After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of the LAPD.
You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.
Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.