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Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas. The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late…
In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home’ to servicemembers stationed far away from their…
I don’t know exactly when I first heard the rumors about Louis C.K., but this is because of how frequently I’ve heard those rumors repeated — not with the hushed tones and gripped elbow of a worried girlfriend’s warning, the way such information is usually shared, but in jokes, told to comedians by comedians. “You’ve…
Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy was already the world’s most terribly timed movie. It’s a would-be provocative comedy about how a man’s Woody Allen–esque hero starts pursuing his 17-year-old daughter — and is, at the time of writing, still scheduled to open right in the middle of our current maelstrom of stories about decades…
Image via Getty The revelation in Thursday’s New York Times that comedian Louis CK acted sexually inappropriate with women comedians was not a revelation to us here at Jezebel. In 2012, Jezebel’s sibling site, Gawker, ran a blind item about a “critically cherished sitcom auteur” who masturbated in front of “a female comedy duo” at…
react-text: 154 Here’s /react-text react-text: 156 one thing that I’m not concerned about right now: the question of what /react-text react-text: 158 today’s revelations /react-text react-text: 159 do to the artistic legacy of Louis C.K. /react-text react-text: 161 For certain fans of C.K.’s work, and I include myself among them, the stories that just appeared…
close story-meta Photo Louis C.K. in 2015. Five women have come forward to describe upsetting experiences with him. Credit Andrew Toth/FilmMagic, via Getty Images In 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. When Louis…
Imagine that you live in a city of villains. Your city has a billionaire playboy. He lives on top of the hill. You don’t know much about him, other than what you read in the papers about his romantic exploits and elaborate black-tie parties. You had a gig once offloading decorative antique suits of armor…
Stephane Cardinale/Corbis, via Getty Images Last month, an Access Hollywood correspondent asked the actress Uma Thurman to comment on abuse of power in Hollywood, presumably in light of the sexual assault allegations against the producer Harvey Weinstein. Speaking slowly and deliberately, through gritted teeth, Thurman responded, “I don’t have a tidy soundbite for you, because…
react-text: 195 In /react-text react-text: 197 the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and…