A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now a hundred years old, teach us today?

Jerry Stahl, the author of the imagined Fatty Arbuckle autobiography I, Fatty, will be in conversation on Wednesday night with Erica Jong. Since it's for… ...

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle had raped Virginia Rapp by inserting a champagne bottle into her vagina, rupturing vital organs resulting in her death. Or maybe she was killed while engaged in intercourse ...

Upon his arrest for murder, Roscoe Arbuckle was booked into custody and denied bail. Feedloader (Clickability) In the summer of 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was on top of the world.

Ninety-one years later, the Arbuckle case is now known as Hollywood’s first major scandal, even though poor Fatty was eventually found not guilty. Here’s how his sad story unfolded . . .

They were Kansas boys, born eight years and a 200 miles apart, but neither stayed long there. Arbuckle, who supposedly weighed 16 pounds at birth, moved with his family to California a year later ...

He was the original Hollywood scandal, the first major symbol of movie-land decadence. Long before Pee-wee Herman, long before Hugh Grant or Rob Lowe slipped on the banana peel of unwanted ...

In the summer of 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was on top of the world. Paramount Pictures had paid him an unprecedented $3 million over three years to star in 18 silent films, and he’d just ...