Gore Vidal
<p>"Another example. After his death, it came out that Gore Vidal had been “terrified” that William F. Buckley would release a file accusing Vidal of having sex with underage boys. According to family members, Vidal ran up a million-dollar legal bill trying to prevent this from happening. Vidal’s half-sister <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10441697/Gore-Vidal-terrified-paedophilia-claims-would-be-make-public-family-says.html" target="_blank">told a Vidal biographer</a> that she believed the records alleged that the author committed “Jerry Sandusky acts”—Sandusky being the Penn State University football coach convicted of sexually abusing young boys. Vidal also “had a ‘very weird take’ on the disclosures of sexual abuse of boys by priests in the Roman Catholic Church, dismissing the victims as ‘hustlers who were sending signals.’”" </p>