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How a sex scandal thwarts the presumption of innocence

5 months ago
Pride goes before the fall, as the saying is. A sex scandal affecting one of the most popular tv shows in the Netherlands reveals that lust might give a hand too. The scandal endangers the position of international media tycoon John de Mol. A scandal that shows how trial by (social) media thwarts the presumption […]
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Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York

4 years ago
Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities Friday to face sex assault charges in connection with attacks on multiple women. The fallen Hollywood honcho is expected to be charged with preying on Lucia Evans, who told investigators that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004, and at least one other […]
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#MeToo offers lessons for Arabs too

4 years ago
Did we Arabs ever wonder how we would have dealt with our own Harvey Weinstein moment, if there was one? Have we ever spared a thought for sexual assault victims in the region? Human rights groups and legal correspondents say Arab women keep their nightmares hidden behind closed doors and high walls due to social […]
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Harvey Weinstein's staff gave him erectile drugs, kept 'bibles' on women, 'New York Times' report says

5 years ago
There are still more revelations about Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconductand the ways the powerful producer covered his tracks. On Tuesday night, The New York Times published a scathing new report with fresh details on the ways Weinstein took advantage of assistants, manipulated colleagues and worked in cahoots with gossip writers. His assistants supplied him with drugs for erectile dysfunction. […]
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Israeli company worked with Weinstein against women

5 years ago
Harvey Weinstein hired Black Cube, which markets itself as a group of ex-members of Israeli intelligence units specialising in business and litigation challenges, to help stop the publication of abuse allegations against him, according to The New Yorker. One account in The New Yorker article described two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, […]
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Harvey Weinstein Hired Private Investigators, Former Spies to Discredit Accusers, Journalists

5 years ago
When Ronan Farrow appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Friday night, the investigative journalist promised that a new Harvey Weinstein piece was coming, one that would explore "this machine that was so instrumental in keeping this quiet as long as it was quiet — I think there is much more to be said […]
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Addressing sexual harassment at work starts with HR

5 years ago
A woman is sexually harassed or assaulted at work. She alerts her company’s human resources department, which does nothing. Only after she makes her allegations public does her employer pay attention. It’s a narrative familiar now only because women like former Uber engineer Susan Fowler and others have risked their careers to tell their stories […]
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Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment against 17-year-old

5 years ago
Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexual harassment against a 17-year-old intern in 1985. Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges that the actor, now 80, groped her on the set of TV movie Death of a Salesman and spoke inappropriately about sex with her. “He asked me to give him a foot massage my first day […]
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Kevin Spacey accused of sexual harassment

5 years ago
Actor Kevin Spacey said on Sunday he is “beyond horrified” by allegations that he made sexual advances on a teen boy decades ago. The two-time Oscar winner posted on Twitter that he doesn’t remember the encounter. “But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have […]
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George H.W. Bush offers a second apology. Two actresses have accused him of groping.

5 years ago
Former president George H.W. Bush apologized after actress Heather Lind said he groped her as they posed for a picture at an event a few years ago — and that his wife, Barbara Bush, saw it happen. In a brief response to the allegations, which Lind detailed in a recent Instagram post that she has since […]
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