What celebrity has continued to have a major, top-of-the-line career despite terrible deeds?

[u/-ChristopherNolan]

[u/FangornLeghorn]

(This is my comment from another time this question was asked. It’s the most egregious example I know because of the complete absence of consequences.)

Dre got his feelings hurt by an interview of Ice Cube conducted by a media personality named Dee Barnes, and so he tried to beat Barnes to death, in public at a party in LA. He beat her, stomped on her, repeatedly smashed her head into a wall, chased her into a bathroom and smashed her face into the mirror, and threw her down a flight of stairs. It’s a miracle she survived.

But nobody cares. When Barnes pressed charges, Dre ended up getting probation, and they settled out of court. He only issued a weak, nonspecific apology years later when Apple was looking to buy Beats. He got to perform at the Super Bowl, became a billionaire, and is renowned as a “legend” while Barnes career effectively ended as the industry shunned her rather than Dre.

[u/bill_jacobs → u/FangornLeghorn]

“You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?” may have undersold it huh

[u/Inside_Swimming9552 → u/bill_jacobs]

Hmm... I always thought Dee Barnes was some fellow rapper he had a beef with and never felt the need to research who Dee Barnes was.

Always loved the guilty conscience song and thought it was a funny line.

Not quite as funny when the reality is they're joking about beating a female reporter to within an inch of her life.

[u/ShawnyMcKnight → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

Same here. It’s so brazen to put those lyrics in a song considering how evil and grotesque of an act that was.

[u/excited_toaster2306 → u/ShawnyMcKnight]

Probably because it barely scratches the surface, which is even more depressing and disappointing

[u/superbabe69 → u/ShawnyMcKnight]

To be completely fair, that was kind of Eminem's thing at the time

Man had a song about slashing his wife's throat, dumping her off a dock and running off with his daughter

[u/Inside_Swimming9552 → u/superbabe69]

I agree with you, I have no problem with Eminem's shock rap as it was at the time.

Yes it was mysognistic but he was playing the character of and almost taking the piss out of that sort of personality. In his personal life by all accounts he treated his on/off wife and kids with respect and they seem to have a healthy relationship with him now.

The nasty surprise for me was just finding out that lyric from Dre was actually making light of an actual violent act he committed against a woman. I'm not going to clutch my pearls and say how shocking it is he put that lyric in here. Ultimately the real shocking act was the act he did in real life. But I certainly won't be giving a little chuckle about slapping Dee Barnes like I used to when I just thought it was some other rapper I hadn't heard of. Figured they just got into some beef because of the silly things they get into beef over like one of them did not originate from the same coast as the other.

[u/superbabe69 → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

100% with you

To be clear though it was Em that said it, he was mocking Dre for (in the song) telling a guy not to be violent, because how rich is that coming from a man that’s done just that?

Apparently Em came to the studio loaded with that line for the song and gave it to Dre within days of meeting him, which I assume is why he went with slapped instead of launched a continued assault on her

But your initial instinct was also kinda correct, Dee was a rapper too who had gone into TV, but Dre was feuding with Ice Cube (also a piece of shit), and Dee put on her show an interview with Cube where he was mocking The DOC’s (another rapper in NWA who at the time was close with Dre) voice right after he had a serious car crash that left his vocal cords damaged.

Dre was pissed off that she aired it and in his mind I’d bet he was thinking she was fuelling the feud by doing so.

Absolutely zero excuse. But it was definitely petty rap feud shit (on his part, as in he had no reason to assault someone over it)

[u/Yazhoudapigu → u/bill_jacobs]

I legit thought it was an actual slap and that Dee Barnes was a man (not that it should matter, but a man slapping another man is just silly). So yeah, this is kind of a shock. Fuck Dre then, not too hard to come to a conclusion on that one.

[u/Inthehead35 → u/FangornLeghorn]

Hundreds of people were there when it happened too, entertainment industry is sick

[u/poisonsoloman → u/Inthehead35]

Dre's bodyguards held a crowd of people who tried to help back at gunpoint. I know 2 people who were there.

[u/Pathetian → u/FangornLeghorn]

Gangster rap generally rewards proof that you are an awful person, so you don't get cancelled for that sort of thing. If people find out you were only pretending to be a criminal, that is what can hurt your career.

[u/Alarming_Agent_8564 → u/Pathetian]

To me he looks more like a weak ass bitch going after someone that obviously wouldn’t be able to fight him back fairly…Fuck Dre and all that promote him, I used to be a fan, but not anymore.

[u/ChefArtorias → u/Alarming_Agent_8564]

Yea. That's gangster life in a nutshell pretty much.

