Some in Hollywood and beyond have complained of a rush to judgment. But public-relations and employment-law experts say that in the post-Weinstein era, companies feel they have to take fast, decisive action — and should, even at the risk of being sued by those who have been fired.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A group of women who worked alongside Al Franken on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” have signed a statement of support for the Minnesota senator. Last week, broadcaster […]
Charlie Rose is the latest public figure to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, with CBS News dismissing him today following a Washington Post report Monday citing accusations by eight women. The network’s news president, David Rhodes, said there is nothing more important than assuring a safe, professional workplace.
21st Century Fox has reached a $90 million settlement of shareholder claims arising from the sexual harassment scandal at its Fox News Channel, which cost the jobs of longtime news chief Roger Ailes and anchor Bill O’Reilly.
After actor Anthony Edwards publicly accused producer Gary Goddard of molesting him as a child four decades ago, a second accuser has come forward to corroborate Edwards’ claim and allege that Goddard also attempted to molest him on multiple occasions.
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Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas. PBS and Bloomberg immediately suspended distribution of the Charlie Rose show. CBS announced that it was suspending Rose as it looked into the matter.
Lindsay Menz spoke to CNN about the senator, whom she claims grabbed her inappropriately in 2010.
Facing two accusations of sexual harassment by members of the Transparent team that he has strongly denied, Jeffrey Tambor, in an ambiguous statement Sunday that heavily implies, though doesn’t confirm, an imminent departure from the Emmy-winning series, Tambor referenced what he calls a “politicized atmosphere” that has afflicted the set. He said that this is “no longer the job I signed up for four years ago.”
Trace Lysette, who plays yoga instructor Shea on Transparent, is the second accuser to allege misconduct by the show’s star; Amazon says the new information “will be added to our ongoing investigation.”
Broadcaster and model Leeann Tweeden said Thursday that Al Franken “forcibly kissed” and groped her during a USO tour in 2006, two years before the Minnesota Democrat’s election to the U.S. Senate. “You knew exactly what you were doing,” Tweeden wrote in a blog post for KABC-AM Los Angeles, for which she works as a morning news anchor. Tweeden’s blog post included an image of Franken looking into a camera, his hands either over or on Tweeden’s chest as she slept.
Legal woes for Weinstein Co. mounted Wednesday when the company was hit with a class-action lawsuit on behalf of dozens of women accusing co-founder Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, battery and lewd conduct.
Andy Henry, who was dismissed from the procedural in 2008 but went on to work on major films like The Amazing Spider-Man and Elysium, has been placed on a leave of absence from his current employer.
It’s not simply about preventing sexual harassment; it’s about also acknowledging that this is often a part of a sexist and unequal work environment.
Actresses who star on some of TV’s top superhero shows aren’t naming names. But in the wake of Warner Bros.’s suspension last week of producer Andrew Kreisberg following allegations about his behavior, several performers in DC Comics-based TV shows are speaking out against sexual harassment in Hollywood.
The actress is identified only as Jane Doe in the sexual battery lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. It alleges that Harvey Weinstein held the woman against her will while Weinstein engaged in sexual situations.
Matt Zimmerman, a veteran of NBC News, has been fired amid allegations of inappropriate conduct with two women at the news division.
Stars of The CW show including Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz released a statement in support of writer Audrey Wauchope, who tweeted about harassment from showrunner Mark Schwann without publicly naming him.
George Takei, the 80-year-old “Star Trek” icon, said in a series of tweets that events described by Scott R. Brunton in The Hollywood Reporter “simply did not occur,” and he does not remember ever knowing Brunton. Dreyfuss, meanwhile, told the New York magazine blog Vulture he flirted and even kissed Los Angeles writer Jessica Teich over several years but thought it was a “consensual seduction ritual.
Warner Bros. TV Group has launched an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior by Andrew Kreisberg, an executive producer on The CW shows Arrow, Supergirl The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Kreisberg, who has been suspended by the studio, has engaged in a pattern of alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact over a period of years, according to 15 women and four men who have worked with him.
Twenty past participants of the annual workshop told Vulture that casting director Fern Orenstein and the program’s former producer Rick Nanjera required black actors to play slaves in sketches, asked Latina actresses to “slut it up” and body-shamed performers of both sexes.
The comedian released a lengthy statement after five women claimed he sexually harassed them in a New York Times exposé.
Kater Gordon won an Emmy for co-writing an episode of Mad Men with the show’s creator, and was let go from the series a year later. She alleges that while working together late one night, Weiner told her that she owed it to him to let him see her naked. Weiner denies the allegation.
As the powerful comedian found success by talking about his hang-ups, he was also asking female comics and co-workers to watch him masturbate.
Amazon Studios is conducting an investigation into a sexual harassment allegation levied against Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed. The accusations stem from a private Facebook post penned by Tambor’s former assistant. Tambor rejected the claims on Wednesday, calling the allegations “baseless.”
In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The organization that bestows the Emmy Awards has voted to expel Harvey Weinstein in the wake of numerous allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against the […]
Near-daily disclosures of misconduct from men in New York and Los Angeles — as outlined in a since-deleted spreadsheet of “Shitty Media Men” — have blanketed the landscape with a palpable unease: “We all wake up thinking, ‘Who’s next?’ “
His departure comes after Tuesday’s Washington Post report on sexual harassment allegations from two women while he was at The New York Times in the 1990s.
