Despite allegations that he physically and emotionally abused an ex-girlfriend, Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for attorney general, a position he is poised to win in the November general election.
Director Matthew Newton announced on Friday that he’s stepping down from Eve—the Jessica Chastain-helmed action movie announced at the top of the year—after backlash about his history of abuse towards his partners, which he’s spoken about publicly and admitted to in the past.
A Democratic representative from Pennsylvania’s 112th district wants to introduce a bill that would make it harder for victims of abuse to file for protective orders, and he’s looking for other lawmakers to back him up.
A judge has found that officials at a Texas facility have been giving migrant children in their custody psychotropic medications without permission from their parents or guardians, violating state child welfare laws, reports the Washington Post.
On Monday, 51 more women filed lawsuits against the University of Southern California for the way it handled sexual abuse allegations against longtime staff gynecologist George Tyndall. This latest round of lawsuits brings the total number of students and alumnae suing the school over the case to 225, according to the …
As the Trump administration is slowly reuniting (some) migrant children with their families, kids and their parents are speaking up about horrific abuses they endured while in detention.
Four porn performers have filed a formal complaint against top industry agent Derek Hay alleging sexual abuse, fraud, and financial mismanagement. The complaint, filed with California’s Labor Commissioner and provided to Jezebel by the petitioners’ lawyer, also alleges that Hay, owner of LA Direct Models, is connected…
Olivia Caceras, an undocumented migrant mother, was reunited with her 14-month-old son after months of forced separation only to find him covered in “dirt and lice.”
Woody Allen, celebrated Hollywood director and accused child abuser, spoke with the Argentinian news show Periodismo Para Todos about how he perceives his role within the #MeToo movement—and that perception has nothing to do with being another a rich, powerful man held unaccountable for his alleged actions. Rather…
Sweden passed a law on Wednesday that defines sex without consent as rape. Perhaps right now you are wondering: Did Sweden not previously define sex without consent as rape? And, nej, it did not.
A University of Southern California gynecologist was allowed to continue practicing for many years, despite multiple complaints of misconduct, according to a new stomach-churning Los Angeles Times report. The complaints against George Tyndall date back to the 1990s and include allegations of inappropriately…
Memoirist and poet Mary Karr, whose name has long been saddled to that of her worshipped ex David Foster Wallace, is now tweeting that Wallace violently abused her. The fact that he abused her is not a revelation; this has been documented and adopted by the literary world as one of Wallace’s character traits. In a…
Kelis has revealed in a new interview that her ex-husband, the rapper Nas, was mentally and physically abusive during their relationship.
On Wednesday, Just Dave, the director of a porn scene at the center of recent on-set abuse allegations made by performer Leigh Raven, sent Jezebel nearly three hours of footage in an attempt to publicly exonerate himself and his staff. The footage was taken on a mounted camera, which he says was filming nearly…
Adult performer Nikki Benz filed a lawsuit Monday against the porn production company Brazzers, its parent company MindGeek, and fellow actors Tony T. and Ramon Nomar for sexual battery. The suit, provided to Jezebel by Benz’s lawyer, alleges that she was non-consensually “struck on the face, head and breasts hard…
“Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor,” White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said in a statement earlier this week. Kelly was defending former White House aide Porter, who resigned last week after two of his ex-wives, Colbie Holderness and Jennifer Willoughby, detailed his physical and emotional abuse to…
Staff secretary Rob Porter was allowed to serve as an aide to Donald Trump despite the fact that White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Kelly and Counsel Donald McGahn, knew that Porter’s two ex-wives had made domestic violence allegations against him, according to a Thursday report.
Five women who used to work for Monster Energy Drink have sued the company, alleging that their careers were derailed after speaking up about sexual discrimination.
On Tuesday, CBS announced that an interview with Dylan Farrow by CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will air on Thursday. Per CBS, the interview will cover “[Farrow’s] allegations that she was sexually abused by her father, Woody Allen, and…Hollywood’s Time’s Up movement.”
At last night’s Golden Globes, zero men who got up onstage mentioned #MeToo or the #TimesUp campaign that decorated many of their lapels. Some of them, smiling big for the camera in a sea of black dresses, had their own rocky histories to contend with; the awards show that was supposed to be a reckoning—and was, in…
