The National Museum of African American History and Culture is planning an exhibition of Bill Cosby’s entertainment career, and people, understandably, are pissed.
Last New Year’s Eve, 467 reports of sexual assault and harassment were reported in Cologne, Germany, after a public celebration took a dark turn. Those reports also indicated that many of the alleged assailants were Moroccan and Algerian refugees, complicating the narrative in a country where the Syrian refugee crisis…
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.
After Jian Ghomeshi’s acquittal Thursday morning on sexual abuse charges, two of the women who testified against him spoke to Chatelaine, a Canadian women’s magazine. Both actress Lucy DeCoutere and an anonymous woman say they were ill-prepared to testify; the anonymous woman has launched a website to help assault…
Jian Ghomeshi, the disgraced Canadian radio star who went to trial on sexual assault charges against three women, has been acquitted on all five counts: four of sexual assault and one of overcoming resistance by choking.
For three months, United States Army private and rape suspect Jameson T. Hazelbower has lived off the grid without difficulty. Despite accusations of violent sexual assault, the 24-year-old was simply listed as a military deserter without further efforts to bring him into custody.
In Massachusetts, according to Variety, a judge has ruled that seven women who are suing Bill Cosby for defamation can access Andrea Constand’s case file, regarding a 2004 sexual assault she allegedly suffered at the hands of the comedian.
Washington D.C. police are investigating a report that a female student was raped by a male student on the campus of prestigious private school Sidwell Friends.
Earlier this week, prosecutors asked that Owen Labrie’s bail be revoked and that he be returned to jail for violating the terms of his parole. Labrie, who was free on probation pending his appeal, was spotted by a Vice contributor on a Boston-bound train earlier this month. He stupidly decided to grant the…
In September 2014, a female student at Thornton Fractional North High School near Chicago was sexually assaulted in the boys’ locker room. Although the principal and his supervisors learned of the assault, the girl and the alleged perpetrator were kept in the same class and went on the same field trips. The school…
In a particularly dumb iteration of an age-old trend, news outlets cannot seem to get over the fact that a Yale student was expelled and kicked off the Yale basketball team for sexual misconduct right before the NCAA tournament, emphasis right before the NCAA tournament.
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After her first deposition in February, Camille Cosby is facing another, and she doesn’t want to discuss her sex life with her husband Bill Cosby. Unfortunately for her, the topic will probably be relevant to the lawsuit in question, and a lawyer representing the seven women who’ve filed a defamation suit against…
Earlier this month, Vice contributor Susan Zalkind spotted convicted sex offender Owen Labrie, 19, on a train in Boston. Labrie, Vice reports, was on the train to visit his girlfriend at Harvard. Zalkind had covered Labrie’s trial; the former student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School became the poster boy for a…
A U.S. Navy sailor stationed in Okinawa has been arrested and is being charged with the rape of a Japanese woman, a 40-year-old tourist from the prefecture of Kyushu. Okinawan authorities say the sailor, 24-year-old Justin Castellanos, found the victim drunk and asleep in a hotel lobby.
Kesha will make a guest appearance on Nashville, our favorite depressing country-themed night time soap. The season returns from hiatus on Wednesday. Is your DVR as excited as ours?
A lawyer for Jack Montague, the former captain of the Yale men’s basketball team who was recently expelled on charges of sexual misconduct, has released a statement disputing those charges and calling his expulsion “excessive by any rational measure.” Claiming that Montague has been used as a “whipping boy” to dispel…
Last spring, Paul Nungesser—best known as the alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia alum who, for her senior thesis project, symbolically bore the weight of her assault by carrying her mattress across campus—filed a discrimination lawsuit against Columbia University. On March 11, that lawsuit was dismissed by…
Today’s Bad Bitch Award goes to Karmenife Paulino, a 22-year-old graduate of Wesleyan University. Raped at a fraternity during her freshman year, she reasserted her sexual agency in a photoshoot entitled “Reclamation,” where she poses as a dominatrix on fraternity grounds.
