My mother, who was a young adult during Bing Crosby's peak, said that he was a horrible husband and father. A serial philanderer and violent. - baddada1

Bing Crosby. Years ago, while watching Blue Skies with him & Fred Astaire my dad gushed over Astaire's legacy. I asked what Bing was like and he said, "Besides beating his wife and kids... What a voice!" Can't watch anything with him in it now. He was a monster to anyone close to him. - HeatherDoesVoices

Jimmy Saville... Until after he died and everything came out about the bad stuff he did. - MadJen1979

Every time I see a headline like “New details about Mr. Rogers...” I always brace myself. Then it inevitably turns out to just be something lovely and wholesome. - delventhalz

Frank Lloyd Wright. Abandoned his wife and children to take a mistress, who was herself already married. He drove his butler insane, and the guy ended up killing Wright's mistress and her kids, burned down his studio, and committed suicide by drinking acid. (Wright wasn't there at the time.) Wright's response to this was to rebuild the studio exactly as it was before, supposedly "to honor his mistress and their children", but it was pretty obvious to people at the time that he just wanted to protect his legacy as an architect, as many of his most famous innovations were showcased in the design. Sure enough, it became the museum to his work and is still visited today. - OneOfTwoWugs

Most actors, politicians, musicians, athletes, and artists receive a lot of fame throughout their careers. However, not everyone deserves it. Here's a list of 25 popular individuals who are horrible people but still receive appreciation from many since their deaths. Should they be forgiven posthumously?

Ray Charles. Made children all over the place and refused to acknowledge them.

Jerry Lewis. He treated his family like garbage, cut his kids out of his will and was a real pos on set. Watch some clips on youtube of him and his behaviour. Terrible. Most likely stemming from when he and Dean Martin split from being Martin & Lewis, everyone thought Dean would disappear and Jerry would go on to be a massive star. As it turned out, it was the complete reverse. He was a bitter, bitter person.

Bing Crosby. Father of the Century. Physically and mentally abusive to all his kids, alcoholic, adulterer, slimy businessman. Check it out....

Frank Lloyd Wright. He is seen as a visionary in architecture but he was a horrible person IRL. Raging narcissist, abandoned his wife and kids to run off with the wife of one of his clients, nailed down his selected furniture in a client's home because he didn't like what the client wanted, etc.

No one will say it because Americans have a hard time grappling with the military not being heroes, but Chris Kyle was a racist and a liar.

Coco Chanel revered fashion icon and also Nazi sympathizer.

I havent seen Michael Landon's name come up yet... he did amazing on Little House on the Prairie, but apparently he was actually a raging alcoholic and even his own kids made a documentary about The Father I Knew.

I feel like Cosby is as good as dead and would've been beatified if he had died before he got caught.

Jimmy Savile. Absolute monster. His celebrity as an English radio and tv personality gained him unrestricted access to hospitals with disabled children whom he abused. That’s putting his life very lightly. Beware if you go on to read more about him.

Johnny Carson. He cheated on his wives and was an all around a horrible person when he wasn't on camera. The most widely know example was him telling Joan Rivers that she'd never become the star of The Tonight Show (she was the permanent guest host at the time), then refusing to ever speak to her again after she got a job elsewhere.

It's probably come up time and again, but John Lennon was not a nice man. His son grew to despise him enough to tell Paul McCartney that he wished Paul was his father.

Alfred Hitchcock was really really terrible.

Big PunHes kids and widow hated him, he pistol whipped his wife in front of his children and broke her face.

By some Stones fans, Brian Jones. He deserves to be honored for his role innthe band, and for his musical contributions, and it's a shame how his life ended, but he also had a history of domestic violence.

Picasso has been commonly characterized as a womanizer and a misogynist, being quoted as having said to one of his mistresses, Françoise Gilot, "Women are machines for suffering." He later told her, "For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats." In her memoir, Picasso, My Grandfather, Marina Picasso writes of his treatment of women, "He submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, and crushed them onto his canvas. After he had spent many nights extracting their essence, once they were bled dry, he would dispose of them."Of the several important women in his life, two, Marie-Thèrése Walter, a mistress, and Jacqueline Roque, his second wife, committed suicide. Others, notably his first wife Olga Khokhlova, and his mistress Dora Maar, succumbed to nervous breakdowns. His son, Paulo, developed a fatal alcoholism due to depression. His grandson, Pablito, also committed suicide when he was barred by Jacqueline Roque from attending the artist's funeral."

Since no one mentioned them yet. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. In her letters De Beauvoir mentions several romantic relationship with female students of hers, in one case she met a 17 year old student who she had a relationship, and later introduced her to Sartre who also began to have an affair with her. There were a few others who basically made up Sartre’s personal harem, while de Beauvoir acted as the pimp; seducing teenage girls into threesomes with Sartre. Additionally both were signatories of a petition to remove the age of consent laws in France; the petition was written by a known pedo,Gabriel Matzneff, and signed by other French intellectuals including Foucault; who himself has been accused of sodomizing boys.

Lou Reed, I love the Velvet Underground but many of the band members were awful.

Frank Sinatra. My grandpa's girlfriend and her husband used to work for him, and he was not a nice person. Didn't think that he had to pay people that worked for him, treated employees bad, all the usual human stuff.

I’ve worked for Prince and it’s a not so hidden secret he was absolutely awful to work with. There used to be a saying “you’re nobody in this industry until you’ve been fired by prince” He’s a legend for sure but was awful to those who put the show on, and his ego was out of control. And when it came down to it, he died from an OD, so for someone who was so quick to fire anyone over a simple mistake and he so critical of weakness, it turns out he had some hidden weaknesses of his own. Also, from all accounts Jim Morrison was an awful awful person.

Salvador Dali was a fascist that beat women. Patton and MacArthur were pretty terrible people too.