The Biggest Career Crashes Of 2020 | Forbes

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The pandemic has had at least one professional upside: It’s hard to misbehave when you are quarantined. Hard—but not impossible.

Take the case of Jeffrey Toobin. The New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst had a gilded career dating back to his days at Harvard Law, where he was classmates with future Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. But it all came to a crashing and humiliating halt in October when the esteemed juris doctor accidentally exposed himself during an act of self-pleasure while on a Zoom call with The New Yorker’s editorial staff. (The working theory is that he was simultaneously on an entirely different sort of video chat.)

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Unfortunately, Toobin is not the only former superstar to make 2020, our collective annus horribilis, just a little bit worse. Here are the year’s biggest career crashes of the year.

Read the full profile on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinstoller/2020/12/15/the-biggest-career-crashes-of-2020/?sh=4df39c6a4d61

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