read about another boy who had something to do with oscar's downfall a bit.
his name was edward shelley and when oscar met him he was a 20 year old actor. oscar charmed him and took him to dinner, and the two ended up having sex in oscar's hotel bedroom. oscar was infatuated with him for a short time, and he took shelley to many places and introduced him to both john gray and bosie. shelley admitted to having slept with both of them as well (bosie quite a few times).
but when oscar grew a little more disinterested in shelley and eventually stopped seeing him, shelley accepted a large amount of money from the marquess of queensberry and testified against oscar in his trial.
he claimed that he had been an innocent virgin and oscar and his friends had taken advantage of him. oscar admitted to feeling some guilt over shelley since he had become obsessed with lots of pretty young boys like him, and then abandoned them more or less when he grew disinterested