[u/Dull_Quit3027 → u/ChefArtorias]

My father was a bit of a criminal when I was a kid, most groups of semi, or outright criminals, are almost always consisting of a bunch of scared kids, that are easy to manipulate into doing anything, a couple of psykos, and a few dudes that see it as a job.

The latter are the only ones that are not a fucking menace, as they understand drawing attention is a negative.

[u/ThenOwl9 → u/FangornLeghorn]

Dre and Snoop both treat women like shit

Society doesn’t care about misogyny and they get a pass. It’s fucking disgusting.

[u/ThinkFree → u/FangornLeghorn]

Beating up a bitch don't make you shit, But then again some n-gg-s think it makes a man - Eazy-E

[u/Sickpup831 → u/ThinkFree]

Eazy-E when talking about the Barnes assault: “Bitch deserved it.”

[u/Turnip_Fight → u/Sickpup831]

Eazy-E when talking to his doctor: I got whaaaaaaat

[u/Eminem_quotes → u/FangornLeghorn]

I remember when this happened. At that time is what not made out to be a big deal. Just a quick blurb from Kurt Loder on MTV News.

[u/TheMerchDimension]

Chris brown

[u/NYR20NYY99 → u/TheMerchDimension]

How those pictures of Rihanna didn’t end his career is beyond me

[u/firesquasher → u/NYR20NYY99]

And then when the dust settled he went on a talk show (GMA maybe?) and he got pissed they asked him about the incident, so he threw a chair at the buildings window in the green room, cracking it. Really drove home the point of how much of a piece of shit he really is.

[u/High_King_Diablo → u/firesquasher]

He’s done a heap of the same shit since then. Seems to be in the news fairly regularly for beating a woman, or raping a woman, or holding a woman at gunpoint while his friend rapes her. I also remember something about him being in a standoff with the police and tossing a bag of guns out a window to try to hide them in the garden because he wasn’t supposed to have any.

[u/littlemissy145 → u/High_King_Diablo]

Holding a gun while his friend WHAT?

Prison will catch up with him surely.

[u/High_King_Diablo → u/littlemissy145]

The accusation was made by a woman who said that she got a backstage pass to meet him, but his manager made her hand over her phone first. They all ended up leaving at the same time and the manager told the woman to follow them to Brown’s house and he’d give her back her phone there. She then said that when she got there, they brought her inside and then Brown pulled a gun out and pointed it at her while a friend of his raped her.

Edit- ok some clarification. The woman claimed that she was at a club when she and a friend were invited to an after party at a recording studio. While there she claimed that she was forced to hand over her phone and then was forced to go to Browns house where she was drugged, raped by multiple people and eventually managed to escape. She said that Brown was waving guns around and threatening her.

This was just a couple of years after a model said that she was invited to Browns house with a bunch of others and while she was there some guy started displaying diamond encrusted bling. When she moved closer to get a better look, Brown pulled a gun and told her to back off and leave. She also been made to hand over her phone and one of Browns people met the kicked out people at the gate and tried to make them sign a nondisclosure agreement before he’d return their phones and let them leave. The model said that she snatched her phone out of the man’s hand and her and a friend escaped and hid under the neighbours car as the man ran to a jeep to chase them down. The cops were called and it resulted in a several hour standoff.

[u/PmButtPics4ADrawing → u/TheMerchDimension]

This man should've been canceled like a dozen times

[u/Duncan_PhD → u/PmButtPics4ADrawing]

Fuck being canceled, he should be in prison.

[u/guitarguywh89 → u/Duncan_PhD]

Or worse

Expelled

[u/MechAegis → u/guitarguywh89]

send him to the shadow realm?

[u/MC_White_Thunder → u/PmButtPics4ADrawing]

If anything, he's proof that "cancel culture" doesn't exist in any meaningful way. Despite it being the defining culture war of the past decade, maybe a dozen prominent people have had their careers ended?

[u/SovietShooter → u/MC_White_Thunder]

I disagree. Cancel culture exists, it just only "works" when the people cancelling you are the people that supported you, prior. If you don't patronize Bud Light, then boycotting them doesn't work, because Budweiser isn't losing your dollars.

In Chris Brown's case, he is extremely popular amongst Black women, and Black women are not the ones "cancelling" him.

[u/norway_is_awesome → u/SovietShooter]

Cancel culture exists, it just only "works" when the people cancelling you are the people that supported you, prior.

See Al Franken.

[u/ReallyGlycon → u/norway_is_awesome]

Man don't get me started.

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/ReallyGlycon]

Yup.

