Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is now the butt of sexual harassment jokes … at least for Rep. Ralph Norman, who dropped one Thursday and kinda killed with it. The South Carolina Representative was speaking at a Kiwanis Club…
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Friday, September 21, 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Jameis Winston Sued By Uber Driver He Allegedly Groped
Jameis Winston’s troubles keep getting worse … ‘cause the Uber driver he allegedly groped has hit the NFL star with a lawsuit. In the suit — filed Tuesday in federal court in Arizona — the woman claims she picked up Jameis and his friends from a…
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Andy Dick Groped Ivanka Trump in Resurfaced Jimmy Kimmel Footage
Of all of the men named in #MeToo stories, Andy Dick was the least surprising to many folks. Yes, including Harvey Weinstein.
And now, the world can see for themselves in newly resurfaced video from 2007.
On television — on Jimmy Kimmel, in fact — Andy Dick reaches over and gropes Ivanka before getting removed by security.
Andy Dick is a comedian and actor. Unfortunately, he has been accused of groping a number of people.
Despite his dismissive attitude towards those claims, he has been let go from projects because of it.
(Don"t touch people without their consent, folks)
Now, an old clip of Andy exhibiting inappropriate touching has surfaced.
He and Ivanka Trump were both guests of Jimmy Kimmel"s in 2007. And Andy couldn"t — or rather, he simply refused to — keep his hands to himself.
In the clip, Andy can be seen reaching over and running his finger"s along Ivanka"s leg.
Kimmel tells him to stop.
Ivanka, though trying to laugh it off at the time (and clearly looking over to Kimmel to make sure that he has noticed), tries to get him to stop.
Eventually, Andy was removed by security.
Kimmel would later suggest that Andy, who has been to rehab more than a dozen times in his struggle for sobriety, was under the influence.
Andy actually reminded his followers about this incident by posting about it in December of 2017.
"The time I "groped" Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, on Jimmy Kimmel Live," he writes.
"Her legs were sparkling," he says, as if to explain. "And I was trying to see if the glitter would wipe off."
That curiosity is understandable. Acting on it is not excusable.
"I also mistakenly thought she would date me," he says.
Wow.
"I was jokingly carried off by security," Andy says.
Maybe half-jokingly.
"Is anybody going to carry Trump off?" Andy asked in December. "No joke. Confusing times."
This is a transparent attempt to deflect from his own actions.
See, a lot of people would like to see Donald Trump impeached and tried for his misconduct and alleged crimes.
But trying to distract from your own behavior by pointing to someone else"s is called whataboutism.
Ivanka Trump may be her father"s daughter, but that doesn"t mean that it"s open season on any of her body parts.
Andy Dick has been dismissive of allegations against him, saying that he never touched people"s genitals and perhaps licked some people"s faces.
His implication was that it"s all part of his brand.
Folks, "it"s all part of the act" does not fly when we"re talking about sexual harassment or sexual assault.
If the other person does not consent, you are not entitled to touch them. Yes, even if their father is a bad, bad man.
Andy Dick may struggle with sobriety, and we wish him the best on his quest for good mental and physical health.
But everyone has their struggles. No one is entitled to invade another"s body without permission. Even if it"s covered in glitter.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Brendan Fraser: I Was Groped By the HFPA President and it Ruined My Career!
Brendan Fraser was once a major movie star. He was in beloved classics like The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. He made audiences swoon with George of the Jungle. And then, years ago, his career just … vanished.
In a stunning new interview, he’s revealing exactly what happens. Part of Fraser’s story is a #MeToo story.
Be warned — he gets pretty detailed, but it’s definitely worth the read.
Brendan Fraser’s GQ interview is a powerful but grim look into the life of a fallen star.
The title, “Whatever Happened To Brendan Fraser,” really sets the grim tone.
There are sweet parts — it opens talking about his horses, how his teenage son is on the autistic spectrum and enjoys the repetitive action of brushing the horse and that the horse appreciates it.
