Nearly a century before Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey shamed Hollywood spawning the #MeToo and Time\'s-Up movements, popular film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle - second at the box office only to Charlie Chaplin - stood trial for the murder of the young starlette Virginia Rappe. "Everywhere today," one period commentary said, "Arbuckle\'s name, with its unsavory associations, is met with a sneer; everywhere indecent living is branded as \'Fatty Arbuckle stuff.\'"Using contemporaneous accounts, "Forty Quarts of Liquor," - a reference to the amount of prohibition-era illegal alcohol Arbuckle\'s party consumed - documents Hollywood\'s First scandal..
The public was never persuaded.
Simpson\'s "Dream Team," the comedian was freed.
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Some medical experts, and the court of public opinion, concluded the girl died in a sexual assault after a weekend of consuming illegal alcohol, her bladder having ruptured under Fatty\'s 266 pounds.
Nearly a century before Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey shamed Hollywood spawning the #MeToo and Time\'s-Up movements, popular film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle - second at the box office only to Charlie Chaplin - stood trial for the murder of the young starlette Virginia Rappe