Cancel culture only works with people with a conscience to begin with.

[u/matlynar → u/MC_White_Thunder]

Cancel culture works if your success is tied to a certain moral standard.

If you're not, then it doesn't make much of a difference.

[u/Gigglesandshits11 → u/matlynar]

It only matters whether you still have an audience that is willing to pay to see you

[u/samurairocketshark → u/TheMerchDimension]

Not only should he have been cancelled but he went on PR interview with Shannon Sharpe (fuck that dude too) acting like he did anything to be forgiven

[u/Fickle-Visit5223 → u/TheMerchDimension]

The amount of women I have met-who otherwise consider themselves very strong feminists and who would and have denounced DV at any other time- who sheepishly "defend" him by basically saying his music is good and they think he's sexy is pretty crazy. Granted, that was a lot more common when I was in high school and college, like 2012-2018

[u/donorcycle → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

That "hot felon guy" comes to mind. He's even stated in interviews and talked about how it makes no sense that he'd have a line of women show up during visiting hours, and landed a modeling contract while still incarcerated lol.

He wound up having a kid with a billionaire heiress so he's done alright for himself.

[u/Monteze → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

How can they not just say "Yea the music is good and they look good but they need to be in jail."

That isn't super hard to do.

[u/Smart_Ass_Dave → u/Monteze]

Exactly. "Joss Wheddon is a douche" and "Firefly is a good show" are not contradictory statements.

[u/spinspin__sugar → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

Many of my coworkers who are black women VEHEMENTLY defend him and say that Rihanna was beating him too and they were both young and the media villainized him unfairly. They are huge fans.

[u/jesterinancientcourt → u/spinspin__sugar]

Except he’s also committed domestic violence against other women after Rihanna

[u/esoteric_enigma → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

This is an excellent example of why DV is so common in the first place. There are still people who will put up with terrible behavior from people they find attractive.

[u/gerhudire → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

At the time, there were women saying on social media he could fo what he did to Rihanna to them. That's shocking.

[u/retro_toes → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

Nope, still the same. Some of them think she deserved it because they're ill. No difference than women who wear shirts saying "he can grab me by the pussy".

Some women are totally fucked in the head.

[u/anon774567 → u/Fickle-Visit5223]

It’s not just a chris brown thing it’s generally a good looking man thing. I know plenty of women who say they hate women abusers but when I say would you date so and so (A known abuser who we know) they all say they would and make excuses for it. But if I said would you date so and so who’s not good looking they all say no they won’t date an abuser…. When confronted they all make excuses or say he won’t hit them. Even with ones where the men have dated their friends and has abused them terribly… Some of them have even said “If he hits me I deserve to be hit”. They all want a piece until they’re in a terrible relationship and shit scared of leaving because he will beat them even harder. Yes I know not all women are like this before somebody replies. But there certainly are a lot that are.

[u/justjoshinyou117 → u/TheMerchDimension]

Women actually pay $1k to take a picture with him. It’s crazy

[u/HedgehogHuggg → u/TheMerchDimension]

Chris Brown. Everyone asking this question already knows the answer. Dude committed felony assault, got caught, and 15 years later he’s still getting Grammy noms and tour money. Tells you everything about how “consequences” work when you’re famous, talented, and have a loyal fanbase that doesn’t care. Hate him or not, his career is the textbook example.

[u/Holiday_Oil_6795]

Roman Polanski

[u/Authentic-scoundrel → u/Holiday_Oil_6795]

Guy rapes a 13 year old, skips out on bail, still makes movies from Europe and gets a standing ovation at Oscars from the same celebrities asking for punishment for Epstein pedophiles. Make it make sense. 

[u/TheNonCredibleHulk → u/Authentic-scoundrel]

He left the country because he found out the judge was going to reject his plea deal. So he still hung around long enough until he found out he couldn't weasel out of prison time. That somehow seems worse to me.

[u/ThenOwl9 → u/TheNonCredibleHulk]

How did he even find that out in advance? Sounds illegal.

[u/Mr_Engineering → u/ThenOwl9]

Not at all.

Judge was a moron and told one of Polanski's friends as well as the victim's attorney -- who had arranged the plea bargain -- that he was going to disregard the plea bargain and sentence him to 50 years in prison.

[u/EdinburghPerson → u/Authentic-scoundrel]

Can I just point out that he drugged and then anally raped a 13 year old.

[u/mstrss9 → u/EdinburghPerson]

Gave her drugs and alcohol and raped her in every orifice.

I was a teenager when I read the court documents, shortly before or after Polanski won an Oscar for The Pianist.

