Top 50 Rumors That Turned Out to Be TRUE

in all seven of your tour to France victories did you ever take banned substances or blood dope yes welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 50 rumors that turned out to be true as this was our most popular topic of the year we've put together a mashup of all kinds of rumors from the Realms of Show Business gaming sports politics and more when you look at the whole thing it was just so horrible of you what it did to the kids and what did to my wife and Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were a couple you could write an entire novel about the drama between these two child stars Bieber you know I'm H with The Ether out but I got to keep eye foren but back in 2009 everyone was wondering if the pair was a romantic couple or just friends frequently spotted together Selena and and Justin played off their relationship was Selena even calling Justin her little brother he's little he's like no no he's like my little brother I don't that's weird it wasn't until they stepped out together at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2011 that their romance was confirmed the pair dated off and on until 2018 when they finally split Justin married model Haley Baldwin the following year sparking rumors that she had stolen Justin from Selena the women have since quashed those rumors but that doesn't stop fans from speculating about pretty much every move these three make mcau Culkin's violent parent if you were a movie fan in the 9s you couldn't avoid seeing this child actor brightening a cinema screen you're the only one acting up now get upstairs with his iconic role as Kevin and home alone and his traumatizing funeral in my girl McColly culan became a household name before he was even a teenager unfortunately this successful career came with a price rumors soon began circulating that cen's father was abusing his power and overworking his young son son in 2018 coken appeared on Mark Marin's WTF podcast and confirmed his dad's physical and mental abuse I was able to actually like walk away from the business I been wanting to take a break for a while and eventually like I just was like I'm done I'm done guys like you know I I uh I hope you all made your money because there's no more coming from me thankfully he successfully sued to remove his parents control of his trust fund mom Drew Barrymore's wild childhood who doesn't love Drew Barrymore she's had a decades long career in Hollywood since her first film ET at age 7 but in the 80s and 90s rumors swirled about her being the ultimate Wild Child Drew published her Memoir Wildflower in 2016 confirming many of the rumors these included attending Hollywood parties with people triple her age going to Studio 54 when she was only nine and having a a substance use disorder by 12 it's not very normal to see a 9-year-old at a big Hollywood party drinking she even did a few stints in rehab as a teenager thankfully Drew has cleaned up her act and Her Image over the years she's now sober host a daytime talk show and recently launched her own magazine when I finally let go of that it made me realize that I was capable of great change that I totally rebelled about I was like I will Master this toxic behavior of mine we're rooting for you drew Neil Patrick Harris voed Disney's California screaming 5 4 3 2 1 go anyone visiting Disneyland in November 2010 may have heard a familiar voice visitors noticed the safety announcer before the California screaming roller coaster sounded a lot like Hollywood actor and Broadway star Neil Patrick Harris fans were convinced that grown-up Doogie Hower MD was narrating the ride NPH himself even tweeted a cryptic clue around that time it didn't take long for Disney parks to confirm that yes it was the How I Met Your Mother star's voice girl I will sham rock your world sadly California screaming shut down in 2018 to make way for the incred coaster an incredible themed ride so Harris's big announcement is now a thing of the past Aaliyah's teenage marriage she's been dubbed the princess of R&B but Aaliyah's influence hasn't stopped her from being followed by a rumor for over 25 years I'll beting [Music] did she really marry R Kelly with forg documents when she was underage what is the deal with you and R and C are you all married or not no I'm not married um Robert's doing his thing I'm doing my thing he's a great producer great artist who I do admire regrettably the answer is yes Aaliyah was 15 and Kelly was 27 the marriage was later en olded and Aaliyah refused to talk about the relationship unfortunately she was tragically killed in a plane crash without ever telling her side of the story R Kelly on the other other hand is paying the price for as many misdeeds serving 30 years for bribery sex trafficking and additional charges thankfully we still have the legacy of Aaliyah's music which continues to inspire artists to this [Music] day Nikki 6's near-death experience as the co-founder and basist of the heavy metal band mle crew Nikki 6 was a rock music staple throughout the 80s [Music] in but at the peak of his career six struggled with substance use disorder which Gravely affected his personal and professional life in fact at one point it was rumored that the musician had overdosed on heroin and died this was technically true for 2 minutes you see the light you know people say they see a light I I can tell you things I saw what' you say that I shouldn't have been able to have seen like I saw the hotel hallway I saw the ambulance I saw the limo that was there according to reports on December 23rd 1987 six was rushed to the hospital after overdosing on the substance he was pronounced clinically dead for 2 minutes before a paramedic pumped him with two shots of adrenaline and revived him the outof body experience reportedly inspired six to write the band's 1989 Anthem Kickstart My hearts Prince evangelized door too for Jehovah's Witnesses for the better part of his remarkable career Prince was known for defying societal expectations with his brazenly provocative music for that reason many were shocked when he decided to become a Jehovah's Witness in 2001 the iconic musician was said to have taken his Newfound Faith very seriously and it was once reported that like many members of the religion he practiced door-to-door evangelism was honored by members of his religious community at