They learn to live with the pointing tourists and the constant irritation of paparazzi snapping photos at them, while the celebrities are out in public, doing mundane and everyday things. Celebrities don't expect to have the attention of the U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, yet there is a long list of celebrities from myriad fields who have come under the jaundiced glare of officialdom. Federal Bureau of Investigation chief J. Edgar Hoover led the hounding pack. Hundreds of celebrities, as well as sociopolitical luminaries, came under the baleful gaze of Hoover's G-men. The stories of the FBI's ridiculous and laughable actions, have, finally publicly surfacedcome, one after another.
Some stories reveal how the law enforcement agencies changed the entertainment economy.
There were also reports that Costello once had a Mafiosi threaten someone making the move on his wife. No criminal charges were ever filed against either of the comedians stemming from the FBI's investigations. During the investigation, FBI agents went so far as to inspect the sheets from the couple's beds in a New York hotel. Although acquitted of the charges, Chaplin was eventually forced to pay child support for one of the woman's babies, even though his blood type showed conclusively he was not the child's father. He was only able to reenter the US once more in his life, to claim his lifetime achievement award from the Academy Awards in 1972.