The 50 Biggest Celeb Scandals Since 1985
As the R. Kelly trial ends in the singer's acquittal, we're looking back at the biggest publicity flubs of the famous, including a wide range of accusations of behavior that shocked fans
By EW Staff Updated August 23, 2007 at 04:00 PM EDT
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Martin Lawrence
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Alec Baldwin
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Robert Downey Jr. | The star of the 1987 drug-addled cult hit Less Than Zero made his longtime drug addiction even more embarrassingly public on July 16, 1996, by
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James Frey, Oprah Winfrey, ...
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Eddie Murphy | To be fair, there's really no good way to explain being pulled over by Los Angeles police at 4:45 a.m. with a transsexual prostitute in
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By EW Staff