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"Never meet your heroes."

A lot of celebrities were idolized due to lack of knowledge. Folks want to believe in perfect talented people who they can look up to, and maybe become one day. The alternative is knowing that a lot of rich people are flawed and corrupt. Ignorance is bliss.

Early Hollywood tried to keep that image going by covering up any hint of scandal. But then paparazzi happened and its own industry that made cash off revealing the dark secrets. Social media was another nail.

iirc there was some story about Babe Ruth womanizing and the press at the time just turned to each other and agreed to ignore it. Different culture. If FDR were around today, people would upload daily videos of him struggling to stand up and calling him "Sleepy Frank." There's no gentlemens club secrets anymore when everybody's got a phone.