Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Virginia Rappe (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 3)
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The Fatty Arbuckle Scandal
An s tells the story of roscoe arbuckle's rape and murder in a way that makes his suggested shadow story seem as plausible as the on the record facts. He mentions both a coca cola bottle and a champagne bottle as rumored implements of violence against virginia used by arbuckle. Buckle was ultimately acquitted due to the lack of specific evidence such as a bloody bottle, an outcome which the writer implies the comic jokingly referenced when pulled over for drunk driving years later. Even anger's conclusion that bottles seemed to haunt him was doubled down in a photo caption, reading, fatty haunted by bottles. Thus literally says arbuckle was innocent, while implying that he secretly
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