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Fast Forward Steve Wynn’s $18B Casino Empire Teeters After Resignation Amid Scandal
Steve Wynn, the billionaire casino magnate, resigned from his post as CEO of Wynn Resorts on Tuesday amid reports in multiple newspapers that he coerced women into sex and created a sexually abusive workplace culture for women. The move left his company in turmoil, with multiple pending lawsuits against the company and a half-finished, $2.4…
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Fast Forward Steve Wynn Resigns As CEO Of Resort Empire Amid Sexual Misconduct Scandal
Steve Wynn resigned as CEO of Wynn Resorts, his Las Vegas casino empire, amid multiple newspaper reports that he sexually harassed employees and led a sexually exploitative workplace culture, the New York Times reported. “In the last couple of weeks, I have found myself the focus of an avalanche of negative publicity,” Wynn said in…
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Community The First Story In The Bible Was The First Case Of #MeToo
I’m sitting at home watching the news this past week in awe and with gratitude. More than 150 young women, including several world class athletes, have come forward to talk about the unspeakable abuse they endured at the hands of a predator doctor. One by one, they’ve broken through silence — often at a nearly…
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Opinion I Don’t Believe Dylan Farrow
It seems the #MeToo wrecking ball is finally catching up with Woody Allen. The 82-year-old actor and filmmaker has long been haunted by allegations that he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, more than a quarter-century ago, when she was just seven years old. In 2014, Farrow wrote an open letter with the accusation, and…
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Fast Forward Article Exposing Steve Wynn’s Sexual Coercion Killed In 1998
The Las Vegas Review-Journal stopped the publication of an article detailing Steve Wynn’s rampant sexual harassment and ordered the article deleted from the newspaper’s computer system, the Review-Journal reported. The article was killed in 1998 after Wynn’s lawyers met with newspaper leadership, and the newspaper paid for two former employees of Wynn to undergo lie…
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Opinion It’s Time For A Holocaust #MeToo Reckoning
Over the past few months, more and more women have been opening up about horrible stories of sexual harassment, assault and abuse. The #MeToo movement is a long overdue corrective to our culture. And yet the stories of one group of women have yet to crest into the mainstream and get the recognition they deserve:…
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The Schmooze Anthony Rapp Speaks Out About Kevin Spacey Accusations: ‘I Was Trying To Protect People’
Anthony Rapp, the “Startrek: Discovery” actor whose allegations in Buzzfeed that Kevin Spacey had made sexual advances on him as a child had an explosive impact on the #MeToo movement in October, gave his first TV interview about Spacey on Friday. WATCH: @startrekcbs star Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) responds to the outpouring of support he has…
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Fast Forward University of Iowa Will Drop Steve Wynn’s Name From Major Institute He Funded
The University of Iowa says it is planning to remove Steve Wynn’s name from a major institute on its campus in the wake of sexual assault allegations made against him, the Washington Post reported. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wynn had pressured employees into sex. In 2013, the University of Iowa unveiled…
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