Kobe Bryant.

Maybe it falls into the same situation as Woody Allen - a single incident, or victim, rather than more than a dozen or dozens of victims.

Sid

Usually, I'm pretty tuned into the news, but I'm drawing a complete blank on these.

Thanks for posting the additional links.



Sid

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson agreed to pay $15.3 million to settle child molestation charges leveled against him in 1993 by a California boy, according to a confidential legal agreement. A heavily redacted version of the document can be found here.

The January 1994 agreement contains a one-line reference to Jackson delivering "confessions of judgment" totaling $15,331,250 to the boy's attorneys.


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/michael-jacksons-15-million-payoff

The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case began in July 2003 when the news media reported that the sheriff's office in Eagle, Colorado had arrested professional basketball player Kobe Bryant in connection with an investigation of a sexual assault complaint filed by a 19-year-old hotel employee. Bryant had checked into The Lodge and Spa at Cordillera, a hotel in Edwards, Colorado, on June 30 in advance of having surgery near there on July 2 under Dr. Richard Steadman. The woman accused Bryant of raping her in his hotel room on July 1, the night before the surgery. Bryant admitted to an adulterous sexual encounter with his accuser, but denied the assault allegation. The case was dropped after Bryant's accuser refused to testify in the case. A separate civil suit was later filed against Bryant by the woman. This was settled out of court


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_case#Settlement

For example, here's a well received documentary about widespread abuse in Hollywood that's unable to find a distributor. How much guilt do we have for ignoring these things and pretending they don't happen?

That was a great show.

but that was before I found out he was a predator of women. There was mention of him on the news yesterday morning and I said to my wife that they've cut his soon to be new show and she said they should

though...

established in the publics mind. There is just a lot of cognitive dissonance when older moralizing figures are discovered to have done shocking things - even if rumors had been about for a long time.

I think you may have hit on it.

But I have to also wonder if I, and perhaps others, subconsciously ignored it. I can't recall any earlier accusations against Bill Cosby, even though they were out there. I also am an avid news reader, and I do recall Cosby's son dying, but not the lawsuit.

Or was it just not covered by the media, thoroughly? If the media found in incredulous, they may not have given it much coverage.

He seems to be such a predator.

...but now that I'm catching up on all things Cosby, I found this to be a hell of a 'coincidence':

He was brilliant. Until a few weeks ago, I was unaware of any rape allegations.

I don't think there's a conspiracy theory convoluted enough to exonerate him.

Its done. Six women coming forward? Wow...*smh*