In 1994, Berry settled for $830,000 a class-action suit filed by dozens of women who claimed they had been taped using the bathroom, and also settled a similar suit filed by a former restaurant worker and another woman for $310,000. The recordings were then reportedly “painstakingly” edited and compiled in a pair of “toilet tapes” that showed hundreds of women and girls “in the act of relieving themselves.” “Sometimes the frame is frozen for a few seconds, lingering on moments that must have been considered particularly moving,” Spy reported. One camera “was evidently behind the toilet seat,” according to Spy, while others captured “aerial views of the toilets’ contents during the seconds after the women stood but before they flushed.” The report also detailed how Berry allegedly installed hidden cameras in the women’s restroom at the Southern Air restaurant in Wentzville after he bought it in 1987. The magazine described a homemade video in which Berry and “an attractive blond white woman” both relieved themselves during a New Year’s Eve romp in the bathroom of a hotel suite in Lake Tahoe, Nev. The seizure of Berry’s porn collection, however, led to a scandalous 1993 report in the since-defunct Spy magazine that went way beyond the earlier scandals - revealing a penchant for sexual fetishes involving bodily excretions and a predilection for spying on women in bathrooms.
Chuck Berry poses for a portrait in a scene from the movie “Go Johnny Go.” Michael Ochs Archives Hannah, accusing him of filing malicious and politically motivated charges, and later cut a no-jail plea deal in which the child-abuse charges were dismissed and he dropped his civil case. He sued the county prosecutor, William J.
Rock 'n' Roll legend Chuck Berry dies at 90ěut he would come to set a standard for rock-star depravity that few of his disciples would hope - or even want - to match.įollowing two trips to the slammer - first at the height of his fame in the early 1960s for transporting a 14-year-old girl across state lines for sex, and again in 1979 for tax evasion - Berry was busted over a 1990 drug raid on his estate in Wentzville, Mo.Īlthough authorities suspected him of transporting huge loads of cocaine in his guitar case as part of a multimillion-dollar drug operation, the search only turned up about two ounces of pot, some hashish, two rifles and a shotgun, as well as more than $122,000 in cash.īut the cops also found a huge stash of pornography, including dozens of videotapes, trays of photographic slides and books - some of which appeared to show underage girls.īerry, who publicly denied ever using coke, was charged with pot possession and three counts of child abuse for the underage porn.