Most actors, politicians, musicians, athletes, and artists receive a lot of fame throughout their careers. However, not everyone deserves it. Here's a list of 25 popular individuals who are horrible people but still receive appreciation from many since their deaths.
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Every time I see a headline like “New details about Mr. Rogers...” I always brace myself. Then it inevitably turns out to just be something lovely and wholesome. - delventhalz
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Ray Charles. Made children all over the place and refused to acknowledge them.
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Jerry Lewis. He treated his family like garbage, cut his kids out of his will and was a real pos on set. Watch some clips on youtube of him and his behaviour. Terrible. Most likely stemming from when he and Dean Martin split from being Martin & Lewis, everyone thought Dean would disappear and Jerry would go on to be a massive star. As it turned out, it was the complete reverse. He was a bitter, bitter person.
4
Bing Crosby. Father of the Century. Physically and mentally abusive to all his kids, alcoholic, adulterer, slimy businessman. Check it out....
5
Frank Lloyd Wright. He is seen as a visionary in architecture but he was a horrible person IRL. Raging narcissist, abandoned his wife and kids to run off with the wife of one of his clients, nailed down his selected furniture in a client's home because he didn't like what the client wanted, etc.
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No one will say it because Americans have a hard time grappling with the military not being heroes, but Chris Kyle was a racist and a liar.
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I havent seen Michael Landon's name come up yet... he did amazing on Little House on the Prairie, but apparently he was actually a raging alcoholic and even his own kids made a documentary about The Father I Knew.
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I feel like Cosby is as good as dead and would've been beatified if he had died before he got caught.
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Jimmy Savile. Absolute monster. His celebrity as an English radio and tv personality gained him unrestricted access to hospitals with disabled children whom he abused. That’s putting his life very lightly. Beware if you go on to read more about him.
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Johnny Carson. He cheated on his wives and was an all around a horrible person when he wasn't on camera. The most widely know example was him telling Joan Rivers that she'd never become the star of The Tonight Show (she was the permanent guest host at the time), then refusing to ever speak to her again after she got a job elsewhere.
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It's probably come up time and again, but John Lennon was not a nice man. His son grew to despise him enough to tell Paul McCartney that he wished Paul was his father.
12
Alfred Hitchcock was really really terrible.
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By some Stones fans, Brian Jones. He deserves to be honored for his role innthe band, and for his musical contributions, and it's a shame how his life ended, but he also had a history of domestic violence.
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Lou Reed, I love the Velvet Underground but many of the band members were awful.
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Frank Sinatra. My grandpa's girlfriend and her husband used to work for him, and he was not a nice person. Didn't think that he had to pay people that worked for him, treated employees bad, all the usual human stuff.
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Salvador Dali was a fascist that beat women. Patton and MacArthur were pretty terrible people too.