the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Minnetonka Minnesota on Sunday while that remained a rumor for years a Minnesota couple later confirmed that Prince once knocked on their door to proze to them apparently the purple star would wear disguises and introduce himself as brother Nelson to evade being recognized but when you're as famous as Prince that can be a pretty daunting task [Music] C Michael Jackson wrote music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 the video game Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released in 1994 to critical and Commercial Acclaim while many fans were in awe of the much improved gameplay some others noticed striking similarities between the music and that of pop music icon Michael Jackson Jackson's involvement in the Sonic soundtrack remained a rumor for years until it was seemingly confirmed by one of the game's creators Yuji Naka in 2022 this was never something confirmed by Sega even though multiple developers and people close to Jackson have said that it's true apparently Jackson and his team had recorded complete tracks for the soundtrack but just as production on the game was underway in 1993 the musician was hit with assault allegations this seems to have played a part in Jackson receiving no credits for his [Music] involvement Azie Osborne and the Ants heavy metal icon Azie Osborne has admittedly done a lot of outrageous things throughout his long storied career but this one takes things to a new level of [Music] extreme while on his Bark at the Moon tour in 198 4 Osborne stopped over at a Florida hotel alongside opening a mle crew The Story Goes that on one particular afternoon the former Black Sabbath frontman took a straw and snorted a line of ants with it well this may horrify the average person it probably won't be much of a surprise to anyone familiar with Osborne's Antics the rumor was confirmed in the band's autobiography the dirts and depicted in the same titled Netflix film you think you're ready for that man here we go huh you think you're ready for that bloodgate in 2009 Rugby Union side Harley quins were losing to lster in the European rugby Champions Cup after Nick Evans was subbed off due to injury his replacement also had to go off this left the team without a good kicker but the problem was resolved when Tom Williams got a blood injury allowing Evans to return this caused the lster staff to go live it they knew something was up and boy was it who punched Tom Williams in the mouth Tom Williams Williams was handed a blood capsule to feain injury and was purposely cut later to mask the deception yet Harley Quinn still lost the match during a break in play Williams was called over by the club physio Steph came onto the pitch and told me to change positions with David strle at this point Steph handed me a blood capsule I instinctively placed the capsule in my sock as there was nowhere else to put it Williams was banned for 4 months after an appeal the physio was struck off for 2 years and then director of rugby Dean Richards was banned for 3 years that's I took for responsibility I mean it's a FAL situation it really was match fixing wrestlers for years the world of sumo wrestling has been connected to rumors of match fixing stemming from organized crime even the suspicious passing of kotetsu Yuma to ooya in 1996 was speculated to involve the Yakuza in 2000 the legendary wrestler eai case publicly claimed that match fixing was rampant in the sport by 2011 the proof came out after several wrestlers were found to have been involved in a Yakuza run betting ring the police found evidence of sumo match fixing on on their cell phones those involved conspired to script the ending of bouts even choosing the final moves in exchange for cash many wrestlers and trainers were found guilty of the deception and were forced to retire from the sport Spain's par Olympic basketball team the Spanish team were I think laughter and and label the most unsporting team in history I me unsporting is the wrong word it's a it's a euphemism for cheating as Spen entered their men's intellectually disabled basketball team in the summer par Olympics in Sydney Australia in 2000 is started really strong too strong soon there were rumors that the Spanish team wasn't what they said they were regardless the team went on to win the gold after beating the Russians in the final they posed for a Victorious team shot and was splashed all over the front page of marker the biggest paper in Spain then Carlos Raba a member of the winning Squad as well as a journalist leaked the truth at the beginning I thought that it was totally impossible for someone to be capable of carrying out something like this it just seemed completely incredible and that was the reason why got involved Fernando Martin Vicente the then president of the Spanish Sports Federation for people with intellectual disability had smuggled non-disabled athletes into the team only two of the 12 players had a disability the Spanish side was stripped of the gold they'd lost a spectacular Gamble and in doing so had given the international par Olympic Committee its greatest PR disaster of all time spiky I made a mistake I was wrong I was wrong shortly after Bill bich became the head coach at the New England Patriots the NFL side began a Domin run in the early 2000s While most credited to Great tactics some other franchises thought something else more deceptive was going on and in September 2007 after the Patriots beat the New York Jets the truth was discovered a video assistant was spotted in an unauthorized Place filming hand signals by the Jets defensive coaches breaking the League's rules the NFL was livid if they know before the snap of the ball what your coverage basically is they can chew you up and spit you out they find the Patriots $250,000 and stripped of their first round draft pick in 2008 if they made the playoffs while bich was find the maximum of $500,000 forget about that if we were wrong then we've been disciplined for that mass grave ET the [Music] Extraterrestrial the awfulness of ET the Extraterrestrial for the Atari 2600 is positively legendary the game is nearly single-handedly responsible for the video game Crash of 198 3 Atari planned for the game to do much better than it did and ended up with many unsold copies one long held gaming urban legends was that the unsold copies were all buried in the desert