Lady Gaga says rape as teenager left her pregnant and caused ‘psychotic break’ | Lady Gaga
[ad_1] Lady Gaga has told new details about sexual assault she suffered when she was 19. Speaking on The Me You Can’t See, Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s new Apple TV+ series about mental health, she said the rape – that she first disclosed in 2014 – was by a music producer and left her […]
‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
Philip Roth and Blake Bailey were an all-too-perfect match | Francine Prose
[ad_1] A polite, regretful email from a stellar bookstore, Books and Books, informed me that a virtual event – the 28 April conversation I’d agreed to have with Blake Bailey about his new Philip Roth biography – had been canceled. This was the first I’d heard about what the email termed the “recent developments surrounding […]
TI and Tiny deny sexual assault allegations from three further women | Rap
[ad_1] Rapper TI and his wife Tiny have denied allegations of sexual abuse from three women, adding to denials earlier this year after four other women made similar allegations. On Friday, New York lawyer Tyrone A Blackburn announced he was “speaking with investigators from multiple jurisdictions to pursue criminal charges” after the new allegations. One […]
Violation review – a torrent of suppressed rage | Film
[ad_1] In Violation’s closing stretch, Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) sits numbly in a rain-lashed car and watches a man harangue his wife in an eastern European language. Miriam has just done something unspeakable, in reaction to something unforgivable; preparing to finish the job at an anonymous motel, it is as if she has crossed a border […]
Actor Armie Hammer accused of raping a woman in 2017 | Armie Hammer
[ad_1] Actor Armie Hammer has been accused of rape by a woman in 2017. The accuser, known as Effie, was 20 at the time of the alleged rape. After meeting the Call Me by Your Name star via Facebook months prior, she claims they briefly dated each other while he was married. Effie claims that […]
From Line of Duty to The Fall: why can’t TV shows stop killing women? | TV crime drama
[ad_1] “A few years ago I was sent something: ‘Here’s the premise, a woman’s body found naked wrapped in clingfilm, where do you go next?’” That one example from an anonymous screenwriter perfectly captures crime drama’s obsession with violence against women. Sometimes we talk about that a lot, other times it just washes over us. […]
Musician Michael Milosh, AKA Rhye, accused of sexual abuse and grooming | Music
[ad_1] Musician Michael Milosh, AKA Rhye, has been accused by his ex-wife of grooming and sexually abusing her. Milosh has denied the allegations, calling them “absurd and outrageous false claims”. In posts on Instagram, Alexa Nikolas, an actor, has accused Milosh of grooming her from the age of 16, after she complimented him via a […]
Evan Rachel Wood and four other women accuse Marilyn Manson of abuse | Music
[ad_1] Evan Rachel Wood has accused her former partner Marilyn Manson of years of “horrific” abuse. In an Instagram post, the actor wrote: The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I […]
Rebekah: the techno DJ fighting sexual abuse in dance music | Dance music
[ad_1] DJ Rebekah remembers the day she walked into a record shop in her native Birmingham to ask for a job. Her parents had bought her a set of turntables just before her 17th birthday and she was keen to start building her vinyl collection. “I said to the guys working there, ‘Oh, have you […]