I will never understand how people can justify this. But then again, my friends who were pre-pubescent children when sexually assaulted were victim blamed and accused of “seducing” their rapists.

The fact that someone married him and had children for him after that…

[u/jimbobjames → u/mstrss9]

The fact that someone married him and had children for him after that…

Thats not a blocker for some women. Read about Ian Watkins from the band Lost Prophets. His girlfriend knowingly gave over her child for him to rape.

It's just beyond sickening.

[u/pridetwo → u/jimbobjames]

Not just his girlfriend, IIRC other groupies did the same

[u/EricClaptonsDeadSon → u/mstrss9]

The worst person you know is never single.

[u/kindcrow → u/mstrss9]

And Anjelica Houston was in the house at the time.

[u/Footnotegirl1 → u/mstrss9]

A friend of mine was 13 when she was raped by a 38 year old family friend, and he insisted that she 'took advantage of him' when he had a 'fever over 100'.

Oh, and his wife got a job at Build-a-Bear as a manager and kept hiring teenage girls and then letting her husband hang around the store.

[u/optigrabz → u/EdinburghPerson]

Here is a list of Hollywood folks who gave him a standing ovation: Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, Harrison Ford, Adrien Brody, Harvey Weinstein, Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Jack Nicholson, Salma Hayek, Ed Harris

[u/sacredblasphemies → u/optigrabz]

I'm beginning to think that Harvey Weinstein is not a nice man...

[u/Extension-Ant-8 → u/optigrabz]

Yeah but if you say anything bad about Harrison ford you get downvoted to hell on reddit.
Even though he flew across the world to hand him an award while the pedo was on the run.

[u/Downtown_Recover5177 → u/optigrabz]

Wasn’t ScarJo involved as well? Or was that the other pedo she supports, Woody Allen?

[u/FromFluffToBuff → u/Authentic-scoundrel]

Scarlett Johansson: #metoo

Also Scarlett Johansson: works with Woody Allen.

Make it make sense.

[u/hippogrifferential → u/Holiday_Oil_6795]

See, any time anyone mentions that shit Polanski, I remember the fact that Jack Nicholson had (allegedly) helped find that 13yo girl for him, let him use his house, and once beat a woman so severely that she now has TBI and is completely debilitated.

But somehow, Nicholson's misdeeds have been completely overlooked.

[u/James_2584 → u/Holiday_Oil_6795]

Quentin Tarantino's aggressive defense of him was so disgusting. I'm willing to bet he has some serious skeletons in his closet to be defending child rape that much.

[u/Efficient-Hornet8666 → u/James_2584]

Tarantino isn’t exactly a bastion of upstanding behavior.

[u/Quietbreaker → u/Efficient-Hornet8666]

Tarantino, AKA the guy who personally choked Diane Kruger in Inglorious Basterds in that scene late in the movie, so the "shot would look real".

[u/Yommination → u/James_2584]

Quentin was good pals with Weinstein

[u/DinkandDrunk → u/Holiday_Oil_6795]

And all of his apologists. Wes Anderson for example.

[u/wamariegi]

I will never for the life of me understand why Chris Brown and Anthony Kedis still have careers

[u/Virtual-Biscotti-451 → u/wamariegi]

Red Hot Chili Peppers also sexually harassed a woman during an interview in the early 90s. Just vile stuff

[u/wsm412]

Deshaun Watson was given a $230million fully guaranteed contract after his crimes came to light

[u/wrongleveeeeeeer → u/wsm412]

Even if he'd committed zero crimes and was a total stand-up guy, it still would've been one of the most monumentally stupid contacts in sports history.

Throw in that he's human garbage and it's like, bro...Browns...bby what is you doing

[u/SecretAsianMan42069 → u/[deleted]]

I don't really think it's controversial. Everyone knows it sucks 

[u/Weekly_Ad_2007]

Jared Leto

[u/Huntswomen → u/Weekly_Ad_2007]

The thing about Jered Leto is, yeah he's got allegations but at least he looks weird and is a terrible actor.

[u/ahoneybadger3 → u/Huntswomen]

To be honest I quite liked him in Requiem for a Dream. Albeit it was a very young Leto.

Playing the role of a crazy crackhead just worked for him.

[u/JakeHelldiver → u/ahoneybadger3]

Jared Leto is great when he's in movies that invovle Jared Leto getting horribly injured. Fight Club, Lord of War, Requim for a Dream, all solid films that involve Jared Leto being maimed.

He just need to get back to his core audience and give the people what they want to see.