in New Mexico it's ET the video game intact in its box in 2014 an excavation in Al Gordo New Mexico confirmed that ET cartridges were buried there along with over 700,000 other Atari games while ET may not have been the only bodies buried there this Mass grave was still plenty need to phone home about kiss inject their blood into comic books in the 1970s New York band KISS took rock music by storm the original fourman lineup was known for their signature white and black makeup and comic book style costumes give it all to you in 1977 at the height of their popularity the group team up with Marvel Stan Lee to create a series of Kiss comic books seemingly as a marketing Ploy each member of the band was reported to have drawn a bit of their blood which was then mixed with the printing ink for the comics turns out this was in fact true as confirmed by KISS founding member Paul Stanley and Lee himself I said you guys are out of your mind he said no no it's great it'll get a lot of publicity if that's not the most shock rockes thing to ever happen in the comic book Universe we don't know what [Music] is Cass Elliott and Keith Moon died in the same Apartments while their paths may never have crossed Cass Elliot and Keith Moon shared more similarities than they could imagine not only were they members of music groups but they both met their untimely demise at the age 32 my friend called me to say that uh Cass Elliot passed away in her sleep I was stunned even weirder this reportedly happened at the same apartment only four years aparts they announced the death of of Keith Moon who died from a drug overdose the Mayfair London flat belonged to Harry niilson a singer songwriter mutual friend of theirs who was mostly on the road and rented it out to his musician Pals Elliot died there on July 29th 1974 while in London for a concert 4 years later Moon moved into the apartment where he also passed away from a drug overdose of course it's sad you know when somebody that huge that bombastic that alive is no longer on the planet unsurprisingly Nelson moved out of the flat and sold it off MC Jagger and David Bowie's intimate relationship two revered icons MC Jagger and David Bowie are both regarded among the most influential musicians of the 20th century in New York City the two were first linked in the early 70s and soon grew so close that rumors of an intimate relationship between them filled the media they even released a duet cover of the song Dancing in the Street which hit number one in their home country of the [Music] UK in 2012 journalist Christopher Anderson released a shocking biography of Jagger in which he seemingly confirms rumors of an affair according to the book Bo's then wife Angie found both men naked in bed together while she didn't seem to interrupt anything and she was absolutely dead certain something had in fact happened between them so we had lot of fun times and uh yeah so you know nice to remember them Charles Manson wrote a song for The Beach Boys Before He founded and led the infamous Manson family cult Charles Manson was a struggling musician hoping for a big break Manson went to Los Angeles for no purpose other than to become a rock and roll star after leaving prison in the late 1960s Manson made the acquaintance of the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson who hoped to sign him to a recording contract although that never came to fruition Manson actually wrote a song titled cease to exist for the band the lyrics were eventually reworked and released in 1968 as never learn not to love [Music] this served as the bside of their moderately successful single bluebirds over the mountain the initial idea may have been Charles's but he had given it to Dennis and uh been compensated for it and the Beach Boys were taking it and embellishing it with as they do and making it their own in the end Manson received no writing credit for the song and a little over few years later he was convicted of the Tate and La Bianca murders Katy Perry collected celebrity hair all right this one is straight up unusual Katie Perry was always rumored to do odd things but this is strange even for her the word on the street was that Katie collected hair from her fellow celebrity BFFs well as weird as this seem to be the rumor turned out to actually be true and it was confirmed by Katie herself she said that she got to share a dressing room with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift one day and and just casually asked each of them for a lock of their hair you did this to me you cut my hair they agreed and then according to Katie she even put little bows on the locks and put them in her purse Arnold Schwarzenegger's illegitimate child with his maid people are concerned that this state is going to go off the cliff around the time Schwarzenegger left office as governor of California in 2011 there were reports that he had an affair with a longtime housekeeper Mildred Patricia bayana and even fathered to son Joseph Who Bore a striking resemblance to the action star she was reportedly pregnant about 13 or 14 years ago that's according to the New York Times and that's the same time that Maria Shriver was pregnant with the couple's youngest child these rumors were later confirmed by Schwarzenegger himself and it was also discovered that he secretly gave money to his maid to support his son disastrous situation that they have created and it's the worst thing that I've ever done prior to these Revelations coming out in May 2011 Schwarzenegger separated from his wife Maria Shriver and Shriver later filed for divorce in July he really feel like I'm to PL for it it was me that screwed up Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal's entanglement okay swifties this one's for you before Taylor released the 10-minute version of her popular song All Too Well Swift fans had their own theories about who this song was about position my G singing in while Taylor and Jake were in a relationship neither of them spoke publicly about their dating life or their breakup well that is until the 10-minute version was released and swifties got to hear exactly what happened in their short-lived romance you just treated me differently what do you mean I treated you differently you didn't look at me once and it's safe to say that we all had a collective breakdown when the I'll get old but your lover St my age line came on a true