In today’s information culture,
it is pretty much impossible to hide your past.
There are two basic ways to approach the “bad” bits.
You can try to keep them a secret and
hope they never surface
(impossible to do if you are ever in the media spotlight)
or you can be open about them.
Jay Leno?
He puts a star on them.
The placement of his Walk Of Fame star is
on the site where he got arrested for vagrancy.
Jay Leno is also in a position where nothing ever found about him online will ever be of any consequence to him.