The Nature Of Celebrity Scandal

The Nature Of Celebrity Scandal:


Celebrities come back from scandal all the time, but chris brown's arrest in the assault of singer rihanna might be a different matter.Brown and Rihanna were both absent from the Grammy Awards on Sunday after Brown was charged with beating Rihanna, who has since canceled her public appearances.There are more pressing matters in this whole mess than whether the 19-year-old pop star Brown will be able to resume his career. But the question does highlight the interesting nature of celebrity scandal and what fans are willing to forgive."It's going to be more different than all the other people who have disgraced themselves because they've only hurt themselves," says Sandy DuMont, an image consultant.

Will Chris Brown's image forever be tainted after his Feb. 8 arrest on assault charges?Yes, people will always associate him with this incident No, time will pass and people will forget

Domestic assault is a particularly egregious crime. But others have rebounded from it. Eminem, for instance, was not only arrested for hitting his ex-wife; he also sang about killing her. Charlie Sheen's pleading no contest to assaulting his girlfriend in 1997 didn't end the actor's career.But Brown's case differs from those partly because his success is based largely on his clean-cut image.Also, the victim, Rihanna, is herself famous and has even more fans than Brown. The closest examples might be those of Ike Turner(who assaulted Tina Turner, then his wife) and Bobby Brown, who assaulted his wife, Whitney Houston"And you know who went on to receive the fame and fortune," DuMont says. "It was Tina, not Ike."An added strike against Chris Brown is that he's still a relatively new celebrity, DuMont says, and "hasn't been on the scene long enough to get in everyone's hearts."But Robert Thompson, who studies pop culture at Syracuse University, says the nature of celebrity is surprisingly resilient."Some scandals you absolutely can't come back from," he says. "O.J. is probably one, and probably Michael Jackson."But "in a scary kind of way," he says, Brown's case "is becoming kind of a cliché" and the singer might be able to recover from it."It's amazing how quickly these things can be apologized for and mea-culpaed," he says. "There are certain ways that this story could be managed. So I wouldn't count him out at this point."

will stars ever get what the should when they do something wrong..? you hear all these stories and see all this scandal, but do they ever truley get what the deserve?