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Prince Harry Just Opened Up About That Alleged Rift with Prince William


Since Prince Harry‘s birth in 1984, he and his older brother Prince William have basically been viewed by the public as a unit. They were the adorable boys heading off to school in their uniforms or on vacations to water parks with their mother, Princess Diana. And then of course, there is the indelible image of the two young princes walking behind their mother’s coffin in her funeral procession.

The world watched them grow up together and many feel deeply invested in their happiness. So when rumors surfaced of a rift between the brothers, it was vigorously covered in the press, even though neither prince had spoken out about it. Rumors often drive the story when it comes to the British royal family and there was speculation about the reasons behind the alleged split, including that it had something to do with their wives, Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton.

Now, Harry is opening up about the current state of his relationship with his brother in the new documentary, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey.

“Inevitably stuff happens. But we’re brothers, we’ll always be brothers,” Harry said. “We’re certainly on different paths at the moment. I’ll always be there for him and as I know, he’ll always be there for me. We don’t see each other as much as we used to because we’re so busy but I love him dearly.”

“The majority of stuff is created out of nothing. As brothers, we have good days and we have bad days,” he continued.

So there you have it—royal brothers are just like regular siblings in that eventually their lives diverge and they start their own families and jobs—but that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s been a massive and dramatic flight. Of course, in most of our families, one person is not the future king of England and our internal dramas don’t play out on the front page of newspapers, but family is still family—for better or for worse.



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Prince Harry Is Now Suing The Sun and Daily Mirror Over an Alleged Phone Hacking


Prince Harry is suing multiple British publications over an alleged phone hacking, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday, October 4.

According to BBC and People, the Duke of Sussex is taking The Sun, The Daily Mirror, and the now-defunct News of the World to task over a supposed voicemail hacking that happened in the early 2000s. “We confirm that a claim has been issued by the Duke of Sussex,” a spokesperson for News Group Newspapers, which publishes The Sun and News of the World, told BBC in a statement. “We have no further comment to make at the current time.”

This lawsuit comes just days after news broke that Meghan Markle is taking legal action against Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter she wrote to her father, Thomas, in 2018.

Prince Harry released a statement explaining why Markle decided to pursue the lawsuit, citing what happened to his mother, Princess Diana, as a primary reason. “My deepest fear is history repeating itself,” he said in the statement. “I’ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.”

There’s a third royal vs. reporter story floating around this week, as well. A video of Prince Harry snapping at journalist Rhiannon Mills during his trip to Malawi this week is currently making the rounds. “That short conversation, what do you hope to achieve through it?” Mills asks Prince Harry in the clip, according to AOL, the context unknown.

“What? Ask them,” Prince Harry said, to which Mills responded with, “Is that why it’s important for you to come and talk to them?”

Prince Harry then said to Mills, “Rhiannon, don’t behave like this.” Watch E! News’ recap of this situation, below:

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News of these lawsuits are still unfolding. Of course, we’ll keep you updated.



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Emma Thompson Quit ‘Luck’ After an Alleged Sexual Harasser John Lasseter Joined the Project


Since the Harvey Weinstein story broke in the fall of 2017, a steady stream of powerful (and often famous) men have been accused of sexual misconduct. But the era of #MeToo has also seen a cycle of redemption and comebacks for some of these accused men. Louis C.K. is back doing stand-up. Ousted CBS chief Les Moonves is already working on a new venture. Brett Kavanaugh is sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now Emma Thompson has reportedly quit an upcoming film project over the hiring of one such man: John Lasseter, the former chief creative officer of Pixar. Allegations about Lasseter first became public knowledge in November 2017, though claims of a “whisper network” surrounding him existed for much longer, after he was accused of “grabbing, kissing, making comments about physical attributes.”

Lasseter apologized for his behavior, saying, “I’ve recently had a number of difficult conversations that have been very painful for me. It’s never easy to face your missteps, but it’s the only way to learn from them.” Then, this January, he was hired as the head of Skydance Animation, which is set to produce the film Luck.

That’s where Emma Thompson comes in. The actress was slated to voice one of the characters, but Variety confirms that she dropped out of the project after Lasseter’s hiring. Skydance has not commented on the departure.

She may not have released a big statement about this decision, but it’s major that a Hollywood A-lister of Thompson’s caliber is walking away from what is likely a lucrative deal in response to the hiring of a man with sexual harassment allegations. This is one powerful way allies in positions of influence can show support for the survivors who have been brave enough to speak out about inappropriate behavior.

We hope to see more of that in 2019.



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Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Is a Detailed Account of Brett Kavanaugh's Alleged Assault


Christine Blasey Ford, a professor, mother, and former childhood acquaintance of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. There, she will recount her side of the story for Senators, and the world at large, sharing in great detail the night she says Kavanaugh assaulted her.

