Top 10 Hollywood Scandals Ever

When it comes to Hollywood scandals, some of the old timers take the prize for the spiciest and most shocking scandals. The bygone era of Hollywood featured the glitz glamour of Hollywood stars and fans loved the handsome leading stars and gorgeous starlets. Scandals became even more shocking because of the fairy tale lives of the top Hollywood stars. Although today’s stars still live rich and exciting lives, they’re not idolized quite as much by fans. In fact, Hollywood scandals seem to be a dime a dozen these days.

Elizabeth Taylor  

Imagine Elizabeth Taylor one year after her first husband’s death. It was 1958 and this Oscar winning, stunning actress married Eddie Fisher, a friend of her dead husband. Not only that, but she stole Fisher away from singer and actress, Debbie Reynolds. Debbie was everyone’s “girl next door” with her blonde hair, sweet demeanor and melodic voice. The scandal rocked Hollywood and adoring fans didn’t know whether to side with Taylor or Reynolds. Of course, Elizabeth Taylor ended up divorcing seven of her eight husbands. Mike Todd, her first husband died in a plane crash and was the only one Taylor didn’t divorce.

Errol Flynn

This charismatic, charming 1940s actor, well known for playing the lead in The Adventures of Robin Hood had the ladies swooning. Fans adored him even with the rumors of excessive drinking and carousing. In 1942, Flynn was accused of raping Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, both underage. The trial hit all the papers and rocked Hollywood but Flynn found innocent. His playboy lifestyle resulted in an early death from heart attack in 1959. Beverly Aadland, his 17-year-old girlfriend was with him when he died.

Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe, one of the teenage heartthrobs of the Brat Pack popular during the 1980s was involved in a sex scandal in 1988. A videotape exposing Lowe having sex with two girls in Atlanta was leaked to the public. One of the girls was only 16-years-old. The incident took place during the Democratic National Convention. Another scene on the same tape showed a hotel room in Paris where Lowe and a friend were having sex with a model. Because of the publicly displayed scandal, Lowe admitted himself into rehab for sex addiction. The scandal didn’t ruin his career, however. He pulled himself together and continued a successful acting career in TV series like The West Wing and Brothers and Sisters.

Katherine Hepburn

Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were the most romantic couple in Hollywood during the 1940s. Fans couldn’t get enough of this fairy tale couple. Hepburn’s career as an actress spanned 60 years and it only recently came to light in a book written by Cotty Bowers, that the romance was a farce. According to his writings, Katherine Hepburn was a lesbian who had hundreds of lovers.

Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen, best known for his role as Charlie in the TV series, Two and a Half Men was at the center of a very public scandal involving his drug abuse and sex antics that has been going on since the 90s. A woman sued Sheen in 1995, accusing him of striking her in the head multiple times when she refused sex with him. During the trial, it was revealed that Sheen paid over $50,000 for prostitutes. 

George Sanders

This handsome English actor, one married to Magda Gabor, Benita Hume and Zsa Zsa Gabor became famous in Hollywood for his voice and playing the role of high-class rogues. He was the voice of the infamous tiger,  Sher Khan in the 1967 version of The Jungle Book. He was often depressed and in 1972, while in Barcelona, he consumed five bottles of Nembutal. He left a note, saying, “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”

Clark Gable

While filming, Call of the Wild, Clark Gable and co-star, Loretta Young had an affair. Since it was 1935 and Gable was a married man, affairs of this kind were shocking. Not only that, the affair ended with a pregnant Loretta Young. Young was also a Catholic, which only added flames to the fire. Gable and Young covered up the pregnancy by having Young go into seclusion for a year. When she returned to Hollywood with a little girl named Judy Young, she explained by saying that she adopted the girl while she was away.

Judy Garland

Singer and actress, Judy Garland first became known for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Her voice and little girl image captivated the world. While she was married to David Rose, her first husband, she became pregnant. The Hollywood studio forced her to have an abortion, even though she was married. Her husband agreed with them, which made it even harder for Judy to resist. The reason given was that it would ruin her “good girl” image. Garland eventually committed suicide in her 50s.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

After 14 years of marriage to Maria Shriver, Arnold finally admitted to his ongoing affair and love child with his housekeeper, Mildred Baena. He had the affair right under the nose of Shriver and his children, in their Pacific Palisades home. His mistress became pregnant with his child at the same time that Shriver also became pregnant with their son, Christopher. Christopher was born on Sept. 27, 1997 and his son with his mistress was born on Oct. 2, just five days later.

Lindsay Lohan

At this point, Lindsay Lohan is better known for her scandals and court appearances than her acting career. Starting in 2006, Lohan was admitted to the hospital for supposed exhaustion. The studio executives were furious and threatened Lohan with a lawsuit. It’s been all downhill for Lohan since then. She has had multiple arrests for drug use, missing court hearings and alcohol abuse. After to a relationship with Samantha Ronson in 2008, the paparazzi became relentless. Lohan’s arrests include driving under the influence, seven misdemeanors, served house arrest and was sent to jail for 30 days.