Bing Crosby was a terrible person and a horrible father. Nobody really likes to tell people about abuse. It shames a lot of people, especially people from older generations, who were taught to respect their elders, no matter what. I'm sure there's a lot more abuse that went on back then, but the kids just didn't really talk about it. -GhostOfXmasInJuly

Brian Jones was so abusive to a woman that Keith Richards had to step in. If you have a controversial figure like Keith Richards being the reasonable one, you clearly have a problem. -MissSara101

Coco Chanel was a Nazi sympathizer and informer. -RustySwitch

Alfred Kinsey. He is praised by people because he is considered Father of Sexual Education, but is a completely disgusting human being. He would show pornography to young children, and sexually stimulate infants.

His aides abused almost 2,000 children, male and female, by oral and anal sodomy, genital intercourse and manual stimulation. This happened to children as young as 5 months old, and there was even a recorded instance of a 4-year-old brought to orgasm 26 times within a 24 hour period. -pinerider19

Oliver Cromwell. When Drogheda, Ireland was massacred he tried to justify it by saying it was full of rebels, stating, "The righteous judgement of God on these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands with so much innocent blood."

The rebels he was referring to never entered Drogheda at any point. Cromwell is the type of person the word Tyrant is reserved for. -killingjoke96

Charles Dickens dumped his wife of 10 kids and 22 years for an 18-year old mistress. When she called him out on it, he publicly called her a fat idiot. -WestWarm65

Charlie Chaplin. 35 and married a 15-year-old. Yikes. -Much_Onion_1581

Hans Asperger. He noticed autism, but he was a member of the Nazi party, and his work on a committee classifying children according to their “usefulness” helped justify euthanizing them. His cooperation with the Nazi party helped advance his career after the war. He wasn’t some hero saving little autistic kids. -Chubby_Subby12

Henry Ford. He hated Jazz because he associated it with black people (or something like that; I remember it being a bigot thing). The square dancing was to encourage people to get back to "proper" traditions. -NotTheGreatPumpkin

Dr. Seuss's wife Helen had partial paralysis from Guillain-Barre syndrome, followed by cancer. She suspected he was cheating on her with one her friends (she was right.) After Helen's depression became too much, she ended her own life. Dr. Seuss then married the woman he was cheating with. -DadshipSeries

Jimmy Savile. Completely and utterly disgusting. Everyone thought so highly of him in regards to charity work, yet somehow our corrupted government and justice system failed so many children regarding accusations made whilst he was alive. -Mountain_Click_6524

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. A very interesting rabbit hole is the wikipedia page for his daughter he had lobotomized. Basically she was a little rebellious in her early '20s so you know, mashing the front of the brain with tools will fix that right? No, it left her with the mental capabilities of a 2-year-old for the rest of her life. -lebrunjemz

Mother Teresa. Where there's a will, and a massive fortune, there's a way. Some of the people under her care could have recovered with proper medical care, even without opiates to dull the pain. She could afford to fly in luxury to her public appearances and meetings but she couldn't fly in some doctors to treat the sick? -secular_sentientist

John Kellogg (founder of Kellogg’s cereals) was a vocal eugenicist, and he was particularly concerned with race degeneracy. He believed that race was threatened both by racial mixing and mental defectives. -SaltyDoggoMeo

Thomas Edison. The original patent troll. -bowlbettertalk

Ronald Reagan. He ruined this country. The middle class has never bounced back. People died of AIDS and he didn't give a f**k. He also sexually assaulted a starlet when he was still an actor. -PootZeeCandleBack

Steve Jobs. He refused to claim or support his daughter and then used his money to get a life saving organ transplant even though he had severe other health issues and died a few years later. -Dry-Location9176

Thomas Jefferson. Raped a slave girl repeatedly and fathered six of her children.

If you think a 14-year-old slave girl can actually consent to sex with her 44-year-old master who legally owns her and can beat and whip her....you must be with the Taliban or something. -AwkwardBlaque

He put out a cigarette on the face of his lover, Francoise Gilot, because she went to the seaside without him. Absolute piece of sh*t. -awtcurtis

Woodrow Wilson. He screened KKK propaganda films to his cabinet in the White House, and re-segregated hiring practices in the federal government. -tkcool73