Ford’s prepared opening remarks were released Wednesday, in which she shared just how deeply the alleged event from 1982 affected the rest of her life.

“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school,” Ford wrote. She explained how she and Kavanaugh attended nearby schools—hers an all-girls academy and his an all-boys. Their social circles intersected. As she recounted, they weren’t quite friends but knew of one another well enough. But, in the summer of 1982 their worlds would collide, and for Ford, Kavanaugh would from then on become an ever-present figure in her memory.

“One evening that summer, after a day of swimming at the club, I attended a small gathering at a house in the Chevy Chase/Bethesda area. There were four boys I remember being there: Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, P.J. Smyth, and one other boy whose name I cannot recall,” she wrote. When Blasey Ford walked in, Kavanaugh and Judge were already visibly drunk. She had only one beer throughout the night.

When she made her way up the stairs to the second floor of the house to use the bathroom, that’s when Blasey Ford said the attack began.

“I was pushed from behind into a bedroom. I couldn’t see who pushed me. Brett and Mark came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them. There was music already playing in the bedroom. It was turned up louder by either Brettor Mark once we were in the room,” she wrote. “I was pushed onto the bed and Brett got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body and grinding his hips into me. I yelled, hoping someone downstairs might hear me, and tried to get away from him, but his weight was heavy. “

From there, she alleges that Kavanaugh attempted to take off her clothes, but had trouble due to his intoxication and the fact that she was wearing a one-piece bathing suit.

“I believed he was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from screaming. This was what terrified me the most, and has had the most lasting impact on my life. It was hardfor me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me,” she said.

During the assault, she writes, Judge jumped on the bed, which made all three of them tumble over. That, Ford wrote, was the moment she escaped. From there, she ran into the bathroom and locked the door until the boys left. She then ran down the stairs and out the door. As she explained, she has thought of that event frequently as it was “seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult.”

In the remarks, Ford explained how she tried every avenue available to her to warn the committee about Kavanaugh and her allegations against him. She first called and met with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo and her staff, and finally sent a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein promised to keep the letter confidential, but it soon leaked, prompting Ford to tell her story herself, which she did to the Washington Post earlier this month.

Her testimony, along with the answers to questioning will be heard in full on Thursday. They will also be heard alongside Kavanaugh’s own testimony. The conservative judge released his prepared remarks, which read in part, “There has been a frenzy to come up with something — anything, no matter how far-fetched or odious — that will block a vote on my nomination,” adding he unequivocally denies the claims brought by Ford.

However, she won’t be the last woman he has to answer for. Since Ford came forward, two more women have joined in with their own accusations against him. On Wednesday, Julie Swetnick, a woman who also knew Kavanaugh in high school, alleged that Kavanaugh and Judge were both present at a party where she was drugged and “gang raped.” A third accuser, Deborah Ramirez, is a former Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s. As she explained to The New Yorker, Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in college and “thrust his penis in her face,” causing her to “touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.”

Still, none of these accusations against Kavanaugh will stop him from pursuing the highest court in the land. As he will tell the committee tomorrow, “The efforts to destroy my good name will not drive me out.”

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Sophia Bush Opens Up About the Alleged Harassment She Faced on the *One Tree Hill* Set


Back in November, in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the rise of the #MeToo movement, members of the cast and crew of One Tree Hill—including Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton—released a letter accusing the creator of that show, Mark Schwahn, of sexual harassment.

“Many of us were, to varying degrees, manipulated psychologically and emotionally. More than one of us is still in treatment for post-traumatic stress,” the letter read. “Many of us were put in uncomfortable positions and had to swiftly learn to fight back, sometimes physically, because it was made clear to us that the supervisors in the room were not the protectors they were supposed to be. Many of us were spoken to in ways that ran the spectrum from deeply upsetting, to traumatizing, to downright illegal. And a few of us were put in positions where we felt physically unsafe.”

Now, in a new interview with Andy Cohen, Bush is taking the conversation even further, describing a time she says Schwahn touched her inappropriately. “The first time Mark Schwahn grabbed my ass I hit him in front of six other producers and I hit him fucking hard,” she told Cohen. “And he came back to L.A. and I was told years later by one of the then writers who became an EP that he came back being like, ‘That fucking entitled bitch who does she think she is,’ and this very sweet man named Mike who I love and who is like a ride or die for me was like, ‘Maybe you just shouldn’t touch the girls,’ and, ya know, Mark gave him the option of shut up and keep your job or get out.”

