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Update – 6:48 p.m.: The filmmakers behind the campus sexual assault documentary The Hunting Ground are reportedly planning a documentary about the sexual misconduct scandal currently engulfing Hollywood. The filmmakers said they had initially had trouble securing financing for the movie from partners who feared retaliation from powerful figures, but that it’s all changed in the wake of the Weinstein scandal.

Hollywood Reporter:

Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, whose last documentary The Hunting Ground focused on sexual assault on college campuses, announced today that their next film, currently titled simply The Untitled Sexual Assault Documentary.

Predators in Hollywood, many described as being similar to Harvey Weinstein, will be the focus of the doc, which will examine abuse and cover-ups within the entertainment industry.

Update – 6:05 p.m.: Scandal star Tony Goldwyn says he suffered from sexual harassment as a younger actor in the industry, telling Access Hollywood his experience was similar to that of actress Lupita Nyong’o, who detailed her own alleged abuse to the New York Times this week.

Video, via Access Hollywood:

Update – 3:53 p.m.: Actor Steven Seagal, who has faced accusations of sexual harassment from at least two women, was caught on tape in an interview calling female reporters “f*cking dirty wh*res.” The interview was reportedly recorded in 1988.

More from Daily Mail:

Explosive audio clips from an interview with Steven Seagal have emerged in which the actor is heard calling female reporters ‘a bunch of f***ing dirty w****s and ‘c***suckers.’ In the disturbing audio, obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV, the 65-year-old gets shockingly candid as he tells a male interviewer that he’s had the most trouble with women when it comes to dealing with the press. His remarks have come to light days after several celebrities including actress Rae Dawn Chong and Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero have come forward accusing Seagal of sexual harassment amid the Harvey Weinstein allegations.

More here.

Update – 2:53 p.m.: Brit Marling has become the latest actress to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment, with the total number of women accusing the disgraced movie mogul of sex misconduct now above 40.

Variety:

She continued, “I, too, felt terror in the pit of my stomach when that young woman left the room and I was suddenly alone with him. I, too, was asked if I wanted a massage, champagne, strawberries. I, too, sat in that chair paralyzed by mounting fear when he suggested we shower together. What could I do? How not to offend this man, this gatekeeper, who could anoint or destroy me?” It was clear Weinstein was looking for “sex or some version of an erotic exchange,” Marling recalled. “I was able to gather myself together — a bundle of firing nerves, hands trembling, voice lost in my throat — and leave the room.”

More here.

Update – 2:01 p.m.: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation into the Weinstein Company and has issued a subpoena seeking all company records.

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Update – 1:41 p.m.: While Hollywood is slowly coming to grips with its deeply entrenched issues with sexual harassment and abuse, Woody Allen has introduced a bizarre twist.

Scenes from Allen’s new romance comedy reportedly feature a 44-year-old man having sex with a teen actress.

From Page Six:

In scenes just filmed, a character played by Rebecca Hall accuses 44-year-old actor Jude Law’s character of having sex with a 15-year-old “concubine.” In the scene, the so-called concubine — played by Elle Fanning (19 in real life) — acknowledges her relationship with Law’s much-older character, but then protests that she is 21 years old.

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Update – 1:28 p.m.: Fired The Loud House creator Chris Savino wrote in a statement on his personal Facebook page Monday that he’s “deeply sorry” and was “ashamed” of his behavior. The disgraced animator faced multiple allegations of sexual harassment from multiple women.

“I am deeply sorry and I am ashamed. Although it was never my intention, I now understand the impact of my actions and communications created an uncomfortable environment,” he wrote. “At every stage of my career, I have sought to uplift my colleagues and cultivate a culture of respect. In this objective, I have failed. I should have known better, I should have acted better, and this has been a difficult, but valuable lessons. I have nothing but the deepest respect for the bravery of the women who have spoken out, trying to create an environment in which they can thrive and reach their fullest potential.”

Read Savino’s full statement here.

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Update – 1:16 p.m.: As sexual harassment and abuse allegations and testimonies from all sectors of entertainment and business continue to spread, a feature length film is in the works and will explore ride-sharing giant Uber’s sexual harassment issue.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Susan Fowler, the woman who exposed Uber’s rampant sexual harassment issues with her viral blog post, is partnering with Good Universe for a movie about her experience at the ride share company. In her post, “Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber,” Fowler detailed a year’s worth of harassment as an engineer at Uber, which has been described as indicative of the overall sexist Silicon Valley culture. Her story prompted an internal investigation at the company, which would eventually lead to CEO Travis Kalanick’s resignation. Hidden Figures scripter Allison Schroeder will pen the feature, titled Disruptors, which is described as a Erin Brockovich meets The Social Network. Kristin Burr is producing.

More here.

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Update – 12:49 p.m.: Some New York lawmakers are looking to pass new legislation intended to protect models from sexual harassment.

More here.

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Update – 12:10 p.m.: An explosive report from the LA Times published this weekend details how The Weinstein Company-produced model competition show Project Runway was used by Harvey Weinstein “as a pipeline to women.”

Featuring court records and interviews with nearly a dozen models and executives connected to Project Runway, the article reports how the “models, oftentimes young and working overseas far from home, were particularly vulnerable.”

From the LA Times:

While the fashion industry proved lucrative for Weinstein and burnished his reputation as a tastemaker, it also filled his world with even more young, beautiful women. Several women who have publicly accused Weinstein of misconduct described incidents in which he used his fashion business ties and ownership of “Project Runway” as enticements or pretexts for meetings. … In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, a television actress claimed that when she rebuffed Weinstein’s advances about a decade ago — saying that she had nothing suitable to wear to events he wanted to take her to, including the Cannes Film Festival — he would tell her that he could deliver 10 Marchesa dresses.

Read the full Times piece here.

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Update – 11:51 a.m.: Three women have alleged that deceased film director Michael Winner demanded to see their breasts. Actress Debbie Arnold told Sunday People that the alleged incident happened at Winner’s home while she was auditioning for a role.

“He asked me to take off my top, then my bra and told me to massage my breasts,” Arnold said. “I asked him to repeat the question because I thought I was hearing things. I started walking away from the window and he asked me why.”

“I told him I couldn’t believe what he had said,”Arnold said. “I thought it was a joke so I was appalled when he repeated the question. I walked right up to him and told him, ‘f**k off, you dirty old pervert.'”

Actress Cindy Marshall-Day and another unnamed actress made similar claims against the British movie mogul, who died in 2013. “He was a horrible, filthy pervert,” Marshall-Day said. “He preyed on young naive actresses who wanted to earn a living.” More here.

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Update – 11:32 a.m.: Singer-songwriter Jill Scott revealed in a series of Tweets how Harvey Weinstein was “rude” to her when she was pregnant years ago.

“1) When I met Harvey Weinstein, he was RUDE. In the NASTIEST tone he said “Who told you to get pregnant?!” And rolled his eyes in disgust,” the three-time Grammy-winning singer wrote on Twitter Friday. “2) I stayed away from him after. Who acts that way towards a pregnant woman?? Power to all the women bullied by assholes. Power in general.”

1) When I met Harvey Weinstein, he was RUDE. In the NASTIEST tone he said “Who told you to get pregnant?!” And rolled his eyes in disgust. — ⭐Jill Scott⭐ (@missjillscott) October 20, 2017

2) I stayed away from him after. Who acts that way towards a pregnant woman?? Power to all the women bullied by assholes. Power in general. — ⭐Jill Scott⭐ (@missjillscott) October 20, 2017

Scott, who gave birth to her son Jett Hamilton Roberts in April 2009 — the same year she starred in the Weinstein Company-produced HBO series, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — said there are other stories she will never reveal.

“What’s true is there are stories I will never tell publicly. I have my reasons and peace in those areas,” she wrote.

Who’s a shero? @angela_rye. Mindful, opinionated with insight, fearless and focused. I respect this woman. — ⭐Jill Scott⭐ (@missjillscott) October 20, 2017

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Update – 11:06 a.m.: George Clooney says Harvey Weinstein would brag about his affairs with women.

“Harvey would talk to me about women that he’d had affairs with,” Clooney said. “I didn’t necessarily believe him, quite honestly, because to believe him would be to believe the worst of some actresses who were friends of mine,” Clooney said sitting next to Matt Damon during an interview with Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan, which aired on Monday.

“I didn’t really think that they were going to have affairs with Harvey, quite honestly, and clearly they didn’t. But the idea that this predator, this assaulter, was out there silencing women like that…it’s beyond infuriating, and the fact that the story is coming out now, and the more that comes out, I want to know all of it,” Clooney added.

Clooney was accused of blacklisting Vanessa Marquez — with whom he worked on the television series ER –after she complained of racial and sexual harassment. Clooney denied the accusations.

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Update – 10:51 a.m.: Matt Damon says he and Ben Affleck knew about Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassing Gwyneth Paltrow, and said he found the disgraced producer to be a “bully” and a “womanizer” despite working on several of his films.

“I knew the story about Gwyneth from Ben because he was with her after Brad [Pitt],” Damon said during an interview with Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan, which aired on Monday. “But I was working with Gwyneth and Harvey on Ripley.”

Paltrow revealed feeling “stunned” after Weinstein allegedly tried to massage and sleep with her in his hotel room over two decades ago.

“I was there at the height of his power and what you knew back then, you had to spend about five minutes with him to know he was a bully, he was intimidating — that was his legend,” Damon said. “So when people say everybody knew, yeah I knew, I knew he was an a**hole. He was proud of that.”

“I knew he was a womanizer. I wouldn’t want to be married to the guy, but that’s not my business really,” he added. “But this level of criminal sexual predation is not something that I ever thought was going on — absolutely not.”

Sharon Waxman, a former New York Times reporter said Damon lobbied the Times to kill her story while she investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein in 2004.

"This level of criminal sexual predation was not something I ever thought was going on." – Matt Damon on Harvey Weinstein pic.twitter.com/VLBR9c7nG3 — Good Morning America (@GMA) October 23, 2017

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Update – 10:32 a.m.: Actress AshleyJudd is set to give her first TV interview after revealing her sexual harassment allegation against Harvey Weinstein.

Judd — who said she was repeatedly asked to massage Weinstein and watch him shower — will sit down with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer for an interview airing Thursday, Oct. 26, Variety reports.

