Role Ending Misdemeanor / Other

These are examples that don't fit in the categories for Role-Ending Misdemeanor's main page. They range from Pinball and Beauty Pageants to Modelling. The idea for this page is to fit into smaller categories that otherwise don't fit on the main page.

There is a two-week waiting period (after the termination of a role) before an example can be added. This ensures the job loss is accurately reported, actually sticks, and avoids knee-jerk reactions.

This trope allows Limited Real Life Examples Only: Examples for religion, politics, law, business and adult films are prohibited.

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Agency

• Susan Sarandon was dropped by talent agency UTA in November 2023 after allegations of antisemitism. Sarandon had spoken about the Arab–Israeli Conflict at a pro-Palestine rally, saying that American Jews facing hate and harassment were "getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country". She later apologised for her remarks.

Beauty Pageants and Modeling

• One of the earliest examples of this trope from the pageant world is Marjorie Wallace, the first American to be crowned Miss World. Wallace lost her crown in March 1973, three months into her reign, for a contract violation stemming from her dating Welsh singer Tom Jones, Northern Ireland footballer George Best, and American racing driver Peter Revson — all at the same time. Wallace was engaged to Revson, and had her crown stripped after being caught kissing Jones in Barbados; a mere two weeks later, Revson was killed in a fiery crash while practicing for the South African Grand Prix.
• The most famous example of this trope from the Pageant world is Vanessa L. Williams, who became the first African-American woman to be crowned Miss America in 1984, but later relinquished the crown after Penthouse magazine published several nude photos of her that had been taken a few years prior to her entering the competition. Despite the controversy, Williams eventually became one of the most successful Miss Americas of all time after launching recording and acting careers (her song "Save the Best for Last" was a worldwide hit in 1992). Meanwhile, karma hit the offending photos when it was revealed that Traci Lords, the centerfold for the issue of Penthouse that they were published in, was actually underage at the time her pictures were taken.
• Katie Rees was stripped of her Miss Nevada USA crown in December of 2006 after racy photos surfaced of her partying topless and making out with some lady friends in a Florida nightclub.
• Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean invited controversy by using her Q&A session during the 2009 Miss USA pageant to declare that she believed marriage should only be between a man and a woman. She then found herself in the middle of another controversy several months later when modeling photos of her posing topless in panties (but not showing anything) began making the rounds on the Internet. Despite the backlash, she was allowed to keep her title, but it was stripped for good shortly afterward for an unspecified and unrelated "breach of contract" because she was spending more time stumping for an anti-gay hate group than fulfilling her duties. Her attempt to sue for wrongful termination fell apart when the pageant's attorneys presented her sex tape.
• Miss Brazil 2002 winner Joseane Oliveira was stripped of the crown after it was discovered that she was secretly married and then decided to strip herself of everything else for Playboy.
• Former Mexican Miss Sinaloa Laura Zúñiga was famously arrested in 2008 alongside her boyfriend (a member of a drug cartel) in possession of $53,000 USD and an arsenal of long weapons. She was stripped of her crown, but later made a quiet comeback in modeling; her story later served as inspiration for the film Miss Bala.
• Supermodel Kate Moss was dropped from several advertising campaigns that she was the face of after a video surfaced of her using cocaine. However, other cosmetics companies and fashion houses took up the slack and offered her deals.
• 2015 Miss Puerto Rico, Destiny Velez, was suspended indefinitely from her role by the Miss Puerto Rico organization after she tweeted Islamophobic messages.
  • Her 2016 successor, Kristhielee Caride, fared little better; she was stripped from her crown after declaring that "she didn't like cameras". This was allegedly the last straw in a series of problems she was having with the organization.
• Munroe Bergdorf, L'Oreal's first transgender model, was fired from her deal shortly after signing it after she made a controversial post on Facebook declaring that all white people were racist.
  • Amena Khan, known for being L'Oreal's first Hijab-wearing model, voluntarily pulled out from the company's campaign and issued an apology over tweets sent in 2014 in which she expressed anti-Israel views.
• Itir Esen didn't even make it a full day as 2017's Miss Turkey. Barely a few hours after getting her crown, she had to give it right back when it emerged that she'd made a tweet expressing support for the perpetrators of a failed coup d'état that had happened the year before.
• Former Miss Earth Philippines 2016, Imelda Schweighart, made scathing remarks about the winner, Miss Ecuador Katherine Espin, after failing to reach the Top 16 and compared Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to Hitler. Her overall behavior caused a huge backlash on social media, with many of her supporters turning against her. As a result, she had to give up her crown.
• Zara Holland lost her title of Miss Great Britain 2016 for having sex on the set of Love Island. She later admitted that her experience on the show left her feeling so anxious and depressed that it necessitated a prescription and a psychologist's referral.
• The Miss America Organization was rocked by controversy in late 2017, in which years' worth of emails were uncovered and found to be vulgar and disparaging to a number of contestants. The fallout prompted several resignations—including those of executive director Sam Haskell and president Josh Randle—and caused their main sponsor, Dick Clark Productions, to sever ties with the pageant.
• An attempt at this happened in 2007 with Miss New Jersey, Amy Polumbo. Pictures from her Facebook account were mailed to the Miss America pageant from "The Committee to Save Miss America." However, the pictures were so non-controversial that people accused her of pulling a publicity stunt.