heartbreak Masterpiece in jokes but the punchline goes I'll get older but your lovers stay my the feud between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim katrol was real it's heartbreaking when you hear reports that the cast of your favorite show actually didn't get along on set you never really got on we've never been friends we've been colleagues rumors of the feud between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim katrol were running rampant for years however they were finally confirmed in 2018 when Kim addressed Sarah publicly after Parker reached out when kral's brother passed away Kim posted on Instagram saying she doesn't need Sarah's love and support she warned Sarah to stop exploiting the tragedy and claimed she was only doing so in order to restore her nice girl Persona am I right not getting involved I'm with her you know what I don't need this it was pretty clear that the behind the scenes of Sex in the City were full of drama I don't know I found it very upsetting cuz that's you know that's not the way I recall our experience liberace's sexuality we're living in such a permissive world that I don't think anybody really much cares what anybody does behind closed doors for many years rumors circulated that legendary musician Liberace was gay Li RI fought this rumor the best he could by being seen in public dating various women in 1959 when the Daily Mirror ran an article that suggested he was gay the singer sued the Tabloid for Lial and won £8,000 I think in the50s uh any uh publicity uh along those lines was uh very daring and and uh it called for a defense however even after ex l Scott Thorson sued Liberace for palamon he still refused to admit he was gay I didn't get dressed like this to go unnoticed though Liberace never came out during his lifetime celebrities who knew him such as Betty White and Debbie Reynolds later confirmed what people had long suspected can't believe liberan was gay and me women loved him I didn't see that one coming the 1988 Olympics Fallout everybody cheats who doesn't cheat in everybody cheats in taxes everybody cheats in everything things by Ben Johnson shortly after Ben Johnson won the 100 meter race of the Summer Olympics in Soul South Korea grabbing the moniker of the world's fastest man as he smashed records it was discovered he was doping Johnson's urine sample tested twice in this laboratory came up positive both times with the Canadian stripped of his accomplishments murmurs began to erupt about other athletes before Johnson's deception was discovered Bulgarian weightlifters angle GF and Miko Gra were already stripped of their gold medals Judo athlete carth Brown from the UK had his bronze medal taken away for fail Afghan wrestler alidad was disqualified and Hungarian weightlifter Andor Soni had his silver medal removed among several other athletes who were also doping it was a pretty dark time in Olympic history I dope and I'm sorry I have to live with that Rosie Ruiz I know what I did and and and and I will prove it again in the future having finished in a respectable place in the 1979 New York Marathon and securing her position at the 1980 Boston event newcomer Rosie Ruiz did The Impossible by winning the race to top it off her time meant she was the fastest woman in its history but as soon as she finished there were doubters have you been doing a lot of heavy intervals um someone else asked me that I'm not sure what intervals are Ruiz didn't look too tired after running the grueling 26 miles then her resting heart rate was 76 much higher than the average top marathon runner which would be closer to 50 with this in mind investigators discovered that Ruiz only appeared in images in the last stretch of the race so they stripped her of her Boston win and later her New York result from her I believe that maybe after this whether you prove me guilty or not which I am not there will be more coverage of women crossing the Finish Line during 26 miles it's not fair Hans Neeman in September 2022 World Champion chess player Magnus Carlson suddenly resigned from the sinkfield Cup Tournament immediately the Chess World lit up with murmurs that the Norwegian was hinting at the Americans cheating when the two faced each other again Carlon withdrew after one move what happened that's it he then hinted at something untour going on this was confirmed when Carlson came out and accused Neiman of cheating he pointed to Neiman's unusual mannerisms during the game he lost to the American then chess.com released a report that claimed Neiman cheated in over a 100 matches sometimes with prize money involved the American Grandmaster denied the allegations and issued a law suit against Carlson chess.com and others for $100 million in Damages this is a target attack and if you look look at my games this is not it's has nothing to do with my games Alex Rodriguez For the record have you ever used steroids human growth hormone or any other performance-enhancing substance no in 2009 after years of denial baseball Legend Alex Rodriguez publicly admitted he used steroids during his tenure with the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003 I did I did take a ban substance and um you know for that uh I'm very sorry and deeply regretful from there his reputation was in tatters so much so that when the biogenesis of America Scandal happened in 2013 where several baseball players were found to be using performance-enhancing substances A-Rod was immediately linked to it with enough evidence the MLB banned Rodriguez for the 2014 season commissioner Alan seelig announced today that third baseman Alice Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has been suspended with Al P for the remainder of the 2013 championship season and postseason and the entire 2014 championship season for violations to the Joint drug prevention and treatment program and the basic agreement he publicly and strongly denied the allegations by unsuccessfully appealing the ban he even went so far as to sue the MLB before dropping the case but then in 2014 A-Rod admitted to using peeds this is essentially Rock Bottom for Alex Rodriguez this was someone who was a three-time league MVP a World Series champion and now he's on the same level as Lance Armstrong Russian Athletics millions of citizens of Russia are united by the Olympic dream our national pledge to you is the choice of s is the best choice