Virginia Rappe had a bad reputation--four abortions and one birth as a young teenager. Although Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was accused of raping and causing her death, it was later thought that she had arrived at the St. Francis Hotel already injured from an abortion performed just before she came to San Francisco. She died September 9, 1921. Arbuckle was eventually acquitted of the charges although his career was over after that ordeal.
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