30. The Cradle-Robbing Orgy Addict
Another contrast between Charlie Chaplain’s public image and the actual man was his penchant for orgies. He liked to organize them with his friend and fellow comedic film star, Fatty Arbuckle. Those orgies came to a screeching however in the aftermath of a scandal that rocked the country in 1921, when Fatty Arbuckle was prosecuted for raping a woman to death.
Arbuckle was acquitted, but the duo’s orgy parties never resumed. Chaplin’s greatest scandals, however – the ones that most damaged his public image – arose from his propensity for cradle robbing: he liked much younger women. It proved his undoing.