Weinstein, Spacey, etc.

[maxwelldeux]

Smallvile star Allison Mack charged with sex trafficking:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43846243

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story. This is maybe the most disturbing of all the stories that have come out (except maybe Cosby). Goes to show that star power and ad revenue still matter more than anything else.

That's been a story off-and-on for quite a while now - my wife works in human trafficking (against - just to be clear), and I remember us discussing this story at various times in the past.

[funkybusiness]

Smallvile star Allison Mack charged with sex trafficking:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43846243

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story. This is maybe the most disturbing of all the stories that have come out (except maybe Cosby). Goes to show that star power and ad revenue still matter more than anything else.

That's been a story off-and-on for quite a while now - my wife works in human trafficking (against - just to be clear), and I remember us discussing this story at various times in the past.

I bet that's a killer introduction line at parties "so what is that you do?" "OH I WORK IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING"

[maxwelldeux]

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story. This is maybe the most disturbing of all the stories that have come out (except maybe Cosby). Goes to show that star power and ad revenue still matter more than anything else.

That's been a story off-and-on for quite a while now - my wife works in human trafficking (against - just to be clear), and I remember us discussing this story at various times in the past.

I bet that's a killer introduction line at parties "so what is that you do?" "OH I WORK IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING"

Hehehe...

I tease my wife by calling her Debbie Downer - anything she can relate to work will, within a few minutes, invariably lead to the phrase "sexual exploitation of minors", at which point all fun is suddenly sucked out of the conversation. Our friends are used to it, and I can usually stop her from going too far by calling her "Debbie", but it's still darkly amusing to watch people's reactions to her talking about work.

Related side note: If you've ever seen I Am Jane Doe (2017) (available on Netflix), that film served as a nice company-bonding activity. And we both know several of the people interviewed in there, and that's what her company works to prevent.

[sebby]

Smallvile star Allison Mack charged with sex trafficking:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43846243

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story. This is maybe the most disturbing of all the stories that have come out (except maybe Cosby). Goes to show that star power and ad revenue still matter more than anything else.

That's been a story off-and-on for quite a while now - my wife works in human trafficking (against - just to be clear), and I remember us discussing this story at various times in the past.

Oh yeah, it's certainly a story with some legs, but it's not getting the same twitter fire or on-air attention as some much tamer stuff like CK, Affleck, etc. did, and you have to believe it's b/c virtually no one knows who Allison Mack is. She's a C-lister, so her next-level disturbing sex crimes aren't quite as juicy. If this was Jennifer Lawrence being charged with the same crime, it would be wall to wall unending coverage.

[maxwelldeux]

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story. This is maybe the most disturbing of all the stories that have come out (except maybe Cosby). Goes to show that star power and ad revenue still matter more than anything else.

That's been a story off-and-on for quite a while now - my wife works in human trafficking (against - just to be clear), and I remember us discussing this story at various times in the past.

Oh yeah, it's certainly a story with some legs, but it's not getting the same twitter fire or on-air attention as some much tamer stuff like CK, Affleck, etc. did, and you have to believe it's b/c virtually no one knows who Allison Mack is. She's a C-lister, so her next-level disturbing sex crimes aren't quite as juicy. If this was Jennifer Lawrence being charged with the same crime, it would be wall to wall unending coverage.

For sure - Agreed with you there. I also think society as a whole isn't quite ready to talk about human trafficking, what it means, and the scope of the problem yet. I mean, it's 2018, and we're only now getting a handle on the whole "sexual assault is bad, mmkay?" thing...

[Knaldskalle]

I think one of the reasons for that is a general poor understanding of what "sex trafficking" is - and what it isn't. I've seen it conflated with prostitution in general and there also seems to be some confusion between "human trafficking" and "sex trafficking."

There was a case in New Orleans recently, where the police raided several night clubs/strip clubs looking for victims of human trafficking and shut the the clubs down, just before Mardi Gras. From the reporting, apparently the didn't find any human trafficking victims, only "regular" strippers and/or prostitutes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... rip-clubs/

Police Chief Michael S. Harrison said in a news conference Monday that drug activity was alleged at four of those clubs following the suspension of liquor licenses.

The flurry of police activity is part of a broad, ongoing effort to curtail human trafficking in the city, Harrison said, although officials appeared to be divided on whether human trafficking, as legally defined in the state, was taking place at the clubs at all.

Louisiana Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC) Commissioner Juana Marine-Lombard told reporters at the news conference that “prostitution in and of itself is sex trafficking.”

But Louisiana law says that “fraud, force or coercion” must be evident to meet the legal definition of human trafficking. Harrison later conceded the distinction between prostitution and human trafficking, saying that “we do not consider it to be one and the same.”

Beau Tidwell, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman, said Friday that no human-trafficking charges have been filed, and he would not say if he expects any to materialize. Investigators are building cases, and trafficking charges are difficult to substantiate, he said.

