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Originally Posted by photo1902
I had to laugh at Fatty Arbuckle. First off because I have never heard the name, and it's funny. Secondly because he's been dead for 86 years!
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He lost everything for quite some time because of what look like they were false accusations of rape and murder.
Restoring Fatty Arbuckle's Tarnished Reputation at MoMa - The New York Times
Lawyers brought him up often when I was on Findlaw back in the 2000s for what can go very wrong with accusations not really based on facts.
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WHEN Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle checked into the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco for a Labor Day weekend of rest and recreation in September 1921, he was one of the most celebrated and beloved comedians in America. One week later, he was a pariah. On Sept. 11, Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of Virginia Rappé, a 28-year-old actress who passed out during a party in Arbuckle's suite and died a few days later of peritonitis.
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