Hollywood Walk of Shame

[Generic Other]

Fatty Arbuckle—raped a starlet at a party
on edit: retracting Fatty.

Roman Polanski—drugged and seduced a teenager

Michael Jackson—alleged child molester

Robert Blake—alleged to have murdered his wife

Zsa Zsa Gabor—assaulted a police officer

O.J. Simpson—acquitted of murdering his wife, but found guilty
in civil court.

Arnold Schwarzenegger—alleged Level Three (most likely to re-offend)
serial sexual predator.

[Mari333]

1. Actually Fatty Arbuckle was set up

so I would take him off the list.
and Im sure there's a LOT more not listed that would far outweigh the rest, cept for Arnold , who is a PIG.

[oasis]

2. Fatty was "set up"? Any reference material available?

[Toucano]

3. Try this

http://www.ralphmag.org/fatty.html

Maybe not the greatest, but a start.

[oasis]

6. thanks

[Ivory_Tower]

5. A short summary

He wasn't "set up", but he was probably not guilty, in fact a jury ultimately found him not guilty -- the press' speculation led to his indictment.

From a short biography site:

http://www.2020site.org/fattyarbuckle/bio.html

During the first eight months of 1921 Roscoe made nine feature films for Paramount. By September he was in desperate need of a break. On Labor Day Weekend he decided to take a break in San Francisco along with a couple of friends. They arrived at the St. Francis Hotel and immediately ordered whiskey and a victrola delivered to their room. For the next two days a period of drinking, partying and alleged debauchery followed. Sometime during this period the party was joined by a dress model named Bambina Maude Delmont, an agent named Al Semnacher and a young actress by the name of Virginia Rappe.  Rappe began to complain about abdominal pains, and went to the bathroom attached to Arbuckle's sweet (sic) to vomit.  From here, the details become very unclear.  One possibility is that Arbuckle found her in his bathroom, brought her to his bed and applied ice to her abdomen. She didn't go to the hospital for three more days and died that Friday, at the hospital, of a ruptured bladder.

On September 10 Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle was charged with murder.  Immediately the press was all over the story and sensationalized that Arbuckle had caused the rupture by crushing Rappe while on top of her. Even more lurid accounts suggested that Fatty Arbuckle had violated her Virginia (sic) using a champagne bottle. Two days later voluntary and state mandated bans were imposed on Arbuckle’s movies. On September 13, a Grand Jury returned an indictment of manslaughter against Arbuckle. 

On November 18 the court case of the century began. Three weeks later the Judge dismissed the jury after they were unable to come to a decision. A new trial was set for January, 1922. Again the jury failed to reach agreement and a mistrial was once again entered into the records. The third trial began in March, 1922. This time after just six minutes of deliberation the jury reached agreement. Roscoe Arbuckle was found not guilty of manslaughter.

[oasis]

7. Thanks, I'm taking Fatty out of my doghouse.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Yes, please remove Fatty...

It was later figured that the starlet, Virginia Rappe, died of peritonitis from a botched abortion:

http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa021800a.htm

My brother is working on a film dealing with this, and Fatty should not be on this list. Thanks a million.