reputation shot

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can you think of anyone else in history whose celebrated reputation while alive has been so utterly demolished after death as Jimmy Savile's has?

[plautus]

King Richard III was glorified and despised in equal measure before his death. Shakespeare had nothing to do with it. This is a common fallacy put about by the admirers of the aforesaid slaughterer of the young innocent heirs to the throne.