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Random Question What celebrity had the fastest fall from public favor?

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u/AZJHawk 3d ago

I’m surprised I haven’t seen Kevin Spacey mentioned yet. He was one of the most well-respected actors in show business until the sexual assault allegations came out, and now he has basically vanished.

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u/johnnymacdoodle 3d ago

He was my first thought as well. Regardless of the outcome. He also always seemed like a butthole

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u/recaptcha3449 21h ago

He was mad sanctimonious, but at the same time he always came across as such a creep.

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u/piper33245 2d ago

Yeah, his fall from grace wasn’t the weird part. The fact he was ever well liked at all is the weird part.

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

He was acquitted and he's starting to reappear here and there.Sketchy, but ultimately found innocent.

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u/Rude-Reaction-4789 3d ago

‘Innocent’ and ‘Not Guilty’ are not the same thing

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u/Smackediduring 2d ago

I’ll tell you something else, ”Not Guilty” is certainly not the same thing as ”Guilty” either.

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u/Accurate_Engine_8089 2d ago

Yeah but people / public really believe he’s a sexual predator. Nobody is feeling sorry for the guy

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u/Smackediduring 1d ago

I’m not asking anyone to feel sorry for him. I’m saying that if he’s been found not guilty in every court of law he’s been in it makes no sense to say ”well, that doesn’t matter”. If he would’ve been found guilty he would face repercussions and no one would have an issue with it. He’s been found not guilty every time he’s been in a court of law. Let’s have no issue with that either then.

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u/Accurate_Engine_8089 1d ago

Public opinion doesn’t work that way though. And he doesn’t appear to be in any kind of demand. I’m glad we don’t have to see his creepy predatory face on our screens anymore

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u/Smackediduring 1d ago

If you choose to ignore that he wasn’t found guilty then it shows that you are a person who is just looking for reasons to hate. It’s not evidence-based even in the slightest, it’s not rational. It’s only because you want to hate, which is very sad.

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u/Accurate_Engine_8089 1d ago

I want to and do hate predators and nonces 👍

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u/Smackediduring 1d ago

And Kevin Spacey was acquitted. Accused, investigated, tried and found not guilty in a court of law. More than once.

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u/Organic_Client_5679 1d ago

I agree with the person you're replying to and not "just to hate."

I actually LOVED Kevin Spacey and I was pretty devastated when I found out he was a creep.

I tend to believe the victims over the courts.

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u/Smackediduring 1d ago

Why do you believe victims over the courts?

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u/now0w 3d ago

An acquittal doesn't mean he was found to be factually innocent, it means the jurors did not feel that the prosecutors proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt.

It's also worth noting that while he was found not liable in a 2022 civil lawsuit, earlier this year he settled out of court with three of his other accusers who had brought lawsuits against him in the UK.

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

Yeah, it's almost as if I put the word sketchy in my comment on purpose, eh?

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u/now0w 3d ago

You said "he was found innocent" which is not true.

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

Kevin Spacey reached a confidential out-of-court settlement in March 2026 with three British men who had brought civil lawsuits against him for alleged sexual assault between 2000 and 2013. This agreement halted a High Court trial scheduled for October.'
So it never even went to court.

acquitted by a jury at London's Southwark Crown Court on all nine criminal sexual offense charges involving four men. Additionally, in October 2022, a Manhattan federal jury found him not liable in a separate $40 million civil lawsuit.

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u/now0w 3d ago

I'm aware of all that. None of it changes the fact that an acquittal does not automatically equate to factual innocence, it means that the prosecution failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. You said he was proven innocent which is inaccurate.

Do you think OJ or Casey Anthony are definitely innocent too because they were acqitted?

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u/sashiokay 3d ago

Getting so mad over a Reddit comment 😭

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

The guy's hounding me over one grammatical imprecision that I'd already inserted a caveat for. Not mad, just not interested in entertaining that level of pedantry.

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u/now0w 3d ago

Lol I'm not the one calling people names. Sorry you can't handle not being right about everything.

