An excellent and totally disheartening report by the Star Tribune has found that law enforcement has consistently and utterly failed victims of sexual assault in Minnesota. Out of 1,000 sexual assault cases analyzed, only 26 percent went to prosecutors; victims overall had less than a 1/10 chance of seeing a…
On Tuesday’s episode of The View, the panel asked guest 50 Cent about his recent Instagram post mocking Terry Crews’s reaction to being sexually assaulted. While claiming that he would “never make fun of any sexual assault victim,” 50 effectively doubled down on his post to the panel’s softball chorus of yeahs and uh…
In 2014, after fleeing from a partner who raped and beat her in Honduras, a woman identified as “E.D.” was sent with her toddler to a family detention center in Pennsylvania where she was sexually assaulted repeatedly by a guard
Italy’s highest court has made way for two men, who were convicted of rape over a year ago, to receive a retrial based on the court’s finding that the woman victim had voluntarily consumed alcohol on the night of the attack.
After pleading not guilty to a new charge of forcible sexual act in the first degree Monday morning in New York, which could leave him behind bars for life—his third indictment of sexual assault in a month and a half—Harvey Weinstein has spoken to the press. In an interview with columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, who, …
If the conditions of his plea agreement were followed strictly, Daniel Hernandez (better known by his hip-hop monikers 6ix9ine or Tekashi 6ix9ine) would be in prison. In exchange for pleading guilty to use of a child in a sexual performance on October 20, 2015, Hernandez was ordered to follow a set of terms that…
Russell Simmons has been accused of rape by another woman, bringing the number of sexual assault allegations against the hip-hop mogul to over a dozen. Alexia Norton Jones, granddaughter of the book publisher W.W. Norton, claims Simmons assaulted her in New York City in November 1990.
Harvey Weinstein pled not guilty to a new charge of forcible sexual act in the first degree in a New York courtroom Monday morning.
Scotland Yard is looking into three new sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey, bringing the total cases in London to six.
Early last month, Harvey Weinstein predictably plead not guilty on rape charges in New York court and was released on $1 million bail. (Speaking through his attorney Benjamin Brafman, Weinstein claimed he has “never had non-consensual sex.”) On Monday morning, Weinstein was charged with three additional sex crimes.…
Last month, a photo of a Canadian newspaper editorial from 2000 started circulating on Twitter; in it, the Creston Valley Advance accused Justin Trudeau, the then-28-year-old teacher and son of the former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, of “inappropriately ‘handing’” a woman reporter who he met at music festival…
In a new report from the Hollywood Reporter, domestic violence activist and author Sil Lai Abrams has accused Russell Simmons and Extra host A.J. Calloway of sexual assault—two alleged attacks 12 years apart from one another. Currently, more than a dozen women have come forward alleging assault by Simmons, from the…
Porn star Ron Jeremy is being sued for sexual assault and battery in Washington State. He is accused of nonconsensually groping and digitally penetrating a woman hired as a model during a radio station’s promotional event in 2017. The woman, identified as K.B. in court filings, says she “agreed to let” 65-year-old…
50 Cent attacks people on social media so often, you’d swear he was an unemployed 25-year-old living in his mother’s basement. So antagonistic is he that “50 Cent Mocks...” is practically an online headline subgenre. He mocked an autistic teen. He mocked Kanye West for getting lipo. He’s mocked Rick Ross dozens of…
The Department of Education has finally determined that UNC-Chapel Hill is in violation of Title IX anti-discrimination law, after a federal investigation that began in 2013.
On Tuesday, Terry Crews testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, retelling the story of his 2017 sexual assault, and offering some thoughts on how toxic masculinity plays a role in discrediting sexual assault survivors who come forward.
ABC has announced that it’s pulling the second episode of its Bachelor-esque reality show The Proposal, after a woman accused one of its contestants of setting up a sexual assault.
How long does it take for a disgraced white male actor, accused of various forms of sexual misconduct, to achieve redemption? Or, at the very least, to resurface in a big project? In the case of Kevin Spacey, only a few months, certainly less than a full year.
The murder and assault of 22-year-old comedian Eurydice Dixon on Wednesday has provoked a larger discussion in Australia about violence against women and victim-blaming.