He mentions that a number of factors pushed him away from the acting spotlight.
He had multiple surgeries for injuries on film sets (seriously, this guy’s movie career is the story of injury after injury), his mother passed away from cancer, and he went through a painfully contentious divorce.
But one big factor was his very own #MeToo story.
Brendan Fraser describes his accusation against Philip Berk, former President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, in an alleged incident from a 2003 luncheon.
“His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around.”
That is a description of sexual assault. And Brendan Fraser talks about how that broke him down.
“I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry.”
Countless victims blame themselves, for what happened to them and for how they responded. Brendan Fraser is among them:
“I became depressed … I was blaming myself and I was miserable — because I was saying, ‘This is nothing; this guy reached around and he copped a feel.’”
Brendan Fraser admires the bravery of the stars who’ve come forward as part of the #MeToo movement. He even knows some of them.
“I know Rose [McGowan], I know Ashley [Judd], I know Mira [Sorvino] — I’ve worked with them. I call them friends in my mind.”
Like with many friendships, they’ve grown apart.
“I haven’t spoken to them in years, but they’re my friends.”
He applauds the courage of the people who stepped forward and are helping to make the world a better place.
“I watched this wonderful movement, these people with the courage to say what I didn’t have the courage to say.”
He did eventually receive an “apology” letter from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but he says that it wasn’t a real apology.
“My apology admitted no wrongdoing, the usual ‘If I’ve done anything that upset Mr. Fraser, it was not intended and I apologize.’”
He says that, after that, he started receiving viewer and fewer invitations to the Golden Globes.
This is a movie star, folks. This is a man whose role in George of the Jungle was a sexual awakening for plenty of Millennials. And he just … stopped being invited.
Scary.
“Am I still frightened? Absolutely. Do I feel like I need to say something? Absolutely.”
But, like countless others, he did not.
“Have I wanted to many, many times? Absolutely. Have I stopped myself? Absolutely.”
This is heartbreaking.
But there’s good news — his career is getting back on track after this lengthy hiatus.
He’s on The Affair and he’ll be on the upcoming FX series, Trust.
One can’t help but wonder how his career and life might have gone differently if the culture that enables sex monsters to act with impunity were a little bit different.
We should note that perhaps the best part of the episode is when Brendan Fraser gets emotional and processes it by firing a bow and arrow before offering it to his interviewer to try.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Wendy Williams: I Was Groped By My "Worst Guest Ever"
Wendy Williams passed along a very personal message on television this week:
Me. Too.
The talk show host told viewers that she, too, has been the victim of sexual harassment.
Moreover, it happened live in front of her studio audience.
During Monday’s episode of her program, Williams brought up the allegations against Charlie Rose and then began to recount her own unwanted experience with an unnamed guest.
“My worst guest? I’m not going to name, but I can tell you this – it had to do with some groping.
“You all saw it, but didn’t say a word and I felt it and I didn’t say a word,” she recalled.
“My staff saw it and that guest will never be here anymore. He’s not relevant anyway.”
As mentioned above, Williams did not name this aggressive guest.
But she did drop some clues as to his identity.
He was a short comedian, she explained, who appeared on the program in either her second or third season.
While Williams assured her fans she would “feel very comfortable in pushing a man through my glass coffee table if anything gets seedy” today, that was a different time.
She had not yet established herself.
She was still new on the small screen and didn’t really know how to react in the moment, especially considering the cameras were rolling.
“I didn’t know what to do because I’m brand new on TV,” Wendy said, laughing a bit:
“Then, after the hug, he looked up at me. He goes, ‘Oh, you’re not Oprah [Winfrey].’
“I didn’t know how to take that and the whole interview was just weird and I just would never have him here again and I am two seconds away from saying his name, but it’s not worth it.”
No need, Wendy.
Astute Internet users have dug up this photo of Gilbert Gottfried from 2011:
A short comedian?