[morrison-dylan-fan]

smallville is still on the air? i'd never heard of allison mack til this broke

i believe the billionaire bronfman sisters have been keeping this cult alive. to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1013 ... 2a0f261853

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business ... 0-million/

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010 ... man-201011

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyre ... lbany.html

as you can see it's been in the news before. a tv series is possibly in the works

http://www.newsweek.com/keith-raniere-n ... ult-902268

Thanks for the excellent links RBG, and is it likely that the Bronfam's will get caught up in the downfall of the cult.

Checking her credits, Mack has hardly any credits since Smallville/ she got involved in NXIVM,so I'm surprised she could cover the $5 million bail:

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/allison ... 202785044/

One of the things that will be interesting to see during the trial is if Mack get her Smallville co-star Kristin Kreuk involved,who Mack claims introduced her to NXIVM (Kreuk says she left the group in 2012, "Unaware" of the child trafficking abuse https://artvoice.com/2018/02/02/smallvi ... uNn4S7wbIU )

[jokerswild1 is dead]

I could've met Allison Mack at a comic book convention about six months ago, and I did see her sitting at her table about thirty feet away from me. I think I just didn't meet her because she was charging more than I wanted to pay for an autograph ($50), I would've if it had been like 20 or something. Odd story to hear about a woman...

[RBG]

almost everyone involved in nexium cult was a woman ^ besides the leader ofc. it was billed as a secret 'women's empowerment' group, if you can believe it

is it likely that the Bronfam's will get caught up in the downfall of the cult.

one would hope, however they are very rich (seagram's empire) so we'll see

https://jezebel.com/the-academy-has-kic ... 1825752380

the academy has kicked cosby and polanski the hell out and it's about time. weinstein was kicked out last year

[GruesomeTwosome]

almost everyone involved in nexium cult was a woman ^ besides the leader ofc. it was billed as a secret 'women's empowerment' group, if you can believe it

Yet another cult led by a man, where female followers are groomed/pressured/coerced to have sex with him. Always seems to be the way those things go...

[RBG]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... o-scandal/

The announcement comes days after Swedish media reported that French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault groped Swedish Crown Princess Victoria at an academy event in 2006. Arnault was accused of sexual harassment or assault, in some cases on academy property, by 18 women in November. He also stands accused of leaking the names of at least seven Nobel winners. He has denied the allegations.

In connection with the scandal, the head of the academy, Sara Danius, has stepped down, along with several academy members, including Arnault’s wife, poet Katarina Frostenson.

holy fuck someone groped a princess

[Knaldskalle]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... o-scandal/

The announcement comes days after Swedish media reported that French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault groped Swedish Crown Princess Victoria at an academy event in 2006. Arnault was accused of sexual harassment or assault, in some cases on academy property, by 18 women in November. He also stands accused of leaking the names of at least seven Nobel winners. He has denied the allegations.

In connection with the scandal, the head of the academy, Sara Danius, has stepped down, along with several academy members, including Arnault’s wife, poet Katarina Frostenson.

holy fuck someone groped a princess

Crown Princesses are people too, you know, underneath the gowns and diadems.

I wonder when my mom's going to get embroiled in one of these scandals. She once accidentally bumped into the king of Norway back in the 1960s. She was coming out of a store in Copenhagen and he was going in and none of them paid too much attention to where they were going.

[xianjiro]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... o-scandal/

The announcement comes days after Swedish media reported that French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault groped Swedish Crown Princess Victoria at an academy event in 2006. Arnault was accused of sexual harassment or assault, in some cases on academy property, by 18 women in November. He also stands accused of leaking the names of at least seven Nobel winners. He has denied the allegations.

In connection with the scandal, the head of the academy, Sara Danius, has stepped down, along with several academy members, including Arnault’s wife, poet Katarina Frostenson.

holy fuck someone groped a princess

Crown Princesses are people too, you know, underneath the gowns and diadems.

I wonder when my mom's going to get embroiled in one of these scandals. She once accidentally bumped into the king of Norway back in the 1960s. She was coming out of a store in Copenhagen and he was going in and none of them paid too much attention to where they were going.

And she kept her head? What is the royal world coming too?!?

Oh wait, it's elected officials these days that are always baying for blood ... well, them, and 'social media'.

[morrison-dylan-fan]

Roman Polanski sues Oscars organisation over his expulsion:

Director who won Academy award for The Pianist dismisses MeToo movement as ‘mass hysteria’ and ‘hypocrisy.’

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/m ... s-hysteria

[RBG]

uh oh - morgan freeman aka GOD

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertai ... l?adkey=bn

[morrison-dylan-fan]

Update on Freeman story:


Morgan Freeman apologises after being accused of sexual harassment by eight women including an assistant whose 'skirt he tried to lift up' and a pregnant reporter who says he called her 'ripe.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... women.html

[jokerswild1 is dead]

Looks like Weinstein will finally be arraigned for his sex crimes: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... me-charges

Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is set to turn himself in to New York police on Friday to face charges of sex crimes, according to a Thursday report in The New York Daily News.

