Two years later, the Independent began publishing Ford's anti-Semitic views. As even the Henry Ford Museum says, "Ford's anti-Jewish sentiments ran deep." He bought a local newspaper in 1918, the Dearborn Independent. He would cheat on her with other young actresses, called her "lowly born and greedy" ( according to the LA Times), paid little attention to their children, and would demand, as she put it, "revolting, degrading and offensive" sex acts, some of which were illegal at the time in California.įord also hated Jews. When that failed, he married her, but treated her terribly. Chaplain impregnated Grey when she was 16 - he quickly suggested an abortion. Then there's Lita Grey, whose poor treatment at Chaplin's hands was documented in her 1927 divorce papers, obtained by the London Times in 2015 (and recapped by the International Business Times). Not too young for him to romance, of course, but too young for anything else. (She wasn't.) She started getting movie offers, but Chaplin was an unsupportive husband, thinking she was too young to have any real talent. Like slaves - Wayne actually claimed to be inclusive because he "had a black slave in The Alamo." To that, you might say, "well, it's a start," but honestly, it's not.īut if it's somehow not skeezy enough that he simply married underage girls, how about how the disrespectful ways he treated them? Take his first wife Mildred Harris, whom he married at 16 because he thought she was pregnant. He felt that "Hollywood studios are carrying their tokenism a little too far," and that minorities should only get roles meant for them. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people." He also railed against black people getting too many opportunities. As he said in the interview, "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. In a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine, Wayne admitted he didn't like African-American people (or "the blacks" as he constantly called them) being in charge of anything because white people are apparently the only people who know what they're doing. Yep, the rough-n-tough cowboy was a full-blown racist. John Wayne's reputation as a badass man's man gets tainted real fast once you hear his views on anyone who wasn't white. Roman custom, at the time, dictated that if a man felt his woman was being insulted by another man, he would cut the offender's penis off. He felt inclined to fight for her honor, which meant castrating Tomassoni. Problem was, Tomassoni was her pimp, and Caravaggio took umbrage to this. Apparently, Caravaggio had a woman named Fillide Melandroni over for a painting session, and fell for her. Well, according to new evidence put forth by Graham-Dixon, the issue wasn't Caravaggio being a bad sport - it was a woman. It's been long accepted that Caravaggio killed Tomassoni in 1606, but most thought it was due to an argument over a tennis match. In 2002, Andrew Graham-Dixon put out a Caravaggio documentary on BBC that ( as recounted by The Telegraph) exposed why Caravaggio killed a man named Ranuccio Tomassoni. He was also a murderer, which is less respectful. Caravaggio was a highly respected Renaissance artist - he painted Judith Beheading Holofernes, for one famous example.
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