while there had been secret speculation for a few years in the sporting world that Russia was running a mass doping scheme the spotlight really shown on the nation after the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia athletes whose National Federation is suspended by the iwf are ineligible for competition held under the iwf rules including the Olympic Games at that point the host nation topped the table by winning a whopping 33 medals in 2016 gregori renov who is the director of Russia's anti-doping agency came forward with proof that the country had been using performance-enhancing substances for years the world anti-doping agency releasing findings from their investigation saying over 1,000 Russian athletes competing in summer winter and Par Olympic sport can be identified as being involved in or benefiting from manipulations to conceal positive doping tests in 2017 the international Olympic Committee banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics this was followed by a 4-year ban in 2019 which was reduced to 2 years for Russian athletes at Major worldwide events this represents the most severe sanction yet for a doping Scandal which shocked the world Tiger Woods's infidelity tiger woods' cheating scandal became international news in 2009 but but before then these were nothing but rumors as both tiger and his wife elen nordgren refused to speak about the issue elen allegedly chased him out of the house with a golf club after she found out about the affair on Thanksgiving night after snooping through his phone his car first hit a fire hydrant then a tree a few weeks later tiger confessed I have let you down and have let down my fans afterwards many women came forward and claimed to have been involved with Woods while he was still married to elen Tiger confessed to serial infidelity and the Scandal took a huge toll on his public reputation I owe a lot of people uh an apology I hurt a lot of people not just my wife uh my friends my colleagues um the public Caitlyn Jenner's transition in 2014 rumors started to circulate that the culturally prominent former athletic star was a transgender woman is that a bunch of malarkey I just it's silly I mean they've been saying that since the 70s these rumors were dismissed by close family members who assured the media it was all nonsense but in April 2015 she came out as transgender through a highly publicized interview with Diane Sawyer I can't do that any longer so going I take my ponytail out in the interview Jenner told Sawyer about all of the struggles with gender identity she had to go through all of her life after coming out Jenner also changed her name to Caitlyn wake up in the morning be yourself get dressed get ready to go out and just be like a normal person Prince Charles cheated on Princess Diana Flash Forward 20 years he's back in Los Angeles and they have a secret Rendevous at the ba air hotel that no one knows about in 1981 Prince Charles married Lady Diana when she was 20 years old despite a 13-year age Gap behind closed doors it was widely believed that he wasn't in love with her and it turned out later he did admit that he was never in love with her on the outside things looked pleasant but secretly Charles was having an affair with ex-girlfriend Camila Parker BS the alleged relationship was written about in the 1992 book Diana her true story but in 1994 Charles admitted his misdeed in a documentary Charles was actually forbidden to marry Camila because she was Catholic and many believe that Diana was forced upon him the marriage was also rocked with another affair this one between Princess Diana and maor James huitt another written in March 1988 says you have just left and it all seems very empty here to me and that includes one bottle of champagne too unable to put their differences aside the two divorced in 1996 and one year later Diana tragically died in a car crash within the last few moments the Press Association in Britain citing unnamed British sources has reported that Diana Princess of Wales has died accusations against Bill Cosby given Bill Cosby's wholesome image from movies and TV shows the accusations against him were a horrifying shock in every way it all started to come to light in 2014 when stand-up comic Hannibal burus brought up Bill Cosby's alleged past behavior during a show in Philadelphia I can talk down to you cuz I had a successful sitcom when this standup segment went viral it became a story in the public conscience soon after more and more women started coming forward with ter able claims about Cosby I was 17 my agent introduced me to him to groom me to Mentor me to get me ready for Show Business and part of that was bringing me to New York City he was convicted of aggravated indecent assault in 2013 but then the conviction was later vacated in 2021 I hope that we are creating a new platform for those those people to say I'm not alone and I don't need to be alone anymore it wasn't my fault the brangelina of Affair broke up Jennifer Aniston's marriage to Brad Pit so that's settled then yeah okay shortly after the filming of Mr and Mrs Smith Jennifer Aniston separated from Brad Pit in January 2005 and filed for divorce in March one month later the media reported pit was dating Mr and Mrs Smith's co-star Angelina Jolie leading the public to believe an affair between the two actors broke up Aniston's marriage chance to poke around the engine for years Brad denied having an affair with Angelina during production though pit admitted in a 2008 interview that he fell in love with her while they were making the film however one of their bodyguards told US Weekly in 2016 that the two of them fooled around while on set Lance Armstrong was doping people are not stupid they say has Lance Armstrong ever tested positive no has Lance Armstrong been tested a lot even though his legacy is tarnished there's still no bigger name name in cycling than Lance Armstrong this athlete broke through the cycling Community to become a Bonafide celebrity a big part of that was his cancer survival story and seven consecutive tour def France wins Lance Armstrong comes across the line winner today of the Mountain Stage of the tour of FRS but many believed that he was a little too good and accused him of doping in fact allegations began almost immediately with writer Kristoff bosin writing about widespread cheating within professional cycling Armstrong