16 Iconic People Whose Beliefs Now Seem Horrifying
Richard Pryor probably would've picked up the wrong following.
![16 Iconic People Whose Beliefs Now Seem Horrifying](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/1/8/528218.jpg?v=1)
The internet has given us lots of terrible things. But for all the shittiness it brings out in humanity, it is shockingly good at one thing: Calling famous people out for all their shittiness.
Which is why the following people can thank their careers to hard work, talent, intelligence, and the lack of an internet audience.
![No fat chicks Tesla hated fat women and expected a very specific feminine profile. He once made his secretary go home and change because he disliked h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/8/526838.jpg?v=1)
![Considered the Hollywood Bowl Meltdown, Richard Pryor told the audience of the gay rights benefit, Star-Spangled Night for Rights, to kiss my happy,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/4/526834.jpg?v=1)
![In 1988, director Victor Salva pleaded guilty to having oral sex with a 12-year-old boy and videotaping the encounter. Additional child porn tapes and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/8/526848.jpg?v=1)
![Pope Alexander VI participated in an orgy with 5o prostitutes. (in his defense, a lot ofpeople were probably calling out oh God!) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/6/526846.jpg?v=1)
![Martin Luther, also known as the guy whO founded Protestantism, wrote a 65,000-word treatise talking smack about the Jews. Here's the summary of his t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/2/526842.jpg?v=1)
![In the DVD commentary for Dude, Where's My Car?, Ashton Kutcher bragged that he'd grabbed and spanked the asses of every actress in this scene. Imagin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/2/0/526820.jpg?v=1)
![CAN YOU NAME A CANDIDATE NOTORIOUS FOR OPPOSING IMMIGRATION AND TARGETING A SPECIFIC RELIGIOUS GROUP? IF YOU SAID SAMUEL MORSE YOU GOT IT RIGHT! YEARS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/4/526804.jpg?v=1)
![Despite his immense wealth, King Farouk of Egypt was a huge kleptomaniac. King Farouk, who ruled from 1936-1952, once stole Winston Churchill's pocket](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/8/526808.jpg?v=1)
![President John Quincy Adams liked to skinny dip in the Potomac. CRACKED.OON Try getting away with THAT in the age of smart phones!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/0/526840.jpg?v=1)
![Loretta Young fooled her biological daughter into thinking she was adopted for 31 years. While filming The Call of the Wild (1935), Young was impregna](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/6/526836.jpg?v=1)
![Benjamin Franklin CRACKED.COM tried to seduce his friend's ladylove While residing in London, Franklin's friend James Ralph got a job as a schoolteach](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/0/526830.jpg?v=1)
![At age 24p Rob Lowe videotaped himself having sex with a sixteen year old girl. In lieu of criminal charges he asreed to perform 20 hours of community](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/2/2/526822.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED.COM CONCERT PRESLEY ELVIS TEB NESTMORELANID KATHY Elvis, jaded that former fling, Kathy Westmoreland, had begun dating a member of the band, s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/1/4/526814.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED.COM When Eddie Fisher learned that his good friend Mike Todd had died in a plane crash, he approached newly widowed Liz Taylor to comfort her.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/1/0/526810.jpg?v=1)
![Dwight Eisenhower had an affair, and Harry Truman destroyed military documents to hide it. During World War II. Eisenbower had sent a letter requestin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/2/4/526824.jpg?v=1)
![When he was 33, Aussie-turned-American film swashbuckler Errol Flynn was tried for rape and statutory rape against two different, teenage girls. Flynn](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/0/6/526806.jpg?v=1)