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Update – 10:21 a.m.: Rose McGowan, Paul Feig, and Debra Messing are among the stars reacting to the news that Hollywood writer-director James Toback has been accuse by more than three dozen women of sexual harassment and assault.

James Toback damn you for stealing, damn you for traumatizing. https://t.co/rLpboMcIMT — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 22, 2017

One of the main jobs of a director is to create a safe environment for the actors. James Toback is a disgrace. https://t.co/pxLFmBrUJ0 — Paul Feig (@paulfeig) October 22, 2017

The damn has broke. Women will no longer be silent. We have your back and will amplify. https://t.co/hXt7J2UzXR — Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) October 22, 2017

So proud of my sisters for bringing down yet another pig: James Toback https://t.co/73xLVU3FVY — Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) October 22, 2017

Long overdue for this well known sack of shit: https://t.co/WcULIz43zF — Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) October 22, 2017

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Update – 10:01 a.m.: Country singer Katie Armiger says she was blacklisted from the music industry after she spoke out about being sexually harassed at a young age.

Armiger told Fox News: “I was at a radio station in Texas and was taking a promo photo with one of the on-air DJs after doing my performances and he grabbed my butt during the photo. And at the same time he was whispering in my ear, ‘When are you going to be legal?'”

“I brought up my fears and I was told that’s how it was and if I wanted to be in music, I’d have to get over it,” she said.

On being blacklisted, Armiger told the outlet:

“When my story first became public and in the aftermath when I was finally to start looking for other opportunities in the industry, we went to [publishing houses] but we would be met with, ‘We’re not going to sign you, but we’re really a big fan and we just want to know your story and how are you?'” She continued, “That was the consensus; that was everywhere I went. I would talk to booking agents and they were scared to work with me because they either thought somehow the tour would be canceled or I was a liability to work with.”

Read the full story here.

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Update – 9:36 a.m.: Senior female entertainment industry executives from the U.S., U.K., and Italy discussed Harvey Weinstein and the prevalence of sexual harassment in Hollywood and beyond over, over the weekend at the at Rome’s third annual MIA Market.

“It’s made me question just how much as a woman we’ve had to put up with,” said Sally Woodward Gentle, CEO of Sid Gentle Films.“We did all know about it. We knew that he took advantage of young women and he was a massive bully.”

Katherine Pope, head of TV division at Studio 8 slammed her industry’s favoritism toward machismo and male directors.

“The industry values male characteristics,” said Gregory. “When a female director comes in who is more searching in her response to things, we as an industry say they don’t know what they’re doing. Where’s the ego, where’s the drive? We have overvalued certain male characteristics of ego, drive, certainty. It makes for quite bland drama.”

More here.

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Update – 9:08 a.m.: Heyday Films, the co-producers of Paddington 2, are looking to exit a deal with The Weinstein Company to distribute the movie in the United States of America, The Guardian reports. The live-action-CGI adventure comedy is scheduled for theatrical release on January 12. Many expert consider Paddington 2 as the biggest of the seven upcoming releases for the embattled Weinstein Company.

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Update – 4:07 p.m.: In a Facebook post Sunday, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn said he has been warning people about director James Toback’s behavior for 20 years. More than 30 women have come forward to accuse Toback of sexual harassment and abuse, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

Gunn says he knows at least fifteen women who were “accosted” by Toback over the years.

“So I did what I could do in my impotent state – for over twenty years now, I’ve been bringing up James Toback every chance I could in groups of people. I couldn’t stop him, but I could warn people about him,” Gunn wrote.

See his full Facebook post here.

Update – 3:19 p.m.: Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis gives a fascinating interview to The Guardian in which he says radical change is needed in Hollywood, and wonders whether the industry has covered up charges of pedophilia from former child stars, including Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.

From the Guardian:

“It is really hard for their innocent employees in New York, who worked hard and may well lose their jobs, but a lot of people are compromised by Harvey’s alleged actions,” said Haggis. “Although everyone thinks it is vile behaviour, you have got to focus on those who may have colluded and protected him. For me, they are as guilty as he is and in some cases more so, if I can say that. I mean, he was a predator and a predator is a predator. But what about those who would rather look the other way?” … “Were people covering for paedophiles, too? We have to think that may have happened as well, because no one speaks out about being abused just to benefit their career. I find it particularly terrible that people had their dreams held to ransom in that way.”

Full interview here.

Update – 3:11 p.m.: Brazilian model Julianna De Paula recalls an incident in which Weinstein allegedly forced her to kiss other women in front of him and chased her around his apartment while he was naked. The model told the Los Angeles Times this week that she was forced to defend herself with a broken wine glass.

From Page Six:

Brazilian model Julianna De Paula recalled a particularly pervy incident a decade ago when she allegedly ended up at Weinstein’’s New York loft – and was forced to kiss other women in front of him, the paper said. A naked Weinstein ended up chasing her through his apartment, forcing her to use a broken glass to keep him at bay, De Paula said. “He looked at me, and he started to laugh,” she said. “I was shocked. I was completely in disbelief.”

More here.

Update – 2:22 p.m.: The Directors Guild of America has formally filed disciplinary charges against Harvey Weinstein.

Daily Mail:

The Directors Guild of America has announced that it filed disciplinary charges against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein. The Los Angeles-based union of film and television directors said on Saturday that it filed the charges on October 13, adding that federal labor laws prohibit it from comment further on the case. Weinstein has already been expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in recent weeks.

Update – 1:29 p.m.: Mickey Rourke says what Weinstein did was “f*cked up,” but he told TMZ he “feels sorry” for the disgraced movie mogul.

“He’s done so much good through all the years, to try to make respectable movies,” Rourke told TMZ, adding that Hollywood is a town “built on envy.”

Full video at TMZ.

Update – 12:42 p.m.: Corey Feldman has reportedly been arrested for marijuana possession just a few days after pleading with others to come forward with stories of sexual abuse in the film industry.

Feldman has spoken up previously about his experience with abuse in the film industry, in particular when he was a child star in the 1980s (see more on Feldman by scrolling down the livewire.)

From the News-Star:

Actor and musician Corey Feldman is facing a drug charge in Richland Parish. Mangham Police Chief Perry Fleming told The News-Star the police department charged Feldman with one count of possession of marijuana and a traffic charge late Saturday. Fleming said the charge is a misdemeanor that necessitates payment of a fine. Feldman was released without being booked into the parish jail.

More here.

Update – 10:23 a.m.: Harvey Weinstein’s chauffeur gives a lengthy interview to the UK Sun, in which he reveals that Weinstein allegedly once had sex in the back of his car with a woman who pleaded with him not to “hurt” her, and allegedly kept a bottle of Viagra and condoms in the glove compartment of his Mercedes.

Mickael Chemloul reportedly worked as Weinstein’s personal driver from 2008-2013 when the movie mogul traveled to France for the Cannes Film Festival.

From the Sun:

Mickael, Weinstein’s regular driver in the south of France from 2008 to 2013, said: “Weinstein was a terrible man to work for. Everyone knew him as le porc because of his size and because he sweated so much. When he came to Cannes we all knew what to expect.” He recalled how the mogul once picked up a woman at a billionaire’s yacht party — while pregnant wife Georgina Chapman stayed behind at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. He said: “She was a good-looking girl, around 25 to 30, who had clearly had a few drinks. This was a fairly familiar sight for me, but even I was shocked when I heard her say, ‘Don’t hurt me’ in the car.

More from the Sun.

Update – 10:10 a.m.: It appears Hollywood knew about Toback’s behavior since as far back as 1989, when a profile on him ran in the now-defunct Spy magazine.

Gawker also wrote about “sleazy” Toback’s alleged attempt to pick up an underage girl as far back as 2010.

Here’s more from The Atlantic‘s Bill Wyman, writing in 2011 about the Spy article:

The article—called “The Pickup Artist’s Guide to Picking Up Women”—detailed how the director, sometimes disheveled and wearing a raincoat, would hang out on the streets of the Upper West Side in New York City, and approach women. According to the story, he would in rapid-fire fashion tell them that he was a Hollywood director and offer to show them his Directors Guild of America card. The pitch invariably ended up with an invite to meet privately—sometimes at an outlandishly late hour—to talk about appearing in one of his films. Demetz talked to 13 women he’d approached, all of whom had amusingly similar stories about the director’s methods and risqué manner. Depressingly, in researching that story I talked to a friend who said his daughter, then a 20 year old, had had the same experience with the director in 2007, 18 years after the original story was published. Gawker’s found an example or two as well.

Update – 9:40 a.m.: More than three dozen women have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault against writer-director James Toback.

The allegations from 38 women — 31 of whom spoke on the record with the Los Angeles Times — are damning, and sad to read.

From the L.A. Times:

He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes college students, on occasion a high schooler. He approached them in Central Park, standing in line at a bank or drug store or at a copy center while they worked on their resumes. His opening line had a few variations. One went: “My name’s James Toback. I’m a movie director. Have you ever seen ‘Black and White’ or ‘Two Girls and a Guy’?” Probably not. So he’d start to drop names. He had an Oscar nomination for writing the Warren Beatty movie, “Bugsy.” He directed Robert Downey, Jr., in three movies. The actor, Toback claimed, was a close friend; he had “invented him.” If you didn’t believe him, he would pull out a business card or an article that had been written about him to prove he had some juice in Hollywood. That he could make you a star.

Update – 9:30 a.m.: Convicted fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski has been accused of molesting a 10-Year-old girl in 1975.

California-based artist Marianne Barnard, tweeted earlier this month, writing: “#RomanPolanski took photos of me naked & in fur coat on beach in Malibu, I was 10 yrs old. He went on from there. This ends now #ROSEARMY.”

#RomanPolanski took photos of me naked & in fur coat on beach in Malibu, I was 10 yrs old. He went on from there. This ends now #ROSEARMY https://t.co/CXoABPSn6H — Marianne Barnard (M) (@Marianne_M_B) October 13, 2017

Barnard made more claims about the alleged molestation, telling The Sun on Friday that in 1975, her mother took her to a Malibu beach where she met the famed director.

“She explained that this man wanted to take pictures of me in this fur coat. I thought it was to go into a magazine or something,” said Barnard.

“First he was taking pictures of me in the bikini, then it was with the coat then he said take off the bikini top, which I was comfortable with as I was only 10 and I often ran around with no top on,” she continued. “But then he wanted me to take my bikini bottoms off — I started to feel very uncomfortable. Then at some point I realized my mom had gone. I don’t know where she went and I didn’t really register her leaving but she was no onger there. Then he molested me.”