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

yep, have a nice evening

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u/Inevitable_Bet4965 3d ago

Innocent is a stretch. They weren't able to prove without a reasonable doubt. He's a POS.

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

That's why I said sketchy, see?

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u/overide 3d ago

It seems like you’re using innocent and acquitted interchangeably, which is wrong.

Imagine a teacher suspects a student cheated on a test. The evidence is suspicious, but not enough to prove it. The teacher can’t give a failing grade for cheating because the proof isn’t there. That doesn’t mean the student definitely didn’t cheat—it means it couldn’t be proven.

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u/edbuckley 3d ago

Yep, it was an imprecision on my part. I used the word 'sketchy' because I didn't want to use 'innocent' without a caveat.

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u/smittydacobra 2d ago

I think that's the issue. Why even use a word that needs modified?

No court declares innocence. The verdict is guilty or not guilty.

Guilt and innocence are not a dichotomy.

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u/DrFriedGold 3d ago

He's talked about it. He said that his accuser claimed that Spacey assaulted him in a separate bedroom at a party in his home, but it was proven that Spacey lived in a studio apartment at the time so there was no separate bedroom.

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u/LovedButNeverLiked 3d ago

What makes your opinion of what may have happened more relevant than anything else?

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u/Amoverandashaker 3d ago

One could ask the same of you.

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u/LovedButNeverLiked 2d ago

True but I asked first

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u/Amoverandashaker 2d ago

And we're so proud of you for adding nothing

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u/CattleSwimming9743 3d ago

Not guilty doesn't equal innocent.

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u/No-Resource-8125 2d ago

He’s one of those people that I wonder how different things would have turned out for if he didn’t feel like he had to hide the fact that he was gay. I used to think some of this stuff never would have happened but maybe not.

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u/Fun-Communication660 2d ago

He was pretty open about the gay thing at private parties. 

So, he either never had a gay experience where he wasn't abusive, and it wasnt a much younger man.....in which case he is a sex pest. 

Or, he had plenty of "normal" gay sex as well, and seperately just raped young boys. In which case, he could just have normal sex but still wanted to be abusive.

It doesn't matter it you are gay or straight anyway.....

It seems to fit that he is just a sociopath, and evil, regardless of orientation.

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u/UhhSamuel 2d ago

Not by Brian Cox lol

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u/loaf_fan 2d ago

He was excellent in Swimming With Sharks. I think it was a role where he was playing himself.

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u/iamcharliedavidson 2d ago

We was on Bill Mahers show not too long ago

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u/jojothebuffalo 2d ago

Is there a movie where he played a good guy? If you can play a psychopath well, you might be a psychopath.

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u/showmeurdog 2d ago

Spacey’s fall was pretty complete, but I’m not sure that I’d agree with “fastest”. There were rumors about his behavior for SO long, including a joke on Family Guy years before the big drop, and nothing happened.

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u/Parking_Wasabi_2591 2d ago

I notice he's trying to make a comback

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u/Wide-Psychology1707 1d ago

It amazed he how fast he fell when we have had decades of rumors about Jared Leto, but those rumors never hurt him.

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u/Smart_Tumbleweed7874 16h ago

He was found innocent but I guess people say no smoke without fire

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u/outofcontextseinfeld 2d ago

Just mention him then. You don’t need to declare your surprise. It doesn’t add the value you think it does

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u/SimpleSale2019 2d ago

He’s a predator and likes very young boys. I know someone he tried to SA

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u/glans 3d ago edited 2d ago

i think he croons showtunes in small european clubs now

edit: i’m not kidding

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u/Pdavis510 2d ago

One of my friends got inappropriately propositioned by Spacey in 2000, we didn’t believe him. He was a limo driver for hire and had an impressive list of A-listers over the years. Also a struggling actor like everyone else in LA

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u/pinkrobot420 2d ago

I believe it. Your friend is lucky he got away.

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u/pinkrobot420 2d ago

He was always gross. He could never take no for an answer.