Top 15 Celebs Still Loved Despite Checkered Pasts

4. Charles Dickens

Dickens is known as – and is – one of the greatest writers of all time. His talent afforded him all types of privileges, and he proved it after he left his wife. She gave him children, ten of them, in fact, after which he left her for a younger woman, an 18-year-old actress named Ellen Ternan.