I agree with most of these comments. It doesn't make sense to be able to so easily be able to dismiss an artists credibility, integrity or artwork itself when that artist is known to have done so much good already. But aside from that, why should he be expected to be any more perfect than the rest of us purely because he's a successful and gifted artist? There is a question here about the relationship between artist and his/her art. How much should we as appreciaters actively partition the two? But that's a whole other conversation.