http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-n ... story.html
https://nypost.com/2008/06/15/rockin-th ... orgy-cave/
http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/11/ ... ads-guilty
I remember what the article about Henry T. Nicholas III looked like in 2009. It was NOT complementary. Unfortunately I can't point you to an old diff on Wikipedia, because in 2010 the "Henry Nicholas" article was originally about a 16th-century German cleric. It was quietly renamed to "Henry Nicholis" and moved. The modern-day Henry Nicholas was put there, "Henry T. Nicholas III" was deleted, and its history disappeared. Done by an unnoticed SPA called "Toweltoweltowel".
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =369268141
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =369268141
Another SPA, "Littlebrownpill", dropped the original Henry T. Nicholas III text into "Henry Nicholas".
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =369270776
Then those SPAs, plus three more ("Beahero", "Silvergoldsilver", and "Worrytrap"), quietly sanitized the article and boiled down the lurid orgy-cave and drugs business. A few other edit accounts, including a very dodgy one called "Dstringer71" which grinds info about "Marsy's Law", also edited Nicholas's bio. Guess who the champion of Marsy's law was.
Also note this stupid incident, when idiot administrator Ohnoitsjamie tried to destroy the article, and reversed himself. After another SPA called "Phoneyplayer" showed up to object.
(cur | prev) 18:54, 26 June 2010 Ohnoitsjamie (talk | contribs) . . (16,397 bytes) (+16,369) . . (oops) (undo)
(cur | prev) 18:54, 26 June 2010 Ohnoitsjamie (talk | contribs) . . (28 bytes) (-16,369) . . (yes it does; we only need one article, the one at Henry Nicholas) (undo)
(cur | prev) 18:50, 26 June 2010 Phoneyplayer (talk | contribs) . . (16,397 bytes) (+16,369) . . (Undid revision 370285439 by Ohnoitsjamie (talk) redirect didn't go anywhere?) (undo)
(cur | prev) 18:35, 26 June 2010 Ohnoitsjamie (talk | contribs) . . (28 bytes) (-16,369) . . (redirect (we don't need three pages on the same subject)) (undo)
Luckily archive.org saved a few early versions of Nicholas's bio, so you can see how Mr. Nicholas was being treated by Wikipedia during the scandal and legal battles. Note the references to the "sex cave".
https://web.archive.org/web/20090302183 ... cholas_III
https://web.archive.org/web/20100420050 ... cholas_III
Today's article blathers about Nicholas's philanthropy and "great citizen" credentials. The scandals have been squeezed into a very small paragraph at the bottom. A few perennial "paid editor" types like Patapsco913 have been watching it carefully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Nic ... _dismissed
And THAT is how you purify an article about a controversial businessman. It helped that he managed to avoid conviction on any of the major charges. So, you cannot read about what really happened on Wikipedia today. Check those references!