More here.

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Update – 9:00 a.m.: Longtime bassist for Marilyn Manson Twiggy Ramirez — real name Jeordie White — has been accused of rape by Jack Off Jill lead singer Jessicka Addams.

Addams made her claims in a lengthy Facebook message Friday.

Manson responded to the rape allegation against Ramirez in a statement to Pitchfork: “I knew Jessicka and Jeordie had a romantic relationship many years ago and I considered and still consider Jessicka to be a friend,” he said. “I knew nothing about these allegations until very recently and am saddened by Jessicka’s obvious distress.”

Read Addams’s full statement below.

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Update – 6:02 p.m.: Some 71 percent of Americans say the multiple sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein are true, according to the latest Economist/YouGov Poll.

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Update – 5:39 p.m.: Director’s Guild begins disciplinary action against Harvey Weinstein and condemns sexual harassment.

“We believe that every individual has the right to a safe workplace. The unfortunate truth is that there are those who abuse the power that they hold,” the group said in a statement.

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Update – 3:16 p.m.: Actor Corey Feldman pleaded with his peers to “come forward” and call out those in Hollywood who have abused young actors.

“For the record, I will not be going on a talk show to disclose names of my abusers or anyone else’s abusers. So please stop asking me to do so,” Feldman wrote. “The practice of sensationalizing this topic with no plan of action or protection for my family would prove fruitless. I have been through enough!”

“This is not about fear of being sued!” he later tweeted. “Yes, that’s a real possibility. But the bigger reason is safety for my family.

4 THE RECORD: I WILL NOT B GOING ON A TALK SHOW 2 DISCLOSE NAMES OF MY ABUSER OR ANY1 ELSES ABUSERS. SO PLEASE STOP ASKING ME 2 DO SO. — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

ALSO LET ME ADD, THIS IS NOT ABOUT FEAR OF BEING SUED! YES THATS A REAL POSSIBILITY BUT THE BIGGER REASON IS SAFETY 4 MY FAMILY! — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

[I’m] already over this,” said Feldman, who has been sounding the alarm about pedophilia in Hollywood for years. “My career was shut down, I have been mocked and shamed for doing what I have done to this point! I would love to see others come forward as there are many other witnesses to the crimes I have addressed. Still not one of my peers has offered up anything in a decade!”

ALREADY OVER THIS! MY CAREER WAS SHUT DOWN, I HAVE BEEN MOCKED & SHAMED 4 DOING WHAT I HAVE DONE 2 THIS POINT! I WOULD LOVE 2 C OTHERS COME — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

FORWARD AS THERE R MANY OTHER WITNESSES 2 THE CRIMES I HAVE ADDRESSED. STILL NOT 1 OF MY PEERS HAS OFFERED UP ANYTHING IN A DECADE! — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

The Goonies star said he working on a plan to find “justice” for those who have been abused.

“That said I am working on a plan that may be a way forward to shed some light on this situation! If I can figure out a way to get actual justice while not risking my safety and well being, you will know when that time comes. As for now, I’m glad people are talking and I pray that others come forward!” he said.

“Nobody should live their lives in fear except those who committed these heinous crimes in the first place!” Feldman continued. “I have faith God will see this through!”

THAT SAID I AM WORKING ON A PLAN THAT MAY B A WAY FORWARD 2 SHED SOME LITE ON THIS SITUATION! IF I CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY 2 GET ACTUAL JUSTICE — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

WHILE NOT RISKING MY SAFETY & WELL BEING, U WILL KNOW WHEN THAT TIME COMES! AS 4 NOW, IM GLAD PPL R TALKING, & I PRAY THAT OTHERS COME FWD! — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

NOBODY SHOULD LIV THEIR LIVES IN FEAR EXCEPT THOSE WHO COMMITTED THESE HEINOUS CRIMES IN THE 1ST PLACE! I HAV FAITH GOD WILL C THIS THRU!🙏🏼😇 — Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) October 20, 2017

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Upadate – 3:00 p.m.: Harvey Weinstein will reportedly remain in Arizona for another 4 to 6 weeks after completing a week of “intensive therapy,” focused on his anger issues TMZ reports.

More here.

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Update – 1:25 p.m.: Actor Brady Lindsey says fired top talent agent Tyler Grasham contacted him on Instagram when he was a 16-year-old aspiring actor and consistently pursued a romantic relationship with him while promising to help him become a Hollywood star.

From The Wrap:

“I didn’t know who he was. He said he was a big-time agent in L.A. and he worked at APA,” Lindsey said, describing how Grasham first contacted him on Instagram. “It checked out.” … “Often times he would try to convince me to have lunch with him, asking me if I would be his boyfriend even though I was underage,” Lindsey said. Lindsey said a recurring theme in their conversations, aside from flirtation and attempts to arrange meetings, was Grasham offering to get Lindsey work as an actor.

More here.

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Update – 1:00 p.m.: Another young actor has claimed that fired top talent agent Tyler Grasham sexually harassed him.

Jordan Gavaris, star of BBC America’s hit sci-fi drama Orphan Black, said, in a series of tweets, that Grasham harassed him on multiple occasions and warned that his career would be “derailed” if he didn’t sign with his talent firm Agency for the Performing Arts (APA).

When I was 21, Tyler Grasham repeatedly harassed me about my sexuality, and forcibly implied he could “protect me” if I joined his roster… — Jordan Gavaris (@JordanGavaris) October 20, 2017

But that if I didn't, my career may be derailed. — Jordan Gavaris (@JordanGavaris) October 20, 2017

He later harassed me over the phone when I declined a dinner invitation to the home of a notorious producer… — Jordan Gavaris (@JordanGavaris) October 20, 2017

Repeatedly accused of sexual assault of minors. Grasham would also be present at the dinner. — Jordan Gavaris (@JordanGavaris) October 20, 2017

He told me I was overreacting. I told him he was dangerous. My opinion has not changed. In conclusion: #metoo https://t.co/WDQPNViKfS — Jordan Gavaris (@JordanGavaris) October 20, 2017

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Update – 12:30 p.m.: Actress Evan Rachel Wood said in a tweet this week that the “next dam to break” in Hollywood will be the entertainment industry’s decades-long problem of adults being sexually involved with minors.

The West World star’s tweet comes amid several accusations of sexual misconduct against top talent agent to child actors Tyler Grasham, who was fired this week by Agency for the Performing Arts.

Hollywood has long-struggled to police what many observers call the town’s “open secret” of adults engaging in sexual acts with young aspiring stars.

Last year, former child star Corey Feldman revealed the gory details about the “molestations” he suffered that came “from several hands” and confessed that his best friend and fellow former child star Corey Haim — who died of a drug overdose at age 38 in 2010 after years of addiction — suffered “direct rape … when he was 11.”

Last week, actress Molly Ringwald said she was sexually assault by much alder men when she was 13.

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Update – 10:55 a.m.: Judd Apatow slammed Quentin Tarantino for knowing about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct but not confronting the disgraced producer.

“Knew enough since Clinton was President and MC Hammer was selling millions of records. That’s a lot of years to not confront a friend,” Apatow wrote on Twitter.

Knew enough since Clinton was President and MC Hammer was selling millions of records. That's a lot of years to not confront a friend. https://t.co/16i318Vq3c — Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) October 20, 2017

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Update – 10:45 a.m.: Film director Guillermo del Toro told TMZ that Quentin Tarantino’s decades-long relationship with disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein contributed to The Hateful Eight director’s hesitance to speak out.

Tarantino told The New York Times this week that he has for years been aware of Weinstein’s abusive behavior and sexual misconduct.

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino said. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”

The Hobbit scribe also said he would never work with Weinstein again, noting that it “was hell” in 1997 — presumably Toro was referring to the 1997 sci-fi film Mimic, which he directed and was produced by the Harvey Weinstein-headed Miramax.

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Update – 10:08 a.m.: The Weinstein Company has pulled its biographical drama The Current War from its scheduled Nov. 24 release and pushed the film to an unannounced date in 2018.

The Benedict Cumberbatch-starring film about the battle between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse is the latest black eye to befall the Weinstein world amid the mushrooming sexual abuse scandal involving the company’s co-founder Harvey Weinstein.

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Update – 9:19 a.m.: A spokesperson for Harvey Weinstein said the disgraced producer “has a different recollection of the events” actress Lupita Nyong’o accused him of in a New York Times op-ed, in which she described being pressured into giving Weinstein a massage in his hotel room.

“Mr. Weinstein has a different recollection of the events, but believes Lupita is a brilliant actress and a major force for the industry,” the statement reads, according to Deadline. “Last year, she sent a personal invitation to Mr. Weinstein to see her in her Broadway show Eclipsed.”

The Oscar-winning actress said months after the massage episode, she was asked to eat dinner in Weinstein’s hotel room. After turning down his offer, Nyong’o says Weinstein got aggressive and told her she “had to be willing to do this sort of thing” in order to be a successful actress.

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Update – 9:01 a.m.: Actress and country singer Jana Kramer said she was sexually harassed by her manager early in her career, when she was 19-years-old.

“I had a man helping me in the very beginning when I was 19, and he was like, ‘OK, I’ve done this for you. What are you going to do for me?’” the One Tree Hill star told Yahoo Style Friday. “And I remember in that moment being like, ‘Oh, my God! I am going to have to sleep with this man in order to fulfill my dreams.’ I ended up just bawling, crying, and having a panic attack, and he left.”

“I’ll never forget that, how easy it is for something like that to happen and for me to think ‘I can’t do this,’ and then they win,” the singer said.

Read the rest here.

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Update – 6:45 p.m.: Disney star Cameron Boyce has fired Tyler Grasham after the embattled talent agent was accused of sexually assaulting young men. Boyce’s decision to fire Grasham comes after Stranger Things and It star Finn Wolfhard fired Grasham.

TheWrap has more here.

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Update – 6: 40 p.m.: Agency for the Performing Arts talent agent Tyler Grasham was fired from the top Hollywood firm one day after he was accused of sexually assaulting young aspiring male actors.

“Tyler Grasham’s employment with APA has been terminated effective immediately,” APA spokesperson Manfred Westphal told TheWrap.

