Today's Blind Items - The Payoff

 It was a big deal. It might not seem that way now because the athlete crashed hard pretty fast, but at the time he was A list. A big star. He was involved in a very high profile rape case. This would bring his career down even more quickly than it did. One of his associates who also was involved in the rape case had been talking to a detective about the case without the athlete's knowledge. That talk opened up a massive can of worms about not only other victims but also drug dealing and loan sharking. It was a huge mess. The person who did the talking had second thoughts about the things he said, realizing he was endangering his own life if any one else found out. So, he arranged for the detective he spoke with, to end up dead.