Hip-hop producer Irv Gotti was sued last week for alleged sexual assault and battery in a state circuit court filing in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The lawsuit was first reported Tuesday by The Miami New Times and claims the plaintiff, who remains anonymous, first met the music mogul through a mutual friend at a poker tournament … Read more
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to appear in a New York court Friday ahead of a planned retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. The former Hollywood movie mogul’s pretrial hearing in Manhattan criminal court will address issues related to evidence in the case, including text messages. At a hearing last week, prosecutors … Read more
NEW YORK — For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories. A professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, and author of numerous critical studies of Canadian fiction, he has thought of Munro as the “jewel” in the crown of … Read more
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently texted an apology to the woman who accused him of sexual assault, saying he doesn’t recall the incident, The Washington Post reported. The woman, Eliza Cooney, provided the text from Kennedy to the Post, which verified it was sent from his phone number. “I have no memory … Read more
“People are mad at me for that,” she told the outlet. “I said that after being in therapy for seven years, not being allowed to work, losing his home, losing everything, he should be allowed to come back. He’s reached out to everybody he’s offended and said he’s sorry.” The numerous sexual abuse accusations involving … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is set to appear in a New York court ahead of his scheduled retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. The disgraced Hollywood mogul is attending a pretrial status hearing in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday. His retrial is tentatively scheduled for some time after Labor Day. … Read more
TORONTO — The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro has accused the author’s second husband, Gerard Fremlin, of sexual abuse, writing that her mother remained with him because she “loved him too much” to leave. Munro, who died in May at age 92, was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved writers … Read more
Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, died at 92 in May Montreal, Canada: Canadian writer Alice Munro’s daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed with him, in a damning account published after the Nobel laureate’s death. Andrea … Read more
BUCHAREST, Romania — A court in Romania’s capital ruled Friday that social media influencer Andrew Tate can leave Romania but must remain within the European Union as he awaits trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision to allow Tate, 37, to leave … Read more
PARIS — A prominent French film director has been handed preliminary charges of rape, sexual assault and violence by a French judge investigating a case involving female actors, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Benoît Jacquot, who has more than 50 director credits in film and television stretching back to the 1970s, has become one … Read more
