NEW YORK—New York City prosecutors abandoned part of their sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein on Oct. 11 after evidence surfaced that a police detective dead set on putting the Hollywood mogul behind bars had coached a witness to stay silent about evidence that cast doubt on the allegations of one of his earliest accusers. […]

NEW YORK—A New York judge dismissed one of the six criminal charges against movie producer Harvey Weinstein on Oct. 10, after prosecutors said they could not oppose the dismissal in light of information they had learned while investigating the case. The dismissed charge concerns an alleged sexual assault of an aspiring actress by Weinstein in […]

Commentary Supreme Court confirmations weren’t always such a close-run thing. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out in criticizing the conduct of the Kavanaugh hearing, her own confirmation (1993) was supported 96–3, and Antonin Scalia’s (1986) by 98–0, that is, by large bipartisan majorities, although they differed strongly in their approach to the Constitution itself. They were also known […]

NORRISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA—His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced on Sept. 25, to 3 to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison. The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall from […]

LOS ANGELES—”The Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson has spoken with actor Ashley Judd’s legal team and could furnish “powerful” testimony supporting her defamation and sexual harassment suit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, her attorney said on Sept. 17. Judd’s civil suit, filed in April, accused Weinstein of discouraging Jackson in 1998 from casting […]

Commentary Why is Christine Blasey Ford being given an opportunity to testify before a Senate panel about her unsubstantiated smears against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh? The answer is fairly simple: Our leaders lack the moral courage to say no. Our leaders cater to the political left and the media narrative without applying common sense […]

NEW YORK—Six additional women have raised assault and harassment claims against CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves in a media report published Sunday. The new disclosures come as the media company is expected to announce on Monday that Moonves is resigning following similar claims previously made by six other women against the executive, said sources familiar […]

A female pioneer of the #MeToo movement, who was one of the first to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, allegedly paid off her own accuser in secret, a new report by The New York Times revealed. Italian director and actress Asia Argento reportedly paid actor-musician Jimmy Bennett $380,000 in exchange for not suing […]

Actress Asia Argento reportedly paid off a 17-year-old actor after having consensual sex with him in a California hotel room in 2013. According to documents sent to the New York Times, the 42-year-old actress had an encounter with 17-year-old actor and musician Jimmy Bennett at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Marina del Rey, California. Argento was […]

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office said on Aug. 9 that it was reviewing new sexual assault cases involving three celebrities: film producer Harvey Weinstein, action movie star Steven Seagal, and actor Anthony Anderson, the star of the television comedy series “Black-ish.” The case involving Weinstein brings to six the number under review by […]

CBS has announced the hiring of two law firms that will conduct an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against CEO Les Moonves. Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton will also probe allegations that the company culture at CBS tolerated and even promoted abusive behavior, CBS said. Both sets of allegations were reported by The […]

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, one of the most powerful men in media, is being accused of sexual misconduct. On Friday, The New Yorker magazine is slated to publish an article detailing unwanted kissing and touching. Ronan Farrow, the son of actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen, is slated to publish his New Yorker report […]

Dan Harmon, the creator of NBC sitcom “Community” and co-creator of the animated series “Rick and Morty,” is the latest Hollywood figure to be mired in controversy over alleged “jokes” centering on pedophilia and rape. In a comedy pilot screened back in 2009, Harmon, also an actor, plays the role of a child molester named Daryl. […]

Celebrity chef and television host Anthony Bourdain, who died last month, slammed disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton in a newly released interview with an online magazine. French officials said that Bourdain killed himself in a Paris-area hotel room while he was filming the CNN show “Parts Unknown.” In […]

Harvey Weinstein, 66, appeared in a Manhattan court again on July 9 to plead not guilty to two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. The charges stem from an incident in 2006 in which a woman said he performed an unwanted sex act on her. That charge was revealed […]

News Analysis STOCKHOLM—There won’t be a Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 2018. The reason: A reckoning following decades of alleged sexual misconduct among the very cream of the Swedish cultural elite. The Swedish Academy is internationally known almost exclusively for selecting the recipient of the world’s most prestigious literary award, the Nobel Prize in […]

Harvey Weinstein, the former film producer accused of sexually assaulting scores of women, was indicted on additional charges Monday and, if convicted, he could possibly face life behind bars. The former movie mogul is already facing three sex crime charges, including allegations involving two women, carrying a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. The […]

Actor Morgan Freeman said on Friday, May 26, any suggestion he assaulted women or created an unsafe workplace is false and apologized to anyone he may have upset after media reported that women have accused him of inappropriate behavior or harassment. The accusations against the Oscar-winning actor are the latest in a torrent against male […]

NEW YORK—Film producer Harvey Weinstein on Friday, May 25, surrendered to authorities at a New York City police station on sex crime charges, months after he was toppled from Hollywood’s most powerful ranks by scores of women accusing him of misconduct. More than 70 women have accused the co-founder of the Miramax film studio and […]

NEW YORK—Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to New York City police on charges of sexual misconduct on Friday morning, the New York Times reported, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials. Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Weinstein, declined to comment on the report. The New York Daily News and NBC News […]

BEIJING/HONG KONG—U.S.-based venture capital firm IDG Capital has fired a top investment manager in China, following leaked messages on social media purporting to show he had made sexual advances toward several women in the course of his work. Jiang Zuo, also known as Douglas Jiang, joined IDG in 2013 to lead the firm’s cryptocurrency investments. […]

Democratic New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned after allegations of physical abuse raised by four women were reported in an article in The New Yorker magazine. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had called for Schneiderman’s resignation within hours of the article’s publication, and only slightly more than an hour later, Schneiderman, a Democrat who […]

Private equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of the Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, the Weinstein Company said on Tuesday. “Lantern’s bid clearly achieves the highest and best value for the estate and […]

LOS ANGELES—Hollywood actress Ashley Judd on Monday filed a defamation and sexual harassment lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, alleging that he damaged her movie career after she refused his sexual advances. The civil lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, accuses Weinstein of causing Judd to lose a part in 1998 […]

NEW YORK—Film and TV studio The Weinstein Co., whose ex-chairman Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and assault, filed for bankruptcy on March 19 and said it was ending all nondisclosure agreements that may have silenced some women. The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware follows accusations by more than 70 women […]

Hollywood actor Corey Feldman has posted photos to his Twitter count from the bed of a medical center, saying that he was stabbed. The former 1980s child star believed he was being followed the night of March 27, saying his bodyguard aimed a flashlight into an adjacent car, according to information Feldman told police, via […]

NEW YORK—U.S. film and TV studio The Weinstein Company, whose ex-Chairman Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and assault, said on Monday it filed for bankruptcy and was ending all non-disclosure agreements that may have silenced some women. The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy in the Delaware court, listing $500 million to $1 […]

SYDNEY—An Australian court on Tuesday threw out part of News Corp’s defense against a defamation lawsuit by Geoffrey Rush, a win for the Oscar-winning actor who objected to a series of newspaper articles accusing him of inappropriate conduct. Rush is suing News’s Australian arm over a series of articles in 2017 saying he was the […]

News Analysis Hollywood has become synonymous with its opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies in recent years. Virtually every A-list actor and actress has verbally attacked the president, and the industry’s most famous awards ceremonies have been increasingly tainted with partisan politics. Hollywood, however, has been struggling with its own controversies, including allegations […]

It may have been just a temporary tattoo but the criticism of Emma Watson’s grammatical gaffe came thick and fast. The star had the tattoo on her arm when she was pictured on the red carpet at Sunday’s Vanity Fair Oscars party. It read “Times Up” in support of the movement against sexual harassment. But […]