Wednesday evening a second actress accused former-president George H.W. Bush of touching her inappropriately. A Bush spokesman apologized and admitted that “on occasion, he has patted women’s rears.”
Mark Halperin, a veteran political journalist and NBC News analyst seen most frequently on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, has apologized and taken “a step back from [his] day-to-day” work after reports surfaced that he engaged in sexual misconduct with five women.
Employees of the European Commission made at least one complaint of sexual harassment against a colleague every week for the past five years, it has been revealed as the hashtag #MeTooEU trends online.
The California State Assembly announced Tuesday that the legislative body will hold public hearings on the issue of sexual harassment in the Golden State’s Capitol, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
French authorities have opened an investigation into Swiss-born controversial Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan after a French feminist accused him of sexual misconduct and sending her death threats.
As a means to understand just how, yes, institutional these allegations are in Hollywood, here is a list of the accused and their alleged misdeeds, which will be updated as needed.
Just a week away from launching a brand new magazine, left-wing icon Leon Wieseltier was hit with numerous claims of sexual harassment. The allegations cost Wieseltier his funding. The magazine is now dead, and he has publicly apologized for “offenses” against his former colleagues.
Matt Damon, the star of director George Clooney’s upcoming Suburbicon, has given conflicting statements about his knowledge surrounding producer Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual predations.
In an article for the Daily Beast published Tuesday, author Amy Zimmerman wrote that Russell’s alleged history of inappropriate behavior has been “well-known and documented.”
Even if terrible reviews and the exploding scandal around Harvey Weinstein were not an issue, past as prologue informs us that director George Clooney’s Suburbicon would still be in trouble.
Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis suggested Hollywood may be covering up serious allegations of child sexual abuse amid the continued industry fallout from from the scandal surrounding decades of allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse against disgraced super-producer Harvey Weinstein.
A full 28 years prior to this weekend’s Los Angeles Times exposé on Toback, Spy magazine pretty much wrote the same exact exposé in 1989. To argue that our leftwing Hollywood and media elite knew and did not give a damn, would be an understatement.
Multiple women working at Swedish publicly funded broadcaster SVT have come forward claiming that a high-level manager in the company had repeatedly sexually harassed them.
More than 30 women have come forward to accuse Hollywood writer-director James Toback of sexual harassment and abuse, weeks after a New York Times exposé containing details of decades of similar allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein set off shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry and forced examinations of its treatment of women.
The country singer and One Tree Hill star Jana Kramer is the latest Hollywood actress to reveal her experiences of sexual harassment in the industry.
Hollywood agent Tyler Grasham attempted to seduce a 16-year-old aspiring actor with whom he hoped to start a family by offering him acting roles, The Wrap reports.
Hundreds of female animators have written an open letter to top Hollywood executives in the wake of Harvey Weinstein scandal demanding an end to the “widespread” sexual harassment in the industry.
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is reportedly telling fellow patients at an Arizona sex addiction rehabilitation facility that the decades of allegations of sexual harassment, assault, and rape lodged against him in recent weeks are part of a conspiracy against him.
GQ has sacked UK political correspondent Rupert Myers after a woman went public to accuse him of sexually assaulting her in London.
TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman has found witnesses to back up her claim that the left-wing New York Times killed a 2004 story that exposed producer Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual predations.
The head of Amazon Studios Roy Price has resigned from his role amid allegations of sexual harassment from one of the streaming platform’s top producers.
Bob Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment by a television producer Tuesday as allegations of harassment and abuse from dozens of women continue to swirl around his brother and business associate, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Behold the biggest pile of BS to come out of Harveywood yet: “Producers Guild Creates Hollywood Anti-Sexual Harassment Task Force.” Talk about putting the fox in charge of the henhouse, the thief in charge of the bank, the Cookie Monster in charge of the cookies. On what planet are we supposed to believe this announcement is anything other than window dressing for a cover-up meant to protect the status quo?
There is a Big Story in Monday’s New York Times: “Harvey Weinstein’s Fall Opens Floodgates In Hollywood.” Except for the fact that not a single floodgate is open, that headline is deadly accurate.
The Producers Guild of America voted to expel disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein from its organization Monday and announced the creation of an “Anti-Sexual Harassment Task Force” charged with researching and preventing further sexual abuse in the film industry.
If you have not seen this director’s movies, you have almost certainly heard of them. What you probably do not know, though, is that a few decades ago this director served time for child molestation. After his release, he then spent a few years in the purgatory of office life before resuming a film career.
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been revoked by its board.
A timeline of allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has denied having any nonconsensual sexual conduct with any women.
Like variations of a scene shot over and over again, there have been common hallmarks in the disturbing allegations leveled against Weinstein in the past week by some 30 women: A bathrobe. A request for a massage. A suggestion that it’s simply the way things work in the movie business.
George Clooney has been accused of helping “blacklist” an actress after she complained of sexual and racial harassment.
Although the board for The Weinstein Company (TWC) has been claiming all week that no one knew anything about co-chairman Harvey Weinstein’s appalling behavior towards women (some of which he admits to, some of which he denies), that stand is going to be harder to hold now that TMZ is reporting that sexual harassment was “allowed” in Weinstein’s employment contract with TWC:
Just hours after actress Rose McGowan launched a broadside against Amazon CEO (and Washington Post owner) Jeff Bezos with the accusation that the richest man in the world was “funding rapists, alleged pedos, and sexual harassers,” one of Bezos’s top executives, Roy Price, was publicly accused of harassing television producer Isa Hackett.
Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has claimed that the sexual abuse and harassment scandal surrounding disgraced Hollywood producer and Democratic Party donor Harvey Weinstein is just “the top of a very particular iceberg” in Hollywood’s overall culture.
Emily’s List has released a statement that refers to scandal-ridden Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as a “predator,” but fails to mention anything about returning contributions Weinstein made to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that were recently funneled to the feminist political action committee.
Just as one cannot imagine what it must be like for a woman to be assaulted by a man, so too is the idea of a man being sexually assaulted by another man an unimaginable act. That is what actors Terry Crews and James Van Der Beek claim happened to them. And as if to prove that the same sinister culture that protected Harvey Weinstein for three decades still exists, neither actor will name his abuser(s).
Rep. Geoff Diehl (R-Whitman), who is taking on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in 2018 for her Senate seat, challenged the progressive senator on Wednesday to return more than $10,000 she received from actor Ben Affleck, who admitted to, and later apologized for, groping actress Hilarie Burton.
Amid a growing scandal into alleged sexual harassment and abuse throughout Hollywood, actor James Van Der Beek revealed his own story of harassment from “older, powerful men” from when he was a young actor.
Out of the growing fear that the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal is about to spin out of control, is about to bring down those (like Ben Affleck) who are not useless has-beens like Harvey, the bombshell news that The Weinstein Company board knew of Harvey’s payoffs to women is being downplayed, especially by the Hollywood trades. Nevertheless, it is still a bombshell.
The FBI has opened an investigation into the ever-mounting allegations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
Hollywood’s worst fear just came true. The biggest scandal by far in Tinseltown history has just expanded beyond Harvey Weinstein. Tuesday night, Oscar-winning director Ben Affleck was publicly accused of groping actress Hilarie Burton back in 2003.
