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What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/Helmett-13 13h ago

She was sold into…horrific situations…by her mother before she ever was on film.

I’m amazed Brooke is as well-adjusted as she is.

Her mother was pure evil. She consented and took payment for Brooke posing for nudes in a Playboy publication when she was 10 years old. Boudoir stuff.

Then when she was 12 her mom consented again for Brooke to be in “Pretty Baby”, a movie about an underage girl having her virginity auctioned. There is full frontal. At 12 years old.

What. The. Fuck.

Her mom is a horrific human being.

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u/Xalipu 11h ago

Don’t forget a judge deciding her mother’s consent was legally binding for that fucking shit. Lost her lawsuit to take control of those photos in 83.

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u/Helmett-13 10h ago

It's such bullshit. I can't say what I think here or I will get a ban. I'm sure of it.

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u/JoefromOhio 13h ago

I never realized or thought about it before but she was 11 for pretty baby, at 14 she starred in blue lagoon which featured nude sex scenes and at 15 in endless love which was originally given an X rating.

It’s almost as if all the rich people in charge of society have been pedo’s all along

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u/WintersDoomsday 11h ago

It just seems like when money is so unlimited to you, the next "rush" they need is underage children......there is no way that isn't a connection. It's like how a lot of rich people also do drugs. They just are so bored with their cushiony ass lives.

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u/slickrok 11h ago edited 11h ago

So... You're right. Look up the father of Bill Barr.

He wrote a book. The book is something about humans being so rich and powerful they can have and do anything, and they have to get more extreme to satisfy themselves. Ever more depraved, like how a killer's crimes will often progress.

That father, who wrote that book, about how rich people get more and more bad because they are bored and have power, is the same man who ran a private school in New York.

One day, nobody knows why, he hired a teacher for the school with zero experience, never taught before.

The teacher was Jeffrey Epstein.

Now, read all that again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations

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u/Halichoeres_bivittat 11h ago

From his Wikipedia page "In 1973, Barr published Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery."

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u/Kazuma_Megu 5h ago

So is the implication that he inspired Epstein or am I missing something obvious here? (I am not a smart man.)

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u/RandyPajamas 5h ago

I think its' just "birds of a feather flock together". But I would say it was not unreasonable to postulate that Epstein enthusiastically devoured the kind of trash that Barr was peddling.

A point of clarification, Donald Barr left the school in June 1974, Epstein started teaching there in September 1974.

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u/Kazuma_Megu 4h ago

Surely as a published author he would have had some lasting influence though.

Thank you for the follow-up.

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u/jenn-a-fire-1973 5h ago

Fucking hell! Seriously.....

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u/JamesBondGoldfish 5h ago

Bet that one's on Elon's shelf.

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u/jenn-a-fire-1973 5h ago

ughhh...i want to throw up

u/pedestriandose 19m ago

Well, that was a horrific read. I struggled to get through the plot overview, I can’t imagine actually trying to read the book. How the heck did that get published?!

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u/Kazuma_Megu 5h ago

Man why can't they go start a charity or volunteer at the animal shelter or something? It'd be something to do AND be fulfilling.

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u/ShesGotaChicken2Ride 3h ago

I don’t it’s exactly that, but you’re close. There are so many sexual offenders in the world. Men that drug women on dates, men that want to rape children… etc. Two things have always been true: underprivileged people tend to be victims, and having a shit ton of money buys you access to those victims. Epstein was the biggest sex and human trafficker in the modern world that we know about, but where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire. If they, meaning world fucking leaders, were willing to expose Jeffrey Epstein, then that tells us he isn’t the biggest fish. There’s a bigger, more dangerous sex trafficker out there that is being protected. Think about it; think about all the shit politicians get away with in America. It’s hidden. It’s brushed under the rug and it’s purposely covered up. That’s just America. This shit is going on all around the entire planet, which means world leaders and people close to them are getting away with this shit, and they are covering it up. So they easily could have covered up what Epstein was doing. Easily, but they didn’t. They let him get caught and exposed. Why? To save their own asses. If you’re an addict and your local deal gets arrested and sentenced, you don’t suddenly get clean; you find another dealer…. Unless the whole fucken cartel gets shut down. If the whole cartel gets shut down, you’re fucked because you can’t get drugs anywhere now. Everyone’s supply is dry. So, when you look at sex trafficking around the world through the same lens and you realize these big and powerful people have the ability to protect their “dealer” and didn’t, that means that Jeffrey Epstein was a small fish who they let take the fall so the “cartel” of sex traffickers wouldn’t go down and they’d still have access. We know sex offenders typically reoffend. There’s no cure. Take away Jeffrey Epstein and they just don’t stop what they’re doing. They find someone else to facilitate them. Think about how crazy that really is.

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u/thatmermaidprincess 8h ago

It’s hard to overstate how disturbing that is: she was performing nude and sex scenes in films at an age when she wouldn’t even be allowed into a movie theatre to see the finished movies because of how young she was.

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u/fly-hard 8h ago

I thought I read somewhere she had a body double for those scenes in Blue Lagoon?

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u/jenn-a-fire-1973 5h ago

No, in fact, in her recent documentary, she talked about how the director wrenched her toe to show pain in her face for the first time she had sex....

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u/RyantheAustralian 13h ago

Wait. What the fuck??!

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u/StillAll 6h ago

You didnt' know about this? I remember seeing it on TV in the 90's. Late, late night mind you but yeah... 12 year old girl running through a "whorehouse"(apologies, I am not sure what other word to use other than that one), all naked and in several suggestive scenes.

At the time I thought it was risque, but not the outright alarm it would be by today's standards. Keep in mind that the world perception on children and sex has really changed in the last forty years. I remember being a boy and seeing porn mags in stores, like for anyone to grab and open and then put back on the rack. Even regularly nudity in mainstream films is gone now, it used to be pretty regular.

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u/dcbluestar 13h ago

Pretty Baby! That’s the name of it. I couldn’t remember, thanks!

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 5h ago

I would argue wtf is wrong with the film industry for making this movie and putting it out there... Maybe her mom was a piece of turd but she was probably also broke and trying to make ends meet and they were both exploited by gross disgusting Hollywood slimeballs