Weinstein, who faces allegations of sexual assault and rape, will reportedly surrender himself in connection to an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's office and New York Police Department over claims from at least one of his multiple accusers, Lucia Evans.


Evans says that he forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004.

Since at least January, federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District have been probing allegations of sex abuse against Weinstein. If he got women to cross state lines for the purpose of committing a sex crime, officials say, it could be a federal offense.

Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he has been meeting with federal prosecutors to try to “dissuade them from proceeding.”

“Mr. Weinstein has always maintained that he has never engaged in nonconsensual sexual acts,” Brafman said.

Another five cases of sexual assault and misconduct are currently under review by the The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

Approximately 80 women, including multiple well-known actresses, have accused the former Weinstein Company chief of sexual misconduct.

[allisoncm]

Looks like Weinstein will finally be arraigned for his sex crimes: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... me-charges

Great news.

[RBG]

and he's out on bail in half an hour

https://jezebel.com/morgan-freeman-says ... 1826346668

meanwhile ugh this is so gross. making comments about women's body parts is NOT COMPLIMENTARY

from the comments

“I’m afraid to talk to women because I don’t know what I can say anymore.” Well, would you say it to a male colleague? Probably fine! Are you just saying it to her because she’s a woman? Maybe keep it to yourself!

pretty good rules to follow here

https://medium.com/@annevictoriaclark/t ... c45e0b49af

[RBG]

https://jezebel.com/harvey-weinstein-ha ... 1826355280

weinstein already pitching a documentary about himself.

[Pretentious Hipster]

https://metalheadzone.com/tool-frontman ... -old-girl/

[Knaldskalle]

https://metalheadzone.com/tool-frontman ... -old-girl/

I really like Tool and I've been excited about their upcoming album (any year now!). What a buzzkill. Blech!

[Pretentious Hipster]

[Knaldskalle]

I hope the allegations aren't true, but I'm not optimistic.

[Pretentious Hipster]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/a ... inst-actor

Well that's a twist I didn't expect

[Knaldskalle]

Kevin Spacey's new movies makes $126 on opening night:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kye ... club-vgtrn

[Armoreska]

Well it's a bad film with so far the best review a 3/5

[Knaldskalle]

Well it's a bad film with so far the best review a 3/5

Plenty of bad movies make millions on opening night...

[sebby]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/a ... inst-actor

Well that's a twist I didn't expect

Seems likely she was grooming the kid from a young age, too. Another fucking monster.

It sure would be nice if the shitty people attached to the #metoo movement (argento, dunham, rose mcgowan, and so on) would step aside because their place in it makes it too easy for people who aren't paying close attention to brush it aside, call it hypocritical, etc. If you care about the greater good then shut up and get your spotlight-loving selfish ass out the way.

But of course how can you ask entertainers not to be fucking narcissists.

[RBG]

this was so gross. women everywhere recognized what happened here. glad it's being called out

[sebby]

I never thought I could feel bad for Ariana Grande after the whole licking donuts thing she did, but man, with this dude and Slick WIllie drooling while staring at her ass, you can't help but feel for her. Straight up turned her into little more than a living sex doll. AT A FUNERAL.

I have a feeling this creep has pulled this move a thousand times before, too. He's so smooth about it. Wish she just kicked him in the balls. Sexual assault is sexual assault, and a good knee to the crotch is a nice in the moment deterrent.

[AdamH]

Really creepy. She didn't look comfortable during any of it either.

[brokenface]

I never thought I could feel bad for Ariana Grande after the whole licking donuts thing she did, but man, with this dude and Slick WIllie drooling while staring at her ass, you can't help but feel for her.

Erm, and the suicide bomber at her concert?

[sebby]

I never thought I could feel bad for Ariana Grande after the whole licking donuts thing she did, but man, with this dude and Slick WIllie drooling while staring at her ass, you can't help but feel for her.

Erm, and the suicide bomber at her concert?

Say what now

[RBG]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing

how did you miss this. dunno about the donut thing but girl's been through a lot

[sebby]

I don't watch tv or follow the news really, much less entertainment news. US politics being the exception. That's enough doom and gloom for me.

The only thing I knew about her before this week was that she got caught on camera licking a bunch of donuts and putting them back in the display case

Unless something goes viral and I hear it through the grapevine, it passes me by.

[RBG]

never heard of the donuts thing til right now

[mightysparks]

No idea who she is but she also looks about 12 which makes that video even creepier.

[sebby]

never heard of the donuts thing til right now

went viral, grapevine. that's how i heard about it. and it was so oddball and disgusting that it's found a semi-permanent place in my memory i guess.

[funkybusiness]

No idea who she is but she also looks about 12 which makes that video even creepier.

I'm not alone!