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Update – 6:30 p.m.: Dave Ring, the lawyer of a Weinstein rape accuser, revealed more details about the alleged 2013 incident between the disgraced producer and an Italian model and actress. Ring told reporters at a press conference Friday that his client “described to the LAPD an extremely serious sexual assault and a rape” which took place when she was 34.

“While I am not able to get into details, I can tell you that she explained to them graphic detail that caused LAPD to open up a criminal investigation of sexual assault and rape,” Ring said. “I know the LAPD is investigating that. I don’t know any more than that.”

More here.

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Update – 5:45 p.m.: Actress Heather Kerr said at a press conference Friday that she quit acting shortly after Harvey Weinstein “unzipped his pants and pulled out his penis,” and forced himself on her.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Attorney Gloria Allred held a press conference Friday morning in which her client, actress Heather Kerr, who appeared on The Facts of Life, claimed ousted Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein exposed himself to her and forced himself on her sexually in a private meeting when she was an aspiring actress. “He asked me if I was good,” said Kerr. “I started to tell him about my training and acting experience and he said, ‘No. I need to know if you’re good.’ He said if he was going to introduce me around town he needed to know if I was ‘good.’ He kept repeating that word. I offered to provide him with a reel. He had this sleazy smile on his face. Because he was sitting so close on this couch I started to get a sick feeling in my stomach. The next thing I knew he unzipped his pants and pulled out his penis.” Kerr then claimed that Weinstein “grabbed her hand and forced it onto penis and held it there” at which point she “pulled away as casually as possible.” Weinstein then “said this is how things work in Hollywood and all actresses who’d made it did it this way.”

More here.

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Update – 4:40 p.m.: Netflix’s Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard has reportedly exited Hollywood talent agency, the Agency for the Performing Arts (APA), after the firm’s top representative for young stars was accused of sexually assaulting two young men.

More here.

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Update – 2:10 p.m.: Over 200 women working in Hollywood’s animation industry sent an open letter Thursday to executives at all of the major Los Angeles studios — including Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Animation — demanding they help bring an end to the “widespread” sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.

The letter, published by Cartoon Brew, features a list of demands and comes after Nickelodeon’s firing of animated series Loud House creator Chris Savino who was accused by a dozen women of sexual harassment.

From the letter:

We, the women and gender non-conforming people of the animation community, would like to address and highlight the pervasive problem of sexism and sexual harassment in our business. We write this letter with the hope that change is possible, and ask that you listen to our stories and then make every effort to bring a real and lasting change to the culture of animation studios. … Our business has always been male-dominated. Women make up only 23% of union employees, so it’s no surprise that problems with sexism and sexual harassment exist. Sexual harassment and assault are widespread issues that primarily affect women, with women of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalized groups affected at an even greater rate. … It has not been easy for us to share our stories with each other. Many of us were afraid because our victimizers are powerful or well-liked. Others were worried that if they came forward it would affect their careers. Some of us have come forward in the past, only to have our concerns brushed aside, or for our supervisors to tell us “he’s just from a different era.” All of us are saddened and disheartened to hear how widespread the problem of sexual harassment still is in the animation industry, and how many of our friends had been suffering in secret.

More here.

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Update – 1:53 p.m.: Netflix recently reached a settlement with former HR director Barry Coleman, who accused executives at the streaming giant of “tolerating harassment and discrimination” and blasted the company’s “veneer of a perfect disruptive, progressive” business.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Recently, Netflix reached a settlement with Coleman over his $1.5 million claims and required him to stay mum about the dispute. Nevertheless, Coleman’s story can now be told. Discrimination and harassment lawsuits tend to be personal and one-sided, and they are particularly tricky subjects to report on because such allegations can carry career-long consequences for those involved. But as Hollywood and members of the media continue to look inward in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and as lawmakers consider changes, including voiding non-disclosure agreements in instances of workplace harassment, more stories concerning hostile workplaces are coming to light. It should be noted right away that Netflix vehemently denies Coleman’s allegations. Coleman, 52, arrived at Netflix after working in the human resources departments of several large multi-national corporations. Netflix was apparently impressed enough by a presentation on how to do business in China that Coleman gave in March 2015 to later offer him a job. Barbie Graver, then the vp of talent at Netflix, recruited Coleman, according to court documents. She indicated interest in making him an offer in December, 2015, but three hours after the two spoke on the phone, Coleman experienced a tragedy. He learned his son had been murdered in Colorado. … Things got worse, from Coleman’s perspective. He claimed a male superior in Netflix’s talent group made romantic advances on him in April 2016 by speaking about a rendezvous with a handsome business executive and inviting Coleman along. “Being heterosexual, [Coleman] was uncomfortable with [the superior’s] advances and attempted to keep some distance so as not to offend his superior,” stated a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. “However, the invitations to go out continued.”

Read the full report here.

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Update – 1:00 p.m.: Longtime chairman and CEO of Vox Media Jim Bankoff announced to staff Friday that the sexual harassment investigation that led to former editorial director Lockhart Steele’s firing is “ongoing” and that law firm Gibson Dunn has been brought in to assist in the investigation.

More here.

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Update – 12:00 p.m.: Actress Sean Young Barbra Streisand shamed her when she accused Warren Beatty of sexual harassment.

From TMZ:

Sean was on “Dudley and Bob with Matt Show” on KLBJ-FM in Austin Thursday and when they asked her about Harvey Weinstein … she remembered an encounter with Babs. The ‘Ace Ventura’ star said she auditioned back in the ’80s for a movie Streisand was directing. She claims Streisand ripped into her because Young accused Beatty of firing her after she rejected his advances. Besides that, Sean claims she had her own run-in with Weinstein’s genitals. As for the Streisand story — her rep tells us Barbra’s response is, “I have no memory of ever having interviewed Sean Young, and I do not condone harassment of women under any circumstances.”

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Update – 11:00 a.m.: Vox Media editorial director Lockhart Steele fired after being accused of sexually harassing a former employee.

More here.

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Update – 10:00 a.m.: Harvey Weinstein’s rape accuser’s lawyer David Ring to hold a news conference today to “share more information about the case,” TMZ reports.

The outlet says LAPD investigators are concerned that the woman — an Italian model and actress, who said Weinstein raped her in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2010 — courted the media while she was being questioned by the police, which could potentially poison the prosecutors’ jury selection process.

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Update – 9:45 a.m.: Harvey Weinstein is reportedly arriving late to sex rehab group therapy sessions, falling asleep during them, and ranting about how the myriad sex assault and harassment allegations against him are “all a conspiracy” and that “all the encounters were consensual.”

From Page Six:

The source told us, “In one group therapy session, Harvey arrived 15 minutes late. Then, when it was his turn to speak, he launched into a speech about how this is all a conspiracy against him.” The source added that as others at the clinic shared their personal stories, “Harvey fell asleep in his chair. He was only woken up by the ringing of his smuggled mobile phone [which is banned at the facility] . . . Harvey jolted awake, jumped up, immediately took the call and then ran out of the room.” … “He insists he never raped or assaulted anyone, and that all the encounters were consensual. He realizes he has acted like an a–hole, but he still insists he’s not a rapist. He does have his phone, but when he is in therapy, he has to give it to someone else,” the source said, adding, “The characterization of what he said and what happened at the group session isn’t true.”

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Update – 9:30 a.m.: Actress Lara Flynn Boyle, known for her roles in the 90s crime drama Twin Peaks and Men in Black II, made a rare public appearance Sunday in downtown Los Angeles for the 15th annual LA County Walk to Defeat ALS and spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about being sexually harassed in Hollywood “all the time.”

“It still stays with you. You still remember things that were not quite appropriate, but you move on and that’s all you can do I guess. I support all the actresses that have come forward,” she said.

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Update – 9:00 a.m.: A November hearing has been set, in which the Television Academy’s board of governors is expected to expel Harvey Weinstein.

The TV Academy’s full statement via Deadline:

Sexual harassment in any form is abhorrent and totally unacceptable. Television is a collaborative industry and we fully support those who have been affected by these allegations. The Television Academy stands united with those throughout the industry condemning such behavior in the strongest terms. The Television Academy’s Board of Governors met this evening. In accordance with the Academy’s established procedures, it was overwhelmingly decided to initiate disciplinary proceedings concerning Academy member Harvey Weinstein; such proceedings could result in action up to and including termination of Academy membership. Per the Academy’s bylaws, a hearing has been set for early November.

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Update – 11:15 p.m.: Actress Natasha Lyonne says she was “overpowered” by an unnamed Hollywood film director when she “was roughly 19.”

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Update – 11:00 p.m.: Actress Lupita Nyong’o is the latest actress to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, the Star Wars star alleging that she gave the disgraced producer a massage in his hotel room when she was still a student at the Yale School of Drama in 2011.

“I began to massage his back to buy myself time to figure out how to extricate myself from this undesirable situation. Before long he said he wanted to take off his pants,” she wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times. “I told him not to do that and informed him that it would make me extremely uncomfortable. He got up anyway to do so and I headed for the door, saying that I was not at all comfortable with that.”

Nyong’o escaped that hotel room only to find herself a few months later being pressured into having dinner in Weinstein’s room.

“I told him I preferred to eat in the restaurant. He told me not to be so naive. If I wanted to be an actress, then I had to be willing to do this sort of thing,” she wrote. “He said he had dated Famous Actress X and Y and look where that had gotten them.”

Read Nyong’o’s full story here.

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Update – 9:00 p.m.: Iconic magician David Blaine is under investigation after model Natasha Prince accused him of raping her in London.

From the Daily Beast:

Natasha Prince claims Blaine raped her at a private home in London’s Chelsea neighborhood in the summer of 2004, months after her 21st birthday, she told The Daily Beast in her first-ever interview on the subject. “Officers from the Met’s Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command are investigating an allegation of rape,” Scotland Yard said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “The allegation was reported to police on 17 November 2016 by a woman who alleged she was raped at an address in Chelsea in June or July 2004 when she was aged 21. There have been no arrests at this stage and enquiries continue.” Police last month emailed Prince that they had requested Blaine, through his attorney, come to the U.K. for an “interview under caution” where he would be provided with the particulars of the allegation. Blaine’s attorney, Marty Singer, denied all allegations to The Daily Beast in a statement.

More here.

