Kyllähän vanha muusikkotähti Jerry Lee Lewiskin ennätti tällä saralla kunnostautua:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis#Scandal
Lewis' turbulent personal life was hidden from the public until a 1958 British tour, when Ray Berry, a news agency reporter at London Airport (the only journalist present) learned about the twenty-three year old star's third wife Myra Gale Brown. She was thirteen years old, (though she, Lewis and his management all insisted she was 15) and Lewis's first cousin once removed.
Herra Lewiksen, 23, kolmas vaimo oli hänen 13-vuotias pikkuserkkunsa Myra.
Ei sitä Yhdysvalloissakaan olla niin nokonuukia avioitumisen suhteen, varsinkaan syvässä Etelässä.
Although he was always a heavy drinker who often combined his sprees with raucous, even violent behavior, he increasingly became plagued by alcohol and drug problems after Myra divorced him in 1970.
Erohan siitä tuli heillekin, kun Jerry Lee Lewis ryyppäsi rankasti, veti kamaa ja käyttäytyä väkivaltaisesti.
Sitten on tietysti elokuvaohjaaja Roman Polanskin tapaus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Pola ... x_offenses
Polanski, 44, became embroiled in a scandal involving 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (then known as Samantha Gailey). It ultimately led to Polanski's guilty plea to the charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
According to Geimer, Polanski asked Geimer's mother if he could photograph the girl for the French edition of Vogue, which Polanski had been invited to guest-edit. Her mother allowed a private photo shoot. According to Geimer in a 2003 interview, "Everything was going fine; then he asked me to change, well, in front of him." She added, "It didn't feel right, and I didn't want to go back to the second shoot."
Geimer later agreed to a second session, which took place on March 10, 1977, at the Mulholland area home of actor Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles. "We did photos with me drinking champagne," Geimer says. "Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be. I just didn't quite know how to get myself out of there." Geimer alleged that Polanski sexually assaulted her after giving her a combination of champagne and quaaludes. In the 2003 interview, Geimer says she resisted. "I said no several times, and then, well, gave up on that," she says.
Polanski was initially charged with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance (methaqualone) to a minor, but these charges were dismissed under the terms of his plea bargain, and he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
In his autobiography, Roman by Polanski, Polanski alleged that Geimer's mother had set up her daughter as part of a casting couch and blackmail scheme against him.
Eli 13-vuotiaan tytön mukaan Polanski otti vähän tuhmia kuvia, tarjosi sitten samppanjaa ja rauhoittavia ja kävi ns. käsiksi, raiskaten tämän. Polanski myönsi oikeudessa sovittelumielessä vain alaikäiseen sekaantumisen, ja väitti elämänkerrassaan, että tytön äiti oli järjestänyt koko jutun kiristysmielessä.
Polanskihan karkasi tämän jälkeen Eurooppaan, jossa hän edelleen asuu ja elokuviaan ohjaa (ja hyviä leffoja onkin ohjannut). Tarinassa on varmasti kaksi puolta, eikä koko totuutta välttämättä koskaan selvitetä, mutta eiköhän Polanski kuitenkin 13-vuotiaaseen yhtynyt.
Polanskin aiempi vaimo, viimeisillään raskaana ollut Sharon Tatehan oli murhattu aiempina vuosina brutaalisti Charles Mansonin jengin toimesta, joten Polanskin käytökselle saattaisi kerrankin olla jotain traumaperäisiä syitä. Eihän mies ole entisensä tuon jälkeen ollut. Ei se tietystikään mikään selitys tai oikeutus millekään ole. lieventävä asianhaara ehkä.
