What's the weirdest scandal a celebrity has been involved in?

KKkitty

For me it's Jimmy Carr's tax scandal. Seems weird that he thought he'd get away with it. What's yours?

magicbastarder

don johnson being caught with $8bn of bearer bonds and other financial documents in his car.

https://uproxx.com/viral/the-story-behind-don-johnsons-mysterious-8-billion-briefcase/

cdeb

Freddie Starr ate someone's hamster once I believe.

cdeb

Hm - duplicate post. Welcome to the new boards I guess!

Edit - Hm - not a duplicate post. I've no idea what's going on...

EmmetSpiceland

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058199584/whats-the-weirdest-scandal-a-celebrity-has-been-involved-in

Seems weird that he pulled out of the deal. All he did was make use of a “loophole” that lots of other high net worth individuals were using.

Wasn’t Cameron implicated in some dodgy “dealings”, himself, not too long ago? And he was one of the main finger pointers at Carr.

iffandonlyif

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058199584/whats-the-weirdest-scandal-a-celebrity-has-been-involved-in

You think the weirdest scandal a celebrity has been involved in was the one where Jimmy Carr’s asset management company exploited a legal tax loophole?

Ger Roe

it has to be Michael Barrymore and the body found in his swimming pool ... a tragic case for the victim (Stuart Lubbock) and his family and totally inexplicable, it would seem. Even after many years of investigation.

I don't know how the family cope with not knowing what happened in a house that was full of party people at the time.

iamstop

This case with Pras from the Fugees is a weird one:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/pras-michel-charged-conspiring-conceal-foreign-political-contributions-1209731/

cavemeister

Although tame by today's standards, when the Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee sex tape came out, it was one of the craziest things we ever heard!

SheepsClothing

Armie Hammer's cannibalism fetish.

gypsy79

The Benzema and Valbuena affair is still a bit odd

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jan/07/real-madrid-karim-benzema-to-face-blackmail-trial-over-sex-tape-scandal

Brussels Sprout

This one was memorable:

Brazilian football star Ronaldo has been caught up in a sex scandal with three cross-dressing prostitutes.

Having dropped off his girlfriend at her house in Rio de Janeiro on Monday night, the 2002 World Cup winner picked up three prostitutes.

When they all booked into a motel, the AC Milan striker discovered that the prostitutes were in fact men.

According to Rio police, he alleges that the transvestites then tried to extort money from him.

Arghus

The Armie Hammer cannibalism stuff was just next level compared to all the other scandals.

I mean cannibalism, come on...

swimming in a sea

Rothko

Ian Watkins. Although I think extreme would be a better word than "weird."

Yurt2

The Cruiser being close to the top of the pyramid in an international brainwashing cult is pretty weird - but he's probably the biggest movie star of the past few decades, so it gets ignored. I mean, I'll definitely be going to see Top Gun 2 and everything, but still...

AllGunsBlazing

Troy McClure sleeping with the fishes.

HBC08

The singer Duffy being kidnapped,Google it,mad stuff altogether.

fryup

marc almond - or it that one just an urban myth??

dinorebel

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633776#Comment_117633776

More oral history I think.

Dufflecoat Fanny

David Cameron and his accusations of fcuking a pigs head. Charlie Brooker made an episode of Black Mirror that almost prophesied it. Very bizarre.

archfi

The Jussie Smollet debacle.

Though money/career advancement is to be made from grifting.

the Armie Hammer disgusting shitfest wins out though but even that's 'normal' compared to Watkins.

archfi

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633825#Comment_117633825

Or inspired it maybe?😉

Arghus

Ian Watkins is well up there as well. Beyond fucked.

KaneToad

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633664#Comment_117633664

At first I thought you were talking about Conor Cruise O'Brien!

xper

Five hours in and no one's even mentioned Saville?

kingtiger

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632100#Comment_117632100

Didn't Richard Gere allegedly do something else with his hamster :)

Fandymo

Childrens presenter Jamie Theakston caught in a sex dungeon.

Treppen

David Cameron f+++ING a pigs severed head

Burt Renaults

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633858#Comment_117633858

I never liked Steps either.

AndrewJRenko

Earliest, rather than weirdest : Jeremy Thorpe, then leader of the UK Liberal party, real establishment figure, married, one child, being tried for conspiracy to murder the young man who had been his lover, at a time when homosexual acts were still illegal in law. Scott's dog was shot during one murder attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair

I remember it being on the news, at a time when being gay was something laughed at in sitcoms and comedy shows.

It was really well covered in A Very British Scandal, starring Hugh Grant, directed by Stephen Frears (of the Snapper and the Van).