denied the rumors for years until the United States anti-doping agency revealed that Armstrong was heading a massive doping conspiracy yes or no did you ever take baned substances to enhance your cycling performance yes Bassin was proven right and Armstrong was stripped of all his accomplishments Jeffrey Epstein was a predator he was known as this sort of Gatsby like figure of mystery in New York while he's now a household name Jeffrey Epstein didn't make mainstream News until the mid2 000s for a long time Epstein was a non-descript owner of a brokerage firm but around 2005 rumors started spreading that Epstein was a sexual predator they began in March of that year when a Florida woman accused Epstein of targeting her stepdaughter this accusation drew the attention of the FBI who discovered that Epstein was running an extensive sex ring they were politicians they were businessmen they were powerful people it made me think that if I had run and caused a Ruckus the police wouldn't have believed me they wouldn't have done anything about it however Epstein only spent one year in custody after agreeing to a plea deal negotiated by the infamous Alan dwit with State Attorney Alexander aosta Epstein was famously arrested again in 2019 but died in prison before he could be convicted once again he had you know managed to escape any kind of accountability Russia interfered in the 2016 election the 2016 presidential election was a historic one with billionaire Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump writing a populist nationalistic sentiments to a shocking Victory while the campaign is over our work on this movement is now really just beginning rumors soon emerged that Russia had interfered in the election it sounds made up but turns out it was true and US intelligence agencies including the CIA FBI and NSA had the proof candidate Donald Trump routinely downplayed suggestions that Russia was interfering it could be Russia but it could also be China could also be lot of other people it also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400b okay Russian agencies hacked into Democratic email accounts and computer networks and created thousands of fake social media accounts to sew Discord in the United States criticized Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and support Trump according to the report Putin quote aspired to help president- elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him a Republican LED Senate intelligence committee concurred with these conclusions number seven the government is spying on us you you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and uh be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries that that no one can meaningfully oppose them there are a ton of kooky conspiracy theories out there for a while the government is spying on us through an intricate Global surveillance program sounded like one of them well in 2013 whistleblower and former for NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed Mass surveillance programs undertaken by the five eyes intelligence Alliance consisting of Australia Canada New Zealand the United Kingdom and the United States this is the truth this is what's happening you should decide whether we need to be doing this leaked documents revealed that data was being harvested through covert wirs commercial Partners servers and even under cables the information obtained ranged from metadata to actual text messages emails images and video chats yeah browsing history is the least of your worries us officials cast Snowden as a traitor while public opinion was divided with some seeing him as a hero the the greatest fear that I have regarding um the outcome uh for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change the Catholic Church Scandal only the globe can stop time for years there have been rumors of rampant sexual misconduct within the Catholic church it's the type of rumor that no one wants to believe after all the church is supposed to represent the Divine will an institution of benevolence and safety rumors of this sort began and Earnest throughout the 1980s although the alleged abuses go back even further the rumors picked up steam throughout the '90s before the Boston Globe blew the story open in 2002 he made a reference to a Sunday column about 84 lawsuits against one priest John gagan this guy's Personnel records were under Court seal and Marty asked a pretty simple question you know why are these sealed and have we tried to unseal them their investigation proved that there were systemic issues within the Catholic church and the work led to numerous criminal prosecutions the team would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for their journalism we find people who are victimized by society and by institutions that are supposed to protect them we give a voice to people who are voiceless politicians used stolen Facebook user data by having hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Americans an undertake this survey we were able to form a model where we have somewhere close to four or 5,000 data points we can use to predict the personality of every adult in the United States is our social media for sale a rumor suggesting this began in December 2015 when journalist Harry Davies reported that Ted Cruz was using Facebook data harvested from a British consulting firm called Cambridge analytica reports in a similar vein followed and the rumor that American amican politicians were using stolen Facebook data quickly gathered traction the truth was uncovered in 2018 when whistleblower Christopher Wy came forth and revealed that yep those reports were bang on the money we just spent 14 months working on the Ted Cruz campaign and had collected a huge amount of voter data and research which we were able to hand over to the Trump team Cambridge analytica had harvested nearly 90 million Facebook profiles and sold them to the political campaigns of Ted and Donald Trump and with that social media and our trust in it was never the same so you have to understand how your data is affecting your life our dignity as humans is at stake the US let guns flow into Mexico the political storm that erupted today over an undercover government operation gone very wrong it is called Fast and Furious in January of 2011 Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley wrote to the acting director of the ATF