Politicians, scientists, actors, authors: some of the most respected and acclaimed people in human history were also, it turns out, total jerks. So which of your idols were truly deplorable? Let's lift the curtain on history and find out!

The beloved "Little Tramp," Charlie Chaplin, wasn't nearly as goofy in real life. In fact, he was downright predatory, particularly with teenage girls. Two out of his four wives were under 18 when he married them. Oona O'Neill was 18 when they married - he was in his 50's - though they began dating when she was 17. And Paulette Goddard was 26 when they married, but only 22 when they began seeing each other - and she had actually lied to Chaplin, who thought she was 17.

But if it's somehow not skeezy enough that he simply married underage girls, how about the disrespectful way he treated them? Take his first wife Mildred Harris, whom he married at 16 because he thought she was pregnant. She started getting movie offers, but Chaplin was unsupportive, thinking she was too young to have any real talent. Not too young for him to romance, of course, but too young for anything else.

Then there's Lita Grey, whose poor treatment at Chaplin's hands was documented in her 1927 divorce papers. Thirty-five-year-old Chaplain impregnated Grey when she was 16, and quickly suggested an abortion. When that didn't happen, he married her, but treated her terribly. According to the LA Times, he would cheat on her with other young actresses, called her "lowly born and greedy", paid little attention to their children, and would demand, as she put it, quote, "revolting, degrading and offensive" acts in the bedroom, some of which were illegal at the time in California.

Doesn't seem quite so funny now, huh.

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