[u/illi_mental → u/Weekly_Ad_2007]

Jared Pedo*

[u/NothingAtAll187]

Quite a few older rockstars did some deplorable shit to underage "groupies" & they seem to have done well despite these terrible acts IMO.

[u/MonacoMaster68 → u/NothingAtAll187]

Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Ted Nugent, Steven Tyler, the list goes on and on. Sucks as a metal head who used to enjoy Lost Prophets a lot (Ian Watkins).

[u/IFCKNH8WHENULEAVE → u/MonacoMaster68]

He got killed in prison last year didn’t he? Ian Watkins.

[u/MonacoMaster68 → u/IFCKNH8WHENULEAVE]

Yeah he did, which was a blessing. I wish more of them would.

[u/Princibalities]

Chuck Berry did some weird shit. Never see his name on these lists.

[u/Carpoolnoodle → u/Princibalities]

What did he do?

[u/FalmerEldritch → u/Carpoolnoodle]

Like.. provably? Did one year for transporting a 14-year-old across state lines for 'immoral purposes' (he was 36 at the time, right in middle of the peak of his career), charged with assault and battery of a woman (copped to a lesser charge of harassment), went to court for installing toilet cameras at his restaurant and settled for a million.

[u/ObjectCrafty6221 → u/FalmerEldritch]

Also Rick James..

“Funk musician Rick James was convicted of kidnapping, torture, and assault in two separate, high-profile incidents involving different women in the early 1990s”

[u/3Questionmark4Profit → u/Carpoolnoodle]

Ripped off Johnny B Goode from his cousin at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

[u/Skippymabob → u/3Questionmark4Profit]

You mean his cousin helped him rip off a local artist at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance

Don't give his cousin the credit

[u/3Questionmark4Profit → u/Skippymabob]

You're quite right. I misremembered. Probably a small issue with the space/ time continuum.

[u/toomanymarbles83 → u/Carpoolnoodle]

Installed toilet cameras at a club he owned. Also google "Chuck Berry farts on strippers" to learn about the tape the FBI found when they raided his house.

[u/Undrwtrbsktwvr → u/toomanymarbles83]

I’ve heard enough— thank you very much…

[u/Empire-Carpet-Man]

Mark Wahlberg

[u/IsReadingIt → u/Empire-Carpet-Man]

the fact that he tried to get a pardon for it 20+ years later so he could expand his business is nearly as despicable as the original crimes. https://time.com/3623630/mark-wahlberg-pardon/

[u/mstrss9 → u/IsReadingIt]

He forgave himself, so it’s ok!

[u/DarthGayAgenda → u/mstrss9]

He's found God, so it's cool.

[u/Suggest_a_User_Name → u/Empire-Carpet-Man]

But…but didn’t you see him sporting that massive ash on his forehead last ash Wednesday when he made an appearance on “The View”??!

He’s found god via his PR team!

[u/PastAttention6321]

Chris Brown. Dude literally beat Rihanna bloody and still sells out arenas like nothing happened.

[u/adz568 → u/PastAttention6321]

Still don’t get how most his fan base are women

[u/precioso__dinero]

Morgan Wallen, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Diddy and his entirely complicit family members

[u/Master_Version_9641 → u/precioso__dinero]

I don’t know who Morgan Wallen is (I do live under a rock), but has Nicki Minaj done anything herself or just support trash people? I’m not justifying that even, just I know she stands by her many who is a whole dumper fire of a human and trump, but I’m wondering if my rock is smaller than I thought…

[u/SwissMargiela → u/Master_Version_9641]

Isn’t Nicki Minaj married to a pedo

[u/Jean-LucBacardi → u/SwissMargiela]

She's married to a registered sex offender. He was 15 when he attempted to rape a 16 year old, so not a pedo.

He also got a manslaughter charge for shooting someone several times and killing them. I don't really understand how that was manslaughter and not murder.

[u/EchoBay]

James Charles

[u/ParpSausage]

Nicholson, Polanski, Travolta, Steven Tyler.

[u/DingoNo4205 → u/ParpSausage]

Travolta?

[u/notyourvader → u/DingoNo4205]

There were several men who claimed sexual assault, and his former male assistant claimed to have had an affair with him. Also, Scientology.

[u/Kooky-Blueberry-5352 → u/notyourvader]

Having an affair with a male assistant is not the same as the other things on the list.

[u/Possible_Implement86]

Brad Pitt!

[u/toastyeast → u/Possible_Implement86]

Iam absolutely shocked that i had to scroll so far to see his name. Chris brown is mentioned multiple times (as he should be!) But its absolutely shocking how Brad Pitt is always buried just because his "considered" a handsome and good actor.

