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No such attack was even alleged in court. The newspapers were filled with headlines about the sexual horror Roscoe supposedly perpetrated against young Rappe. It was Hollywood’s first major scandal although it would, of course, by no means be its last. William Randolph Hearst (AP) Newspapers, led by William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner, had a field day. Yellow journalism was at its peak and readers were regaled with stories about Arbuckle’s supposedly plump teens debauched private life and plump teens his alleged cruelty to the deceased Virginia Rappe. Hearst once bragged, to Arbuckle’s good friend Buster Keaton, that the Examiner had sold more newspapers because of the Arbuckle case than the sinking of the Lusitania. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, poses in character The comedian was bewildered by his dizzying fall from public grace.
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