Chris Noth has been dropped from the CBS crime drama series The Equalizer following allegations of sexual assault, as The Hollywood Reporter reports. “Chris Noth will no longer film additional episodes ofThe Equalizer, effective immediately,” CBS andUniversal Television said in a statement Monday. The actor will appear in one more …
Read More »Ron Jeremy Sued for Alleged Sexual Assault
Ron Jeremy is facing a new civil lawsuit from Charity Carson, who has accused the adult film star of sexually assaulting her at a Los Angeles hotel in May, Variety reports. In the suit, which was reportedly filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Thursday, November 12th, Carson accused Jeremy …
Read More »Chanel Miller, Survivor at the Center of Brock Turner Case, Comes Forward
Chanel Miller, the sexual assault survivor at the center of the Stanford swimmer Brock Turner case whose victim’s statement generated international sympathy and outrage, has come forward in a new interview with 60 Minutes.The interview marks the first time Miller has publicly revealed her name and her face. Miller, who …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein Trial Delayed Until 2020 Amidst New Indictment
Harvey Weinstein‘s sexual assault trial has been pushed back to January after the disgraced movie executive pleaded not guilty to revised charges on predatory sexual assault Monday, the Associated Press reports. Weinstein’s trial was set to begin next month, but the new development prompted the judge to push the start …
Read More »E. Jean Carroll Alleges President Donald Trump Assaulted Her
In an explosive essay excerpted in New York magazine from her upcoming book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, writer andEllecolumnist E. Jean Carroll alleged that President Donald Trump assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale department store in New York City. In …
Read More »Sweden's 'Man-Free' Music Festival Rebuked for Gender Discrimination
Sweden’s Statement festival, billed as “the world’s first major music festival for women, non-binary and transgender only” people has been excoriated for breaching the country’s ban on gender discrimination. The Statement festival was held in Gothenburg, Sweden in August following a crowdfunding campaign. Comedian Emma Knyckare founded the event as …
Read More »Why The Harvey Weinstein Allegations Could Change Our Culture
Someday we’ll look back on the great Harvey Weinstein scandal of 2017 as the moment the worm turned on the patriarchy, at least for a while. It was the critical mass that did it. Among the many remarkable things about the story has been the way it has unfolded, or …
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