Not relevant any longer?
Has a distinct voice?
Check. Check. Check.
Inside Edition reached out to Gottfried on Tuesday and he said he didn’t recall his appearance on the show from so many years ago.
He added that he “wasn’t aware” of being banned from the program or anything of that nature.
Let’s face it, though:
There’s no reason to officially ban Gilbert Gottfried.
There’s simply no reason to have him as a talk show host any longer.
Monday, October 23, 2017
Harry Styles: Crotch Groped by Fan!
When you hear the name "Harry," do you think of Harry Potter, Harry Styles, or Prince Harry? Or do you just think that maybe Britain should find some new names?
At the moment, though, we"re talking about Harry Styles. And unfortunately, we"re not talking about the international heartthrob"s music or hair. We are once again talking about sexual assault.
This time, it was Harry Styles who was groped — directly in the crotch. And the unacceptable incident was caught on video.
You would think — or hope, at least — that with all of the discussions of Harvey Weinstein"s sexual assaults and his long history of accusations of sexual harassment, it would impact people"s behavior.
We don"t just mean studio executives and actors deciding against one-on-one meetings in hotel rooms (not uncommon in the industry, even for innocuous reasons, but something that might need to change).
We mean everyday, regular folks. Those #MeToo stories weren"t all just actresses — many of them were from office workers, artists, baristas, stay-at-home moms, etc.
For whatever reason, there are people in this world who feel that they are entitled to touch someone else"s body without their consent.
Sexual harassment takes many forms, from catcalling to inappropriate workplace flirtations when there"s a wildly imbalanced power dynamic.
(Newsflash: the checkout girl does not think that dudes twice her age are hot; she smiles because being polite is literally part of her job)
But while there are a few cases where we can see a "gray area" where someone misread some cues and truly didn"t intend to harass someone, the vast majority of the time, sexual harassment is easy to recognize.
When it comes to groping, though, there are no excuses. If you don"t have someone"s consent, you do not get to touch their genitals without their consent.
That"s not complicated and we all know it. And yet … this sort of thing happens.
And it even happens to men. To famous men, like Harry Styles.
Harry Styles has enjoyed massive, global popularity on an exceptionally rare scale.
We"d say that he was the most thirsted-after member of One Direction … right up until Zayn Malik took that spotlight.
(Honestly, a big part of that was the hair — Harry looked more distinctive and interesting with his long hair, which is extra important when you"re a group of twinks but you wnat people to be able to tell you apart. It"s no coincidence that Zayn grew out his own hair)
We should disclose that Niall Horan was always more popular in Ireland and, as we understand it, remains more popular in ireland. Like, not ironically — there are Irish pubs with framed pictures of him on the wall.
Harry Styles" admirers have included big-name celebrities like Jennifer Lopez.
Obviously, Harry Styles dated Kendall Jenner … for a very short while.
More famously, Harry Styles and Taylor Swift dated and he made it into a number of her songs — most famously, into "Style." Because … obviously.
But no amount of handsomeness or thirst or whatever can justify what happened over the weekend.
Harry Styles isn"t the only man whose crotch has been grabbed.
Terry Crews was sexually assaulted by an executive, in the middle of a room with other people.
The executive walked over and grabbed his genitals through his pants, openly groping him with no apparent fear of repercussions.
It was important that Terry Crews share that story, because sometimes it takes seeing a strong man confess why he was afraid to come forward sooner for some misogynistic people to wake up to why countless women feel that same fear.
(Also, this happening to Terry Crews should be the absolute end of the disgusting "why didn"t you fight back" question that women are asked — because there are so many reasons, including fear that fighting back will lead to their deaths)
Harry Styles, in the video below, gets his crotch groped by a fan. He handles it well, but that doesn"t make it okay.
Harry Styles played the Hollywood Bowl over the weekend. This happened on Saturday night.
