With Roman
Polanski's recent arrest in Switzerland for the 1977 rape of a 13-year old girl and the recent
extortion plot against David Letterman for his sexual escapades with CBS employees, it's no longer shocking to hear about deviant behavior in Hollywood. Everything from picking up prostitutes and transvestites, child pornography, statutory rape, and pedophilia have hit the front stage of Hollywood. Here are Hollywood's biggest perverts - the ones you should keep your daughters away from.
So the story goes like this: Polanski had a 13-year old in Jack Nicholson's house for a photo shoot for French Vogue. Since he was the esteemed director of Chinatown, and Rosemary's Baby, he needed to liquor the 8th-grader up with champagne and Quaaludes before sodomizing her. Originally charged with rape, it was plea bargained down to a lesser offense, but when Polanski believed he would get jail time, he fled the country. He's been making films in France ever since, and even won an Academy Award for The Pianist.
While Charlie Sheen could be best known for his roles in Wall Street, Platoon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, or even, gag, "Two and a Half Men", instead his name is synonymous with hookers and drugs. Charlie became notorious as Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss' most famous client (or at least the one we know about). His penchant for hookers is said to be the cause for the end of his marriage with Denise Richards. Charlie's admittance of his sleazy reputation has been used to comedic and financial success such as his cameo in Being John Malkovich and playing the womanizing guy in "Two and a Half Men."
While Jerry Lee Lewis was an early pioneer of rock and roll, with such hits as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," his second marriage to his first cousin (once removed), Myra Gale Brown, really earned him the perv status. Myra was 13 and Jerry was 23 when they got married. They still hadn't figured out statutory rape laws in the 50's, and yes, their marriage was consensual, but still gross. Don't even try to explain the once removed part because it's still icky. Even if "Great Balls of Fire" is a great song, keep creepy-pants Jerry Lee far from the girls.
Many like to forget Hugh Grant's ick factor and instead remember the debonair, handsome British actor from Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill. But it was while he was dating the smoking hot Elizabeth Hurley back in 1995, that he was busted with a prostitute, Divine Brown, not far from Sunset Boulevard. Although Grant wins points for not making excuses for his behavior, taking the punishment and moving on (which is definitely a lesson Polanski could have learned), it's still hard to believe why someone sleeping with Elizabeth Hurley every night needed to go slumming on Sunset with Divine.
Similar to Hugh, but one minor difference is Eddie was picked up with a transvestite prostitute in his car by police in LA back in 1997. They weren't caught doing anything, Murphy wasn't arrested, and Murphy's excuse was he was just giving the trannie hooker a ride and some cash because he's a nice guy. Eddie has talked about sex and women in his stand-up, not to mention his ex-wife, his three kids, his baby with the scary Spice Girl, and a quickie marriage to Babyface's ex-wife Tracey to make everyone believe he likes women. However, trannie prostitutes makes Eddie fairly pervy in most books.
Fatty Arbuckle was a hugely successful comic actor of silent films (think the Chris Farley of the 1910s) and helped mentor Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. However, after a debaucherous party, Arbuckle was accused of raping a young actress and causing her death (a ruptured bladder) due to his size and the violence of the act. It became a media firestorm, his films were banned and his career was ruined. After three trials, he was acquitted on all charges, but his name became synonymous with scandal and rape.
Better known as the principal, Ed Rooney, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jeffrey Jones was arrested for possession of child pornography and for employing a 14-year old boy to pose for pornographic photos. He was put on probation and had to register as a sex offender, but it makes you wish the face kicks he got in Ferris Bueller were real.
R&B singer R Kelly is known for some huge hits and also for liking the ladies young. First he married his protege Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was 27. He had been working with her on her debut album since she was 12. Then R Kelly was arrested for child pornography after a sex tape came out showing R Kelly having sex with a 14-year old girl (um, and peeing on her). R Kelly always denied it was him on the tape, and was eventually found not guilty, but the gross factor is set on R Kelly. He's been busted again with pictures of underage girls and another sex tape. Whatever the legal defense is that gets him off, R Kelly loves little girls and he's high on the list of greatest celeb pervs ever.
Woody Allen is the incredibly talented director and writer of such classics as Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, Hannah and Her Sisters and countless others. And despite his nebish looks and neurotic ways, Woody Allen had long term relationships with many of his leading ladies, including Mia Farrow. But it was when he left Mia Farrow after she found nude pictures he'd taken of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, that Woody Allen got really gross, pervy points. Woody Allen had a child with Mia and adopted two more with her, then started sleeping with and eventually married another of Mia's adopted daughters. He gets off on a technicality because he was never officially Soon-Yi's step-father, but eww. Woody Allen slept with his kind-of daughter. It wasn't straight up the John and MacKenzie Phillips kind, but close enough for most people. Nonetheless, the two are happily married with two adopted kids of their own, and Allen has gone on to write and direct more award-winning films. Whatever, it's still foul.
Marv Albert is commonly referred to as the "voice of basketball" and in particular, the New York Knicks. However, Albert got in trouble for beating up a woman while having kinky sex with her and was charged with forcible sodomy, as well. He'd had a 10-year relationship with her, but there was evidence of severe punching and bite marks. Albert plead guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges and was fired by NBC. That doesn't seem to bother men who remember fondly his yelling "Yes!" during Michael Jordan's glory years. Apparently loving sports outweighs beating the hell out of a chick.
While Lipton is famous as the pompous, sycophantic host of "Inside the Actor's Studio," he revealed in a book that he worked as a pimp in Paris when he was young and penniless. He also admitted to setting up sex shows for the 'johns' of his client. The creepy part is Lipton's telling of his pimp days in a soft, hazy, remembrance, as if he is recalling his days as a camp counselor at summer camp.
Is it too soon to discuss the King of Pop's love of little boys? Despite the surprise of Jackson's death and the onslaught of everything Jackson ever since, there is good reason to believe that NeverLand should really be called SometimesLand. First in 1993, child abuse allegations were made against Jackson but no charges were made and Jackson paid off his accuser. But police raided NeverLand again back in 2005 and Jackson was charged with child molestation. He was acquitted, but Jackson's frequent remarks of having sleepovers with boys and just his creepy behavior in general make it pretty clear the only people that don't believe Jackson is a pedophile are the Jackson's themselves. And that family has been living in denial since the 70's.
Tamahori is the New Zealand director known mostly for directing the Bond film Die Another Day and Vin Diesel's XXX, but his perviness appeared when he was allegedly offering an undercover police officer oral sex, while dressed as a woman. He was only convicted of criminal trespass, but Tamahori definitely seems ripe for the making of a "Law and Order: SVU" episode.