On Wednesday, a Manhattan grand jury officially indicted Harvey Weinstein on charges of rape and criminal sexual act, according to the Associated Press. “This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement. “Our office…
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In August 2009, a group of local officials were on a routine tour of a police storage warehouse in Detroit when an assistant prosecutor noticed a mountain of boxes overwhelming the shelves. Curious, an official asked what was inside. Little did they know that the question would lead to the discovery of thousands of unprocessed…
Read more“I don’t really do films set in the modern day because the female characters nearly always get raped,” Keira Knightley told Variety earlier this week. In the interview, the actress was asked if production companies are backing more female-dominated stories, to which she declared that it’s slowly getting better. “I’m suddenly being sent scripts with…
Read moreOnce upon a time last week, actor Matt Damon made a couple of remarks about the Weinstein scandal—and the other once-powerful men who also have fallen due to sexual misconduct allegations in Weinstein’s wake. What he said in that interview with ABC News didn’t go over well: The Internet dragged him for tone-deaf comments about…
Read moreIn another instance of #MeToo, actress Kristina Cohen has alleged that Ed Westwick—aka Chuck Bass from “Gossip Girl”—raped her three years ago. Via a lengthy and detailed Facebook post, Cohen says she was taken to Westwick’s home by a producer she was dating at the time. She claims that she first became uncomfortable when the…
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PHOTO: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images News broke last week that rapper Nelly had been accused of sexual assault by a woman with whom he’d allegedly returned to his tour bus after a concert in Seattle-area Washington. Now, the woman is dropping all charges and halting the resulting criminal investigation. The alleged sexual assault took place early…
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