Wow, you are indeed quite confused.
People with a lot of money often get away with things for several reasons, including;
1) people sometimes attack/slander/harass others for arbitrary reasons hoping to get some of it (even if they never have to actually pay them!)
2) ability to hire people to professionally defend them (lawyers, PR people, etc.)
3) their often extensive networks among people in power (often in groups #1 and #2!), which can result in decisions going ‘their way’ even without having to take explicit action - but if they want, allowing them to take explicit action.
4) their ability to absorb extensive financial penalties without actual harm to their style of living, allowing them to be more risk tolerant.
5) they often own things (like newspapers, media outlets, companies), which can make most peoples lives hard if power is applied.
This means most people are hesitant to cross them, as normal folks can likely be crushed. This includes many people like police, public prosecutors, journalists, civil servants, etc. It’s ‘leverage’, and ‘power’.
So for most people, especially if they keep getting what they need, it’s not worth rocking the boat. You’re more likely to just get steamrolled/destroyed if you try. some people will even actively encourage it, as long as it seems like it will pay out. most people caught in this situation will ‘grin and bear it’, hoping to get out ‘alive’ and avoid further contact.
If you’re already being pushed out/fired, you’re already more in the direction of being ‘destroyed’, so the additional consequences of trying to fight are less. And at that point, it’s clear it won’t pay out as much going the other direction.
It’s sex realpolitik + money - and I’m sure anyone in that circle is quite familiar with it. Both the complaintant, and the defendant. Why make a scene if it’s in your financial/safety interest not too, after all? Especially if you’ll likely lose.
If you have not as much to lose, why not make a scene?
If you are a victim of an actual crime or not is a lot less tangential to this calculus than anyone wants to think about, but it’s true.
Notably, a LOT of people will also retroactively cast consensual behavior into non-consensual later, if it is also in their financial or social interest, which further muddies the waters.
After all, were you there when this event potentially happened? Was it rape? Sexual harassment? Was it a half sprung trap?
Good luck knowing for sure if you weren’t, or sometimes even if you were!