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Update – 7:00 p.m.: Harvey Weinstein was sobbing and reportedly told his assistant “I’m not that guy. I’m not that guy,” after the New York Times bombshell article went to print, alleging decades of sexual harassment by the disgraced movie mogul. But as the days passed, and another expose went to print, including 2015 audio of Weinstein harassing and assaulting Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, current and former Weinstein Company employees told The New Yorker that they were devastated — “some began to shake, and many of them wept as they contemplated the roles they might have played as accomplices, unwitting or not” — to Weinstein’s decades of abuse.

From The New Yorker:

But many current and former Weinstein Company employees have come forward in recent days to insist that, in fact, they didn’t know. This week, several employees at the Weinstein Company’s New York office drafted a statement defending themselves, which they submitted to The New Yorker. The document, which they say has the support of approximately thirty of their colleagues at the Weinstein Company, is anonymous: it’s unclear, with the company in turmoil, whether the nondisclosure agreements they signed as a condition of employment will be enforced. One supporter of the statement told me, “This awful helpless feeling of being vilified for something you never knew was creating this feeling of true despair.” The statement reads, in part: We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator. We knew that our boss could be manipulative. We did not know that he used his power to systematically assault and silence women. We had an idea that he was a womanizer who had extra-marital affairs. We did not know he was a violent aggressor and alleged rapist. But to say that we are shocked and surprised only makes us part of the problem. Our company was built on Harvey’s unbridled ambition—his aggressive deal making, his insatiable desire to win and get what he wanted, his unabashed love for celebrity—these traits were legendary, and the art they produced made an indelible mark on the entertainment industry. But we now know that behind closed doors, these were the same traits that made him a monster. He created a toxic ecosystem where his abuse could flourish unchecked for decades. An assistant who co-wrote the letter described to me, by phone, the events of October 5th, the day the first Times story was published. Harvey came in to work at 375 Greenwich Street, his fiefdom (his brother Bob worked at a different address), where he had a “lair”: in addition to an office, there was a large living room with a commodious couch and trophy walls of photographs of Harvey and his stars. He expressed satisfaction that the piece had come out on a Thursday rather than a Sunday, when, by his reckoning, more people would have seen it. The assistant told Harvey that he was resigning from his position. (He is hoping to be reassigned within the company.) Harvey offered to provide a reference—he didn’t yet understand how undesirable that would be. Later, as the assistant was leaving to spend the afternoon drinking and strategizing with his colleagues at a nearby pub, he says that Harvey reached for his arm. Sobbing, Harvey said, “I’m not that guy. I’m not that guy.”

More here.

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Update – 6:15 p.m.: Quentin Tarantino, who has collaborated with Harvey Weinstein on several films since the 90s and has won two Oscars working with the disgraced filmmaker, told The New York Times that he has for years been aware of Weinstein’s behavior.

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino said. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”

“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard,” he added. “If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”

More here.

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Update – 6:00 p.m.: Harvey Weinstein is the subject of an LAPD investigation into whether he raped an Italian model in 2013.

“The Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery Homicide Division has interviewed a potential sexual assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein which allegedly occurred in 2013,” said Officer Tony Im, an LAPD spokesman. “The case is under investigation.”

More here.

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Update – 5:50 p.m.: Katya Mtsitouridze, a Russian TV host and head of Roskino, Russia’s Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography, claims she was once led to Harvey Weinstein’s hotel room only to find him in a bathrobe requesting a massage.

More at The Hollywood Reporter here.

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Update – 4:45 p.m.: TMZ caught up with Polish model Joanna Krupa, who says she was warned more than a decade ago about Harvey Weinstein’s reputation for being sexually aggressive with young women.

Video here.

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Update – 3:06 p.m.: Nick Cannon says parents should keep their kids the far away from Hollywood.

TMZ:

We got Nick out at LAX Wednesday and wanted to get his take on whether kids are safe in the industry following Reese Witherspoon’s revelation she was sexually assaulted by a director as a 16-year-old. She confessed the harrowing experience amid Harvey Weinstein’s continuing fallout. Nick — himself a kid actor, performer and teenage star — had zero hesitation about where he stands: kids shouldn’t be working … especially in Hollywood.

Update – 2:44 p.m.: The Directors Guild of America (DGA) will discuss “the very serious issue of sexual harassment in the industry” at its upcoming members meeting Saturday.

Deadline reports that the DGA could take a leaf from the Academy and the Producer Guild and expel Harvey Weinstein this week, although its rules are reportedly more rigid and would have to be followed to the letter in order for him to be kicked out.

More from Deadline.

Update – 2:15 p.m.: Penny Lancaster, the former model and wife of Rod Stewart, said this week she was drugged and raped by a fashion industry executive when she was a teenager.

From Page Six:

“I found myself facedown on the bed with him on top of me,” Lancaster tearfully said. “I couldn’t tell my mum or dad because I thought they would say to me, ‘Why did you go back to his house?’ But, he was a client I had worked with and he promised to introduce me to other people.” Lancaster says she was “naive” and that she “trusted” the unidentified man. “I can’t remember much of what happened but he he was on top of me and enjoying the experience but I certainly wasn’t,” she added.

Update – 1:19 p.m.: New York Lawmakers Target Non-Disclosure Clauses in Wake of Harvey Weinstein Scandal

From Variety:

Two New York lawmakers are leading an effort to void the type of non-disclosure agreements that for years kept accusers of Harvey Weinstein from going public with allegations of sexual harassment. The most recent version of the legislation, sponsored by State Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, both Democrats, would make null and void any provision that had the effect of concealing claims of harassment, as well as other labor violations, like discrimination, retaliation, and non-payment of wages. It also includes claims that are submitted to arbitration, a process that often is covered by confidentiality provisions. Hoylman introduced the legislation in the Senate earlier this year, in response to the allegations that surfaced against Fox News chieftain Roger Ailes.

Update – 11:56 a.m.: TMZ reports that Colony Capital is getting cold feet about potentially buying The Weinstein Company after taking a look at its books.

TMZ:

We’re told the deals the company made — especially movie deals — are falling apart left and right. As one source connected to the company tells TMZ, “I haven’t seen this much anger EVER in this business. Companies are taking this one personally.” We’re told the finances and state of the company are so daunting, Colony Capital — which has been in negotiations to buy TWC — is no longer sure it makes sense. Colony fears that even by changing the name and doing a complete personnel change, there’s a taint that just won’t go away.

More here.

Update – 11:53 a.m.: Academy under pressure to boot Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby after expelling Harvey Weinstein.

Page Six:

“We are baffled by this,” said p.r. man Edward Lozzi, representing two of Cosby’s accusers, actresses Louisa Moritz and Carla Ferrigno, wife of new academy member Lou Ferrigno. In a letter to AMPAS president John Bailey, Lozzi said of keeping the men in the group, “This is negligent hypocrisy.” “Where does it end?” asked one academy voter. “This could be like the removal of Civil War monuments.”

More here.

Update – 11:18 a.m.: The British Film Institute has revoked its highest honor from Weinstein, the BFI Fellowship, which it awarded the now-disgraced producer in 2002.

More at the Hollywood Reporter.

Update – 10:52 a.m.: Octavia Spencer: Women from around the world are banding together.”

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.@OctaviaSpencer: "Women from around the world are banding together" in wake of Harvey Weinstein saga #PowerOfWomen presented by @LifetimeTV pic.twitter.com/tIu65TbkbK — Variety (@Variety) October 13, 2017

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Update – 9:39 p.m.: Blythe Danner wrote a letter to the New York Times Wednesday blasting Maureen Dowd for criticizing her daughter’s handling of her experience with Harvey Weinstein when she was 22 years old.

Danner writes at NYT:

I cannot remain silent while Maureen Dowd disparages my daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, for the manner in which she chose to handle Harvey Weinstein’s attempt at a sexual encounter when she was 22 (“Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood’s Oldest Horror Story,” column, Oct. 15). … Gwyneth did not “put aside her qualms to become ‘the first lady of Miramax’ ” back then, as Ms. Dowd would have it. She continued to hold her own and insist that Mr. Weinstein treat her with respect. She had learned from her father, the producer and director Bruce Paltrow, how to stand up for herself. Bruce received the first Diversity Award from the Directors Guild for helping women and minorities in our business. His daughter wasn’t the only woman he taught to fight for herself.

Full letter here.

Update – 9:27 a.m.: The sexual harassment scandal engulfing Hollywood continues to spill over into the music industry.

Singer Tom Jones told the BBC in a radio interview this week that harassment is also prevalent in the music business, and “what’s tried on women is tried on men as well.” (More here.)

Meanwhile, Dorothy Carvello, who spent 20 years working in A&R at a number of major record labels, detailed her own experiences with sexual harassment, and shared a story about the late Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun.

More on the latter story at Variety.

Update – 9:18 p.m.: Former supermodel Christy Turlington says sexual harassment and abuse are still widespread in the fashion industry.

From the Associated Press:

“The industry is surrounded by predators who thrive on the constant rejection and loneliness so many of us have experienced at some point in our careers. I feel fortunate that I did not personally experience anything traumatic, but also know that is not the norm,” she told Women’s Wear Daily in an interview published Wednesday. The former supermodel, who is married to actor-director Ed Burns, said her mother was often by her side in the early days and once she grew successful, “I was handled with extra care.”

Update – 8:49 a.m.: Actress Laura Dern has revealed she was sexually assaulted when she was just 14 years old.

From the New York Daily News:

Dern, 50, appeared on “The Ellen Show” Wednesday where she recounted her night at the Elle Women in Hollywood event and told the comedian that she came to the realization just that morning about her assault experiences. “I woke up and I realized that in that space I talked about how I was one of the lucky ones because I was raised by actors who told me their stories and told me what to look out for, and I realized that I was I still justifying behavior,” the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd said. “And it was my mom who said, ‘No, no, no, Laura — that was sexual assault. That was harassment. That was assault. No, you were 14 then,'” she continued.

Update – Thurs. Oct. 19 – 8:43 a.m.: Rose McGowan, perhaps the actress most vocally leading the charge against sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry since the Weinstein scandal broke two weeks ago, has cancelled all public appearances due to “compounding factors” related to the scandal.

From E! News:

Understandably, Rose McGowan isn’t in the mood to walk a red carpet. Late Wednesday night, less than 24 hours before McGowan was scheduled to receive the Ad Astra Award at the Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita, organizers announced she had rescinded their invitation. In a statement, the organizers said the 44-year-old actress-turned director informed them she has canceled “all upcoming public appearances due to compounding factors surrounding recent revelations in the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment case.” In addition to being honored, she had also been expected to host a screening of her directorial debut, Dawn.

