With his acquittal on child pornography charges, R. Kelly has avoided some serious jail time and closed one chapter in the volume of show-business bad-publicity scandals. Unfortunately, Kelly's woes are nothing new. Infidelity, drugs, murder, prison — celebrities have very publicly been there, done that. Here are 50 who've all had to circle the wagons with lawyers and publicists and negotiate the slippery slope of public scandal.
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The 50 Biggest Celeb Scandals Since 1985
As the R. Kelly trial ends in the singer's acquittal, we're looking back at the biggest publicity flubs of the famous, including a wide range of accusations of behavior that shocked fans
