Greatest Movie Scandals - page 2

10 months ago 07th Jan 14:24

In April 1969 his then heavily pregnancy wife Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered in the Polanski's rented home in Hollywood Hills by members of the Charles Manson's 'Family' while Roman was in London.

Despite being out of the country on his return home he was questioned by police but police could find no motive and eventually arrested and charged Manson and his 'family'.

In 1977 Polanski was embroiled in a sex scandal with the then thirteen year old Samantha Gailey, he was forty four at the time. He pleaded guilty to the charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

This however doesn't appear to have damaged his career nominated for Best Director at the Oscars two years later for Tess and winning in 2002 for The Pianist.

After a successful career as a footballer O.J. Simpson moved into acting working on The Towering Inferno and The Cassandra Crossing but in 1995 all of America was watching his trial.

He stood accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman police found evidence at the scene that led them to believe that Simpson was the murderer.

Simpson's defence team, led by Johnnie Cochran created, in the minds of the jury, doubt about the DNA evidence after a lengthy trial and despite strong evidence he was found not guilty, 150 million tuned in to watch the verdict.

Away from murder British actor was left red faced and with his trousers around his ankles when he was arrested by L.A Vice officers in 1995.

He was charged lewd conduct in a public place with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown and he pleaded no contest to the charges. Grant was about to release his first major studio film at the time and the scandal, for which he was fined £800 and placed on summary probation for two years, could have ruined his career.

But, as we all know, it didn't and he became one of Britain's most popular actors with films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Mickey Blue Eyes and Bridget Jones.

Other Hollywood scandals include the revelation that actor Rock Hudson was actually gay, Errol Flynn was tried three times for statutory rape, Ingrid Bergman having a child out of wedlock with director Roberto Rossellini and more recently Winona Ryder going on an unorthodox shopping spree.

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