More at E!

Update – 8:00 p.m.: Some New York lawmakers are looking to change the state’s non-disclosure clauses in the wake of the Weinstein scandal.

From Variety:

Two New York lawmakers are leading an effort to void the type of non-disclosure agreements that for years kept accusers of Harvey Weinstein from going public with allegations of sexual harassment. The most recent version of the legislation, sponsored by State Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, both Democrats, would make null and void any provision that had the effect of concealing claims of harassment, as well as other labor violations, like discrimination, retaliation, and non-payment of wages. It also includes claims that are submitted to arbitration, a process that often is covered by confidentiality provisions. Hoylman introduced the legislation in the Senate earlier this year, in response to the allegations that surfaced against Fox News chieftain Roger Ailes.

More here.

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Update – 6:50 p.m.: Harvard University is set to rescind the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal it awarded to Harvey Weinstein in 2014 for his contributions to African American culture, Page Six reports.

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Update – 6:00 p.m.: Veteran TV and film critic Maureen Ryan alleges that “the television executive who sexually assaulted me in 2014 broke me.”

From Variety:

I can’t name my attacker for legal reasons. But I won’t be silent any more. A television executive assaulted me, and the specific power dynamics of this industry aid and abet men like him. The television executive who assaulted me was the boyfriend of someone I’d known in the industry for some time. I did not think the boyfriend of someone I knew would assault me. I did not think he would do it at an industry-adjacent event. I did not think he would make a sexually crude, harassing remark about me in front of dozens of people, which was extremely embarrassing. I did not think that, a short time later, he would put his hands on me and say utterly disgusting things. I did not think he would come after me again, and then, when I’d moved away, grope me again, and hiss more even more crude, humiliating things into my ear. He came after me three times in total. He hunted me. The word predator works on so many levels.

Read Ryan’s full story here.

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Update – 5:40 p.m.: Disgraced Amazon executive Roy Price reportedly wanted to know if Big Little Lies stars Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon would “show their t-ts.”

From THR:

In addition, Amazon — along with HBO, Showtime and Netflix — was offered a chance to lock up the planned Nicole Kidman-Reese Witherspoon series Big Little Lies. The project was a hot commodity and the other bidders made straight-to-series offers. Price would only allow Amazon to offer a development deal, and company insiders say at a staff holiday party at the Lucky Strike bowling alley in Hollywood, Price asked a group of staffers if the two stars would “show their tits” and mused aloud why he would greenlight the show if they didn’t. (In fact, Kidman did multiple nude scenes.) Big Little Lies went to HBO and won eight Emmys — four times more than Amazon’s overall haul.

More here.

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Update – 5:07 p.m.: Actress Marisa Coughlan, who worked on two projects for Harvey Weinstein when he was the head of Miramax, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that the disgraced producer “wanted to barter sex for movie roles.”

From THR:

“He told me that he has a lot of ‘special friends’ and they give each other massages,” Coughlan states. “It was a full-court press. He wanted me to be one of his ‘special friends’ and go into the bedroom. I told him that I had a serious boyfriend and reminded him that he was married and that we should keep this professional. I was so blindsided. Not one ounce of me anticipated it. It was the weirdest meeting I’ve ever had in my life.”

Read the rest here.

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Update – 4:34 p.m.: Weinstein driver at Cannes recalls picking up girls “in tears.”

Page Six:

The chauffeur — one of the few in Cannes willing to drive Weinstein around — said he was tasked with delivering women, both actresses and hookers, to the Hollywood horndog’s hotel. “I felt like driving poor innocent people, innocent girls, taking them into the wolf’s mouth and I could not tell them ‘where you put your feet, it’s dangerous,. ‘” he told French TV news network BFMTV. The girls often came out of his hotel in tears in the morning, he said.

More here.

Update – 2:55 p.m.: Channing Tatum halts work on a movie about sexual abuse that had been set up at The Weinstein Company.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Channing Tatum is getting out of business with The Weinstein Co. The actor and producer announced in a joint statement with his producing partner Reid Carolin that the duo are stopping development on a film adaptation of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, following the emergence of decades of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The 2013 young-adult novel by Matthew Quick centers on a troubled teenager who plans to kill his best friend and then himself. He first visits the four people closest to him, giving each of them a present. As the day goes on, secrets of his past are revealed, including experiences of sexual abuse.

Update – 2:01 p.m.: Actress Kristen Stewart tells attendees at the Elle Women in Hollywood event this week not to forget about “below-the-line” film industry workers who are sexually harassed or abused, and don’t have the stature of celebrity around them.

“So I’d say let’s be aware of this on every level. Those girls are as duct-taped as one could possibly be because they are in fear of getting their next job, as is every actress, too, same deal.”

More at THR.

Update – 1:23 p.m.: Former prosecutor Marcia Clark (of O.J. Simpson case fame) says Weinstein should expect to face criminal charges.

Full video at TMZ.

Update – 1:06 p.m.: A legal startup backed by billionaire Peter Thiel is offering a $100,000 “bounty,” or really just financial assistance, to any woman with a credible claim of sexual harassment or abuse against Harvey Weinstein.

From Deadline:

The company is extending the financial assistance any woman with what it deems a “valid sexual harassment claim” against the disgraced mogul, who has faced waves of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse spanning three decades. The latest Thiel-Weinstein news comes on the heels of Charles Harder’s exit as Harvey Weinstein’s attorney. Harder had represented Thiel in the milestone Hulk Hogan legal victory over Gawker. … But Eva Shang, one of Legalist’s founders, says the company’s motive is genuine interest in the case, not opportunism. She said the company has made some offers in other previous cases that were higher than $100,000. As the Weinstein saga has unfolded, she said, it revealed real needs on the part of those pursuing complaints. “Especially as a female founder,” she told Deadline, “as I read these reports of eight cases of settlements being paid to women, for very modest amounts and without a single case being filed, it seemed like a situation where we could help women get the justice they deserve.”

More here.

Update – 11:49 a.m.: Nickelodeon’s ‘The Loud House’ Creator Suspended Amid Sexual Harassment Claims

This is what happens when an environment is created where alleged victims feel comfortable to name a name.

According to Cartoon Brew, as many as 12 women came forward to accuse Savino of harassment including unwanted sexual advances and threats of blacklisting after relationships with co-workers had ended. The site said the reports date back at least a decade. Savino’s credits include Rocko’s Modern Life and The Powerpuff Girls and The Loud House is the first show he created. It follows 11-year-old Lincoln as he gives an inside look at what it takes to survive in the bedlam of a large family, especially as the only boy with 10 sisters. It launched in May 2016 and last October was renewed for a third season.

Although no specifics were released, this sounds like a nightmare for these women.

If the naming of names can happen internally in this way, that is every bit as effective.

Update – 10:52 a.m.: No names named –> Linda Bloodworth-Thomason: Lessons from Witnessing Four Decades of Harassment in Hollywood

Update – 10:51 a.m.: No names named –> A+E Chief Nancy Dubuc: Abuse of Power Begins With Unconscious Male Bias

Update – 10:49 a.m.: No names named –> ‘Broad City’ Star Ilana Glazer Fired Staffers For Sexual Harassment

Update – 10:48 a.m.: Kevin Smith will donate future Harvey Weinstein residuals

Update – 9:52 a.m.: THR’s latest cover keeps the focus on one man, keeps the scandal contained to one villain. Shameful wagon circling, especially in light of the wave of accusations against countless others who will apparently remain nameless … and free to keep right on harassing and assaulting:

Update – 9:47 a.m.: Elizabeth Olsen, Jane Rosenthal Demand Justice for Sexual Assault Victims at Chanel Tribeca Lunch

Before our very eyes you can see the issue of sexual assault becoming a chic trend, a bandwagon to get your name in the trades. But nothing is being done to punish the bad guys. No one is naming names. Everyone is being made to feel good about “speaking out,” pretending to do something, while at the same time protecting the status quo:

“I was surprised and not as surprised,” Elizabeth Olsen, who’s volunteered at the Rape Treatment Center, told Variety, “because I’m around women and children who’ve been sexually assaulted every week. I think we have a really insane epidemic, and it’s amazing to hear women who feel comfortable or safe enough to speak out.” She hopes it has a “ripple effect:” “It’s not just about the film industry; it’s not about a casting couch. It’s about women being too scared to speak up for how they’re treated and the taboo of talking about it, and about trying to change that.” …

Olsen stars in “Wind River,” The Weinstein Company’s sole contender in this year’s Oscar race — though she hopes his stigma doesn’t deter audiences. “To be able to make a movie about two subjects that you don’t really get to hear that often — sexual assault and reservation life — I feel proud to be a part of that movie,” Olsen said. “And I hope people continue to see it, and I hope Weinstein’s name is not an attachment or a comment on our film.”

Update – 9:51 a.m.: A TV Executive Sexually Assaulted Me: A Critic’s Personal Story

No name is named but the story is heartbreaking.

Update – 8:58 a.m.: ‘Gary Shandling Show’ Reveals Lurid Details of Harassment on Set — and Why It Cost Her a Job

THR:

Once we got on the air, we were golden. I was, at any rate; I wrote two of first six episodes, both of which got a nice write-up in the L.A. Times, both of which said nice things about me, the writer, the only woman on staff. What could possibly go wrong? The guys started excluding me from meetings: “Oh, we couldn’t find you”…at my desk. Then they started excluding me from the table, instead assigning me “the slit scenes” to write. Even though these scenes were the ones that featured the only female castmember, it didn’t occur to me exactly what slit they were referring to until one day in the ladies room.

Update – 8:57 a.m.: Director: I got fired because Weinstein thought star wasn’t ‘f–kable’

Page Six:

“‘I said, ‘She is the best actress for the job, Harvey,’” Caton-Jones said, referring to now-acclaimed British actress Sophie Okonedo. “And we started arguing about it. It was only when I said to Harvey, ‘Don’t screw up the casting of this film because you want to get laid,’ whereupon he went mental.” The flick was the 1998 cult classic “B. Monkey.’’

The job went to actress Asia Argento, one of the women who accused Weinstein of rape.

Update – 8:25 a.m.: Oprah speaks.

