A Los Angeles woman convicted of burglary was given a sentence of rehab instead of jail time because of the lifetime of sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father — abuse that left her pregnant with three of his children.
Hello good day and salutations friends. Did you know that in Colombia, FARC rebels regularly force female fighters to have abortions? (Holiday party tip: don't start conversations this way unless you want to bum everyone out.)
On Monday, former Real Housewife Camille Grammer sent out a series of tweets
Every Thursday night, we gird our loins for the new episode of Scandal. But ladies, I have to say, I’m worried about Olivia Pope. If it isn’t obvious that her romance with President Fitz Grant is unhealthy by now, drop those rose-colored Shonda Rhimes glasses and let’s walk into the light together, eh?
Mere hours after Twitter’s UK honcho Tony Wang apologized personally
A Saudi Arabian princess may be the first person in Orange County to be prosecuted for human trafficking after California's Proposition 35 raised the penalty for the crime last November. The woman, a Saudi national named Meshael Alayban, has been accused of slavery after holding her maid against her will in her Irvine …
Nigella Lawson's soon-to-be-ex husband Charles Saatchi announced this weekend that he's divorcing his wife because she didn't make a big fucking show of defending him after a series of horrifying photos of him publicly strangling her made the media rounds a month ago. In his self-pitying statement announcing he was…
After pictures surfaced this weekend of British mogul Charles Saatchi choking his wife Nigella Lawson during what appeared to be an argument in a restaurant, the mostly well-meaning public response has ranged from "God, that's awful" to "GET A DIVORCE!" Actually, the sort of response that makes you want to take a bunch of …
Yesterday, the Mirror printed a horrifying set of photographs
On Sunday morning, The Mirror roused its unwitting, sleepy-eyed readers with pictures that apparently show British chef Nigella Lawson being physically abused by her husband, art magnate Charles Saatchi, while sitting outside a London restaurant.
Those persistent Italian prosecutors are at it again, this time pursuing a possible case against Facebook employees for the death of 14-year-old Carolina Picchio, who committed suicide in January after a gaggle of teenage boys that included her ex-boyfriend circulated a video on Facebook of Picchio appearing drunk at a …
A little less than two months after firing abusive men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, Rutgers’ athletic department once again finds itself having to do a public relations shuffle with news that its brand new, reform-minded athletic director may have abusively berated members of the University of Tennessee’s women’s…
Kelly Rowland just released her newest song and isn't her being sexy, which she's been pretty good at lately. No, it's one of the more emotionally explicit songs about abuse and fame we've heard since Mary J. Blige's classic records.
Not to be outdone by the United States in the proud sport of abusing amateur athletes, a Chinese ballet instructor apparently pulled a Mike Rice on her students. A mysterious video recently uploaded to China’s video sharing site Youku features a dance instructor screaming at her students and slapping them into proper …
Earlier this week, Pleistocene-era radio broadcaster John Laws, the Rush Limbaugh-esque host of an Australian morning show, asked a caller who said that she'd been subjected to a nightmarish childhood of sexual abuse by five of her male family members (including her father and brother) if maybe all that abuse was…
This is the most upsetting thing I've reported on in, well, a few days, I guess.
CBS anchor Rob Morrison resigned from his seats on This Morning and News at Noon yesterday after being arrested
Just last week, Alisa Valdes' memoir The Feminist and the Cowboy hit bookshelves (and three weeks ago we addressed
32-year-old Portland resident Caleb Grotberg was arrested around 2:30am yesterday morning, after police received a call alerting them to a domestic dispute in which Grotberg allegedly physically assaulted his girlfriend and attempted to choke her with one of his stanky-as-fuck dreadlocks. The woman was then brought to…
It would appear that the real-world is sometimes just as icky Sin City, which, you'll remember, featured Nick Stahl as the horrifyingly devious and untouchable Senator's son who can, by virtue of his parentage, get away with abusing young girls. Patrick Moran, the real-world son of Democratic Virginia Rep. Jim Moran,…
This is the worst.
Allegations of starvation, abuse, rape, and greed are at the center of the increasingly confusing custody battle for 14-year-old Modern Family actress Ariel Winter, who was removed from the care of her mother last month after the Department of Child and Family Services began an investigation into the family. Ariel's…
Released right before November 25th's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, this pro bono campaign from ad agency BETC is for French women's rights organization, Ni Putes Ni Soumises (which translates to Neither Whores Nor Submissives).
Just like at Christmas and New Year's, reports show that domestic violence rates escalate during the month of the World Cup Finals. One would assume that increased consumption of alcohol—which is socially accepted and expected at both the holidays and major sporting events—could be the impetus behind such fights, but…
Verdicts will be delivered tomorrow in what has become a harrowing trip down memory lane for women who allege that they were brutally gang-raped as teenagers living in the high-rise tower blocks of a poor Parisian suburb. The alleged victims had been initially hailed as courageous at the outset of the trial, but after…
The military's track record with handling cases of sexual assault has been less than sterling
In 2009 R&B singer Chris Brown pled guilty to assaulting singer Rihanna. At the time of the incident, photographs of her bruised and swollen face were passed all over the internet. This week we learned that Brown has tattooed the face of a battered woman on a very public part of his body, his neck.
Women living in Indian villages are banding together with the help of "microcredit" business loans of about 750 rupees ($18) to help prevent modern-day witch hunts that can prove fatal to their friends and neighbors. Allegations of witchcraft and sorcery often serve as smokescreens for personal vendettas in rural India,…
Last night, the Rihanna episode of Oprah Winfrey's series, Oprah's Next Chapter, aired on OWN, and as Oprah gently probed Rihanna with questions about Chris Brown, the singer tearfully replied that they are friends and she still loves him. This may not be what anyone wants to hear, but it's incredibly important that we …
After growing up in the Church of Scientology and being married (with parental consent) at just 15 to a 21-year-old fellow church member, Astra Woodcraft decided to cut her one billion-year commitment to the church a little short and escaped its clutches faster than you can say, "Xenu."
