FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO HAVE SHATTERED OUR FAITH IN HUMANITY

MICHAEL RICHARDS

Michael Richards won several Emmys for portraying Kramer on

Seinfeld. During a stand-up performance on November 17,

2006, Richards was filmed screaming the n-word and

lynching references at a group of hecklers. He later

apologized during an interview on

The Late Show with David Letterman.

JIM BAKKER

Jim Bakker was a famous minister with the Assemblies of God

and a televangelist on The PLT Club. However, Bakker was

discovered conning his parishioners out of millions by selling

“lifetime memberships” that included access to a luxury hotel

he was building. Although thousands of memberships

were sold, only one five hundred-room hotel was ever built.

Additionally, Bakker paid $279,000 in hush money to a female

employee after she accused him and another minister of rape.

HILARY SWANK

The decorated actress received a fat pay check for honouring

with her presence at the birthday party of Chechen leader

Ramzan Kadyrov, who has been accused of political violence

and violating human rights. Swank apologized by pleading

ignorance about his reputation, even though a human rights

group stated that they had warned her team about him

weeks before her visit.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the

International Monetary Fund, one of the most powerful men in

relation to the global economy, and father of four daughters, was

arrested in New York for sexual assault and attempted rape

of a hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, at the Sofitel New York Hotel

on May 14, 2011. The charges were dismissed at the request

of the prosecution, which pointed to serious flaws in Diallo’s

credibility and inconclusive physical evidence, but

Strauss-Kahn’s credibility and career were damaged for good.

MEL GIBSON

Once one of the highest-earning and most prolific actors of the

last thirty years, Mel Gibson hit rock bottom in both his

professional career and personal life awhile back. After making

reprehensible racist comments about blacks, Jews, and gays,

he took it a step further by abusing his then girlfriend and

mother of his child, Oksana Grigorieva.

JOHN EDWARDS

During the 2008 presidential campaign, rumours surfaced that

Senator John Edwards had been having an affair for years

and fathered a child with a campaign staffer while his wife

publicly battled breast cancer. During a 2008 interview he

admitted to having an affair but denied being the child’s father.

In 2010 he admitted to being the father and was indicted in

2011 for using campaign funds to cover up the affair.

MILEY CYRUS

Having gone from being good, clean, and moral to totally dirty,

sexed up, and provocative, Miley Cyrus has been a huge

disappointment to all the mothers and daughters who

once saw her as a role model in Hannah Montana.

REESE WITHERSPOON

Reese Witherspoon had been the last remaining America’s

Sweetheart (after the fall of Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus

more recently) but that changed after a video surfaced of the

actress challenging a police officer who had pulled her and her

husband over on suspicion of driving under the influence.

What made things even worse is that she even tried the

“Don’t you know who I am?” card.

She was arrested anyway.

TIGER WOODS

Tiger Woods used to be a sports icon and what appeared to be a

true family man. However, he turned out to be an adulterer who

didn’t respect his wife and ruined his family over his sex

addiction and lies.