Sounds like someone wanting vindication and possibly getting his legacy back.....the world is full of terrible people, and the most successful ones are hardly painted with warts when the world keeps turning long after they're dead.
This world has a long history of forgetting some real shady shit that creative people who raised the bar of entertainment. It's not fair, but there's no indication that this type of sweeping under the rug will stop anytime soon.
Now let Louis CK tell some jokes, he didn't rape anyone.