Hollywood has reacted with shock to the news that the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction has been overturned by a New York court.
The fallen movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years in 2020 for two sex crimes, a decision that a court of appeals has now called the result of an unfair trial.
Weinstein will remain imprisoned after also being convicted of rape in Los Angeles and sentenced to 16 years.
Have rape allegations lost their power?
It was autumn 2018, just over five years ago, when Christine Blasey Ford uttered that unforgettable line. “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” she said, referring to the gleeful cackling of a young Brett Kavanaugh as he allegedly drunkenly pinned her down and pawed at her clothes in an attempted assault.
The five members of the Canada’s 2018 world junior team facing sexual assault charges have requested a trial by jury.
The five players, Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton, made the request in London on Tuesday.
The Hockey Canada scandal is back in the headlines after five players were charged over an alleged group sexual assault that took place in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018. The arrests follow the 2022 revelation that Hockey Canada used taxpayer dollars and membership dues to pay off victims of sexual assaults and quiet them with non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs. The victim in the London case reported to police and co-operated throughout – but the police sent her back to Hockey Canada for their own internal investigation. This is a common practice where a powerful institution or corporation is involved.
Russell Brand has said accusations of sexual assault made against him are “very, very hurtful”.
The actor and comedian has denied allegations of rape, assault and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013.
The allegations were reported as part of an investigation by the Times, the Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
News that five players from Canada’s 2018 World Junior team are expected to face sexual assault charges is raising questions about next steps in the high-profile case.
This week, the Globe and Mail reported the players have been given until late next week to surrender to police in London, Ont., where a group sexual assault allegedly unfolded in 2018.
Probably career ending.
Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, according to two sources.
The pending charges are connected to an alleged group sexual assault of a woman in a hotel room. The incident occurred following a Hockey Canada fundraising gala in June, 2018, where the players were honoured for their win at the world junior championships.
One-time Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, who was accused of attacking five women in the private bedroom suite of his downtown Toronto office building, was found guilty by a Toronto jury on Sunday of four counts of sexual assault.
He was acquitted of one of five counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.
Nygard, 82, who wore a black parka in court, didn’t appear to show any emotion as the verdict was handed down on the jurors’ fifth day of deliberations.
Maybe stay away from the guy with the Stripper pole in his jet.
The Metropolitan Police says it will investigate allegations of “non-recent” sexual offences following news reports about comedian Russell Brand.
The force has received a “number of allegations of sexual offences in London” as well as elsewhere in the country, and no arrests had been made.
It follows a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches in which four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape.
Our attitudes towards sex have changed profoundly over the past two decades – and not always for the better.
You have to hand it to Channel 4. Two decades ago, the broadcaster helped fuel Russell Brand’s rise to fame. Now, it has removed all of the old programmes that feature him from its website. Back in the 2000s, Channel 4 gained viewers and revenue from Brand’s lewd antics. Today, it is winning plaudits for its Dispatches documentary, which features women accusing Brand of rape and sexual assault. No matter what else can be said about the quality of its output, Channel 4 clearly still excels at riding the cultural zeitgeist.
Russell Brand says it has been an “extraordinary and distressing” week after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him.
In a video published on social media, he thanked followers for their support and for “questioning the information that you’ve been presented with”.
They are his first public comments since allegations were published by the Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches last weekend.
Brand has denied the claims.
YouTube has suspended Russell Brand’s channels from making money from adverts for “violating” its “creator responsibility policy”.
The video platform said it was taking action “to protect” its users.
Meanwhile, the BBC said it had removed some programmes featuring the comedian and actor from its streaming services.
It comes after he was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013. He denies the claims, saying his relationships were “always consensual”.
I am not a fan but at this point he is innocent until proven guilty and YouTube is simply using this situation to not pay him.
In her first full interview, a woman who alleges that the comedian raped her tells The Times why she is talking about it now
When Nadia began her treatment at a medical centre for victims of rape, she struggled to verbalise what had just happened to her.
“I literally couldn’t say the word ‘rape’, ” she reflects. “I couldn’t believe that [could happen] to anyone I know, as silly as that was. But by the end of it, I was like, ‘Oh my god. He raped me.’ ”
It was summer 2012 and her assailant, Nadia claims, was Russell Brand, the actor and comedian, who at that point was at the height of his fame and living in Los Angeles.
Comedian Russell Brand was last night accused of raping a businesswoman and grooming a 16-year-old schoolgirl for sex.
In a string of bombshell allegations, the 48-year-old star was accused of sexual assaults and abusive and predatory behaviour between 2006 and 2013, when he was at the height of his fame.
Four women alleged they were assaulted by Brand, one of whom had previously told The Mail on Sunday of his ‘controlling and manipulative’ behaviour.
The media personality Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse during a seven-year period at the height of his fame.
The allegations were the result of a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
The actor and comedian had already moved to deny what he called “very serious criminal allegations” on Friday night. In a video posted online, Brand said he had received correspondence from a media company and a newspaper detailing the claims; this is standard practice for journalists preparing to report serious allegations about a named entity.
This is happening pic.twitter.com/N8zIKLbJN2
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) September 15, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand denies accusations of rape, sexual assault and controlling and emotionally abusive behaviour.
Five women share their stories with @C4Dispatches in a joint investigation with @thetimes.
Watch Russell Brand: In Plain Sight tonight at 9pm on @Channel4 pic.twitter.com/gmVMCAsh2B
— Channel 4 Dispatches (@C4Dispatches) September 16, 2023
This is the Original Times Expose – Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