A number of fans are touching him, but he looks visibly upset for a brief moment as he bats away the groping hand.
He abruptly stands up and continues, but we have to wonder — has this happened to him before when he gets close to fans?
We know that concerts are very exciting, especially for young people who still have so many feelings, and all of those hormones stirring things up.
But that"s not an excuse for grabbing someone"s genitals, like in the video that you"re about to see.
We give stars a hard time for groping fans without their consent. It"s only fair that we do the same for terrible fans who take advantage of their idols.
Anyway, if you have a strong stomach, here"s the video.
Harry Styles is a real person with real feelings, folks. He deserves better.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Hilarie Burton: Actress Claims Ben Affleck Groped Her When She Was "A Kid"
The news out of Hollywood this week has mostly centered around the appalling sexual abuse accusations against Harvey Weinstein, the renowned mogul who was, until his recent public downfall, one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood.
Last week, the New York Times confirmed decades of rumors about Weinstein’s harassment of female colleagues in a scathing exposé.
On Tuesday, The New Yorker reported even more shocking claims, such as the allegations that Weinsteon raped actress Asia Argento when she was just 21 years old.
Weinstein is responsible for creating some of the biggest careers in Hollywood, but thankfully, the stars who got their big breaks in movies produced by the the 64-year-old have been quick to condemn his actions.
Yesterday, Ben Affleck spoke out against Weinstein, but his comments resulted in immediate backlash from a longtime collegaue.
Actress Rose McGowan accused Affleck of lying and claimed the Oscar winner, who first made a name for himself in the Weinstein-produced 1997 release Good Will Hunting, has known about Weinstein’s predatory behavior for decades and was complicit in keeping it under wraps.
Now, Affleck is facing another round of backlash, thanks to an allegation from early in his career that’s resurfaced in light of recent events.
In 2003, Affleck appeared on MTV’s TRL, which Hilarie Burton was then co-hosting.
The actress, who rose to fame on the CW’s One Tree Hill and now stars on Fox’s Lethal Weapon, says that Affleck groped her breasts following his appearance on the show.
Affleck was 30 and already a well-established stae at the time of his appearance.
Burton was 20 and just beginning to make a name for herself in Hollywood.
The allegations against Affleck are making headlines today following Affleck’s full-thorated condemnation of Weinstein’s exploitation of numerous young women.
When a New York-based writer named Shanice Brim reminded the world that “[Affleck] grabbed Hilarie Burton’s breasts on TRL once” Burton responded simply:
“I didn’t forget.”
“I’m so sorry that happened to you,” Brim wrote back. “It’s infuriating that people never bring up all the gross, predatory things he’s done.”
“Seriously, thank you for that. I was a kid,” Burton said.
As evidence of her claim, Burton posted a montage of clips from TRL which included a snippet in which she’s seen telling the camera, “He comes over and tweaks my left boob,” apparently in reference to Affleck.
Later in the video, the actor is shown asking her, “How old are you? 19?”
Burton went on to offer support for the women have come forward as victims of Hollywood’s culture of harassment.
“Girls. I’m so impressed with you brave ones,” Burton tweeted.
“I had to laugh back then so I wouldn’t cry. Sending love.”
Affleck has yet to comment on Burton’s allegations.
We’ll have further updates on this developing story as more information becomes available.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Katy Perry -- Groped By Girl Onstage, "She"s Rolling" (VIDEO)
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Katy Perry got some girl on girl action from a “rolling” fan she brought onstage at the Rock In Rio festival.
Things started off sweet with the fan showering Katy with a few kisses, and then she decided to cop a feel of Katy’s boobs — which is when KP reaches the conclusion, “She’s rolling!”
The girl’s name remains a mystery … even after she slurred it multiple times onstage. Watch the video, you’ll see what we mean, but gotta hand it to Katy — she handled it like a champ.
The whole exchange is hysterical, right up to the fan’s grab-ass exit.
Bad KatyCat.
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