Tag: #MeToo

Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges that were filed against Kevin Spacey over an alleged sexual assault. In 2016, the 18-year-old son of news anchor Heather Unruh met Spacey at a bar in Nantucket. He said that Spacey bought him eight to ten drinks and then groped his genitals under the table. Spacey was charged last year with one count of indecent assault and battery. On Tuesday, the Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe announced that the charge against Spacey was being...

Kevin Spacey in court (screen capture via GMA) Prosecutors in Massachusetts have dropped criminal charges against Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey just days after his accuser invoked his Fifth Amendment rights while on the witness stand. Spacey was facing charges of indecent assault and battery in connection to allegations stemming from an incident in 2016 where he was accused of ‘groping’ an 18-year-old male at a Nantucket bar, the Club Car Bar, where the then-18-year-old worked. According to the accuser, he was...

X-Men director Bryan Singer paid $150,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged he raped a minor. In 2017, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman accused Singer of sexually assaulting him during a yacht party near Seattle, Washington, in 2003, when he was 17-years-old. He said that Singer performed nonconsensual oral sex on him and raped him. Singer said it never happened. Sanchez-Guzman filed a lawsuit in the state of Washington two years ago. Singer’s attorneys argued that the suit was filed after the statute of limitations...

A man walks into a bar. The women all pause. Then … action! Mouths drop, knees weaken, and one smitten lady after another makes her move. Some pounce, others merely purr. It’s a scenario straight out of a heterosexual male fantasy. What happens, though, when the admirers are men? Does it go from being a straight man’s wet dream to an emotionally distressing nightmare? Will he require therapy to recover? Let’s change the setting to the workplace, where colleagues used to be able...

Donald Trump and his son told anti-LGBTQ extremist Roy Moore to not run for Senate, saying that his “ego” is less important than Make America Great Again . Before his failed 2017 bid for U.S. Senator from Alabama, Moore was best known for losing his job as chief justice of the state supreme court twice due to his refusal to follow the law instead of his personal Christian conservative views. During the campaign, though, several women accused him of making inappropriate...

Ellen Degeneres talked about her stepfather’s sexual abuse in an interview. Ellen was talking to David Letterman on his Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction when she brought up her stepfather, who assaulted her when she was a teenager. She said that when she was around 15-years-old, the “very bad man” felt her breasts. “He told me when she was out of town that he’d felt a lump in breast and needed to feel my breasts because he didn’t...

Ellen DeGeneres in new comedy special “Relatable” / Screenshot via YouTube @NetflixEllen DeGeneres has come forward to share more about her personal story with sexual assault. While talking to David Letterman on the second season of his Netflix Show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the popular comedian and daytime talk show host talked about being assaulted by her stepfather. DeGeneres says her mother Betty married a “very bad man” who took advantage...