In 1934, Jessel married silent movie star Norma Talmadge who was married at the time that they started their affair. After their divorce in 1939, he broke into her house with a pistol and fired shots at her current lover.
Jessel was acclaimed and lionized by Hollywood---producing movies, and getting all manner of top jobs.
He was considered a humanitarian----and was active in the Civil Rights movement.
In 1969 even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him....the pedophile was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a Special Academy Award.
Heh.. I remember seeing Georgie Jessel on TV from time to time back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I always took him for a comedy actor, not a movie mogul. I just read his Wiki bio and was interested to find out he basically gave Judy Garland her stage name.