In the 1940s, Flynn went to trial on statutory rape charges involving two girls, 16 and 17.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fame, male privilege and hero worship all played a part in the outcome. Describing the relevance the Flynn trial has today, ...

Before Rupert Murdoch, there was Errol Flynn. The Tasmanian born Hollywood actor was arguably our most famous export to the United States until Murdoch moved in to control much of its media. Between ...

To millions he was the original A List heart-throb. But to the FBI he was a dangerous deviant. The swashbuckling actor’s legendary lovemaking was fully documented by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s ...

Errol Flynn was best known for playing romantic swashbucklers in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and his charisma extended beyond the silver screen, as he was a well-known womanizer. A 1942 ...

Unlike today’s angst-ridden superheroes and antiheroes, the swashbucklers of yore just wanted to have fun. That was certainly the attitude expressed by the dashing Errol Flynn, an Australian import ...

We may as well retire the word "dashing," since nowadays it applies to nearly no one. The adjective fits icons and movie stars and royal personages who exist only in the past. Of all the dashing ...

In 1938, Warner Bros. Studios planned to make a film entitled, “Four Daughters,” featuring two of their biggest stars, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. Flynn turned down the part, and the film ultimately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Errol Flynn with his attorney, Robert E. Ford, at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles in November 1942. Two teenage girls accused ...

After starring in the 1935 film “Captain Blood,” actor Errol Flynn became the big screen’s foremost swashbuckler. Seven years later, two underage girls accused the golden age movie star of statutory ...

Errol Flynn with his attorney, Robert E. Ford, at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles in November 1942. Two teenage girls accused him of sexual assault.(George R. Watson / Los Angeles Times) Errol ...