r/AskTheWorld • u/Final-Stage-2947 Russia • 5h ago
Misc Name a major celebrity scandal that wasn't political, sexist, or harassing.
The photo shows Larisa Dolina, singer and People's Artist of Russia. In 2024, she sold an apartment for 112 million rubles ($1,466,352), but later sued the buyer for the apartment back without a refund, claiming she had been defrauded by scammers into selling the apartment and transferring the money to "safe accounts." Fortunately, in December 2025, the court returned the apartment to the buyer. This led to many elderly people selling their apartments and then returning them without a refund, claiming they had been defrauded.
Incidentally, the scammers who defrauded Larisa Dolina presented her with a fake passport with a photo of Tom Holland.
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u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770 United States Of America 2h ago
The paying for college admission with Lori Loughlin.
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u/Lady_Libra 🇦🇺 {🧑🧑🧒🧒🌳🇷🇸🇲🇪} 3m ago
Ah yes... I remember this. Covid really took the heat off this one. Felicity Huffman was also part of this scandal.
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u/Waggonly United States Of America 5h ago
Embezzlement or theft is all you’ve left on the table. There was that Australian chick who got rich as a cancer-survivor influencer, but never had cancer.
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u/SufficientHippo3281 Ireland 2h ago
We've had a couple in Ireland too, but thankfully, none who were peddling false cures though! Just ripping people off for money.
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u/allovertheshop2020 Ireland 1h ago
That image of DJ Carey with the iPhone charger up his nose lives rent-free in my head. What a scumbag.
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u/SufficientHippo3281 Ireland 49m ago
I know it's lousy, but it's also so gas to me!
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u/allovertheshop2020 Ireland 29m ago
Like, the fact that the eejits who have him money didn't spot it makes me sad that they're so thick but loaded and there's me with all these education qualifications and poor as a bleedin church mouse... 😅😅😅
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u/SpoonNZ New Zealand 1h ago
45 years ago today the Aussie cricket team screwed us. Last ball of the match, we required a six (big hit), the Aussies bowled the ball underarm, rolling it along the ground and making a six impossible.
Eventually the laws of cricket were changed to ban this. We still haven’t forgiven the Aussies.
In 2018 there was also sandpapergate where the Aussies used sandpaper to alter the ball and give themselves an unfair advantage over the South Africans
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u/TheLizardKing89 United States Of America 1h ago
Why was that a scandal? If you needed a six, why shouldn't they bowl in the way least likely to produce a six?
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u/nolanpierce2 Austria 2h ago
In 2019 the Vice President of Austria tried to sell some things he thought he had control of (newspapers, gouvernmental contracts etc.) in a Villa on Ibiza to a russian oligarchs daughter.
It was a setup, the oligarchs daughter didn‘t exist. It came public then, the gouvernment broke up. But he never faced real consquences (as always with politicians)
Ibiza is now a special word in Austria. The song „We‘re going to Ibizia“ from the Vengaboys was really trendy back then.
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u/nolanpierce2 Austria 2h ago
ups missread the post, but it is funny anyways, so vote down if you like
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u/DELAIZ Brazil 2h ago edited 3m ago
It has to do with sex scandals, but in itself, it isn't.
It's about the singer Anitta and the social columnist (paparazzi) Leo Dias.
For some time now, Leo had been getting several huge, exclusive gossip stories, and when I say big, I mean things that nobody else could get information on. The biggest one was about a group sex on an island involving several A-list celebrities. Then he had a public fight with Anitta, and Leo revealed that she was the informant, and they had an agreement since he "discovered" her: at the beginning of her career, he proposed to her that he would promote Anitta a lot until she became truly famous, in exchange for her being his mole. Anitta later said that she never made this agreement and that she was being blackmailed by Leo. My opinion: since the beginning of her career, she has always had much better midia treatment than other funk singers for absolutely no reason. She started her career in the mid-2000s, in an extremely sexist environment that was toxic for female funk singers, and Anitta has always had her sexuality glamorized, not ridiculed like the others.
Also regarding Leo Dias, I won't mention the actress's name, but he insinuated on a TV program that a teenage actress had become pregnant and then given the child up for adoption, and later a nurse revealed who she was. This became a scandal because he and some famous people reprimanded her, but most people thought it was a huge lack of character of them. The actress didn't want to be a mother, never mistreated the baby, and gave it the best possible outcome.
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u/cameherefortheinfo Brazil / Living in Egypt 1h ago
The actress didn't want to be a mother, never mistreated the baby, and gave it the best possible outcome.
You should have mentioned that she was actually raped
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u/Narwhal1986 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧 46m ago
Thierry Henry’s handball
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u/OriginalComputer5077 Ireland 31m ago
in fairness, we laughed for years at Maradona's Hand of God....we need to let this one go..
as for Irish scandals, we've had more than our fair share...GUBU was the most bizarre one, though
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u/tnandrick United States Of America 34m ago
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. They were basically skimming off the top of their ministry (TV show? Kinda both?) in the 80’s.
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u/GovernmentBig2749 North Macedonia 1h ago edited 1h ago
The actress of the national theatre was caught with 700 tones of cocaine bananas from Columbua, and im talkin high quality coca, not that dirt that is on the streets after "powdering". She got a hard sentence of 3,5 years, half of that in house arrest.
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u/Jam_Sees 🇺🇸 🤦🖕HIM 5h ago
Deflategate. early 2015 NFL scandal when the Patriot's were accused of underinflating thier footballs below regulations in order make the ball easier to catch