Sexual harassment

James Franco is the latest person in the cross hair of sexual assault after 5 women reported that he had inappropriately or  sexually coerced them.

The women were student at the actor now-closed Studio 4 acting school, which recruits actors that are looking to break in the movie industry by appearing in projects that involves nudity. 

            

A  former Studio 4 students Natalie Chmiel and Hilary Dusome told Los Angeles times that James Franco stormed off set when none of the women agreed to go topless. Another woman, Sarah Tither-Kaplan, a former student and who had also appeared on James Franco movie said that she had signed a nudity contract, but Franco asked her to perform an unscripted nude scene, including another orgy scene, when James Franco removed the plastic guard covering her vagina and insert his figure, then went ahead to simulate oral sex. Someone on scene had confirmed the story.

On his interview with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, James denied the allegations;

The things that I heard that were on Twitter are not accurate.But I completely support people coming out and being able to have a voice because they didn’t have a voice for so long. So I don’t want to shut them down in any way.

If I have done something wrong,” he added, “I will fix it — I have to.

Tither-Kaplan said that James Franco had personally apologised for the behaviour.

Another accuser of James Franco is Violet Paley. They had been friends in 2016, and James would offer her professional advises on the movie she should watch, or any project she was working on, until one day, he started touching her.

In April 2016, Paley was looking to give James a birthday card when he invited her to a student movie he was shooting, and when she got there, James entered the car, and asked that the woman drive to an alley, and when they got there, she pulled out his penis, and put her hand on it, she laughed nervously and then told him that they cannot do that in public, but she could later meet up with him. She said;

I felt so pressured…and he started pushing my head towards it, And I was laughing as my head was being pushed down, and he was like, ‘You’re funny.’ And I was like, ‘I’m not being funny.

She did gave him oral sex, and had to lie to him someone was coming, so he could let her go. A friend of Paley has also confirmed the story, the friend confirmed the account she gave in 2016, with the one she is telling news outlet.

Both of them later had a consensual relationship after the event, when Franco reached out, but both of them later broke it off. 

Paley said she came forward with her story after she got inspired by the #MeToo movement.

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After claims by 8 women of sexual harassment, PBS, CBS, Bloomberg and LP have now suspended the Charlie Ross show and distribution. 

                     

Charlie Ross has now issued an apology to the women he had sexually harassed by putting a message out via his Twitter account. He wrote;

                 

Charlie Ross was accused of making sexual advances towards his accusers, making lewd phone calls, walking naked in the same room the women are located, groping their breasts and touching their genitals.

One of his accusers is Megan Creydt, Rose’s former show coordinator from 2005-2006.

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Hollywood actor, Sylvester Stallone has been accused of forcing a teenager in 1986 into having sex with his bodyguard,De Luca.

According to police reports,the lady was 16 years old at the time, and both were at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel, where Stallone was shooting a movie in the sin city. Stallone was 40 at the time, and was having sex with the girl when he invited his bodyguard to join them in the fun. The teenager said she felt like she had no choice after been intimidated than participate in the threesome.

          

De Luca killed in 2013, join the threesome and had vaginal sex with the girl, then Stallone asked that the girl gives Luca a blowjob too. Stallone threatened to “beat her head in” if she did tell anybody about the threesome, while both men laughed about it.

The teenager said she was staying with family friends at the hotel at the time. Though she said she would be fine if the sex only happened between herself and Stallone only, but when Stallone makes the request, she could not deny the request, and after the sexual act, she was"humiliated"and "scared"

Stallone was in the city to city to film the "over the top" movie after she met actor David Mendenhall who introduced her to Stallone in the elevator. Two days after the meeting, Stallone gave the teenager an autograph, and asked for her age, and she said she was 16. Stallone then asked her how she got such a nice build, in which the teenager only blushed.

The next day, De Luca gave the lady 2 keys to the hotel room in 27th floor of the hotel, where the assaults took place.

The issue, according to the Daily Mail is now dropped after the lady signed a no-prosecution form.

Sylvester Stallone is yet to comment on the allegations.

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US senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) is the latest one in the news about sexual allegations after a Los Angeles news anchor, Leeann Tweeden wrote in her latest blog post of Al Franken of groping her.

Leeann Tweeden of KABC said that the incident happened in 2006 during a USO tour. At the time of the incident, Al Franken was a the  headliner of the show and also a Saturday Night Live writer.

                       

According to Tweeden, Al Franken wrote a sketch that involves both of them kissing, and had insisted they practised the kissing before going on stage. At one point, Al Franken forces himself to kiss Tweeden.

After the USO tour, Tweeden said she found a photo of Al groping her breasts over her clothes while she was sleeping. Tweeden said she spoke to a few of her colleagues about what had happened, and though she was angry, she let it go.

At the time of the incident, Al was not a senator, he was only elected in 2008, and took office in 2009

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Authorities in Milwaukee have arrested a 32 year old, Horacio Alvarado, an illegal immigrant staying in the US, and decided to rape his stepdaughter, who at the time of the rape was only 15 years old,  so that if she had a baby, it will allow him to remain in the US.

The man has now been charged with a first-degree sexual assault, and repeated assaults and incest. He is now being held for a $20,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty in a court appearance.

                     

The wife of Alvarado and also the mother of the stepdaugther is also charged with child neglect.

According to the victim, the man would rape her for at least three times in a week, and that continued for another 4 years. He would even sometimes take her to a friend's home or random park where he would have sex with the girl.

When the victim was 17, the mother walked in on her husband sexually molesting the lady, and she did not do anything, instead, she spoke some Spanish words to the husband, and nothing to the girl.

