In May 2015, Ernest Baker, Drake-approved writer and self-appointed internet tastemaker, allegedly assaulted and harassed his ex-girlfriend, Complex Music managing editor Lauren Nostro. The news gained public attention Wednesday night after the pair’s mutual friend, the writer Meaghan Garvey, vaguely tweeted about…
With depressing statistics revealing sexual assault to occur every 107 seconds in the United States, it’s not unusual to carry some form of protection at all times — whether it’s pepper spray, a stun gun or a cute, cat-shaped keychain meant to gouge out the eyes of an attacker. A problem with these self defense…
On Halloween night, comedian Akilah Hughes was at a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when, she says, a man in an afro wig began to harass her and her friends. They left, and by the end of the encounter, she alleges she’d been punched in the face outside the Crown Victoria, a bar just a block away, as security guards…
Five Pi Kappa Alpha brothers at Ole Miss were arrested Friday in connection with an assault that allegedly left another student beaten “within an inch of his life.” Tucker Steil, James Basile, Christian Guy, Kyle Hughes, and Austin Rice—real names—were charged with everything from hazing to larceny to felony assault.…
The “online communications director” for Michigan Democratic Congressman Sander M. Levin was arrested last week and charged with a brutal assault on his boyfriend, Roll Call reports. A police report obtained by the publication states that Timothy Foster, 32, beat and tried to stab the man, until Foster’s wife…
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Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged with second-degree assault for allegedly throwing a protein drink at a gym employee.
In 2014, War Machine (birth name: Jonathan Koppenhaver) physically and sexually assaulted his former girlfriend Christy Mack and violently assaulted her friend Corey Thomas when he broke into Mack’s house and found the two together. He’s currently in jail awaiting trial on 34 counts, including attempted murder. Now,…
MMA fighter and alleged domestic abuser War Machine is awaiting trial on charges that he beat ex-girlfriend Christy Mack nearly to death. War Machine's brother Michael has been issuing jailhouse letters from War Machine on the fighter's Twitter page: in the latest ones, he claims to have found Jesus, and reminisces…
A new lawsuit against the Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison management company in the U.S., alleges that a female visitor was strip-searched and humiliated at a prison in Clifton, Tennessee. The woman says during her security screening she had to "prove" she was on her period by allowing a…
Christy Mack, who was brutally beaten by former boyfriend War Machine when he found "his property" with another man, is in the process of recovering from her ordeal. Recently, she posted some photos showing her physical progress, and a group of people on the MMA Underground internet forums celebrated the occasion by…
Students at the University of Florida are growing frustrated and frightened over what they perceive as an inept response by campus police to a terrifying series of attempted rapes on campus.
War Machine, the former MMA fighter and porn actor who allegedly mercilessly brutalized his former girlfriend Christy Mack and fled from the law, says that he is not guilty of any of the charges that have been brought against him. His lawyer says that people need to recognize that War Machine the person is not War…
Chris Brown started his Fall off right Tuesday by pleading guilty to punching a fan in the face, the culmination of yet another trial involving the The O.C. guest star and general perpetrator violence in these mean streets.
A woman says she was punched in the face after she stood up to a man groping her in the crowd at a UK carnival. And her injuries — pictured below — are not for the faint-hearted.
The good news is that War Machine has been captured. The bad news is that the damage he did to Christy Mack is so unspeakably awful that even reading the following police documents will make your blood boil to dangerous levels.
An IndieGoGo campaign has raised nearly $218,000 to fund the development of The Defender, a pepper spray canister that photographs the person that the spray is being aimed at and immediately contacts law enforcement with the GPS location of the incident. It's being especially marketed towards woman as a self defense…
Today's heart(and pants)warming story of sweet payback for someone who really had it coming is brought to you by The Muppet Movie, the internet, and one petite but brave Boston lady who likes to practice making scary monster voices in her spare time.
V. Stiviano's lawyer Mac Nehoray has informed multiple news outlets that Donald Sterling's paramour/assistant/friend was beaten up in New York City on Sunday night.
A popular street artist who's rubbed elbows with Anthony Bourdain and graffitied the walls of Facebook's headquarters used his sex-talk podcast last month to describe a forceful sexual encounter with his massage therapist that sounded an awful lot like assault.
