Tag: Hollywood mogul

Time names sexual abuse ‘silence breakers’ as Person of the Year

by Catherine Triomphe Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Time magazine named as Person of the Year Wednesday “the silence breakers” who triggered a national reckoning by revealing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, assault and abuse in US life. President Donald Trump was runner-up in the prestigious ranking, ahead of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Time designated as “silence breakers” the individuals, mostly women, who came forward this year to publicly expose patterns […]

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Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein accused of rape

by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Italian film star Asia Argento and two other women claim that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein raped them, in a bombshell New Yorker expose published on Tuesday. The women’s allegations against the 65-year-old movie mogul, according to the magazine, include unwanted oral sex and forced oral and full sex. Weinstein denies all charges, according to a statement from his spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister, circulated among […]

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