Fatty Arbuckle
Arbuckle denied all allegations, but the press and public didn’t believe him. Everyone thought he was guilty and didn’t want him to get away with such a vicious crime. After two mistrials, he was eventually tried a third time and was somehow acquitted. Unfortunately for the actor, the damage had already been done.
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Arbuckle was pretty much blacklisted from acting for almost a dozen years because the public shunned him. In 1933, he was offered a new contract, but he died from a heart attack before starting the project. Clearly, this was way before the MeToo movement.