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Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court yesterday (Monday 18 March) that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the Kelly at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans, including children, for decades. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean, seeking to reverse his 2021 convictions or to win him a new trial, tried to persuade three judges on the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that prosecutors improperly used a racketeering statute written to shut down organized crime ...
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South Korea's Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been found guilty of sexual misconduct, a local court said Friday, after he was charged with assaulting an actress in 2017. The actor was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. He has been also ordered to attend 40 hours of classes on sexual violence. “I am sorry,” he told reporters while walking into his first court hearing in February 2023. “I think I behaved badly.” Nevertheless, he continued to deny the indecent assault charge, which carried a potential prison sentence of up to 10 years. Prosecutors charged O in 2022 afte...
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A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, who has represented the victims of Jeffery Epstein and Bill Cosby, on Tuesday (12 March). The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The unnamed plaintiff who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was ...
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Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski goes on trial in France today over allegations he defamed British actress Charlotte Lewis, who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s. The 90-year-old director, who currently resides in Paris, is not due to appear in court, his lawyers have said. Lewis, 56, will be present at the trial. Lewis claimed in May 2010 that Polanski had sexually assaulted her during an audition at his Paris home in 1983, when she was just 16 years old. The actress, who later starred in Polanski's 1986 film Pirates, did not go to the police in the UK, but instead shared...
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Launched by American activist Tarana Burke in 2006, the #MeToo hashtag was popularised by American actress Alyssa Milano on social networks, and contributed to the downfall of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. It shook Hollywood to its core and sparked worldwide conversations about the sexism, sexual harassment and abuse suffered by women across the planet, no matter their industries. While the movement gained momentum in countries like the UK and Sweden, others like Italy and France have been lagging behind – even if some cases have started to shake things up, like the Til Schweiger accusa...
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This week, Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by a music producer who accuses the billionaire hip-hop mogul of sexually assaulting him and forcing him to have sex with prostitutes. The extensive 73-page suit, containing graphic details and photographs, accuses the Grammy-winning artist of repeated instances of unsolicited groping and sexual touching. Combs' lawyer has called the events described as “pure fiction.” However, this marks the fifth lawsuit in recent moments involving sexual assault allegations against him. Let's take a closer look at the dark web of accusations surrounding the Bad Bo...
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French actor Gérard Depardieu is facing a new complaint of sexual assault, this time from a set decorator who alleges he groped her during filming in 2021. In a complaint to the Paris prosecutor’s office, she accuses him of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexist insults, her lawyer said on Monday. The 53-year-old woman alleges he grabbed her and “kneaded her waist and stomach up to her breasts” during the filming of “Les Volets Verts” (The Green Shutters). Her lawyer said other people intervened to stop the alleged incident. It is the second allegation of sexual misconduct by the 75-yea...
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A lawsuit filed by a woman accusing Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting her twice in 1975 when she was 17 has been dismissed by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan. Kaplan stated that former child model Jeanne Bellino waited too long to sue the 75-year-old rock star, as reported by the Reuters news agency. In 1975, Aerosmith were extensively touring the US with their third album ‘Toys in the Attic’ featuring the hit song ‘Walk This Way’. At the time, a 17-year-old Bellino was at a fashion show when a friend arranged for her to meet Tyler at the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan. Bellino a...
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French actress Judith Godrèche has lodged a rape complaint against filmmaker Benoît Jacquot, according to French newspaper Le Monde. French prosecutors said today that they had opened an inquiry after Godrèche filed a complaint against Jacquot, accusing him of raping her in a relationship that began when she was 14 and he was 39. Godrèche, 51, accuses Jacquot, 77, of “predation” and “violent rape of a minor under 15 years old committed by a person in authority.” “The Paris prosecutor’s office has entrusted the investigation to the Juvenile Protection Brigade,” a spokesperson told Variety. “The...
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The first ever EU-wide legislation to protect women against violence, tabled by the Commission in 2022, aims to define the crime of rape as sex without consent - with no need for victims to provide evidence of force, threats or coercion. It is based on the 'only yes means yes' concept and follows recent legal overhauls in countries such as Spain and the Netherlands to close loopholes and better protect victims. But negotiations with EU capitals have been at a deadlock for months as twelve member states - among them France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic - oppo...
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