with Maddox around the same time. Also of the rolling Stones, Bill Wyman started dating 13 year old Mandy Smith when he was 47. He got her mother's permission. Jerry Lee Lewis of course married his 13 year old cousin - she still believed in Santa on their honeymoon. Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll himself was routinely in trouble with underage girls and even the fabled romance with Priscilla is a tale of sexual interference... She was 14 when they met. Courtney Love says she gave Ted Nugent a b*****b when she was 12. He also adopted a 17 year old so he could bang her without getting charged with kidnapping. He even wrote a song about avoiding p********a charges. Anthony Kiedis (red hot chili peppers) wrote songs about it too, "Catholic school girls rule" is about his hooking up with a 14 year old at 23. Marvin Gaye knocked up his wife's 15 year old niece. Don Henley (the Eagles) was charged after paramedics found him with two naked girls, aged 15 and 16.

#2

Image source: Anthem2243, Lunch Break Photography / Wikipedia Chris brown. He beat the daylights out of Rhianna and everyone made that excuse that "she had a bad mouth", or "he was young and needs time to grow". People still make music with him now even though he's been caught stalking the mother of his child and allegations of abuse. But the guy still has a thriving career.

#3

Image source: anon, Raph_PH / Wikipedia Beyonce Knowles Carter. She preaches empowerment and is lauded for it, but behind the scenes utilizes sweatshop labor that pays 54 cents an hour. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/02/04/beyonce-clothing-line-sweatshop/.

#4

Image source: SuicidalPelican, Georges Biard / Wikipedia I guess noones really forgotten, but Roman Polanski's still getting awards and standing ovations for his films.

#5

Image source: Aevum1, Andrea Raffin / Wikipedia Gwyneth Paltrow Shes a con artist and manages a MLM, as well as recommending women treat their illness by putting rocks up their V****a and steaming their privates causing harm to people. You can say shes an idiot. Or just that shes a sociopath that loves making money off hurting other people.

#6

Image source: gracevturner, R. Kelly (Groovin in the Park) - come chat wid mi / Wikipedia R Kelly married Aaliyah when she was 15 years old in the mid 90's and yet it took like two decades for people to start boycotting him as a sexual predator. He was still making songs with beyonce and lady gaga etc for a looooong time.

#7

Image source: anon, Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times / Wikipedia John Lennon beat his wife.

#8

Image source: Arma_Diller, Warren K. Leffler / Wikipedia George Wallace—the infamous pro-segregation Governor of Alabama in the 60s—did not inform his wife that her doctor diagnosed her with cancer (doctors during this time often told patient’s relatives of their cancer diagnosis instead of the patient, especially if the patient was female). The reason was that she was running for governor as a surrogate for him since he had reached his term limits and he thought that the diagnosis would negatively affect her chances of winning. She ended up finding out about it 4 years later during a visit to a gynecologist, but unfortunately the cancer had progressed to the point that she died from it 3 years after learning that she had cancer and that her husband had known about it. He ended up successfully getting the term limits repealed and went on to serve a few more terms as governor. People forget about this, I’m assuming, because of all of the other s****y things he did. Edit: Her name was Lurleen Wallace, for those interested.

#9

Image source: ahartlage4, Erik Drost / Wikimedia Logan Paul going to the s*****e forest in Japan and laughing at a dead guy hanging in the tree while showing the corpse.

#10

Image source: redbar7, Number 10 / Wikipedia Piers Morgan Was the Editor of the Daily Mirror during the Iraq War, Published photos that he knew were fake of American and British Troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. He was fired but somehow managed to make a successful media career out of it.

#11

Image source: TKA94, MingleMediaTVNetwork / Wikipedia Jenny McCarthy helping to push the anti vaccination movement.

