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The actor and musician has been accused of slapping a woman with his penis in 2002. The woman involved has now gone to the police about the alleged assault.


The unnamed woman claims the incident occurred at a party at Foxx’s Las Vegas residence. TMZ reports that she told authorities last week (June that he tried to get her to perform oral sex on him and, when he refused, he slapped her face with his penis.

Afterward, one of Foxx’s friends is said to have told her to leave the house. The woman says she went to a hospital upon her return to Los Angeles the next day for treatment for a severe panic attack.

In a statement to TMZ, Foxx’s attorney Allison Hart said: “Jamie emphatically denies that this incident ever occurred, and he will be filing a report with the Las Vegas Police Department against the woman for filing a false police report against him. The first time [he] became aware of this woman’s absurd claims about an incident that supposedly happened 16 years ago was when TMZ contacted his representatives [on June 12] about the story.

She continued: “The alleged incident was not reported to law enforcement in 2002, or at any other time in the last 16 years until last Friday because the incident never happened.”

The website stated the woman making the allegations was inspired by the #MeToo movement and wanted her claims on record in case other accusers came forward.

The actor and musician has been accused of slapping a woman with his penis in 2002. The woman involved has now gone to the police about the alleged assault.

The unnamed woman claims the incident occurred at a party at Foxx’s Las Vegas residence. TMZ reports that she told authorities last week that he tried to get her to perform oral sex on him and, when he refused, he slapped her face with his penis.

Afterward, one of Foxx’s friends is said to have told her to leave the house. The woman says she went to a hospital upon her return to Los Angeles the next day for treatment for a severe panic attack.

In a statement to TMZ, Foxx’s attorney Allison Hart said: “Jamie emphatically denies that this incident ever occurred, and he will be filing a report with the Las Vegas Police Department against the woman for filing a false police report against him. The first time [he] became aware of this woman’s absurd claims about an incident that supposedly happened 16 years ago was when TMZ contacted his representatives [on June 12] about the story.”

The website stated the woman making the allegations was inspired by the #MeToo movement and wanted her claims on record in case other accusers came forward.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office is reviewing a sex crime case against Sylvester Stallone, spokesman Greg Risling said Wednesday.

The Santa Monica Police Department turned over the case, which was first reported to it in November 2017, Risling told CNN in an email.

The alleged incident at the center of the case took place in 1990s, Lt. Saul Rodriguez of the Santa Monica Police said. Police didn't say anything about the nature of the allegation against Stallone.

"My client categorically denies the allegations," Stallone's attorney, Martin Singer, told CNN.

"It's outrageous that the DA's office and PD would announce this information because it makes the public think that there's something there."
Singer said the woman who made the complaint had a consensual relationship with his client in the 1980s.
"It's not appropriate to try to ruin someone by doing this," he said.

In 2016, California ended the statute of limitations on some sex crimes, including rape, forcible sodomy and molestation of a child. But the revised law applies only to crimes committed after January 1, 2017, and offenses for which the statute of limitations had not expired by that date.

The case is being reviewed by a Los Angeles County task force that investigates possible sex crimes in the entertainment industry.

A day after allegations of emotional abuse and sexual assault were leveled against Chris Hardwick by an ex-girlfriend, AMC has decided today to officially pull the plug on their long time host’s talk show and appearances at San Diego Comic-Con next month.

We have had a positive working relationship with Chris Hardwick for many years,” said the home of The Walking Dead in a statement on Saturday, one day before Season 2 of Talking With Chris Hardwick was set to debut. “We take the troubling allegations that surfaced yesterday very seriously. While we assess the situation, Talking with Chris Hardwick will not air on AMC, and Chris has decided to step aside from moderating planned AMC and BBC America panels at Comic-Con International in San Diego next month.”