On the Harvey Weinstein scandal, @Oprah says “it’s triggering a lot of unreleased pain…guilt and suffering that a lot of women have.” pic.twitter.com/NHwymzhRqc — CBS News (@CBSNews) October 18, 2017

Update – 8:08 a.m.: Lena Headey claims she was sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein

Update – 8:04 a.m.: Jessica Chastain Blasts Hollywood Hypocrisy: ‘We’re Very Quick to Point the Finger at Others’

THR:

At Elle Magazine’s Women In Entertainment event Monday evening, actress Jessica Chastain took her turn at the podium as an opportunity to call out hypocrisy in Hollywood. *”This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia,”* she said, speaking to a room full of women including Laura Dern, Riley Keough and Aaron Sorkin. “It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.” She continued, *”Oh we’re very quick to point the finger at others and address the issue with social action and fundraising. Yet there is a clear disconnect between how we practice what we preach in our industry.”* [emphasis added]

Update – 7:57 a.m.: “Los Angeles City Attorney “Will Prosecute” Harvey Weinstein If Victims Come Forward”

Deadline:

“Please come forward so your cases — and justice — can be pursued,” said Mike Feueron Tuesday as the LAPD requested victims of the Oscar-winning producer to go public. “We take allegations like these very seriously, and where the facts support conviction, we will prosecute,” he added. As more and more claims of harassment or assault by Weinstein emerge, the New York Police Department and the London Metropolitan Police are already investigating potential complaints. The LAPD has not officially started its own probe, but, as Deadline reported last week, it is seriously considering doing so.

Update – 7:00 p.m.: Actress Molly Ringwald — who made it big in Hollywood in the mid-80s starring in cult classics including Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles — wrote about her experiences with sexual harassment in Hollywood and her connection with Harvey Weinstein.

In a New Yorker article titled “All the Other Harvey’s,” the Riverdale star addressed an explicit comment Jeffrey Katzenberg was quoted as saying in a Movieline article in 1995.

“The head of a major studio — and, incidentally, someone who claims himself to be horrified by the Harvey allegations—was quoted as saying, ‘I wouldn’t know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face.’ Maybe he was misquoted. If he ever sent a note of apology, it must have gotten lost in the mail.”

Katzenberg extended an apology to Ringwald Tuesday, saying “That Molly Ringwald had to read those words attributed to me and believe I said them is horrifying, mortifying and embarrassing to me.”

Ringwald recounts how when she “was thirteen, a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection. When I was fourteen, a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set.”

The actress said she was “lucky” that she was never “cajoled into a taxi, nor did I have to turn down giving or getting a massage” while filming the Weinstein-backed 1990 movie Strike It Rich.

Read Ringwald’s essay here.

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Update – 5:35 p.m.: TMZ reports the Harvey Weinstein was apologetic in his remarks in a meeting with the Weinstein Co. board of directors Tuesday morning, where he officially resigned from the company he co-found.

From TMZ:

Harvey Weinstein was apologetic and contrite during the Board of Directors meeting Tuesday when he resigned under pressure from the Board … sources connected to the meeting tell TMZ. We’re told there was no screaming, no yelling, no anger. Harvey Weinstein told the Board, “I have a real problem,” and then apologized for the “trouble and confusion” he caused TWC. We’re told Weinstein, who was on speaker phone from Arizona, told the Board he needed to build a new life and move on.

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Update – 5:15 p.m.: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president John Bailey released a lengthy statement Tuesday to the organization’s 8,427 members addressing the Weinstein scandal engulfing Hollywood.

“The Academy cannot, and will not, be an inquisitorial court,” Bailey wrote, “But we can be a part of a larger initiative to define standards of behavior, and to support the vulnerable women and men who may be at personal and career risk because of violations of ethical standards by their peers.”

Read Bailey statement in full here.

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Update – 4:40 p.m.: Roy Price has resigned as Amazon Studios head, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Update – 4:30 p.m.: Spike TV is investigating executive producer Amanda Segel’s allegation that Bob Weinstein sexually harassed her.

“We take all allegations of this nature very seriously, and are investigating,” Spike TV said in a statement.

Bob Weinstein’s attorney denied the accusations, saying “There is no way in the world that Bob Weinstein is guilty of sexual harassment.”

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Update – 4:00 p.m.: Actress Jessica Chastain scorched her industry speaking at the At Elle Magazine’s Women In Entertainment event on Monday evening, calling Hollywood an “industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia.”

“It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening everyday,” she said.

The actress added: “Oh we’re very quick to point the finger at others and address the issue with social action and fundraising. Yet there is a clear disconnect between how we practice what we preach in our industry.” Chastain pointed specifically to actors and actresses who have been told to stay closeted while the industry champions same-sex marriage, as well as the wage gap that exists between the sexes even as the industry itself supports equal pay legislation.”

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Update – 3:00 p.m.: Bob Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment by Spike TV showrunner and Mist executive producer Amanda Segel.

According to Variety:

Amanda Segel, an executive producer of “Mist,” said Weinstein repeatedly made romantic overtures to her and asked her to join him for private dinners. The harassment began in the summer of 2016 and continued on and off for about three months until Segel’s lawyer, David Fox of Myman Greenspan, informed TWC executives — including COO David Glasser — that she would leave the show if Bob Weinstein did not stop contacting her on personal matters. “‘No’ should be enough,” Segel told Variety. “After ‘no,’ anybody who has asked you out should just move on. Bob kept referring to me that he wanted to have a friendship. He didn’t want a friendship. He wanted more than that. My hope is that ‘no’ is enough from now on.”

Read the full report here.

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Update – 2:15 p.m.: Harvey Weinstein resigned Tuesday from the Weinstein Co. board of directors and still owns 22% of the company’s stock, variety reports.

The reported resignation comes more than a week after the board voted to fire Weinstein, a decision he has called illegal.

Read the full report here.

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Update – 2:00 p.m.: Another actor, this time Skeet Ulrich — who starred in the Weinstein-produced horror classic Scream — said he knew and “most people knew” about the allegations against Weinstein.

“I had dinner with someone who is one of the most famous women on the planet — I won’t say who it is — who has not come out, who told me similar things.… There is nothing you can do. I mean, what am I gonna do? I can’t step up, certainly then, on allegations,” Ulrich told Cosmopolitan. Honestly, and I think it’s what most people faced: How do you cut your livelihood from a very powerful corporation on something that you don’t know what the facts are?”

Read the rest here.

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Update – 1:45 p.m.: Game of Thrones star Lena Headey revealed Tuesday that she had a series of disturbing encounters with Weinstein, one of which brought her to tears.

Years after she says Weinstein came on to her at the Venice Film Festival in 2005, the two shared a tense elevator ride to Weinstein’s room.

Weinstein “said, let’s go up to my room, I want to give you a script,” Headey wrote on Twitter. “We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, my whole body went into high alert, the lift was going up and I said to Harvey, I’m not interested in anything other than work. He was silent as I spoke, furious.”

Headey said she felt “completely powerless” as Weinstein “marched” her toward his room. After realizing that his room key didn’t work, he walked the actress back to the elevator.

“He whispered in my ear ‘Don’t tell anyone about this, not your manager, not your agent.’ I got into my car and I cried,” the British actress wrote.

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Update – 1:20 p.m.: Actress Lauren Holly recounted a “late 1990s” incident in which she said a naked Weinstein “got out of the shower, he didn’t put on the robe, and he came toward me.”

In an appearance Monday on the Canadian daytime talk show The Social, the Dumb and Dumber and NCIS star — who also starred in the Weinstein-produced 1996 romance comedy Beautiful Girls — said the mogul told her it would be a “bad decision” if she left the room. Holly said it was then that she “pushed him and ran.”

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Update – 1:00 p.m.: Comedian Donnell Rawlings could land in hot water for this one, similarly to how Donna Karan’s reaction went over, telling TMZ that for all the women who “had issues with Harvey Weinstein but at least a thousand women didn’t have issues.”

Asked if he would work with Weinstein, Rawlings said “As long as he don’t grab my d*ck … I’d work with Harvey Weinstein.”

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Update – 11:30 a.m.: Weinstein Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg: ‘Everybody F**king Knew’

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Update – 10:45 a.m.: Jeffery Katzenberg — who was chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994 and was later a co-founder and CEO of DreamWorks Animation — said Hollywood sex predators are “a pack of wolves” and said Harvey Weinstein “didn’t act alone.”

“The casting couch has been in Hollywood from the beginning,” Katzenberg said Monday at the WSJD tech conference. “The complicity around the acceptance of it and silence about it is the crime. Harvey Weinstein, make no mistake about it, he is a monster.”

“The problem is there’s a pack of wolves. He’s not a lone actor in this,” Katzenberg said of Weinstein. “I’ve had hundreds of meetings with Harvey Weinstein, and literally not a single time was Harvey abusive to someone in my presence. Somehow this behavior was masked by him.”

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Update – 10:30 a.m.: An unnamed Oscar-winning actor has become embroiled in the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal. The Hollywood A-lister was accused by a top US broadcaster of assaulting a loved one, who she has not publicly revealed, and cannot for legal reasons.

The female broadcaster was reportedly referencing Weinstein on social media and said it was “time the dominoes fell” when she called out the famous actor.

The Sun reports that “rumors about this actor have circulated for years.”

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Update – 9:45 a.m.: TMZ reports that Harvey Weinstein is expected to go to war with The Weinstein Co. board of directors at a meeting in New York City Tuesday to discuss his fate at the indie film firm.

From TMZ:

Our Weinstein sources say he knows he’s “momentarily toxic” but thinks with a little time, writers and actors will seek him out again because of his track record. He believes — and probably rightly so — that TWC exists because of him. He believes he can go back and produce movies, or he can just as easily do it somewhere else.

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Update – 9:30 a.m.: Veteran actress Reese Witherspoon says she was repeated sexually harassed and assaulted in Hollywood, the first episode occurring when she was 16.

“[I feel] true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment,” the Oscar winner said in a speech at the Elle Women in Hollywood event Monday night.

“I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often,” she said.

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Update – 9:20 a.m.: Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg — who wrote the screenplay for Harvey Weinstein’s 1995 indie film Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead and the 1996 romance comedy Beautiful Girls — said “everybody f**king new” about Weinstein’s abuse and slammed the producers, writers, directors, and actors in who were close to Weinstein, saying the “current flood of sanctimonious denial and condemnation that now crashes upon these shores of rectitude in gloppy tides of bullsh*t righteousness.”

