People have compiled histories of baseball in Orange County, of our long-gone walnut growers, of films shot here before the advent of talking movies. Tomes devoted to old railroads, orange-crate labels, even Aliso Viejo, where nothing remarkable has ever happenedβ ever.
Few other places in the U. The following is just a sampling of all the nasty, disturbing, crazy, insane or just plain embarrassing sex scandals that Orange County has seen through the ages, ones that sent tongues clucking and authorities scrambling to cover up the dirty deeds. Special attention was given to incidents involving people abusing their positions of power.
We mostly excluded hot-for-teacher cases save the most infamous one because that deserves a whole volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Enjoy, and keep a barf bag nearby. How dirty was the dance? According to Leo J. The left hand of the gentleman reached behind her shoulders and gently clasped her left hand, and their right hands were joined. They introduce vegan eating, loquats and macadamias to Orange County, but residentsβwho ridiculed them as the Placentia Grass Eatersβfear their free-love way.
Their leader is James W. Her first trial ended in a hung jury; during her second one, rumors circulated that she was pregnant, which swayed the jury into convicting her. How unsexy? He loved smart, attractive women, flirted with them keenly if ineptly, and had no sexual energy whatsoever with men.
Late s: Political lore maintains that a local newspaper printed the names of men caught in a gay raid. Among the names, per the lore? Such clubs spend the next 50 years in a cat-and-mouse game with authorities and puritanical neighbors, many of whom end up eventually succumbing to the allure of wife swapping. Generations of bros rejoice. Mids: St. Cardenas asking for clemency. He had just been convicted of 26 felony counts of child molestation while serving at St.