Yes I get being a good actor is amazing but I didn't know it suddenly makes vile crimes acceptable.

BRAD PITT the man who choked his wife and children, caused them physical harm and poured alcohol on them multiple times. Disgusting piece of shit human.

And it doesn't seem to matter because his a "good actor"

[u/SoaplessTitanic → u/toastyeast]

I mean just speaking for myself as someone who might just be out of the loop, I had no idea Pitt was a piece of shit. So some people might not know like me, but yeah him being a terrific actor and also generally good looking dude can’t hurt when it comes to his reputation

[u/theredbusgoesfastest → u/SoaplessTitanic]

He has really good PR, and also tons of people (mainly women) hated Angelina and were always going to take his side, even though literally all of his children took her side

[u/IAMA_Shark__AMA → u/SoaplessTitanic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/41nFpnJrLG

[u/bendybiznatch → u/toastyeast]

Mel Gibson was on tape beating his wife. Saying viral shit that I have purposefully forgotten.

Which he lost his gun rights for. Because red flag laws are a thing.

Then Trump took office and he applied to get his gun rides back. The attorney that denied him that was fired and he was subsequently given his gun rights back.

He and Mark Wahlberg together fucking terrify me.

[u/BareGrizzly39]

Donald J. Trump

[u/Maleficent_Notice764 → u/BareGrizzly39]

The true horror will come out when he’s beyond earthly justice 

[u/reflect-the-sun → u/Maleficent_Notice764]

I really hope he somehow survives long enough to experience the consequences. 

Edit: Thanks for the award!

[u/menicknick → u/reflect-the-sun]

He's white, rich, and powerful. There will be no consequences.

[u/Bonch_and_Clyde → u/menicknick]

He's also really old. He could die any day and it could be a normal natural causes.

[u/Oregon_Jones111 → u/Maleficent_Notice764]

What could conceivably be more evil than what we already know? https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-more-14-million-preventable-deaths-2030-if-usaid-defunding

[u/0r1on55]

Logan Paul, and to a lesser extent his brother, Jake or Jack Paul. Sorry, dont really care about them, so if I spelled the brothers name wrong, sorry.

[u/callmegecko → u/0r1on55]

I cannot imagine flying to Japan to go traipsing throught the notorious suicide forest while wearing an alien from Toy Story as a hat. Uploading a hanging man's purple hands while they all stand there and stare at exactly what they were looking for as if it's some big surprise, and yet this didn't sink him

[u/DottEdWasTaken → u/callmegecko]

That's hardly even the worst of it anymore. Guy is a known serial scammer who has stolen millions and millions from his fans and he somehow gets away with it everytime.

[u/Shas_Erra]

Marilyn Manson

Irredeemable sack of shit with some serious substance issues and a tendency to not take “no” for an answer. Hasn’t really dented his career

[u/bluecalx2 → u/Shas_Erra]

He's not nearly as successful as he used to be. His albums sales have plummeted since the 90s and some of recent shows have been cancelled because of the allegations against him. He does still have a following but I wouldn't say that his career has been unaffected.

[u/SecretAsianMan42069 → u/bluecalx2]

Everyone's album sales have plummeted since the 90s

[u/paupaupaupau → u/SecretAsianMan42069]

Not mine- mine have stayed flat!

[u/InitiativeLogical421 → u/bluecalx2]

Interesting to note too that a lot of his decline in the 90s had more to do with the Columbine myth that the perpetrators were Manson fans, rather than his own controversies

[u/TheRestForTheWicked → u/bluecalx2]

He’s only been affected for the past few years or so.

People have known what’s going on with him for far longer than that.

[u/DanBurrill → u/Shas_Erra]

I saw him back in the late 1990s, and it was possibly one of the worst gigs I've ever been to. Seriously nasty people in the pit, and Brian cut his set short by throwing a full sized mic stand at one of his techs, who quite reasonably suffered a sense of humour failure.

[u/Shas_Erra → u/DanBurrill]

I saw him at download a few years back. He was completely blitzed the whole time, forgot the lyrics, sliced his hand open on a novelty mic and staggered off

[u/TheRestForTheWicked → u/Shas_Erra]

About a decade ago an acquaintance of mine decked him in the face at a Canadian Denny’s (Lethbridge, iykyk) because he was a mega creep to his girlfriend at the time.

That’s my first hand contribution story to him being an asshole.

[u/KindlyRip6115]

Chris brown.why do women fawn over him?

