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At the time? Practically everybody. She got absolutely slaughtered in the media, and it went on for years.
Not sure doubt is the right word here, they knew.
It's the same with Jimmy Saville, everybody knew. I remember chatting on a forum in a thread about celebrities who are absolute assholes. I'm not from the UK, so I didn't know him before somebody in that thread told us about this lady from his little town who was given a small book store by Saville, alledgedly because he had abused her when she was a girl, and threatened to go public. Granted, Sinnead O'Connor took it to another level. And Joe Pesci showed his true colors. What an asshole.
The whole Jimmy saville thing was insane, he had the keys to mental hospitals. The BBC chauffeured him about, very much like they picked up schoolgirls from school for Russell brand to be brought back to his flat.
Saville was great friends with the royals and thatchers government, you'd think the secret services would have known what he was up to... Thatchers home secretary Leon Britton was accused around the same time a lot of others were found out, but Theresa May's government shut that down.
Reading this back, I'm thinking I can't post this it's sounds nuts. Maybe that's how these fuckers get away with it...
Hadn't heard about Pesci, probably playing on his Italian gangster fame, what a twat.
Is this what happened with Russell Brand? I just heard he was a sexual predator, not that it was schoolgirls. It's insane that the BBC didn't get any wiser after Saville. It should be easy: don't hire known pervs and definitely don't let them use your stuff to abuse children.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/russell-brand-sent-car-schoolgirl-30957932
The age of consent is 16 in the UK, Saville was also a necrophiliac, and that access to hospitals was used for that, so maybe the BBC seen this as pretty tame...
Wait, what did Joe Pesci do?
He said he wanted to give her a good smacking or something. And he hasn't apologized yet as far as I know.
Right, because tearing a picture is worse than the sexual assault of countless children. What a pos
Totally. I always think of this when people say Muslims overreact about drawings of their prophet or people burning their holy book. There were protests in the streets and famous Catholics like Pesci and Madonna attacked O'Connor in the press. Madonna, it seemed, was even more frustrated because this thing completely removed the attention from her new album that came out around the same time.
Edit: Madonna playing the prude was a nice touch.