“We knew about the man’s hunger; his fervor; his appetite,” Rosenberg wrote. “There was nothing secret about this voracious rapacity; like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm. All couched in vague promises of potential movie roles.”

Among those who knew and discussed Weinstein’s behavior, according to Rosenberg, were “the big producers; you, the big directors; you, the big agents; you, the big financiers. And you, the big rival studio chiefs; you, the big actors; you, the big actresses; you, the big models. You, the big journalists; you, the big screenwriters; you, the big rock stars; you, the big restaurateurs; you, the big politicians.”

Read Rosenberg’s message in full here.

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Update – 9:15 a.m.: actress America Ferrera revealed Monday night that she was sexually assaulted when she was 9-years-old.

“First time I can remember being sexually assaulted I was 9-years-old,” the now-33-year-old Superstore actress wrote on Instagram as part of the #MeToo social media movement encouraging women share their stories of sexual harassment or assault.

“I told no one and lived with the shame and guilt thinking all along that I, a 9-year-old child, was somehow responsible for the actions of a grown man,” she wrote.

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Update – 9:00 a.m.: Actress and Weinstein collaborator Jennifer Lawrence opened up about the “humiliating” and “degrading” experience she had in the early days of her film career.

“When I was much younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks,” Lawrence said, adding: “During this time a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me. We are stood side-by-side with only tape on covering our privates.

Video of the mother! star’s comments at the 24th annual Elle Women event Monday is posted below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaVkYhjhUbB/

Update – 8:30 a.m.: Lucasfilm president and Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy addressed the swirling Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, calling for an industry-wide commission to tackle “predators.”

Speaking Monday night for the 24th annual Elle Women in Hollywood, Kennedy said:

Increased awareness of the belittlement, objectification and predation long endured by women who work in film, will certainly be one result of the exposure of what Harvey Weinstein did, and was permitted to do; women who are subject to similar criminal treatment in the future will certainly look to the brave women who’ve come forward to tell what was done to them as these shocking and also horribly familiar events have been brought to light. The light of public scrutiny will have been strengthened, and we all hope the ability of corporations, board of directors, and colleagues to cover up and countenance sexual predators will be severely curtailed. Predators must come to feel that they can’t count on power or wealth or fame to shield them from the consequences of their actions. But sexual harassment of women and men, predation, rape and the misogyny that is the context for this inhumanity will continue unless there is a decisive, industry-wide, institutional response that legislates change rather than hopes for it to happen. For the past few days, I’ve been in discussions with friends and colleagues, and I want to use my few moments of speaking tonight to offer a proposal. The organizations that constitute the American film industry – the studios, the unions the guilds and the talent agencies –

should immediately convene a commission charged with the task of developing new, industry-wide protections against sexual harassment and abuse.

Read her full remarks here.

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Update – 8:00 a.m.: The Boston Herald says Ben Affleck “Weinstein woes threaten Justice League.“

NOT SO SUPER: The impending release of a superhero movie for the holidays, especially one with box-office record breaker Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) in it, should make the good folks at Warner Bros. dream of Lambos and extra pizza toppings from all the “Justice League” loot that will roll in starting Nov. 17. Except … Ben Affleck (a Harvey Weinstein-detractor who then apologized for his own inappropriate behavior that came to light) also stars as Batman. And the Cantabrigian’s co-star is none other than Jason Momoa, whose infamous 2011 “Game of Thrones” rape joke resurfaced last week in a video. He has also apologized for his “tasteless comment.” Some Batman fans have taken to Twitter, calling for Affleck to hang up his bat cape (or for the studio to do it for him). Of course, there were multiple change.org petitions back in 2013, demanding the Affleck not be cast in “Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and he proved to be a popular incarnation of the Caped Crusader.

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Update – 4:15 p.m.: Veteran Hollywood producers Gavin Polone says Disney, NBC News, the New York Post, and Bob Weinstein, among other Harvey Weinstein “accomplices must be named.”

From The Hollywood Reporter:

The Walt Disney Company. How much malfeasance took place during the 12 years starting in 1993 that Disney owned Miramax, the Weinsteins’ first company? Clearly, some of the testimony coming out from various actresses, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd, can be connected to specific movies, so it is probable he was preying on many women during that time frame. Disney claims that Miramax had a lot of autonomy, but if any victims retained a lawyer to pursue a settlement, as Rose McGowan may have done (she did Scream with them in ’96 and is reported to have received a settlement), they likely would have threatened to file suit against not only Weinstein personally but also the company, including the parent company. That’s how these things work. Therefore, I can’t imagine that someone at Disney, if not Michael Eisner the CEO at the time, had not been informed. Even if Eisner was not in-the-loop, as he maintains, I would bet that some executive(s) were and there are files in a warehouse or on a server that would be illuminative. … NBC News. Ironically, the network that brought us To Catch a Predator let this predator go. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim has stated that they did not move forward with this story when Farrow was working on it for them because he didn’t have “the elements [they] needed to air it” and that Farrow “greatly expanded the scope of his reporting” after taking the story to The New Yorker. I was in touch with Ronan throughout the period he was working on this epic project and can say that Oppenheim’s statement does not comport with what I know. The last time that I spoke to Ronan while he was still working on this for NBC was around mid-August. At that time, he had an overwhelming amount of evidence backing his report, including many recorded interviews with women both fully on camera and also recorded in shadow. If the fact that some women Farrow interviewed didn’t want their identity revealed invalidated this story for NBC, then it also would have done so to every investigation of the mafia or South American drug cartels that I’ve ever seen. From what I can tell, Ronan had more hard evidence in August than The New York Timeshad for the article they published on Oct. 6. … The New York Times. I cringe to add The Paper of Record to this rogues gallery, as it was they who first named Harvey Weinstein a sexual predator when others did not have the integrity and backbone to do so. But there is an allegation by TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman that the Times killed a story about Weinstein’s depravity back in 2004, ostensibly due to pressure not only from His Horribleness but also from major movie stars. The Times has said that editors who worked with Waxman on this did not remember it the same way as she and that Waxman did not offer the necessary corroboration for them to run her version of the article. I will say that she’s had eight years to publish her account on TheWrap but chose not to, which I can only believe was due to Waxman’s wanting advertising from The Weinstein Company or that she feared being sued without The Times at her back. Still, the consequences of Waxman’s report not running 13 years ago are all too clear, given what we now know. The truth surrounding this allegation must be made known in detail.

Read Polone’s article in full here.

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Update – 4:00 p.m.: The Producers Guild of America voted unanimously Monday to expel Harvey Weinstein. The national board is expected to make the expulsion final next month.

Read the PGA statement on Weinstein below:

“This morning, the PGA’s National Board of Directors and Officers decided by unanimous vote to institute termination proceedings concerning Harvey Weinstein’s membership. As required by the PGA’s Constitution, Mr. Weinstein will be given the opportunity to respond before the Guild makes its final determination on November 6, 2017. Sexual harassment of any type is completely unacceptable. This is a systemic and pervasive problem requiring immediate industry-wide action. Today, the PGA’s National Board and Officers – composed of 20 women and 18 men — created the Anti-Sexual Harassment Task Force specifically charged with researching and proposing substantive and effective solutions to sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. The PGA calls on leaders throughout the entertainment community to work together to ensure that sexual abuse and harassment are eradicated from the industry.”

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Update – 3:45 p.m.: Howard Stern played audio on his radio show Monday of a 2014 interview with Harvey Weinstein.

Stern asked the disgraced film producer if he or other male Hollywood heavyweights used their positions of power to pressure actresses into having sex with them.

“It doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t happen that way anymore,” Weinstein said.

When the audio clip concluded, Stern said: “I knew he was lying.”

Update – 2:30 p.m.: The LAPD is urging women who say they were victims of Harvey Weinstein to come forward.

From the LA Times:

The Los Angeles Police Department said women who feel they were victims of a crime at the hands of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein should report what happened to authorities. “We absolutely encourage anyone who may be a victim of sexual assault to come forward and report the crime,” Josh Rubenstein, the LAPD director of communications, said Monday. Los Angeles Police Capt. Billy Hayes, who oversees the Robbery Homicide Division that handles sex crimes, said the LAPD currently does not have any active investigations into Weinstein.

More here.

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Update – 12:38 p.m.: Clinton Foundation refuses to return Weinstein donations.

Update – 11:51 a.m.: Björk reveals she was sexually harassed by a director

Update – 10:16 a.m.: Weinstein Co. saved by new investor? What seemed impossible just a few minutes ago (see 9:42 a.m. update below) appears to at least be trying to happen. Colony Capital is going to pump cash in The Weinstein Company in order to save it:

Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., founder and executive chairman of Colony Capital, said in a statement, “We are pleased to invest in The Weinstein Company and to help it move forward. We believe the Company has substantial value and growth potential, and we look forward to working with the Company’s critical strategic distribution and production partners to help preserve and create value for all stakeholders, including its employees. We will help return the Company to its rightful iconic position in the independent film and television industry.” Colony has been intricately involved with Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s show business odyssey, especially its most recent chapters.

One wonders, though, how Colony will overcome a toxified brand no one wants to be seen doing business with.

Update – 10:15 a.m.: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Star Mayim Bialik Responds to ‘Vicious’ Criticism Over Her Harvey Weinstein Editorial

However, the piece attracted some criticism, with readers accusing Bialik of implying that women may be to blame for being harassed because of the way they dress. “I have to say I was dressed non provocatively as a 12 year old when men on the street masturbated at me,” actress Patricia Arquette responded to Bialik. “It’s not clothing.” Taking to Twitter on Sunday, she explained that her words had been taken out of context by some readers. “I’m being told that my N.Y. Times piece resonated with so many and I am beyond grateful for all the feedback,” she wrote. “I also see a bunch of people have taken my words out of context of the Hollywood machine and twisted them to imply that God forbid I would blame a woman for her assault based on her clothing or behavior.”

Update – 10:11 a.m.: Donna Karan Apologizes Again, Describes Weinstein’s Actions As “Unconscionable and Unforgivable”

Update – 10:07 a.m.: Piers Morgan BLASTS Kate Winslet’s hypocrisy for hitting the Weinstein Woody, Polanski trifecta:

Yet how does the same Kate Winslet square all this with the fact that has no problem at all working for both Woody Allen and Roman Polanski? Last month, Ms 