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Bush found herself in a difficult situation: quit and “kill” her career or stay in an uncomfortable workplace. “Because this is what people don’t understand, they go, ‘Oh well why don’t you just leave?’” she says. “First of all, why am I supposed to suffer and kill my own career because somebody else can’t keep their dick in their pants? Second of all, there is a whole crew that people don’t know about.”

Bush stayed, and Schwahn helmed One Tree Hill for eight seasons. However, after the OTH allegations were made, additional ones were levied against him by the cast and crew of The Royals. He was investigated and subsequently fired from that show in December.



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Everything We Know About the Alleged Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump Relationship


Just one week ago The Wall Street Journal broke a story in which they reported that Michael Cohen, a lawyer for Donald Trump, had arranged to pay an adult-film star named Stormy Daniels (given name: Stephanie Clifford) $130,000 one month before the 2016 election in order to ensure her silence about a consensual affair she had with the now President of the United States in 2006. In a different time this story would have dominated the news cycle for months, if not years. But nestled between stories about the President allegedly using the word “shithole” to describe countries, continuing debates over DACA, and a possible government shutdown, this maybe-scandal took a backseat to some very big stories dominating the news. Now a newly released transcript of a 2011 interview with Daniels by In Touch magazine has the story back at the top of the headline machine.

So let’s break down exactly what we do know.

This isn’t the first time the alleged affair and payment have made news. The WSJ story brought national attention to the alleged affair and payment, though rumors had apparently persisted in certain circles for some time. In the WSJ piece, a White House official says, “These are old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.” Cohen told the paper, “This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client. You have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year; a narrative that has been consistently denied by all parties since at least 2011.”

Daniels herself has denied the claims. Cohen gave the WSJ a statement from Daniels in which she denied the relationship and that “rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false.” However, she did not reply directly to WSJ‘s request for comment. In a statement provided to CNN by Cohen, Daniels wrote, “My involvement with Donald Trump was limited to a few public appearances and nothing more. When I met Donald Trump, he was gracious, professional, and a complete gentleman to me and EVERYONE in my presence. Rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false. If indeed I did have a relationship with Donald Trump, trust me, you wouldn’t be reading about in the news, you would be reading about it in my book. But the fact of the matter is, these stories are not true.” CNN also requested her contact information from Cohen, but he would not provide it.

The President himself has not tweeted or made a statement about the matter. As we all know, our current President is not one to remain silent on well…anything. From Russian collusion and the size of nuclear buttons to NFL players and female journalists like Jemele Hill, he’s almost always got something to say. But not this time.

In Touch brought receipts. Today the gossip magazine In Touch has published the full transcript of an interview conducted with Daniels back in 2011, in which she discussed her relationship with Trump in explicit terms. In it she says she first met Trump at a charity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe (a detail also found in the WSJ reporting). She agreed to go to dinner with him, reasoning, “Whether you’re a fan of his or not, which I never really was, you gotta admit he’s pretty fascinating.” Daniels says that they ate dinner in his hotel room alone, with a bodyguard outside and discussed business, including what sorts of royalties she made on her films. When she briefly brought up his wife (Trump had married Melania the previous year), she says he changed the subject quickly.

The dinner then led to sex (without protection), according to Daniels in the In Touch interview. She says, “I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please don’t try to pay me.’ And then I remember thinking, ‘But I bet if he did, it would be a lot.’ Afterward, she tells the interviewer that Trump asked her to sign one of her DVDs.

Trump reportedly promised her a spot on The Apprentice. Daniels told In Touch that the now President claimed he had a “wild-card choice…that he could push one person through at will” for his hit NBC show and she would be that person.

Trump allegedly stayed in touch with Daniels after the incident. After the encounter in Tahoe, Daniels told In Touch that Trump began calling her (from a blocked number) and that she could reach him via his bodyguard or personal secretary. According to her, he invited her to events, continued to claim he would get her on his hit show, and that he was also going to get her a condo at a Trump Tower in Tampa. They saw each other occasionally and maintained a sexual relationship. Prior to the 2011 interview, Daniels claims she had not spoken to Trump in about a year and a half.

Fox News may have had the story of this alleged relationship and chosen to bury it. According to CNN, sources familiar with the matter say that a Fox News reporter who often covered celebrity and sexual harassment, Diana Falzone, filed a story about Trump and Daniels in October 2016, but the story never went anywhere. “She had the story, and Fox killed it,” a source told CNN. Fox issued a statement in denial saying, “Like many other outlets, we were working to report the story of Stephanie Clifford’s account in October 2016 about then presidential candidate Donald Trump and a possible payment by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. In doing our due diligence, we were unable to verify all of the facts and publish a story.”

Neither of the parties (or their spokespeople) has commented on the release of the 2011 interview, but we’ll be updating this story as any new details emerge.



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