Posted on 02/23/2005 7:41:34 AM PST by pissant
10. Rob Lowe Makes a Home Movie Long before Paris Hilton burned up computer monitors and Pam and Tommy got busy on their boat (and car, and just about everywhere else), there was Rob Lowe. (snip)
9. Hugh Grant Is Caught in Flagrante Delicto Before his fateful encounter with hooker Divine Brown in June 1995, (snip)
8. Winona Ryder Picks Up Some Bargains at Saks Even when committing a felony, fashion plate Winona Ryder had impeccable taste. (snip)
7. Pee-Wee Herman Catches the Late Show When Paul Reubens was busted outside a Sarasota, Fla., porno theater for allegedly bad-touching himself -- twice -- during a showing of the skin flick..(snip)
6. Woody Allen Woos Soon-Yi Allen, then 57, had fallen in love with 21-year-old Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his longtime lover and frequent co-star Mia Farrow, (snip)
5. Ingrid Bergman Is Condemned by the Senate Ingrid Bergman's impeccable image was destroyed in 1949 when she began an affair with married Italian director Roberto Rossellini on the set of "Stromboli" and became pregnant with his child. (snip)
4. Lana Turner's Daughter Tries to Protect Her Mom the 37-year-old blonde bombshell and four-time divorcee began violently arguing with her abusive, mob-linked boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, 32, at her Beverly Hills home. (snip)
3. Roman Polanski Flees the Country took a 13-year-old girl to Jack Nicholson's L.A. mansion (Jack wasn't home) for a photo shoot. While snapping pics, he plied the teen with Champagne and part of a Quaalude before having sex with her . (snip)
2. Fatty Arbuckle Is Accused of Killing Virginia Rappe (snip)
1. Michael Jackson: The Past Decade But 10 years of scandals -- from molestation allegations to disfiguring plastic surgery --has erased that Jackson, literally and figuratively. (snip)
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That's a pretty good list - however, I'd remove Ingrid Bergman from this list since what she did then is probably cause for celebration these days.
On looks alone, I'll forgive Ingrid for anything short of hating America.
A few more infamous cases:
Sensational murder of director William Desmond Taylor (never solved, but thought to be murdered by actor Mary Miles Minter's mother). A good book on this is 'A Cast of Killers' by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick.
Charlie Chaplin's paternity suit
Death of director Thomas Ince on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht with a boatload of Hollywood celebs (never solved)http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/ince.htm
Mary Astor's nasty public divorce
Steve Reeves (TV Superman) murder
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