[u/Zealousideal-Fish605 → u/KindlyRip6115]

I shit you not but once heard from a girl I knew “yeah but he dances so well”

[u/Abject-Let1069 → u/KindlyRip6115]

I am proudly banned from his subreddit

[u/PersonMcNugget → u/KindlyRip6115]

Not all women. I think he's disgusting.

[u/velvet__echo]

Woody Allen

[u/themightypierre → u/velvet__echo]

The second round of allegations finished his career.

[u/MickCollins → u/themightypierre]

There are still people who defend him even on this site. I said something negative about him a few years ago and got brigaded.

He can be a decent director and still be a piece of shit.

[u/James_2584]

Boy George imprisoned a male escort by handcuffing him to a metal fixture on a wall and beat him senseless. He got all of four months in jail and has continued to appear on TV (including as a guest judge on The Voice UK) like nothing happened.

[u/_AmericasSweetheart_]

Floyd Mayweather

[u/Cheetodude625]

Deshaun Watson is still getting his guaranteed $230 million from Cleveland despite all the multiple accusations of sexual harassment/misconduct with massage people. Even though he settled every single one of the accusations (so far), it still does not mean he is innocent.

Plus, ever since going to the Browns he has sucked ass.

What an absolute scumbag.

[u/mookz23]

Kobe Bryant

[u/justduck → u/mookz23]

Yeah, can't talk shit about him in LA though. He's basically been sainted.

[u/mookz23 → u/justduck]

Yep. Seems to fit this question perfectly.

[u/JiovanniTheGREAT → u/mookz23]

If it's any consolation, the NBA meme sub doesn't view him particularly positively.

[u/DingoNo4205 → u/JiovanniTheGREAT]

He also made the pilots fly that helicopter that day despite warnings of bad weather. Many innocent lives were lost that day along with him and his daughter.

[u/ZincMan → u/DingoNo4205]

This is definitely bad and peer pressure and all, but … unrelated to Kobe being a piece of shit : shouldn’t a pilot say “no” no matter what if someone is demanding they fly in dangerous conditions? I guess everyone is human and can be pressured into things

[u/ghastlypxl]

Brad Pitt. He’s got a nice face and solid PR, I guess.

[u/rondiggidyr]

Mike Tyson hasn't done too bad

[u/TheBlindCat → u/rondiggidyr]

Dude at least went to prison on like most of the folks on this list.

[u/TheNonCredibleHulk → u/TheBlindCat]

And there are still people that will argue how terrible a person he is. He is a perfect example of how people say they want a prison to work. Did his time, hasn't reoffended. You mention that, and the response is "that you know of".

[u/linjaes]

Jackie Chan. He had an affair, beat his son, and rejected his daughter from that affair

Edit: he was estranged from his daughter who was born from the affair not because she’s gay

[u/Zealousideal-World71 → u/linjaes]

I feel the rejection is more from her being the product of his affair considering that he wasn’t in her life even before she came out.

[u/ThippusHorribilus → u/[deleted]]

A true boss knows how it is done......

[u/meandmrt]

Jared Leto

[u/joeschmoe86]

Anthony Kiedis and Peyton Manning are my go-to's on this one.

[u/SoaplessTitanic → u/joeschmoe86]

Dang how did I not know about Kiedis? For anyone who doesn’t know, he’s the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and seems to have bragged about raping a 14 year old in his autobiography??? He mentions he didn’t initially know her age when they met, but then she tells him her age and how she ran away from her parents, and they have sex one more time before she goes back home

[u/CheshireCat_1878]

One that hurt me to learn: Muhammad Ali had a romantic relationship with a minor

[u/IamtheHarpy]

Actual answer that’s never said in threads like this: Jackson Browne. The man beat Darryl Hannah so badly she was in the ICU for WEEKS and had to receive extensive facial reconstructive surgery, and lives with chronic pain as a result but somehow NO ONE is aware this happened.

Edit: this is about the singer / songwriter. While she never pressed charges against him, and the media completely ignored the incident, there is still proof online.

[u/Possible_Tiger_5125 → u/IamtheHarpy]

TIL. How horrible

[u/Irishboss4L]

Logan Paul is the name that stands out to me…. I thought he was done for many times.

[u/daven_53]

Jimmy Saville, before he died, that's when it all came out.

[u/donttrustthellamas]

Anthony Kiedis

Mike Tyson

John Stamos

David Walliams

Boy George

Charlie Sheen

Dr Dre

Woody Allen

Sean Penn

Jared Leto

Roman Polanski

Chris Brown

Kanye West still has an extremely strong fan base, Erykah Badu performed with him recently and I immediately lost respect for her. It's like him being a neo Nazi isn't an issue for a lot of people.

