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Michael Jackson is a good example of an artist who’s artistic achievements are so well loved and so embedded that people have largely ignored any bad behaviour from the him completely.
John Peel, although not an artist as such, has also largely avoided the negative kudos points his alleged predatory behaviour might otherwise have earned him.
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Eric Gill
I was rather surprised during the Radio 1 DJs phase of Operation Yewtree, that there was never a big story about the BBC's logo and Broadcasting House carvings being done by a paedophile and zoophile.
AlexD
chez_jay
@finger_jockey
We have this discussion regularly in the office. Does a work of art (for that is what music is) lose its acceptability because of the (often later) actions of its creator? For example, Gary Glitter, Michael Jackson and others, not to mention other artists (Arthur C. Clarke, Eric Gill).