#12

Image source: aegeaorgnqergerh, Jmb / Wikipedia Jimmy Savile. For those unaware, huge TV and radio star in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Still popped up now and again until he died in 2011. After he died, massive allegations about him came out, the vast majority of which were proven to be true - abused and r***d multiple children (both sexes, many ages) while working on TV shows, etc, but also was known as a "charity man" who did actually raise millions for children's hospitals, etc but it was just a cover to gain access. He even had keys and an official advisory position at Broadmoor, a high security psychiatric hospital in the UK, which allowed him to abuse and r**e patients at will. Unproven, but he's also had connections with children's homes were kids "went missing", quite possibly m******d. What is staggering about this is that it was "known" and often talked about while he was alive. He even makes admissions in his autobiographies, people took him to task over it, he was even questioned by police multiple times, but he managed to get away with it. Still astounding looking back, and there were massive investigations into everything from the BBC to the NHS after he died.

#13

Image source: lelelex, Connor Coyne / Unsplash (not the actual photo) There's a soccer player in Brazil who k**led his wife, quartered her body and gave it to dogs eat (to make it harder to police found out). He went to jail for a few years and now he is playing again and making tones of money again like nothing happened. EDIT: ok he is not making a tone of money, what a meant is that he's probably gonna have a pretty confortable life and have his carrer back also the woman wasn't his wife, it was his mistress but they have a children together and still, she was a person his name is Bruno Fernandes de Souza.

#14

Image source: the_nuclear_man, Mike Patey / Wikipedia Caitlin Jenner caused a car crash that killed Kim Howe.

#15

Image source: anon, Angela George / Wikipedia Charlie sheen once had unprotected s*x with his girlfriends (plural) when he has HIV.

#16

Image source: dieSchnapsidee, musicisentropy / Wikipedia I mean it seems to most that Drake is actively grooming young girls but it seems to be forgotten as soon as new evidence surfaces.

#17

Image source: gaenji, U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jorge A. Rosales / Wikipedia Mark Wahlberg beat and blinded a Vietnamese guy just because he was Vietnamese.

#18

Image source: hagerbomz, DEWALT POWER TOOLS FIGHT NIGHT CLUB 2010 / Wikipedia Floyd Mayweather beats his wife with hands that are registered as lethal weapons in front of his children. But because he wins nobody cares.

#19

Image source: slusho55, imdb Emma Roberts beat the s**t out of her then boyfriend Evan Peters, then continued to co-star in the same show as him.

#20

Image source: poopsoutofmydick, imdb Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old girl in highschool, when he was 39 years old. Edit : I know it isn't illegal. He had money, fame, and was at the height of his show. And he chooses to date a 17 year old who is still in highschool ? It might not be illegal and as bad as murder/r**e/kidnapping/etc. , but it's still pretty scummy.

#21

Image source: ohthethrill, Gage Skidmore / Wikipedia Steven Tyler became the guardian for a 16 year old he was dating when he was 25 so he could bring her on tour...knocked her up too.

#22

Image source: anon, imdb There was that time James Franco tried to f**k a teenager. After she posted the exchange on social media of her telling him how old she was and him not caring and still wanting to see her, all he had to do was go on a few morning talk shows a couple days later and say, "You don't always know who you're talking to online," and everyone instantly forgot about it. He framed it like he was the one who was deceived and people just let it slide even though that clearly wasn't the case.

#23

Image source: spottieottie93, Los Angeles Times / Wikipedia (not the actual photo) Coco Chanel was a n**i. Tila Tequila is a n**i.

#24

Image source: ShabbatShalomSamurai, Stefan Brending / Wikipedia Jared Leto’s been accused of r**e by half-a-dozen 13-15 years old girls.

#25

Image source: vClimax, SHOWTIME / Wikipedia Jim Carrey allegedly gave his ex partner 3 STDS and then broke up with her. She committed s*****e because she couldn't ever see herself being with anyone or happy with herself as she was now stuck with these diseases for life. Her family filed a wrongful death suit against him and last year Jim was cleared on the charges because the 2011 STD test stating the gf was clean before dating Jim was "forged" meaning she had apparently contracted the diseases before meeting him. Not sure what to believe here tho. He paid her off in 2013 because she was blackmailing him saying she would go to the press, but he apparently regretted doing that. Quite a sad story, whatever the truth may be.