The man who tried rushing Larry Nassar in court last week says he’s giving away the $ 31,000 people have raised for his defense to charity. Randall Margraves — the father of 3 of Nassar’s victims — released a statement Thursday, saying he’d be…
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Uma Thurman Recounts Being Attacked by Harvey Weinstein
It’s been a few months now since all the awful stories about Harvey Weinstein started pouring in …
And what a super depressing time it’s been.
Actress after actress has come forward to accuse Weinstein of everything from sexual harassment to sexual assault to rape, and though these stories have been coming out for so long now, we’ve yet to hear the end of it all.
We know that because today, Uma Thurman finally felt comfortable to reveal what Weinstein did to her.
A little bit of background: Uma has known Weinstein for years and years, ever since she starred in Pulp Fiction.
Back in November, she was asked about all the stories that had been coming out about him, and she explained to the reporter that she didn’t have a “tidy soundbite” prepared.
“I am not a child,” she said then, “and I have learned that when I’ve spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself.”
“So I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.”
She definitely seemed angry then, and she seemed even angrier a few weeks later when she shared a message about Thanksgiving with her followers on Instagram.
After talking about being “grateful,” she wrote that “I feel it’s important to take your time, be fair, be exact, so… Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!”
“Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators,” she added in parentheses. “I’m glad it’s going slowly — you don’t deserve a bullet.”
She advised everyone to “stay tuned,” and we have … and now in a new interview with the New York Times, she’s telling her story at long last.
To start, Uma explains that she began getting close to Harvey and his first wife after filming Pulp Fiction.
“I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,” she says. “He used to spend hours talking to me about material and complimenting my mind and validating me.”
“It possibly made me overlook warning signs.”
“This was my champion,” she continues. “I was never any kind of studio darling. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.”
Later, she says that she had a meeting with him in a hotel room — unfortunately, you can probably tell where the story is going at this point.
As they were discussing a script, Harvey changed into a bathrobe, but Uma says that she “didn’t feel threatened,” that she “thought he was being super idiosyncratic, like this was your kooky, eccentric uncle.”
After that, he told her to follow him as he went to a different room, and he ended up leading her to a steam room.
“And I was standing there in my full black leather outfit — boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ‘This is ridiculous, what are you doing?"”
“And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out,” she says.
Not too long after that, Uma says that she was meeting with Harvey in another hotel when he attacked her.
“It was such a bat to the head,” she recalls. “He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things.”
“But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me.”
She compares the experience to being “like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.”
“I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.”
The next day, he sent her roses with a card that just read “You have great instincts.”
How horrifying is that?
She went back to the hotel to confront him about what happened, but she says that his assistants tried to pressure her to let it go and to focus on the upcoming film projects she was working on with Harvey.
After finally agreeing to meet with him one more time, she told him “If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you.”
She says that that was the last thing she remembered of that night, but a friend of hers who’d gone with her to the hotel for support says that Uma stayed upstairs in Harvey’s room for a long time, and when she came back down “she was very disheveled and so upset and had this blank look.”
Harvey has already denied everything, beyond admitting that he did make an unsuccessful pass at Uma during that first hotel incident.
What a terrible story that just keeps getting worse, huh?
Uma Thurman Says Harvey Weinstein Sexually Attacked Her
Uma Thurman recently said she was waiting until her anger subsided to reveal what she insinuated was a sexual assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, and she’s now opened up. Uma says years ago she and Weinstein were in a Paris hotel room…
Friday, February 2, 2018
Larry Nassar Attacked By Victim"s Dad, "Gimme 1 Minute with that Bastard"
The father of one of Larry Nassar’s victims went nuclear in a Michigan court moments ago — violently trying to attack the ex-Team USA doctor in front of the judge in his sentencing case. Moments before the attack, Randall Margraves — father of…
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Flavor Flav Attacked in Las Vegas Casino
Flavor Flav was on the receiving end of a brutal beatdown in Vegas … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the attack happened Tuesday at the South Point Casino. Flav told cops the suspect, Ugandi Howard, accused him…
FSU"s Deondre Francois: I Didn"t Beat My Pregnant GF, She Attacked Me!
Florida State University QB Deondre Francois told police he’s the VICTIM in a domestic violence incident involving his pregnant girlfriend … and only got physical with her in an effort to restrain her. It’s all in the police report obtained…
Monday, January 22, 2018
Comedian Steve Brown Viciously Attacked During Set
Comic Steve Brown probably wishes he just got heckled Sunday night at a comedy club, because a disgruntled “fan” seemed gunning to kill him. Steve was doing a set at the Comedy House in Columbia, South Carolina when a guy in the audience jumped…
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
TMZ Live: Harvey Weinstein: Attacked On Video!
