Inspired white ally Justin Timberlake is the latest entertainer to aid in sustaining Woody Allen’s relevancy by appearing in the director’s next film project.

A 24-year-old Houston teacher who confessed to having sex with her then 13-year-old student was arrested on Wednesday for repeated sexual abuse.

This week’s issue of People includes a short profile of actress and controversial political commentator Stacey Dash. In it, she discusses how her life changed after publicly expressing her support for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, her upcoming memoir There Goes My Social Life (out June 6), and some…

A high school football player is the first person to be criminally charged in a disturbing incident at Florida’s South Fort Myers High School, where between 16 and 25 male students are alleged to have had sex with a 15-year-old female student in a school bathroom. The girl’s family said last week she was previously a…

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Elijah Wood “said that organized sexual abuse of children in Hollywood is rife.” Wood, now 35, did not claim to be a victim of abuse while beginning his career as a child actor, but shared that “many of his peers were regularly ‘preyed upon’” at parties his mother prevented him…

In a provocative profile from The Guardian, actress and Love & Friendship star Chloe Sevigny reflects on her past work with controversial figures like photographer Terry Richardson—who has been accused of sexual assault—Larry Clark, and Lars von Trier. Cumulatively, her experiences have left her with “total disdain…

Kesha is scheduled to perform at the Billboard Music Awards in a couple weeks, in what’s being billed as a “statement performance” that will reference her current sexual abuse lawsuit against Dr. Luke.

In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Ronan Farrow writes about the thick wall of protection surrounding his father Woody Allen, whose alleged history of sexual abuse has been systematically glossed over.

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The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Investigation Team has published a report unearthing a disturbingly large number of sexual abuse cases from private schools throughout New England. Since 1991, over 200 students attending roughly 67 different schools have come forward with accusations of sexual abuse or harassment…

This week, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert finally admitted to sexually abusing teenagers when he was a high school wrestling coach in the 1970s, and he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for steps he took to pay off one of his victims.

In a sentencing hearing Wednesday morning, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert acknowledged having sexually abused several boys while he was their wrestling coach in the 1970s. The judge described him as “a serial child molester,” then sentenced him to two years of supervised release. Later in the hearing, he added 15…

An organization in the UK is rallying to create a registry which would identify those convicted of stalking to the public.

A week after the New York Daily News published an article in which one man claimed that hip-hop icon Afrika Bambaataa sexually abused him as a teenager, three other men have since come forward with strikingly similar allegations.

In an interview with Rolling Stone published this week, Grimes says she’s unsurprised about the Dr. Luke fiasco, as she’s personally experienced multiple cases of men trying to blackmail their way into sex.

Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House who has been accused of molesting five minors while coaching high school sports, is reportedly “sorry,” according to his lawyer.

After The Chicago Tribune reported on the millions of dollars in hush money former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert paid out several days ago, a new filing by federal prosecutors alleges that Hastert in fact sexually abused five minors during his time as a wrestling coach at Yorkville High School. One of the…

In October, former House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert pleaded guilty to bank fraud and lying to the FBI about millions he paid to cover up what an indictment called “prior misconduct.” That “misconduct” is widely rumored to be sexual abuse, committed when Hastert was a wrestling coach; the Chicago Tribune now reports…

In the wake of Jian Ghomeshi’s acquittal today on sexual assault charges, actress Zoe Kazan posted a series of tweets alleging he made inappropriate remarks to her before a 2013 interview.

A prominent emergency room doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, arrested in January on charges that he ejaculated on a sedated patient’s face, has been indicted on sexual abuse charges against four women, announced the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance. Dr. David H. Newman hasn’t yet entered…