Re the latest public figure accused of being gay (and a sexual predator) and denying it, I’m wondering if there has ever been one of these multiple accusation scenarios where the accusations were ultimately proved to be false.
Single accuser scenarios where it’s proved false are common, however, I can’t recall any of these scenarios involving noted public figures with more than one accuser where the accusations proved to be false.
How do you prove a negative?
John Travolta has been accused of being gay constantly for 30 years. He appears to have been happily married for the past 20 years or so, in fact they have another baby on the way.
Tom Cruise is in nearly the same situation.
Lots of well-known people have been rumored to be gay but have denied it and never had any real proof offered. But in most of those cases, the people who want to believe it was true generally continued to do so.
The only case I can think of offhand where the rumors died out would be Alicia Keys. She always refused to talk about her love life and was never seen in public with a boyfriend so rumors began that she was gay. It later came out that what she was actually concealing was a boyfriend who was married to another woman.
Loads of actors, but the first two that come to mind are Seth Green (Oz from Buffy) and David Walliams (the non-bald one from Little Britain). In the latter case it’s because he camps it up a lot, but he shags lots of women.
I apologize. I should have been more specific. I’m thinking of accusations that go beyond gossip. In cases where multiple people are filing lawsuits against a public figure who they say molested or harassed them sexually has that public figure eventually been exonerated? Almost every time I can recall this has happened the person being accused was eventually outed.
Baseball player Mike Piazza was also publicly “outed” even though he was pretty well known as a ladies’ man amongst his teammates. He ended up marrying a Playboy Playmate (they’re still together) and they have a couple of kids together.
…accused by multiple people of being Gay…
I think what you mean is “accused by multiple people of being molested…”
I can give you lots of (true) stories about celebrities in the closet and multiple people have kissed and told.
It is quite another thing for someone to join in a lawsuit of a famous celebrity/religious leader/politician and come forth with their own story of sexual abuse.
While I don’t doubt some of it was totally consensual at the time, or some of the people might be lying or stretching the truth - for the most part, when these sexual predators are discovered, others are more inclined to finally admit what happened when they realize they were not the only one.
Usually, these allegations have some credence. Specific info that only the abused would/could know, similar stories and scenarios, photos, receipts, etc. Prosecutors are not stupid…if they don’t have some serious facts to back up the lawsuits, they are not going to prosecute someone based off rumor.
There were some rumours about Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere when they were married - enough that they took out an ad in May 2004 in The Times proclaiming, among other things, ''We are heterosexual and monogamous and…reports of a divorce are totally false." (They separated in Dec of that year).
She’s since had a couple of kids with Randy Gerber and Richard has also had a kid. So if that’s the barometer for straightness (and hard to tell otherwise) - both appear to be straight.
“I’ll prove I’m not gay, but I require an assistant. Get [female celebrity of choice] on the line.”
Roger Casement was an Irishman who helped expose and end the worst of the human rights abuses in the Belgian Congo. Later, when he was hanged for smuggling guns into Ireland, his alternate, so-called “black diaries” emerged, revealing his time in Africa to have been spent as much on sex-tourism as massacre investigation.
Were the diaries forged to de-martyr Casement? The issue is still in debate today.
Another one that comes to mind under the “smear the queer” catagory was the gun explosion on the USS Iowa. The Navy not only killed it’s sailors, but covered it’s ass by choosing one to be remembered as a twisted gay killer.
And they did that despite the fact that battleship historian Richard Humble has correctly pointed out that just as many battleships have been destroyed by magazine explosions during peacetime as by enemy action. The cause is almost always the aging of the propellant (powder used to shoot the shells). Propellant is expensive and tricky to handle; leaving it in the ships seems like a cost-saving move, but it degrades chemically (like dynamite “sweating”).
Navies know this. It’s an accepted fact that aging propellant periodically destroys a battleship unless the navy in question is vigilant and willing to spend money on unsexy maintenance issues.
Now, speaking generically, the moment the explosion occurred, the Iowa might have been sabotaged or it might not – but for the Navy to immediately rule out aging propellant clearly indicates they are going to lie, because prior to that explosion the Navy was keenly aware aging propellant was a risk for exactly this.
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Um, let’s give those a few more years. Especially the first one.
I remember the Senate hearings for that on TV. The investigators were introduced as super experts and tried every way they could to assert the accident was suicide by this sailor because he was an unstable and hysterical fag. Maine Senator William Cohen took it to them for their ridiculous assertions.
Jason Donovan was a huge muscals star until he sued The Face magazine for libel after they printed he was gay.
Claiming being falsely accused of being gay is defamation cost him most of his fan base and kept him out of musical theatre for years. Even the starights were abhored at the thought the being called gay is considered “defamation.”.
This might seem a little strange…
My sister is a huge fan of the series NCIS, and keeps telling me I would enjoy it. And I’ve never watched it because I’ve heard of so many cases, particularly this one, where naval investigators are clearly told what results to find, and then go out and find them. It seemed to me that it was the worst investigative service in Federal Service, and I thought of NCIS as a propaganda tool to refudiate 
that reputation.
Later, I learned about the Army’s investigation of Abu Graib prisoner abuse, and I had to do some rethinking. But I also heard that at least some of the Army investigators resisted and protested how their investigation was limited, and I never heard anything similar about Navy investigators.
Well… when the public figure is shown to have sent “muscle” pictures of himself from his bathroom to adolescent boys then I would assume that this case (Eddie Long) will go down as one in which the person WASN’T falsely accused…
We heard the rumors on Tom Cruise… then he marries Katie and has two kids… haven’t really heard it since then…
It sure as hell happened in Junior High School.
Oh, come on. Gays are starting to sound like UFOlogists on the topic of Cruise and to a lesser extent, Travolta. No evidence but yadda yadda yadda … gray aliens … yadda yadda yadda … Tom Cruise … yadda yadda yadda … good buddy of mine who knows a guy who SWEARS that … yadda yadda yadda …