When she got pregnant, she told her mother that Alvarado is the father of the child, and a paternity in 2015 also confirms that he is the father of the child. Earlier this year, both the young girl and Alvarado fought over the custody of the child.

According to court records,  a court commissioner last month entered an interim order that Alvarado should have primary placement, and the mother should a reasonable visitation with the child.

Alvarado will go around with the paternity test like it was  a"get out of jail" card to show immigration police in the case deportation arises. He believed he could use the baby as an anchor-baby to dodge deportation, but the US law does not work like that.

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Louis CK,50 is the most recent one to suffer exposé of sexual harassment and allegations that had recently clouded Hollywood. The comedian was not finding it funny after 5 women make claims that he masturbated in front of them. 

                

The comedian has now admitted to the allegations, and confirmed that their allegations indeed were "true".

The comedian released a report confirming the allegations. Read his report here:

I want to address the stories told to The New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.

These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was O.K. because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it. There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with. I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.

The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I’d be remiss to exclude the hurt that I’ve brought on people who I work with and have worked with who’s professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You, Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I’ve brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie. and every other entity that has bet on me through the years. I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.

I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen. Thank you for reading.

 

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George Takei

Star Trek actor, George Takei has also been accused of sexual assault by Scott R. Burton. The star trek icon was accused of groping the accuser at his L.A in the year 1981,when the accuser was 23 years old, while Takei was 43 or 43 years old at the time.

                         

The pair had met at a bar, and exchanged numbers, and Scott at the time was looking to enter Hollywood, and had also broken up with his then boyfriend. According to Scott when speaking to Hollywood reporters;

This happened a long time ago, but I have never forgotten it,It is one of those stories you tell with a group of people when people are recounting bizarre instances in their lives, this always comes up. I have been telling it for years, but I am suddenly very nervous telling it.

He was very good at consoling me and understanding that I was upset and still in love with my boyfriend,He was very good about me spilling my heart on my sleeve.

Both men at the time on Takei invitation had gone to dinner and then to a theatre, then headed back to Takei condo for drinks the same night, and according to Scott narratives to Hollywood reporters;

We have the drink and he asks if I would like another. And I said sure. So, I have the second one, and then all of a sudden, I begin feeling very disoriented and dizzy, and I thought I was going to pass out. I said I need to sit down and he said sit over here and he had the giant yellow beanbag chair. So I sat down in that and leaned my head back and I must have passed out.

The next thing I remember I was coming to and he had my pants down around my ankles and he was groping my crotch and trying to get my underwear off and feeling me up at the same time, trying to get his hands down my underwear," Brunton says. "I came to and said, 'What are you doing?!' I said, 'I don't want to do this.' He goes, 'You need to relax. I am just trying to make you comfortable. Get comfortable.' And I said, 'No. I don't want to do this.' And I pushed him off and he said, 'OK, fine.' And I said I am going to go and he said, 'If you feel you must. You're in no condition to drive.' I said, 'I don't care I want to go.' So I managed to get my pants up and compose myself and I was just shocked. I walked out and went to my car until I felt well enough to drive home, and that was that.

When the friends of Scott's,  Norah Roadman, Rob Donovan, Stephen Blackshear and Jan Steward were all contacted, they all confirmed the story and said he had told them the encounter he had with Takei years ago.

Takei is not available for comment on the current allegations. According to Takei's rep, Julia Buchwald, Mr Takei is on a trip to Japan and Australia.

George Takei aside from his role in Star Trek, he has been known to have spoken against Kevin Spacey, who was alleged to have molested a 14 year old, Anthony Rapp, when Rapp was 14.

Takei was not happy with the move by Spacey who then via his twitter apologised for the allegations, and also came out as gay. Takei believed that Kevin was only trying to "deflect" from the real accusation that he had molested a young boy with his "coming out of closet" comment.

Takei is an activist and great advocate of LGBTQ rights.

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Habtamu Gebreselassie, 24, a masseur at the Massage Envy, DC Branch has now been sued with his employer in a $25 Million lawsuit after he was accused of licking the vagina of the client without consent or invitation. 

Gebreselassie was accused in the lawsuit to have pulled away the towel of the client, and put his tongue on her private area, and then fall on his knees and apologize for the act.

                         

Habtamu Gebreselassie

Known for his abuse, Massage Envy was reported to have known about the constant sexual abuse of Gebreselassie, and he had previously performed the same act on three women before the recent "Jane Doe" who is now taking the company to court. In the previous cases, Massage Envy had moved Gebreselassie to other branches instead of kicking him out of the company.

According to the suit, the sexual misconduct happened at the 4926 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, in DC branch. The masseur was working on "Jane Doe", who was in her twenties, and  in the last 15minutes of the 90 minute session, Doe who was naked except a sheet and an eye pillow was surprised when Gebreselassie who hailed from Ethiopia assaulted her.

                  

Doe also claims that Gebreselassie would not leave the room, even after he was told 6 times to do so, and was later reported to the police, who gave her a rape kit to check for any sexually transmitted diseases, however, "Doe" awaits results of the test.

Gebreselassie had moved to the DC locations after he molested another lady at the Bowie branch of Massage Envy.

Gebreselassie was in court on September 21, and had declined agreement, and he is held without bond, to appear in court on October 11. 

Massage Envy has around 1,170 Massage chains across the US. The company has now fired Gebreselassie.

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A lecturer and Paedophile have been called out by the Head of Department in the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Dr. Eni Alobo. According to a Facebook post, the yet unnamed lecturer in his fifties has threatened to withold a 16-year old student paper unless she finds time to join him at his preferred place for sex.

                

The unnamed paedophile was supposed to grade the Diploma research documents of the student, but he had held on to it till she comply to his advances.

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