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Has a victim and doesn't have enough money to buy enough "justice" to keep them out of prison.

...perhaps be fleeing to Europe and continuing their career in film?

the people who receive a "sex offender" label and jail time skew towards the "did something that actually has a victim" crowd.

To give you an idea of what can also satisfy this group of facts, they could also have been urinating in public, which in many places earns the offender a place on the sex offender list for life, then resist arrest with a conviction for assault on a police officer due to a lack of funds of a lawyer. So, y'know, it's good to keep one's moral panic gauge calibrated according to the current state of the law.

Perhaps he had anal sex with his wife.