Cosplay

• While Mariah Mallad, aka Momokun, was already infamous in the cosplay community for her hypocrisy towards body positivity and for taking credit for other people's cosplays and original characters, she would end up losing all her sponsors and future con guest appearances in July 2018 when her history of sexually harassing female cosplayers and male fans were brought to light during her trip to Anime Expo. This didn't help when she blamed it all on her ADHD, which further made people quick to back off from her, nor when it was discovered that her claims of being sexually violated herself were all proven false. However, while she's since minimized her convention appearances, to this day she still has steady employment as a plus size Fanservice Model, so outside of a vocal segment of the cosplay community these controversies do not appear to have affected her particularly much.
• Cosplay photographer Michael Benedict came under fire in February 2019, when several of his models accused him of secretly filming them changing in their dressing rooms. Michael confirmed this in a series of texts a few days later, where he apologized to the women for his actions and that he'll be leaving the photography business for good. It's unknown if he served jail time for this, but Michael made good on his word about his retiring, considering that he hasn't been heard from since.

Pinball

• On August 29, 2017, Stern Pinball announced that they had fired pinball designer John Trudeau after he was arrested for alleged possession of child pornography.

Tabletop Games

• In the world of Tabletop Games, Zachary Smith AKA Zak Smith AKA Zak Sabbath was an influential designer, blogger, and podcaster in the early days of the Old-School Renaissance scene, with credits on several big-studio productions, including as a consultant on the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Then several former girlfriends came forward with allegations against him of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, including former adult film star Mandy Morbid. This opened the floodgates and an increasing number of OSR bloggers came forward with stories of harassment and other abusive behavior from Zak. After Zak filed a number of unsuccessful defamation lawsuits against several of his critics he was widely considered persona non grata in not just the OSR community but the Tabletop industry as a whole. The final major holdout was Edward James Raggi, publisher of Lamentations of the Flame Princess (who is himself a controversial fellow), but even he ended up cutting ties with Smith in 2019.
• Jeremy Black/Arcadum, the man behind the tabletop setting called Verum, saw his career and whole setting/brand fall apart in 2021 after many people who had worked with him or played with him spoke up about his abusive behavior off camera and his habit of sexually harassing the female players. After news broke about this, almost everyone who worked for him quit, and all his business partners would sever ties with him. Despite releasing a statement about it, he would vanish right after his statement.
• Dungeon World co-creator Adam Koebel was declared persona non grata among the independent TTRPG scene after an incident during a live session of a Stars Without Number campaign known as Far Verona on the Rollplay podcast series, where he took agency away from an android player character and gleefully roleplayed what was, in essence, a scene of sexual assault, before gloating about it afterwards. This ended up already being a complete betrayal of principles due to the complete lack of regard for player safety tools that he had previously been a vocal advocate of (such as the X-Card, a tool that originated in a separate campaign for the same system, no less) but was made even worse by the fact that the affected character's player, Elspeth Eastman, was herself a survivor of sexual assault. Far Verona was initially put on indefinite hiatus before being cancelled entirely, with Koebel attempting in vain to shift the blame with little sense of apology or regret in his statements, before disappearing. After a number of similarly evasive statements on the situation, Koebel's only involvement in the TTRPG space since this incident was a brief surreptitious appearance in the credits of a collaborative crowdfunding project which failed to endear him to everyone in the scene enough for him to be let back in, and he has kept a low profile away from the indie TTRPG scene since.
• Wizards of the Coast has cut ties with two Magic: The Gathering artists:
  • Terese Nielsen became controversial in 2018 due to her political views, which include support for QAnon and trans-exclusionary radical feminism. The situation got worse in 2019 when she gifted art to the far-right YouTube channel, Edge of Wonder. Doug Beyer eventually confirmed that "[Wizards hasn't] commissioned new art from Terese Nielsen in quite a while... The last product that will have any reprint art from her is this fall with Zendikar Rising."
  • After Noah Bradley confirmed allegations of sexual misconduct with members of the Magic and artist community, Wizards made an official statement that they would stop commissioning artwork from him and reprinting his work.

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