or the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco firearms and explosives rumor was that the ATF were allowing assault weapons to cross the Mexico border an investigation involving ATF whistleblowers confirmed the rumor Attorney General Eric Holder has always denied knowing anything about the program but for more than a year House Republicans have been pushing him to disclose what he and other officials knew it was called operation Fast and Furious and it saw the ATF selling guns to purch purchasers who would then give them to Mexican cartels The Hope was that these guns could be traced to high ranking members thereby leading to their arrests however the project was an unmitigated disaster and documents obtained by CBS News indicate some of the weapons were recently found at a drug cartel shooting of a Mexican government helicopter most of the guns were lost no cartel bosses were arrested and the guns were used in violent crimes including the killing of border patrol agent Brian ter there are mysterious goings on at Bohemian Grove what if I were to tell you that every year America's most powerful men politicians CEOs even presidents of the United States gather at a secret retreat in Northern California powerful leaders politicians and media Executives get together and hatch nefarious plots about world domination it's one of the most popular conspiracy theories out there and it's true well kind of there's a place called Bohemian Grove and it's where powerful leaders politicians and media Executives all male get together every July for a summer Retreat as far as we know nefarious plots about world domination do not occur there it's a concentration of powerful people in one place at one time M are they doing anything nefarious no right but are there results from what happened in the world because of these men's power yeah and and what they're doing in the world yes in fact The Retreat is designed as a getaway from their high stress jobs and business talk is strongly discouraged unfortunately we don't really know what goes on there attendees are sworn to secrecy membership is highly exclusive and the Press is not allowed in they don't want us in there really badly now I feel I mean now I feel like yeah there's something really interesting going on Bill Clinton had relations with Monica Lewinsky I did not have sexual relations for that woman Miss Linsky it's one of the most famous lines in American history and it was a complete load of baloney rumors of an affair between then President Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky had been circulating before the story broke in January 1998 the aforementioned quote was spoken at a press conference soon after debate raged for the next couple of months but the story was put to rest on August 17th when Clinton admitted to the affair in a televised statement indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate in fact it was wrong it constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part this admission came after the FBI had found traces of Clinton's DNA on Lewinsky's dress Clinton subsequently became the first president in over a century to be impeached as a somber House of Representatives voted for only the second time in American history to impeach a president of the United States the government made alcohol unsafe to drink at the request of the city of Chicago the federal government specifically the department of the treasury has inaugurated a special program to deal with the flow of illegal liquor and the violence which it creates there's no getting around it prohibition was a mess few people supported it it led to a rise in organized crime it ruined the economy and people died from drinking poisoned alcohol yep knowing that Bootleggers converted industrial alcohol into moonshine the government mandated that manufacturers add toxic chemicals to their alcohol Bootleggers knew that their sources had been poisoned but they continued to make moonshine anyway meanwhile Howard and me Hammered out four 300g submarine Stills they were the biggest steals Franklin had ever seen this led to a 600% increase in alcohol rated deaths with some sources claiming that up to 10,000 people lost their lives the government poisons your booze sounds like a wild and baseless conspiracy theory but in this case it was at least partly true to prevent industrial alcohol from being consumed the government required manufact facturers to add harmful chemicals leading to thousands of poisoning deaths Bernie maid off was running a Ponzi scheme I just can't continue this charade any longer and that's what caused me to uh acknowledge to my family uh that I had been committing this fraud for a long time Bernie moff was a respected finan a he ran Bernard El made off investment Securities and served as chairman of the NASDAQ stock Stock Exchange but his reputation came under question thanks to persistent rumors that he wasn't so above board whistleblowers including an executive named Harry marcoplos had continuously claimed that mol was running a Ponzi scheme as today's testimony will reveal my team and I tried our best to get the SEC to investigate and shut down the Madoff Ponzi scheme mid off was even investigated six times by the Securities and Exchange Commission but they never found anything it wasn't until his own Sons Mark and Andrew came forward that action was finally taken maid off was arrested and a Ponzi scheme worth nearly $65 billion was eventually uncovered marcoos was Vindicated and has fiercely criticized the SEC even publishing a book called no one would listen there's nothing to be proud about in this case I feel horrible about the result it's been a total disaster for the victims Americans sold guns to Iran during his presidential campaign Reagan promised to assist anti-communist insurgencies around the world in 1979 Nicaragua underwent a revolution leading to a battle between the socialist government and a group of rebels called contras this battle lasted throughout the80s and the contras were directly funded by the American government and where exactly did this money come from if the rumors were to be believed it was through the secret selling of weapons to Iran despite that country having an arms embargo the deal with Iran didn't just secretly secure the release of the hostages in exchange for weapons there was money involved people had been whispering about