In the near past we learned about a few cases where influential people were blamed as sex offenders. And no matter what really happened - this always meant the end of their careers ....

In most incidents the outcome was quite different from the initial accusations:
Nothing, well, almost nothing, could be verified and they walked off as free men.

It seems quite obvious to me that this is the "modern way" to get rid of unwanted competitors, unfaithful lovers, people that are a threat to high ranking officials or just are in somebody's way [someone who has the money to make sure some poor soul will step forward and tell a story] ....

Nobody can be sure of what really happened behind 'closed doors' - we'll never know.

But it stinks.