Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was in his prime in the summer of 1921. He was paid an extraordinary $3 million over three years by

Paramount Pictures to star in 18 silent pictures, and he had just agreed to a new million-dollar deal with the company, which is equivalent to nearly $13

million today. The 266-pound comic was advertised on movie posters as "worth his weight in laughs." But before the year was up, he was charged with an awful crime, and life would never be the same.

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