Readers, beware. Certain celebrities are about to be ruined for you forever. Or not. Clearly, these folks keep rolling along and having careers and fine lives despite what they've done to others, so there must be some selective memory stuff going on with their fans. Being rich and famous is enough to get a lot of people out of any repercussions for their actions, and people still want to pose for photos with them.
Redditor u/Lastblackett328 asked, "Which celebrities have famously gotten away with serious crimes?"
The idea of getting away with something is a bit murky in the answers, because some celebrities that people mentioned were convicted of crimes and even served time, while others just made it all go away. However, they all pretty much continue to live the high life of being famous, having money, and finding plenty of people to worship them. Can we just end celebrity culture, already?
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This is your regular reminder that Chris Brown violently assaulted Rihanna —Phyr8642
2.
In 1975, Aerosmith Vocalist Steven Tyler convinced the parents of 16 year old groupie Julia Holcomb to sign over guardianship to him so that she could live with him in Boston.
Tyler who was 27 at the time, dated and did drugs with Julia for 3 years before they eventually broke up after unplanned pregnancy which resulted in an abortion. Tyler then returned Julia to her parents at the age of 17.
That’s just barely scratching the tip of the iceberg, it gets more messed up the more you dig into it, but nevertheless Tyler would continue his successful music career and even be inducted to the hall of fame in 2001 —an_annoyed_jalapeno
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Vince Neil killed someone drunk driving. —klag103144
4.
Elvis Presley always had a thing for young girls and would invite them over for ‘sleepovers’……He was obsessed with virginal girls and called them ‘cherries’. Of course, he met his wife, Priscilla, when she was only 14. Yet people just shrug this off and thought it was fine. —jaggedlittledaisy
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Jon Hamm was charged in a violent hazing incident at his college fraternity that led to it being shut down in 1993. Hamm and his fraternity brothers nearly beat a pledge to death with a paddle, assaulted his genitals with a claw hammer, then set his pants on fire. The court let him go on the hazing charge on the condition that he would complete probation. Hamm shortly fled Texas before the court could file a new separate assault charge. —SquilliamFancySon95
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Marcos Alonso. A Spanish footballer who plays for Chelsea. He killed a 19 year old girl while driving drunk and got away with little real punishment —Redpepper40
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Pretty sure Charlie Sheen has alot to answer for yet has somehow never served any serious jail time.
Aside from other numerous domestic abuse accusations in his past, he actually shot Kelly Preston in the arm during their relationship. I don’t think anything came from that. Preston was probably just glad to get away alive. —SlowlyAblaze
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Ray Rice beat his wife unconscious in a hotel lobby and only got suspended for four games. That same year, Von Miller smoked weed in a legal state and also got a four game suspension. So not only did Ray Rice not go to jail, but the NFL told us they equate smoking pot to violent assault. —SoonToBeFree420
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Anne Sacoolas. Killed a 19-year-old boy in the UK because she was driving on the wrong side of the road and had a head-on collision with him. He was on a motorbike so he didn’t stand a chance in an accident like that. Then she scurried back to the US air base she was driving from and got a flight back to the States. To this day, the US is refusing to allow her to be extradited to the UK to appear in court because of a bullshit “diplomatic immunity” excuse that doesn’t even apply to her. —Noodle613
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Brian Kelly (head FB coach at Notre Dame) directly caused the death of a student manager. It was a very windy day and the manager voiced his concerns about recording video of the practice from a hydraulic lift. Brian Kelly basically said I don’t give a shit stay up there and the lift ended up collapsing, killing the manager. This is why his recent “execution” joke on national television didn’t land like he thought it would. —Rlm7891cincy
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After watching the documentary miniseries* about OJ Simpson and his trial that came out a few years ago, the most charitable thing I can say about the jury is that the majority of them apparently decided to do an act of jury nullification to stick it to the LAPD, who collectively had it coming. But in doing so they let a guilty man go free. —ChimpskyBRC
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Tobey Maguire made 25$ million through fraud and illegal gambling rings. —MicooDA
13.
Matthew Broderick. On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented BMW 316 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo. The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly. —kapnkool
14.
Ted Kennedy for leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown. —Reaganson
15.
Robert Wagner most likely killed Natalie Wood and got away with it. —SpitFyre8513
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Conor McGregor. Hes assaulted an old man in a bar, he's assaulted officials after fights he wasn't part of, he attacked a bus full of fighters (injuring several and emotionally scarring Rose) and for all of this, they used a bunch of it as hype for a fight in which they paid him enormously. —HeroicMillipede
17.
Mark Wahlberg beat a Vietnamese guy blind with a bat when he was 17 and it rarely gets mentioned. —GhostriderFlyBy
18.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (more commonly known for his appearance as a village idiot on comedy panel show have I got news for you) once conspired to have a journalist beaten up. It’s public knowledge but nobody cares. . I think the “all journos are scum” narrative from the movie green street did Johnson a lot of favours. —TrashbatLondon
19.
Jerry Seinfeld dated a high school girl . Everyone looked the other way. He was 38, she was 17. —britt1876
20.
France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron. Everyone is acting like it’s no big deal but she actually started dating President Emanuel Macron when he was underage (15) and she was 39 and his high school teacher. —kellynette2
21.
Armie Hammer. Whole story and… situations/abuse have just disappeared from media. —chocolatecherryfiend
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Alice Walton heiress to Walmart fortune has got out of multiple DUIs and killed a 50yr old man while speeding. Still out there enjoying her $33/billion and paying poverty wages —BrianDeLabour
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