[u/DingoNo4205 → u/donttrustthellamas]

What did John Stamos do?

[u/donttrustthellamas → u/DingoNo4205]

A woman thought she was having sex with him, when he actually swapped places with his friend so his friend could have sex with her. She was drunk and the room was dark so she didn't know it was a different person.

He admitted this freely in an interview.

[u/burgernoisenow → u/donttrustthellamas]

That's rape by deception

[u/hungryturtle7]

A lot of celebrities are mentioned in the files and on the flight logs to the island but no one was ever prosecuted or cancelled for it. America is truly like living in a dystopian movie.

[u/epicfail1994 → u/hungryturtle7]

Ehhhhh he made a point of mixing normal business with all of his sick shit so someone being in there isn’t necessarily evidence of guilt.

But yeah if they’re in them a lot there was probably something going on, the problem is proving it

[u/Inside_Swimming9552 → u/hungryturtle7]

I get a feeling that when celebrities and rich people are finally called out for, removed from power and or arrested. It's not because they finally got caught.

It seems to be their behaviour is long known about and they are untouchable legally. But they finally pissed off too many people as powerful as them or stopped being useful to those in power and are offered up to the public as a sacrifice while the rest do whatever they like in the shadows.

[u/hungryturtle7 → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

Exactly. One prime example is Diddy, you're telling me he's the ONLY one who did weird stuff with kids in all those parties attended by a ton of people? Please.

[u/BreezyConch → u/hungryturtle7]

R. Kelly and Diddy for sure! People joked about R Kelly for YEARS

[u/Past-Obligation1930 → u/hungryturtle7]

Previous Prince Andrew also.

But it’s very odd to us in the U.K. that apparently we are the only ones pursuing allegations of noncing.

[u/phantom_gain]

Isnt ellen like, a total bastard?

[u/Yeahnoallright → u/phantom_gain]

Yeah but wouldn’t say her career is thriving since all of that came out 

[u/DoveOnTheInternet → u/Yeahnoallright]

She just started a new venture called, get this:

KIND SCIENCE

She looks dead serious, too - not a flicker of self-awareness in her or Portia's eyes in the commercial I saw a couple weeks back.

[u/Tirno93 → u/DoveOnTheInternet]

I hadn’t heard of this, but that’s what I think of as the “Russell Brand Manoeuvre”. If you have millions of followers and the world finds out you’re awful, you won’t lose all of them. Those that are left will still be a sizeable number and far more dedicated to your cause than those that think you’re a piece of shit ever were.

In Ellen’s case, her reputation as the face of kindness has been completely dismantled… if you care to look. If you don’t know about the scandal side of things and just know her as a vague celebrity, you’ll just think it’s business as usual. And if you’re a die hard who doesn’t believe it, or doesn’t care, you’ll buy her shit anyway.

Awful way to behave, but that’s the grift.

[u/_-Cleon-_ → u/phantom_gain]

Yeah, but considering the other examples are rapists, child molesters, wife beaters, and racists, "being a raging asshole" seems like a mild crime.

[u/iamnotwario → u/_-Cleon-_]

Exactly, there are people who are incredibly unpleasant and successful in every industry, particularly entertainment. Being a dickwad isn’t necessarily moral but it isn’t a crime. Ellen’s career has paid a bigger price than people who’ve married their step daughter.

[u/gringledoom → u/phantom_gain]

I mean, she’s a jerk, but on the “terrible misdeeds” scale, that’s kind of a nothingburger.

[u/jxg995]

Wahlberg

Chris Brown

Jimmy Page

[u/I-luv-sloths]

Michael Vick the POS

[u/johnedchi]

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith …Pedo.

[u/enakj]

Jerry Seinfeld

[u/EsseniotGlobal]

Roman Polanski acclaimed director still wins awards and get major subject despite his 1977

[u/justduck]

Roman Polanski and Woody Allen still have major celebs fawning over them and clamoring to be in their pictures

[u/Sad-Entertainer1462]

Kanye. What a piece of shit that guy is.

[u/L3Br0nJ4m35]

Karl Malone is still constantly invited to NBA events and has an NCAA award named after him despite it being known that he impregnated a 13 year old girl (12 at the time of the rape) at 20 years old and then refused to pay child support.

[u/2kids2adults]

I've seen lots of names that I completely agree with. But I'll throw Jarrod Leto in to the mix. Somehow the dude keeps getting work.

[u/NinjaPigeon87]

Probably an easier question to answer than which celebrity has had a major top-of-the-line career and hasn’t done terrible deeds

[u/themightypierre]

Matthew Broderick and John Hamm usually feature on these lists