In handcuffing powerful movie producer Harvey Weinstein Friday, US authorities justice appeared to confirm that no one escapes the long arm of the law in the United States. But the record shows that celebrity and wealth promises a better outcome for the accused, especially in sex cases. That legal ambivalence was on view Friday with […]
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Weinstein expected to ‘surrender’ to NY authorities Friday
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to New York police on Friday to face sex crime charges, nearly eight months after his career collapsed in a blaze of assault accusations. US media reported that the former movie powerbroker — once the toast of Hollywood, with his films winning scores of […]
Ashley Judd sues Harvey Weinstein for sexual harassment, damage to her career
LOS ANGELES: On April 30, Hollywood actor Ashley Judd filed a defamation and sexual harassment lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, alleging that he damaged her movie career after she refused sexual advances that he was making towards her. The civil lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, accuses Weinstein of being […]
The Weinstein sex scandal awaiting possibility of new feature film
Hollywood was shocked by the allegations made against the film tycoon Harvey Weinstein, which first came to light in a New York Times editorial. A dramatization on how The New York Times broke the news that alleged the influential Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment will now be made as a feature film. The […]
Hayek describes harrowing ordeal by ‘monster’ Weinstein
HOLLYWOOD: A-lister Salma Hayek on Wednesday joined the scores of actresses to accuse Harvey Weinstein, alleging that the fallen Hollywood mogul sexually harassed her, subjected her to escalating rage and once threatened to kill her. “For years, he was my monster,” the Mexican-born star wrote in an essay published in The New York Times, detailing […]
Quentin Tarantino admits he knew about Weinstein allegations: ‘I Knew Enough to Do More Than I Did’
LOS ANGELES: Quentin Tarantino has admitted knowing for decades about Harvey Weinstein´s alleged sexual misconduct, confessing in an interview published Thursday to feeling ashamed that he did not stop working with the mogul. The explosive admission to The New York Times came with allegations of assault and harassment mounting against the disgraced Hollywood tycoon as […]
Weinstein resigns from TWC board, celebrity accounts of assault snowball
HOLLYWOOD: Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul accused of decades of sexual abuse and harassment, resigned from the board of his production company on Tuesday, as Reese Witherspoon became the latest star to open up about her own experience of sexual asault. Weinstein was sacked as co-chairman of The Weinstein Company on October 8, but […]
Sexual abuse stories from around the world pour out on social media
Celebrities and everyday people flooded social media with personal accounts of sexual assault and harassment Monday, responding to calls to break the culture of silence around such abuse. The massive global response was triggered by allegations recently made public against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is accused of rape and abuse dating back decades. People […]
Motion picture Academy kicks out disgraced Harvey Weinstein
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled Harvey Weinstein on Saturday, vowing that the era of “shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior” in the movie industry was over. An emergency meeting of its 54-member board of governors, which includes stars such as Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg and Laura Dern, voted “well in excess […]