Actress Ashley Judd filed a lawsuit against former film producer Harvey Weinstein for allegedly attempting to destroy her career, the New York Post reported. Judd told ABC News on Monday that because she would not give into Weinstein’s sexual advances, he stopped her from getting work. “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson said last…
A leading movement representing atheists has fired its president over accusations of sexual misconduct. American Atheists, an organization devoted to the promotion of secularism and removal of expressions of religion in government, dumped David Silverman Friday after the release of a BuzzFeed News story that reported two women’s claims of nonconsensual sexual contact with them….
The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Reporting by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of the Times and Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker exposed Weinstein’s misconduct during his years as one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, spurred…
No spaghetti straps. No shorts above the mid-thigh. No leggings without sweaters that cover the butt. Bras are required. Teenage girls at Joseph-François-Perrault High School seem to be channeling Nazi-era yellow stars of David on the eve of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in protest of their school’s dress code, which leaders of the student…
(JTA) — The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy, after struggling to stay solvent since allegations of sexual misconduct against co-owner Harvey Weinstein were made public in October. As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, the company released anyone “who suffered or witnessed any form of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein” from nondisclosure agreements, the…
Five women have accused Richard Meier, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect famous for designing Los Angeles’s Getty Center, of sexual misconduct, according to a March 13 New York Times article. The alleged episodes span 30 years and include descriptions of groping, indecent exposure and forcible kissing. After being informed of the allegations, Meier announced that he…
The season two trailer for “A Series of Unfortunate Events” dropped Wednesday, only weeks after author Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket, was accused by multiple women of making inappropriate sexual comments to them. The popular book series was turned into a television show by Netflix and stars Neil Patrick Harris as the evil…
In 2016, my roommate and I became friends over movies: Trapped in our top-floor apartment by a weekend blizzard, we watched “The Princess Diaries” and “Cinderella,” two ambitious young women briefly surrendering to the fantasy of being princesses in a tower. The snow melted, and we went back to work, but the bond was sealed….
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