On Wednesday, Variety reported that director-producer Brett Ratner’s legal team asked a judge for permission to question Melanie Kohler, who accused Ratner of rape in a recent, since-deleted Facebook post.
Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter best known for her work on Rachel Getting Married, published a searing open letter in the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday alleging that entrepreneur and music mogul Russell Simmons sexually violated her in the early ’90s. In response to her letter, Simmons has announced that he will be…
Hey, just a bunch of accused sexual predators here, hanging out together, racking up so many accusations of sexual assault that between them, it’s impossible to keep track.
Gal Gadot has announced that she won’t go forward with Wonder Woman 2 unless Warner Brothers cancels its co-financing deal with accused sexual assailant/director Brett Ratner, whose company RatPac Entertainment co-produced, and profited from, the first film. RatPac-Dune, a joint venture with Dune Entertainment, also…
Anna Paquin says she was there when Brett Ratner allegedly looked at a woman standing next to Ellen Page and said: “you should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay”–while Page was only 18, before she had publicly come out. Page alleges Ratner said this at a “meet and greet” before filming X Men: The Last Stand, in…
In a passionate Facebook post on Friday, Ellen Page has alleged that director Brett Ratner verbally abused her on set, and outed her in front of cast and crew. She also claims to have been assaulted on set by a grip, and says that working on a Woody Allen film was an “awful mistake.”
In addition to the six women who said Brett Ratner sexually abused and harassed them in a report from the Los Angeles Times, Melanie Kohler, a former employee of Endeavor Talent Agency, also wrote in a Facebook post that Ratner had raped her. Shortly after publishing her account she was hit with a defamation suit from…
Director and producer Brett Ratner announced on Wednesday that he has chosen to sever ties with Warner Bros. so as not to negatively impact them after six women accused him of sexual harassment or assault in a Los Angeles Times exposé published earlier that day. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news and published…
Brett Ratner’s Playboy biopic is no longer in development.
Six women, including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, have accused director and producer Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct or abuse, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
Before the Flood, a climate change documentary directed by The Cove’s Fisher Stevens, opens ill-advisedly, with an anecdote and photographs from Leonardo DiCaprio’s childhood. DiCaprio, who narrates the film, tells us about his father, underground comic book writer/distributor George DiCaprio, who edgily hung…
God rest ye merry Christmas Lambs, let nothing you dismay; remember Mariah, our savior, is finally putting her favorite holiday on the big screen where she belooooooonnnnnnggggs! And the person fulfilling this destiny is none other than Brett Ratner, her longtime friend and recently-rumored boyfriendo... could there…
Lambs, rejoice: your fearless leader Mariah Carey has once again found love in a fella named Brett Ratner.
Jennifer Lopez — or at least her PR team — is super sorry that she "graciously obliged" to perform a private concert for the catchily-named President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, an oppressive, torture-endorsing, Human Rights Watch-provoking, war mongering dictator and Jennifer Lopez fan. A Team Lopez…
The dark sides of being Carrie Bradshaw, one can easily imagine, are as long as a grocery list: contributing to the materialistic culture of Manhattan! Perpetuating unrealistic standards of romance! Not being able to go to a bar in New York (Midtown or Murray Hill especially) without women bum-rushing you! Et cetera.
A pervy upskirt shot of underwearless Anne Hathaway getting out of a limo at a New York premiere of Les Miserables has been making the rounds on that beautiful formless mass of the collective human id that we call the Interwebz. This morning on the TODAY show, she responded eloquently to host/human toejam Matt Lauer,…
My how the time flies, it seems like just last week director Brett Ratner was talking about how he "banged" Olivia Munn "before she was Asian." Then on Friday, at a screening for his new film, Tower Heist, he was asked how he prepares for scenes with his actors. Does he rehearse? No, he explained, "Rehearsal is for…
Today in Tweet Beat, check out the girls of America's Next Top Model cycle 14. Also, Hailey Glassman makes fun of Jon Gosselin's penis size again, this time, with a picture. (Link NSFW and NSF souls!)
