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Does the Academy Deliberately Award Domestic Abusers?


9. Sean Penn

In 1987, Sean Penn was accused of torturing his then-wife pop singer Madonna, for nine hours straight. According to sources, Penn tied her to a chair, threatened to cut off her hair, forced her to perform sex acts, and beat her with a baseball bat. But since that incident, his violent past hasn’t harmed the two-time Oscar winner’s career at all. Almost 30 years later, Madonna denied the events took place. She claims they had many heated arguments during their marriage, but Penn never physically assaulted her.

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