ON TODAY’S SHOW O.J. Simpson: I’m Not Khloe’s Dad! Oprah vs. Trump 2020 James Franco: Sexual Misconduct Allegations Gene Simmons: Kiss Would Play In North Korea!
Harvey Weinstein Attacked at Scottsdale Restaurant
Harvey Weinstein was attacked Tuesday night at a restaurant … TMZ has learned. Weinstein was at Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, eating dinner with his sober coach when 2 men sat at a table next to…
Friday, November 24, 2017
VH1 Star Kamal Givens Attacked By Monkeys in Thailand
VH1 star Kamal Givens messed with the monkeys, and he became a bloody mess. The “real Chance of Love” star was in Thailand Thursday shooting a documentary — “N**** in Thailand” — when he and Ricky Romance started playing with a group of…
VH1 Star Kamal Givens Attacked By Monkeys in Thailand
VH1 star Kamal Givens messed with the monkeys, and he became a bloody mess. The “real Chance of Love” star was in Thailand Thursday shooting a documentary — “N**** in Thailand” — when he and Ricky Romance started playing with a group of…
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Nick Young Says Dinosaur Attacked OKC Thunder Plane
It’s a bird! It’s a plane!! It’s … a dinosaur??? We asked Warriors baller Nick Young what the hell coulda smacked into the OKC Thunder airplane on Friday night — making a HUGE crater on the nose of the Boeing 757. Swaggy P’s…
Friday, August 11, 2017
Ezekiel Elliott Attacked Girlfriend 3 Times, NFL Says
Ezekiel Elliott beat up his girlfriend 3 times in the same week … and there are photos that prove it … this according to the NFL. The league laid out its case against Elliott in a letter to the Dallas Cowboys running back detailing a week…
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Coco Austin: Attacked by Mom-Shamers Over Butt Pic!
Coco Austin takes so many precious pictures with her daughter, little baby Chanel. Sometimes you even get to see Coco and Chanel in matching bikinis, which is super cute.
But some followers seemed to run out of patience with the mom, and took to posting their complaints on Chanel’s Instagram page. This is somewhere between mommy-shaming and body-shaming. We guess some folks don’t have anything better to do.
Mommy-shaming can start as early as pregnancy, especially for celebrities.
Once the baby’s born, it gets even worse, with followers second-guessing everything.
We’re not suggesting that nobody should question other parents, by any means.
The world is full of awful parents.
Coco doesn’t seem to meet that description at all.
(Though I’m more than a little judgy about piercing a baby’s ears; what the hell is with that, you know?)
But Coco posted one photo on Chanel’s Instagram page that had people up in arms.
Oh, it got some praise, sure, but also some criticism.
Here’s the photo that had judgmental Instagram followers clutching their pearls.
Okay, so Coco Austin’s butt really does take center stage, here.
And some of the more critical followers of the account weren’t here for it.
“Why post a pic of your a– on the baby’s page? Should probably save those pics for your own page lol.”
And then:
“I love seeing this cute little baby. But why do I always have to see her mom’s a– and t–ties too?”
Nice language there, buddy.
Somebody else wrote: “Save this for your mom’s page.”
As if, you know, baby Chanel is here posting her mom’s booty pics.
But Coco explains why she does this, and it makes sense.
“People always ask to see what the back of the bottoms look like.”
Weird how so many people take clothing advice from celebrities with wildly different lifestyles and body types than their own, but here we are.
“I post this to help boutiques that send packages to me. They always want to see a frontal and back”
Okay, that made us cringe a little.
No, it’s super nice of Coco to show off when she gets free stuff. We get that.
But people asking how it looks in front and in back may not be looking for suits of their own.
This sounds like when young celebrities ask “what should my next video be?” and some gross person suggests that they should paint their toenails or try on shoes.
Fortunately, more and more celebs are aware of foot fetishists but it’s still super uncomfortable.
And we’re weirded out by some of these folks asking for Coco to show off her swimsuit, you know?
More to the point, though … that’s just Coco’s body.
Critics have slammed Coco before for showing off her body and having a baby in her arms, but … how is this a big deal?
It shouldn’t be surprising that Coco, who’s never been shy of showing off her curves, remains who she is, even as a mother.
Those curves aren’t easy to contain, and Coco has zero obligation to even try.
So, sorry-not-sorry that not every picture of little baby Chanel is just of Chanel.
Some of them are going to include her mom.
Sometimes Coco is gonna twerk next to her baby, because that’s life.
If you can’t handle the butt, get off of the Instagram, we guess.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
A$AP Rocky Attacked at BET Awards Party with Kendrick Lamar, Huge Scuffle Erupts
A$ AP Rocky is the latest celeb to deal with a would-be assault that ended in chaos over BET Awards weekend. Rocky was attacked early Sunday morning while doing a gig at 1 OAK in L.A., where Kendrick Lamar also headlined and got treated…
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Chloe Lattanzi: Olivia Newton-John"s Daughter Attacked by Trolls Over Controversial Pic!
