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[heavy liquid]

I used to watch this guy all the time, before he was accused of molesting some kid... And who would've thought he would be a child molester, being a minister, and all.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/people/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000574564

Jeff Smith, a white-bearded minister who became public television's popular "Frugal Gourmet" before a sex scandal ruined his career, died Wednesday. He was 65.

 

[Grifter]

What ever happened to those accusations? Anything proven? Sorry to hear he died, I used to watch his show growing up.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

I guarannnnnnnnteee! Wasn't that who that alligator's voice in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was done by?

 

[fennec fox]

I grew up with this guy too, actually, thanks to my parents watching him on PBS all the time. I remember my mom bought all sorts of dumb cooking junk that happened to be on his show.

I still think he's sweet.

 

[RedDwarf]

I missed the sex scandal and thought he died years ago.

 

[heavy liquid]

But in 1997, seven men filed a lawsuit alleging they had been sexually abused by Smith as youths. Six said the abuse occurred while they worked for him at the Chaplain's Pantry, a restaurant he operated in Tacoma in the 1970s. The seventh alleged Smith abused him after picking him up as a hitchhiker in 1992.

Smith was soon off the air, though he denied the allegations and was never charged with a crime. He and his insurance companies paid an undisclosed sum to settle the lawsuit.

So who knows if he was guilty or not, but I'm usually wary when multiple people accuse someone of a crime that's later settled out of court.