Maintaining radio silence all day yesterday, the cabler had been under increasing pressure to address the premiere of Talking and its overall relationship in lieu of the disturbing claims that Chloe Dykstra made public online early on Friday. Additionally, as Legendary Entertainment wiped all mention of Harwick from the Nerdist site he founded and once owned, AMC found itself up against Hollywood heavyweight Talking guests who wanted no association with Hardwick and the looming SDCC realities.

With Hardwick having been announced on Thursday as the moderator of the first Comic-Con panel of the first female Doctor Who and widely presumed to be handling similar duties, as he has in past years, for TWD panel in the massive Hall H, the accusations swirling around the host now threatened to knee cap a prime promotional platform for AMC.

Clearly in crisis mode, Hardwick himself waited until late late on Friday to address the allegations.

“I was heartbroken to read Chloe’s post,” Hardwick said in his own statement. “Our three year relationship was not perfect—we were ultimately not a good match and argued—even shouted at each other—but I loved her, and did my best to uplift and support her as a partner and companion in any way and at no time did I sexually assault her.”

Hardwick’s former longtime girlfriend Dykstra wrote a first-person account of their three-year relationship Friday on Medium. While the TV personality and host never mentioned Hardwick by name, details about the “mildly successful podcaster” who grew into “a powerhouse CEO of his own company” and the timeline of the relationship suggested strongly that she was referring to him – an implication that Hardwick obviously confirmed in his response.

The posting by Dykstra detailed a three-year relationship in which she was restricted from going out at night, having male friends or speaking in public places, among other controlling behavior by the unnamed Hardwick. It also claimed that she was the victim of sexual and emotional assault by Hardwick

Dykstra also alleged that after she left him, Hardwick and a female colleague had her successfully blacklisted from a lot of the industry, calling companies she worked for “to get me fired by threatening to never work with them”

Among Chloe Dykstra’s explosive abuse allegations against Chris Hardwick that are now riling up his Nerdist geek culture is an assertion that her ex-boyfriend was obsessed with celebrity.

That alleged obsession seemed to play out in the family the seemingly affable TV host and podcaster married into. In 2016, two years after he broke up with Dykstra, he married Lydia Hearst.

Model and actress Lydia Hearst, 33, is the daughter of famous kidnapping victim-turned socialite Patty Hearst. She’s also the great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst. The media titan, of course, was one of America’s original celebrity moguls who famously had a movie star mistress, built Hearst Castle (where Lydia Hearst had her bachelorette party) and became the inspiration for “Citizen Kane,” arguably the greatest American film ever made.

First Patty Hearst tweeted: “Beware the person who stabs you and then tells the world they’re the one who’s bleeding.”

She also retweeted a Hollywood Reporter story about Hardwick’s denial. Then in reply to a TMZ tweet about the unfolding scandal, Hearst apparently wrote “Bunny Boiler,” according to this screen grab.

As this person suggested, this reply appears to reference the 1987 film “Fatal Attraction” in which Glenn Close plays a woman who flips out after a one-night-stand with a married father portrayed by Michael Douglas. Close’s Alex Forrest begins stalking and terrorizing Douglas’ character and his family, and famously takes his young daughter’s pet rabbit and boils it on the family’s stove.

In any case, it seems clear that Hardwick’s mother-in-law has his back.

But interestingly, Patty Hearst earlier this year voiced her own #MeToo and Time’s Up concerns by denouncing an upcoming Fox movie biopic and CNN documentary series about her 1974 kidnapping, saying both were “romanticizing” her rape when she was a hostage of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Variety reported.

Suzanne Somers doesn’t think Morgan Freeman should be lumped in with Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby as a sexual predator because, after all, the Oscar-winning actor is simply a “big flirt.”

Somers, 71, came to the defense of her longtime friend Tuesday, two months after Freeman was accused of sexually harassing eight women in a lengthy CNN report.

