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If you're as old as me, you might remember how Lil Abner cartoonist Al Capp called her Joanie Phony in the comic strip.

erronis
(24,542 posts)Reading more about Capp is revulsive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capp
Two biographies, one of Grace Kelly and the other of Goldie Hawn, describe Capp as trying to force the younger women to have sex with him.[44][45]
While no firsthand allegation has ever surfaced regarding Kelly,[46] in her autobiography, Hawn stated that Capp sexually propositioned her on a casting couch and exposed himself to her when she was 19 years old. When she refused his advances, Capp became angry and told her that she was "never gonna make anything in your life" and that she should "go and marry a Jewish dentist. You'll never get anywhere in this business."[47][48]
In 1971, investigative journalist Jack Anderson wrote that Capp had exposed his genitals to four female students at the University of Alabama.[49]
In 1972, after an incident at the University of WisconsinEau Claire, Capp was arrested. He pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted adultery, while charges of indecent exposure and sodomy were dropped. He was fined US$500 (equivalent to $3,759 in 2024).[50]
In 2019, Jean Kilbourne was inspired by the MeToo movement to publish in Hogan's Alley her own experience of being groped and sexually solicited by Al Capp while doing freelance writing and research work for him in contemplation of a permanent job in 1967.[51
Grins
(9,525 posts)Who filed the charge?
rubbersole
(11,277 posts)..oh, wait.
some_of_us_are_sane
(3,578 posts)been one of my heroes!
wolfie001
(7,970 posts)I'm a Boomer and, even though he's dead and buried, his reputation is tarnished for me. I've always loved Joan! Great American!
PatSeg
(53,560 posts)Damn, the woman just doesn't age!
DinahMoeHum
(23,680 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,578 posts)Man........... his creepy SNAKE EYES are becoming MORE pronounced as he loses what infinitesimal bits of soul he as left.

dalton99a
(95,332 posts)
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