On Tuesday, a New York federal judge granted a British woman’s sex-trafficking lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein permission move forward, throwing out the disgraced producer’s motion to dismiss
Last week, Lindsay Lohan managed to stomp on all that goodwill she earned from her 17-second MTV spot by claiming that women who speak out against sexual assault as part of the #MeToo movement “look weak.” Those comments, which she made to UK publication The Times, prompted appropriate backlash, and on Sunday Lohan…
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office is looking into a sexual assault allegation made against Black-ish star Anthony Anderson, Variety reports.
After several adjournments in rapper 6ix9ine’s use of a child in sexual performance case, some the result of his failure to obtain his GED, a hearing finally took place Thursday in a Manhattan court.
Update, 6:15 p.m.: The Los Angeles Times reports that the original E! News report was unsubstantiated, according to both a spokesperson for Simmons and Jane Doe’s lawyer. The filing is not part of a new lawsuit but part of ongoing litigation concerning a previous lawsuit filed in March. The money is for “dismissal…
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Brock Turner, who was convicted on charges of assaulting and attempting to rape a woman while he was a student at Stanford, has lost his bid for a new trial. In March 2016, Turner was found guilty of three felony counts related to his assault of a woman near a Kappa…
On Sunday, CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl addressed members of the press at the Television Critics Association summer tour. He says it’s been a “tough week,” referring to what can only be interpreted as, oh, what to do about many sexual abuse allegations against Les Moonves, the network’s CEO and one of the…
Harvey Weinstein,who could face life in prison for charges of a forcible sexual act and two counts of predatory sexual assault in New York, has plead not guilty. His latest defense, as first reported by TMZ, are “around 40 emails that will show he didn’t rape one of his accusers.”
On Tuesday, the Los Angles Times reported that the Los Angeles County district attorney will not pursue sex crime charges related to complaints made by a woman against CBS CEO and chairman Les Moonves.
New York Times best-selling author Jessica Knoll’s second novel, The Favorite Sister, is set on a fictitious reality show called Goal Diggars—a sort of Real Housewives meets Project Runway where five female entrepreneurs turn their startup business narratives into familiar Bravo plot lines. While they raise capital…
Welcome back to the tidal wave of sexual abuse allegations currently sweeping the Catholic church: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has tendered his resignation to the pope weeks after he was removed from the ministry following an investigation into an allegation that he sexually abused a 16-year-old. This comes weeks…
Last year three different women came forward to say that Ed Westwick raped them in 2014. As a result of the allegations, the Los Angeles District Attorney opened an investigation into the actor, and now Los Angeles County prosecutors have concluded there is insufficient evidence to charge Westwick with rape.
Russell Simmons, who currently faces over a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct up to and including rape allegations, has begun selling off his private properties.
On Sunday night R. Kelly reportedly live-streamed a new song on Instagram titled “I Admit.” In the nearly 20-minute song, the full lyrics of which can be found here, Kelly sings about how the sexual misconduct and “cult” allegations in the media are false, his own sexual abuse as a child, and how people speaking out…
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, …
