Boston University has issued its first statement since Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper accused the school’s former soccer coach of sexual harassment. The school did not address Cooper’s claims directly in the statement sent to Rolling Stone. Rather, it said, “Boston University has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment. …
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In her documentary Call Her Alex, the media personality and Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper detailed alleged sexual harassment she said she endured during her three-season stint on the Boston University women’s soccer team that began in 2013. In the film, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, Cooper …
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Winona Ryder opened up about her experiences in Hollywood during a cover story with Esquire published Thursday. During the interview, the iconic Heathers actress discussed how sexual harassment she faced in her 20s and 30s had “soured” the passion she had to make movies. “I had a couple of difficult …
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SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk were hit with another lawsuit on Wednesday by eight former employees alleging Musk personally ordered their firing after they raised concerns about sexual harassment and discrimination against women at the company. SpaceX fired the workers in 2022 after they wrote and circulated a letter denouncing …
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“They’re all nice for a minute,” says Kitty Green, director of the sizzling thriller The Royal Hotel. She’s talking about the men that make up most of the film’s ensemble cast — Australian miners in a remote, rugged, Outback town — who can pivot from playful pub banter to grinning …
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Pop culture has long mimicked pageantry. It’s reflected in Taylor Swift’s sequined leotard, Beyoncé’s unmistakable strut, and even Margot Robbie’s twinkling grin in Barbie. The melangé of glam and controversy in pageantry encouraged The New York Times’ Lauren Herstik to co-produce the documentary How to Fix a Pageant. “You have …
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The thing about “open secrets” is: Everyone knows what the secret is, but no one wants to acknowledge or talk about it. Not really, at least — if somebody’s peers and colleagues are all privy to some forbidden or socially unacceptable facts, and bringing it up forces them to reckon …
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Bravo’s Below Deck was recently lauded for its handling of sexual misconduct when a producer on Below Deck Down Under broke the “fourth wall” and intervened when one cast member, Luke Jones, tried to get into bed naked with another cast member, Margot Sisson, without her consent while she was …
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In the opening scenes of the latest episode of Below Deck Down Under, we saw something that pretty much never happens on the Bravo yachting franchise: a producer appeared. For the “fourth wall” to be broken, it was clear something deadly serious was about to happen. A naked Luke Jones …
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Paul Oakenfold faces a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former personal assistant who accuses the famed DJ and producer of masturbating in front of her on several occasions. In the lawsuit, filed Friday in a Los Angeles superior court, a plaintiff under the name “Jane Roe” alleged that she …
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