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Aaron Hernandez. Played tight end for the New England Patriots. Fresh off a new contract. Killed his friend, found guilty, then took his own life during the appeal. u/Evized1954

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U.S. congressman Gary Condit. He was considered one of the favorites for the democratic presidential nomination in 2000, but a woman on his staff, Chandra Levy went missing. In the investigation, it turned out that he was being looked at as a person of interest because he had been having an extramarital affair with the woman (who later turned up dead, having been murdered by someone unrelated). The affair mixed with the investigation, where he had initially lied about being involved with her, essentially destroyed his political career. u/DamnGoodOwls

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Mike Lindell. He could have lived a nice life with lots of money, and successfully kicked a crack addiction. Instead he's out there lying, acting crazy, and sabotaging his company in the process. u/Odd_Cat_5820

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Rudy Giuliani went from everyone’s mayor for being the mayor NYC during 9/11 to a joke. u/izatrap2

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Rolf Harris. You probably need to be an Australian of a particular generation, but this guy. It's kind of our version of Bill Cosby, in that it was absolutely shocking and meant a lot of stuff we identified with became tainted. u/SerenityViolet

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Kanye.. one of the best musical producer/rapper in modern hip hop . Only to become a religious fascist mentally unstable POS.. I really do miss the Old Kanye u/DepressoEspresso55

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Jared Fogle (the Subway guy). The things discovered about him are quite disturbing. Prison is an appropriate place for him. u/Firmvisa

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Len Bias. He was compared to Michael Jordan and was drafted by the Boston Celtics on June 17, 1986. Went to Boston on June 18 to sign his draft deal and signed a $1.6 million product endorsement deal with Reebok. Came home and celebrated his achievements but partied too hard and died of an overdose the next day. u/MutluPB

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Jerry Springer was legitimately a rising star in the Democratic party, elected mayor of Cincinnati in his early 30s, and some viewed him as the spiritual successor of RFK and progressive politics. Until his career was derailed by a prostitution scandal. He was caught because he paid for it with a personal check...u/TheAtomicPlayboy

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Oscar Pistorious, for example, had a rather fast transition from paralympic champion and role model to spouse killer. u/UnabashedlyPutrid

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Anne Boleyn. Went from Queen of England to losing her head in three years. u/Azby504

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After Seinfeld, Michael Richards destroyed his career with that infamous standup appearance where he was trying to do edgy comedy like Sam Kinison and just ended up yelling the n-word over and over. u/captainmagictrousers

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Will Smith won the highest award in film and destroyed his career on the same night. u/DonutTheAussie

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Chris Benoit What happened was quickest, hardest, and most destructive. First, Benoit strangled Nancy. The next day, he smothered Daniel with a pillow having administered Xanax to him. Then, a day after that, Benoit went downstairs to his home gym tied a cable around his neck and committed suicide. Over a three-day period Benoit went from a famous wrestler to murder sucide. u/SuvenPan

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Robin Thicke went from a decade-defining hit to selling 55 copies of his creep-album in Australia in no time at all. u/theaverageaidan

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Jason Russell, the KONY 2012 guy. Became one of the largest viral campaigns EVER at the time. The thing was HUGE and international and this guy was EVERYWHERE. Kids at least thought this guy was going to save the children of Africa singlehandedly with the stickers we were putting everywhere. Then, BOOM, mental breakdown, jerking it in the street. Disappeared out of the public eye forever. u/Busterthefatman

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Amanda Bynes. Her tragic struggles with mental health sent her on a spiral of DUIs and other arrests for destroying property, throwing her bong out of a hotel window and allegedly pouring gasoline on her dog. Her Twitter tirades including Drake and photos, walking around LA in no clothes. I mean there was a lot. And everyone just kind of tuned in for the public destruction of her life. It's really sad. u/EquipmentNo5776

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Harvey Weinstein. He came tumbling down. Some say he was the most powerful man in Hollywood, prior to his fall from grace. u/Lazy-Lawfulness3472

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Steven Seagal. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was being hyped up as the next Schwarzenegger/Stallone/Willis/Van Damme/Lundgren with the peak of his career being the 1992 movie Under Siege and it all went downhill from there. In today's world, he is best known for being a fake martial artist, a pathological liar, a sexual predator, a bully, a friend of Vladimir Putin and a terrible actor who makes Tommy Wiseau look like Gary Oldman. u/TailsxCream4Eva

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Tiger Woods comes to mind. From the best ever, to really bad outcomes, to shambles of himself and hobbling away at the 2023 Masters. He’s still filthy rich, but the golfer is no more. u/windycityfan7