this possibility for years and a Lebanese magazine called Ashira wrote about the secret business dealings in 1986 it was this report that broke the story open and President Ronald Reagan admitted to the initiative 10 days after its publication no operation is so secret that it must be kept from the commanderin-chief I had the right the obligation to make my own decision the white socks through the World Series the white socks losing to the Cincinnati Reds in the 1919 World series the Scandal that followed stained the sports reputation it was October 9th 1919 and the Cincinnati Reds just beat the Chicago White Socks to win the World Series this wasn't just an upset many people literally couldn't believe it and rumors abound that the socks had intentionally thrown the series it was this play that first alerted baseball insiders that something funny might be going on the 3se second clip shows the white socks botching a chance to turn a double play against the Reds the rumor continued to swell until 1920 when a grand jury uncovered the truth Jewish Mafia Crime Boss Arnold rostin made tons of money on the series through his illegal gambling Syndicate and eight members of the team received Kickbacks for throwing the games this Chicago grand jury the first ever filmed takes statements in September 1920 from the eight players three of them confess to throwing the series The Integrity of baseball was utterly shattered and the players were banned from both the sport and future Hall of Fame eligibility ility including the iconic Shoeless Joe Jackson enron's numbers didn't add up the Fatal flaw at Enron if there is one you say it was Pride but then it was arrogance intolerance greed if there's a single name that evokes corporate malpractice it's Enron this Texas Energy company was huge in the late '90s and early 2000s with massive stock price gains that made people tons of money it had taken Enron 16 years to go from about 10 billion of assets to 65 billion of assets this rate of growth was substantially higher than that at the S&P 500 but it wasn't all champagne and Yachts some believed that the company was valued way too high and even professional economists couldn't make sense of their balance sheets and financial statements nothing added up and rumors of malfeasant began to circulate everything collapsed in 2001 when it was revealed that Enron was cooking their books and hiding depths and losses for financial gain with that fraud exposed Enron filed for bankruptcy I think if um if you're investing in something and it looks too good or sounds too good to be true it probably is Harvey Weinstein's predatory practices Harvey Weinstein had an incredibly complex machine designed to maintain silence around this for decades producer Harvey Weinstein was a Hollywood Titan but in 2017 bombshell articles in the New York Times And The New Yorker reported dozens of accusations of sexual abuse and assault and so we spent many many weeks and many months trying to get women who had had encounters with Weinstein to tell us their stories more and more women courageously came forward sparking the # me2 movement in March 2020 Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years behind bars but rumors had actually circulated for years gwenth paltro alluded to Weinstein as being corve back in 1998 I do all my movies for Harvey Weinstein that's me Max for all of you and I'm lucky to do them there but he will coer you to do with things and so other celebrities like Courtney Love and Seth McFarland dropped public references and 30 Rock included not so subtle Jabs about it I'm not afraid of anyone in Show Business I turned down intercourse with Harvey Weinstein on no less than three occasions out of five it was less rumor and more open Hollywood secret Justice eventually prevailed and Weinstein's crimes were finally acknowledged and punished the second Gulf of tonin incident never occurred you're pretty sure there was a torpedo attack oh no doubt about that I think on August 2nd 1964 North Vietnamese forces attacked the USS Maddox which is on patrol in North Vietnamese waters active aggression against us we were in international waters I sent officials from the defense department out and we recovered pieces of North Vietnamese shells that were clearly identified as North Michelle's from the deck of the Maddox two days later a second attack allegedly occurred against the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy president Lindon B Johnson used this incident to justify open Warfare in Vietnam he put forward a a resolution the language of which gave complete authority to the president to take the nation to war the Tonk and Gulf resolution however many questioned whether the second attack had ever happened this was finally confirmed decades later when it was revealed that the second attack was based on wrongly interpreted communication intercepts even though the evidence was dubious at best Johnson ran with it and never looked back before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest video you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications Nixon's role in Watergate people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook well I'm not a crook I've earned everything I've got not a crook eh on the night of June 17th 1972 five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters having already wiretapped phones in a previous break-in naal suspicion fell on Republican president Richard Nixon's Administration despite strong denials Nixon is now horrified that one of his closest AIDS has been publicly connected to the burglary as Nixon's legal council Coulson is a member of the president's Inner Circle subsequently a senate committee journalist at the Washington Post and audio recordings of Nixon himself exposed his administration's complicity the burglary had been orchestrated by Nixon's committee for re-election Nixon had obstructed Justice by attempting to cover it up facing certain impeachment Nixon resigned on August 9th 1974 I have never been a quitter to leave office before my term is completed is abhorent to every Instinct in my body he was pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford who had been his vice president did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from watch Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos oh

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