Learn English – it called when a highly respected person commits an immoral act but people don’t believe that he committed the act

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I was wondering. It just came up. It has no real world relevancy. An example:

A highly respected businessman commits child abuse and one day his
wife finds out about it. She shares what she had found out about with
the circles of the businessman. But they don't think he's guilty or
that he would commit such an act. Similarly the man easily slips,
without getting dirt on his coat and with pride.

Is the situation I stated has a definitive word for it? Is there a word for the attitude of the man and/or his circle?

Best Answer

This is an instance of the Halo effect:

Halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character

The businessman is respected in his profession, so everyone thinks his character, including his conduct towards children, must be respectable.

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