Errol Flynn

Week of Feb. 15, 1943
Legendary Hollywood screen actor Errol Flynn is acquitted by a jury on three counts of statutory rape. The plaintiff, 17-year-old Peggy Larue Satterlee, said of the women jurors, "They sat there and looked at him adoringly just like he was their son."

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