- Jun 22, 2004
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Hollywood is gripped with fear after a womanizing Tinseltown A-Lister has been diagnosed positive for HIV panicking his long list of sexual partners, according to a published report.
It has now become common knowledge that this star is HIV positive, something he has known for years, an insider told The Sun newspaper of London, which attributed its report to unnamed sources, and didnt name the infected Lothario.
His lawyers are bracing for the threat of potential action.
The source continued: The reality is that if hes knowingly put women at risk, then thats disgusting and its only a matter of time before that becomes public.
Friends have urged the actor to come forward, but he has so far refused, according to The Sun.
Hes distraught about the possibility of the illness becoming a defining quality of his career, a source told the site.
The actors list of exes includes an award-winning actress, a religious movie star, a top Hollywood personality with a controversial past, a TV star, a media personality and a glamour model, the site reported, without naming names.
Here's what is known:
1. decades of debauchery had finally caught up with the womanising actor said to be one of Tinseltowns megastars
2. Clues to his identity include the fact that he is middle-aged and notorious for a playboy lifestyle filled with one-night stands and sex-for-hire partners.
3. The star reportedly believes he is indestructible, and took few precautions to protect himself and others, even though he was indulging in high-risk behaviour.
4. According to friends of the mystery actor, his worst fear is that he will be remembered not as a great actor, but as someone who contracted the disease. He has been tortured by the thought that his acting genius will be forgotten.
5. It is not Leonardo DiCaprio, Colin Farrell, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Eddie Murphy, Keanu Reeves, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Matt Damon, Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson, Tom Green, Benedict Cumberbatch, Liam Hemsworth, Tom Hardy, Russell Brand, Jeremy Renner, Zac Efron, Sean Penn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Richard Gere, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Daniel Craig or John Travolta.
My top guess is Charlie Sheen, but I can't get past the "acting genius" part. Next up would be Jim Carrey or Ben Affleck. I would be sad if it were Johnny Depp.