“Well, this probably won’t be real popular, but I think that women… I totally understand the (Harvey) Weinstein and Bill Cosby, that’s like, of course,” Somers said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” “But you know, like Morgan Freeman’s a big flirt. I know him really well. He sees you, and he’ll like your dress and he’ll like your hair and he’ll like a lot of things.”

And though it was Weinstein’s downfall that helped spark the #MeToo movement, Somers says she hopes men and women in the workplace will be able to find a “nice medium” between harassment and good, old fashion fun.

“I hope the dance doesn’t stop. It’s seduction, it’s flirting, all those things are really fun, so I hope there’s a way we can find a nice medium with that,” she said.

Freeman, 81, was hit with eight accusations of sexual harassment in May from women who claimed the Oscar-winning actor would frequently cross the line with sexually inappropriate comments and unwanted advances, like skirt lifting.

Freeman denied all of the allegations, and apologized if any of his attempts at humor rubbed women the wrong way.

time flies, don't it?

About nine months after the #MeToo movement against sexual violence took America by storm and spread around the world, few would disagree that it has accomplished real gains — notably, shining the light of day on wrongdoing by powerful abusers who were once shielded by their status.

But from the start, #MeToo skeptics — myself included — have warned about the danger of equating accusation with guilt and blowing trivial misdeeds or misunderstandings out of proportion. Now, the voices of skepticism are growing louder, and some say that #MeToo may have reached a turning point in judging complaints more carefully. If so, it’s about time.

The latest #MeToo rethinking has been prompted by the accusations that nearly torpedoed the career of Junot Díaz, the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American novelist. In May, when Díaz spoke at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in Australia, writer Zinzi Clemmons confronted him about his alleged abusive sexual behavior toward her six years ago. A few hours later, Clemmons, who teaches writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles, amplified her allegations on Twitter, claiming that when she was a 26-year-old graduate student at Columbia University and invited Díaz to speak at a workshop, he “used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss” her. She also said Díaz had “exploited” other young women.

Writers Monica Byrne and Carmen Maria Machado spoke up on Twitter to support Clemmons with accounts of what they considered verbal abuse and misogynistic behavior by Díaz. Byrne said he yelled at her when they had an argument at a dinner. Machado claimed that when she questioned Díaz about his character’s treatment of women during a book-tour appearance, he responded with “a blast of misogynist rage and public humiliation.”

Díaz withdrew from the festival and issued a vaguely contrite statement taking “responsibility” for his past and affirming the importance of teaching men about “consent and boundaries.” Some stores dropped his books. The Boston Review, where he is an editor, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches, announced an investigation into the charges against him. It seemed that his downfall would soon be complete.

But events took a different turn, particularly after an audio recording of Díaz’s exchange with Machado was posted online and showed something different from her account. There was no rage or bullying; Díaz sounded a bit defensive but polite. Machado was reduced to arguing that the audio didn’t “reflect body language or atmosphere” and that those who thought it was benign were not good at “reading subtext.”

Meanwhile, many women who knew Díaz came to his defense. Clemmons’ accusation was contradicted by a friendly email she sent Díaz after the workshop, making no mention of a kiss. A Columbia professor recalled seeing her after the event and, according to a report in The Boston Globe, “described her as delighted, not shaken.” (In his interview with the Globe, Díaz was adamant that he never kissed Clemmons and more or less repudiated his semi-apology; while Clemmons reiterated her claim, she refused to clarify whether the alleged kiss was on the mouth.)

Last month, both MIT and the Boston Review announced that Díaz was keeping his posts and that the claims against him did not warrant dismissal. This is the first high-profile exoneration of a man facing #MeToo accusations — a development that, as The Boston Globe story notes, reverses the familiar script.

Disney has parted ways with director James Gunn after a number of what the studio called “indefensible” tweets he wrote years ago resurfaced.

“The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,” Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement obtained by CNN.

Gunn had come under fire in recent days after his comments, which made references to pedophilia and molestation, came to light.

On Thursday, Gunn acknowledged the attention his previous social media comments were getting in a series of tweets.

“Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor,” he wrote. “It’s not to say I’m better, but I am very, very different than I was a few years ago; today I try to root my work in love and connection and less in anger. My days saying something just because it’s shocking and trying to get a reaction are over.”

He added: “For the record, when I made these shocking jokes, I wasn’t living them out. I know this is a weird statement to make, and seems obvious, but, still, here I am, saying it.”

Thousands have signed an online petition for the Walt Disney Co. to rehire Guardians of the Galaxy writer and director James Gunn after he was fired from the third film in the series Friday.

Gunn had been targeted for criticism by figures connected to a far-right fringe movement, who began highlighting a series of offensive shock-jokes Gunn made, some more than a decade old, on Twitter and his blog.

Fellow director Joe Carnahan (The Grey, Smokin’ Aces) shared the petition on Twitter, where it had collected more than 5,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon. By early evening, it had risen to nearly 16,000.

By Sunday morning, the total had climbed to 51,000

Gunn has lately used his social media platform to deliver scathing criticism of Donald Trump, which apparently captured the attention of controversial right-wing activist Mike Cernovich, who encouraged his followers to bombard Disney and Marvel accounts with screenshots of perverse jokes about molestation and other taboo subjects that Gunn had made over the years.

Gunn had also joked about directing a movie version of the beloved children’s book The Giving Tree in which the tree performs a sex act on its human companion

Gunn had already apologized for many of these remarks back in 2012, as some of his supporters tried to emphasize.

After getting unexpectedly fired from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” series by Disney, James Gunn has found support from Selma Blair, one of the women of #MeToo who came out about her sexual harassment at the hands of director James Toback last year.

“If people are punished despite changing, then what does that teach people about owning mistakes and evolving?” asked Blair in a tweet. “This man is one of the good ones.”

Blair also linked to a Change.org petition that has over 80,000 signatures asking Disney to reinstate Gunn as the director of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,

Kimberly Guilfoyle was reportedly the subject of an internal investigation at Fox News for sexual misconduct and inappropriate workplace behavior before she departed the network last week

When it was announced ‘The Five’ co-host would be leaving to help her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., campaign for the Republicans during the 2018 midterms, it was billed as her decision — but rumors to the contrary started to swirl almost immediately.

According to a new Huffington Post report — built on a year’s worth of interviews with 21 anonymous sources at Fox News and parent company 21st Century Fox — Guilfoyle’s exit was actually prompted by a slew of misconduct allegations, which include showing off personal pictures of male genitalia to her co-workers and then “identifying whose genitals they were.”

Sources also alleged that she regularly discussed her sex life at work and was emotionally abusive toward hair and makeup artists as well as support staff.

Guilfoyle also regularly railed against other woman working at the station and often criticized Jeanine Pirro for being too old to be on television, according to sources. The 67-year-old judge is the host of the popular show “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”
She reportedly received a “stern warning” over her behavior from Kevin Lord, the head of Fox News HR in the fall of 2017. And following an internal investigation into her conduct, which kicked off last year, the television personality was asked to exit the network by July, Huffington Post reported.

She tried to delay her impending departure, sources said, at one point appealing to Rupert Murdoch, the chair of Fox News’ parent company, to allow her to remain. Staff feared her ties to the Trump family and her relationship with the President’s eldest son would prevent her exit, but he network confirmed her departure on July 20 with a brief and vague statement.

“Fox News has parted ways with Kimberly Guilfoyle,” it read.
Sources told Huffington Post it’s fairly typical for the network to pressure staff into resigning rather than firing them so to avoid any negative press and general fallout.

Her attorney, John Singer, pushed back against the allegations in a statement, claiming Guilfoyle’s former co-workers are only interested in financial gain.

Guilfoyle, who worked with Fox News for more than a decade, also sparked controversy last year when she defended her former boss, Roger Ailes against several claims of sexual harassment.