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What's A Really Awful Scandal Hollywood Just Casually Forgot About, But You Can Never Forget?

Hollywood can be a really messed up place.

Crystal Ro
by Crystal Ro

BuzzFeed Staff

Tragedies and scandals happen in Hollywood more often than studios, producers, and the media would like to admit. And often, these stories get brushed under the rug, remembered by only a few...and maybe that's you!

Warning: Mentions of rape and other dark subject matter ahead.

For example, maybe you're shocked people never talk about the fact that Jeepers Creepers writer-director Victor Salva is a convicted pedophile and rapist who was able to continue making films, even for Disney, even after his conviction.

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According to IndieWire, "The 59-year-old was convicted in 1988 of the sexual molestation of Nathan Forrest, the 12-year-old actor and star of his film Clownhouse. Salva videotaped the sexual act and was also convicted of possessing commercial videotapes and magazines containing child pornography.

Salva only served 15 months of his three-year sentence, and he somehow went on to have a career in Hollywood in the years that followed. Disney hired him to direct their supernatural drama Powder, and Salva found his greatest success with Jeepers Creepers the 2001 horror film that spawned a franchise."

Or, perhaps, you'll never forget the fact that Matthew Broderick killed two women while driving on the wrong side of the road in Northern Ireland in 1987.

closeup of him with jennifer grey behind him
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According to the New York Post, "Broderick was in Northern Ireland, vacationing with his then-girlfriend, Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey, when the tragedy occurred.

As they drove in a rented BMW along a country road in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Broderick inexplicably veered into the opposite lane. He smashed head-on into the car driven by Gallagher, 30, with her 63-year-old mom as a passenger.

The actor – who had not been drinking – spent four weeks in a Belfast hospital with a fractured leg and ribs, collapsed lung, and concussion. Grey escaped with minor injuries. Both women in the other car were killed instantly. Broderick told authorities he had no recollection of the crash and didn’t know why he was in the wrong lane.

Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years behind bars. He was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined just $175 – which had the victims’ stunned family calling the case 'a travesty of justice.'"

Or maybe you can't believe more people don't know about the tragic story of Gabriella Cedillo, an extra on the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). She sustained permanent brain damage after the car she was driving for a scene involving a stunt was hit by a large piece of metal.

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According to ABC7: "Gabriela Cedillo was just finishing college in September 2010 when the car she was driving in a Transformers 3 scene was struck by a piece of metal. It was attached to a tow cable to flip a stunt car in the westbound lanes of Cline Avenue in Hammond. Instead, the metal bar broke free, and it smashed through her windshield into the right side of her head."

In 2012, Cedillo received an $18.5 million settlement from the film's producers.

So, tell us, what's a shocking, dark, or wild Hollywood scandal that truly got swept under the rug — one that people seem to have forgotten about? Tell us in the comments below or via this anonymous form and you could be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post or video!