Considering that her mother, Olivia Newton John, was recently diagnosed with cancer, you’d think that people would understand that Chloe Lattanzi has enough on her plate and would step off.
Unfortunately, isn’t even the first time since her mother’s cancer diagnosis that Chloe’s been attacked by commenters and “fans.”
This time, the attacks come from body-shamers who raged that an Instagram photo of hers, featured below, looked “unhealthy.”
Chloe Lattanzi posted a photo of herself that, gasp, used a filter. The hate that she received was so bad that she deleted the photo, but she eventually put it back up.
Because screw the hater.
Here are the things that the trolls attacked her for:
-looking too thin, even though her waist looks fine (more on that later)
-“smoking a cigarette” even though she’s smoking a joint
-using a filter for her photos
Yeah, that’s a “damning” list of accusations they’ve got there.
Chloe has struggled in the past with eating disorders, and she’s been very forthright about her experience.
So attacking her for “looking sickly” — she looks thin, but she’s also sucking in her gut like everyone in the world when they get their pictures taken.
The fact that her boobs are decidedly on the large side definitely makes her look slimmer than she is.
And even if she weren’t at a healthy weight, that would be no reason to attack — or unfollow — her.
If she were smoking a cigarette, we’d have to agree that it’s gross.
Cigarettes smell bad and are a plague to everyone around you.
More significantly for Chloe, like, her mom has cancer, cigarettes are a carcinogen … that wouldn’t be a great combination. Bad optics.
But she’s smoking a joint, which is plenty legal in a lot of places and also the opposite of a carcinogen.
In fact, we’re pretty sure that breast cancer is one of the specific types of cancer that marijuana has been shown to reduce the risk of.
And then … somebody attacked her for using filters on her photos?
That is the most random troll attack we’ve seen since the 2016 elections.
That one doesn’t need explaining. It’s a filter. Chill out.
Shortly after her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis was made public, Chloe was attacked over her photos — for living her life.
Specifically, we guess, for smiling.
Chloe just wants to live her life, but apparently some hate-filled commenters think that, since her mom is undergoing cancer treatment, she should either never post to social media … or post nothing but some sort of grief montage.
Those jerks need to chill out.
Everybody grieves in their own way.
But also, Olivia Newton-John has scarcely begun her treatment.
It’s not time to grieve, period.
We think that we know what’s going on with these trolls.
First of all, there’s the regular bullying motive — they see someone who in some way doesn’t fit their expectations or desires.
And they perceive her as vulnerable, so they lash out.
But part of cyberbullying functions just like … have you ever noticed that certain people, whether they’re aggressive soccer moms or bitter retirees, seem to go into grocery stores looking to pick fights. They’ll complain to a manager about an innocuous employee.
It makes them feel like they’ve done something for the day and it makes them feel powerful and reassured about their place in the world.
Ultimately, hateful comments aren’t going away any time soon.
Every time that someone asks Twitter to do something about the harassment problem (or the nazis), they nod and then just change the illustrations for retweets.
Finding a way to ignore them without changing the way that you live your life or post to social media is key.
Chloe Lattanzi’s made her Instagram private, which is better than swearing off social media altogether, and she still has tens of thousands of followers.
Because if your online life is making you suffer in real life on a regular basis, then you need to find a way to keep it from touching you.
And one day, maybe society can fix whatever the hell is so wrong with us that makes people send hateful messages to celebrities in the first place.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
"Texas Chain Saw Massacre" Director Allegedly Attacked by Ex, Shows Face Bruises (PHOTOS)
Tobe Hooper — director of the iconic horror film “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” — got beat up by his ex and has the bruises to prove it … according to new legal docs. The 74-year-old was allegedly attacked by 36-year-old Rebecca Hodges 2…
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Viral Bear Attack Hunter Killed The Bear That Attacked Him (VIDEO)
The hunter who got video of a black bear attacking him got his revenge … he went back and killed the animal. Richard Wesley tells TMZ … if the bear attacked him it would surely attack others … possibly his wife and kids, who also spend time at…
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Ex-"Real Housewives of New Jersey" Star Dina Manzo"s Boyfriend Attacked by Son"s Own Bat
Former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo’s boyfriend was repeatedly struck in the face, neck and head with a bat during a home invasion burglary. Sources close to the couple tell us Dina and her bf, David Cantin, were attacked as soon…
Monday, April 3, 2017
Kim Kardashian ... Attacked Or Not, in Bev Hills (VIDEO + PHOTOS)
Kim Kardashian may or may not have been accosted Sunday night … you be the judge. Kim was leaving Mr Chow in Bev Hills when a guy in shades and a backpack seemed to make contact with her, and she looked stunned. The question is … was he…
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