Being high-status means someone can just ignore rules and frequently avoid consequences. Generally that seems to be true and historically it has been very true. Happens all the time if you keep your eyes peeled; and the converse - on sometimes formal consequences are forced on someone with high status regardless and they are shocked and confused because that has never happened to them before and they didn't realise that it was an option.

The formal consequences or lack thereof are often not a factor for people with very high status because they operate on the assumption that they can just ignore the consequences should they exist. That doesn't mean they ignore the rules - frequently the high-status types are the ones writing them so they typically agree with them in principle. But laws without formal consequences are about as effective as laws with formal consequences because the consequences aren't the major factor. Loss of status would be though, so things that are technically allowed can have major consequences (which IMO is part of why high status means someone eventually starts ignoring the rules - power corrupts as they say - the rewards and punishments are just different for someone with high status and eventually the feedback causes them to orient to that truth).