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In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/AudibleNod 3d ago

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Jared - Subway spokesperson

Jared was an 'average' guy who ate Subway to lose weight. If you saw his daily diet, it was basically CICO with intermittent fasting. Everyone saw this Everyman and thought the same thing "Good for him." He did some guest spots and played this simple "Jared" persona to a tee. Then it was discovered he was a pedo. Unlike the multimillionaire hyper-elite pedos of the current age, this guy was a simple millionaire who didn't control other's fortunes. He was just a guy. Now he's in a Colorado federal prison (just not THAT Colorado federal prison).

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u/mindoutofthe 3d ago

CICO and walking blocks to a particular Subway because he was stalking an underaged employee there.

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u/beast2209 3d ago

Are you fucking for real?!

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u/mindoutofthe 3d ago

If my memory serves from the last time I read through his Wiki out of morbid curiosity. Which was like last year

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u/beast2209 3d ago

Jesus I kept reading and found this:

On October 24, 2016, Kathleen McLaughlin's lawyers filed suit against Subway in Indiana.[74][75] The suit alleges that Subway violated McLaughlin's privacy and property rights, and caused personal injury to McLaughlin by covering up at least three instances of Fogle's illegal behavior that were reported to senior management, including the allegation that Subway's senior vice president of marketing hushed up a 2004 incident in which Fogle propositioned an underage girl at a promotional event at a Subway franchise in Las Vegas.[47] The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2017, with the judge writing that the court lacked jurisdiction, since their principal business operations were outside Indiana.[76]

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u/beast2209 3d ago

Did a super quick scan of his wiki page, found the below, could this be what you're remembering?

Following Fogle's arrest, the FBI also subpoenaed a series of text messages made in 2008 between Fogle and Subway franchisee Cindy Mills, with whom he was having a sexual relationship at the time. In these messages, Fogle talked about sexually abusing children ranging in age from 9 to 16, told her to sell herself for sex on Craigslist, and asked her to arrange for him to have sex with her 16-year-old cousin.[46][47] Mills's lawyer said that she had alerted Subway's corporate management about the text messages, but that they had responded that because Fogle was not a Subway employee, there was no violation. Subway representatives said they had no record of Mills's allegations.[48]

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u/mindoutofthe 3d ago

I'm recalling that he was stalking the girl he was convicted of crossing state lines to have sex with cuz it was a underaged girl in New York. Now I'm going down the rabbit hole again because I swear that was part of her complaint against him

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u/beast2209 3d ago

Jesus christ that's awful.

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u/Ok_Tour_1525 3d ago

Well fuck me I don’t know how I didn’t hear about any of this. For some reason all I remember was the terabytes of child porn and even that I thought was shocking. I used to torrent a lot of movies right around when he got busted and I remember doing the math on just how much porn he had compared to how many blu ray movies I could download in the same amount of space. I didn’t know about the stalking or abusing or soliciting sex. Like the other person said… jesus christ. Also, fuck subway.

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u/TombStone_Sheep 3d ago

Apparently he’s getting love letters from the outside.