Kevin Spacey is “a man who does not respect personal boundaries” and gets a thrill from preying on other men, prosecutors told jurors at the start of the actor’s sexual assault trial in London on Friday.
The 63-year-old faces 12 charges, including sexual assault, indecent assault, and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent. The latter charge carries a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
The Oscar-winning actor has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Can you remember your first awkward romantic encounter as a teenager? The first time someone touched you flirtatiously? The first time you kissed someone? These are rites of passage that almost every adolescent experiences. And although it may be nerve-wracking for an inexperienced youth to make the first move, it’s how we all learn – boys and girls alike – about boundaries and reading social cues.
Harvey Weinstein appeared Thursday in a Los Angeles court, where he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping a woman in 2013.
Judge Lisa B. Lench denied the disgraced movie mogul’s request for a new trial before victim, Jane Doe 1, only identified as an Italian model, gave an impact statement.
Weinstein — who is already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for criminal sexual assault and third-degree rape — then spoke to the court to plead for leniency before his sentence was handed down.
MeToo-style accusations against a teen snowballed into exclusion from school, a police interview and a stabbing threat, reveals his father
Last year our 14-year-old son was accused of sexually assaulting girls at his school. I was at home when the phone call came from my son’s private school near London. He was being sent home early. I was told he had been accused of inappropriate touching and was suspended till further notice. It was the start of a 14-month ordeal which included him being excluded from school, threatened with expulsion and reported to the local authority’s child protection service and the police.
MONTREAL — A report commissioned by a non-profit organization founded by the late Jean Vanier says the Canadian sexually abused 25 women during his decades with the group.
L’Arche International says the investigation identified 25 women who experienced a sexual act or an intimate gesture from Vanier between 1952 and 2019.
The #MeToo Puritans have removed Elvira Mistress of the Dark’s iconic cleavage and appear to have done so with the okay of Elvira herself. Will the Woke Gestapo ever cease?
Just when the #MeToo movement looked to be getting marginalised in just the way activists had feared, a new frontier has opened up – history.
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who as teens starred in Franco Zeffirelli’s movie version of Romeo and Juliet in 1968, are suing Paramount for more than $500m for child abuse in the semi-nude scene they say they were made to do, having originally been assured by the director that this would not be necessary. This was act three, scene five – in which the star crossed, loved-up hero and heroine awake after their (secret) wedding night.
Aerosmith star Steven Tyler has been hit with a lawsuit over a relationship he allegedly had with a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s, with the rocker being accused of sexually abusing an underage girl.
The lawsuit was filed by Julia Holcomb under California’s Child Victims Act, which created a three-year “look-back” window for filing civil suits over child sexual abuse claims, temporarily lifting the statute of limitations, according to the Daily Mail — in Holcomb’s case, her window expires Saturday, December 31.
She should probably be suing her Mother as well.
OTTAWA – The Canadian Armed Forces is facing calls to return Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin to duty after the senior officer, who previously oversaw the Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, was acquitted of sexual assault.
The military says it is considering the implications of the ruling, which was handed down by a Quebec civilian judge on Monday following a high-profile trial.
Fortin’s lawyer, Natalia Rodriguez, says her client is ready, willing and able to return to service after being essentially put on paid leave for more than a year.
Why shouldn’t he be reinstated? Sounds like the CAF has something against heterosexuals.
GATINEAU, Que. – A judge has acquitted Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin of sexual assault over an allegation that dates back to 1988.
The allegation stemmed from his time at the military college in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., which the complainant also attended.
A judge has sentenced former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard to five years in prison for a particularly “manipulative and degrading” rape.
“I believe (the victim). I accept her evidence in its entirety,” Justice Gillian Roberts said in a Toronto court Thursday.
After a four-week trial in May and a six-days of contentious deliberation, a jury found the 38-year-old former Hedley frontman guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm of the Ottawa woman, but not guilty of groping a 15-year-old fan after a concert and sexually assaulting her in a hotel room after she turned 16.
Jury selection begins today in Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial where nine women – including Gavin Newsom’s wife – will testify about how he allegedly abused them.
The trial is expected to last for months and could put Weinstein behind bars for life. In this case, he faces 11 charges relating to alleged crimes against five women. An additional four will testify as bad character witnesses.
Among the alleged victims to whom the charges pertain is Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Five years after women’s stories about him made the #MeToo movement explode, Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in the city where he once was a colossus at the Oscars.
Already serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York, the 70-year-old former movie mogul faces different allegations including several that prosecutors say occurred during a pivotal Oscar week in Los Angeles. Jury selection for an eight-week trial begins Monday.
Weinstein has been indicted on four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts involving five women, who will appear in court as Jane Does to tell their stories. He has pleaded not guilty.
Harvey Weinstein’s life story would make a great movie. A tragedy, to be specific.
The Oscar-winning producer had the film industry under his thumb, but along the way he used that power to sexually punish starlets. He’s sitting in jail now for his crimes, but the investigative report that sealed his downfall will soon be a major motion picture.
She Said recalls The New York Times reporters whose expose ended Weinstein’s reign of terror.
The verdict is in. Everyone waiting outside slips nervously back into the vast Toronto courtroom at 361 University Ave., an amalgam of old wood, blue speckled carpet, fancy office chairs, cameras, flat screens, plastic water bottles, and well-worn pews.
