Shock abuse allegations continue
Tinseltow inseltown was in shock when m more than 50 women – including includ Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd – claimed to have suffered sexua sexual abuse at the hands of Hol Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. We Now the th film industry has been bee rocked anew as Kevin S Spacey, Dustin Hoffm Hoffman, Jeremy Piven and filmmaker fil Brett Ratner Ratne have become the subject subje of allegations of sex sexual misconduct. Kevin Kev Spacey was the first to run for cover after Star Tre Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, 46, claimed he’d made an unwanted sexual advance adv towards him when he was w 14 years old.
KEVIN’S DISGRACE
Anthony says he attended a party at then 26-year-old 2 Kevin’s home in 1986 when both were working on Broadway. Br Feeling uncomfortabl uncomfortable among the sea of adults, he retre retreated to a bedroom to watch TV. K Kevin later entered the room and allegedly picked him up, place placed him on the bed and climbed o on top of him.
Two hours a after the shocking claim hit head headlines, two-time Oscar winner Kevin tweeted that he did not remember rem the night, adding, “but i if I did behave then as he describe describes, I owe him the sincerest apol apology for what would have been deeply dee inappropriate drunken behaviour”. beha
Kevin went on to come out as an openly gay g man, which many perceiv perceived as an attempt
to deflect attention from the serious allegation. Some even accused him of making a connection between being gay and the sexual abuse of minors.
With more accusers now coming forward, retribution has come hard and swift for the actor. Not only has he been denounced by his Hollywood peers but the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have decided not to honour him with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award, which he was due to receive next month.
Even Kevin’s own brother has turned on him. Randall Fowler, 62, says he’s “not surprised” by the allegations, alleging their own father was a child rapist.
OTHERS SPEAK OUT
Claiming that their white supremacist father Thomas Fowler sexually assaulted him from the age of 12, Randall says the family was brutalised so badly by the man they called “The Creature” that Kevin turned to acting as a means of escape.
“There was so much darkness in our home, it was absolutely miserable,” Randall says. “Kevin tried to avoid what was going on.”
A day after Kevin hit the headlines, fellow Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman was under attack, with writer Anna Graham Hunter stating that the actor groped her and “talked about sex to me and in front of me” when she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of TV movie Death Of A Salesman in 1985.
“I… feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation,” Dustin, 80, said in a statement soon after. “I am sorry.”
Less than 24 hours later, actresses Olivia Munn, 37, and Natasha Henstridge, 43, joined four other women to speak out against director Brett Ratner, 48.
Natasha claims that when she was 19, Brett blocked her from leaving his apartment before forcing her to perform oral sex on him. “At some point, I gave in and he did his thing,” she says.
Olivia alleges he masturbated in front of her when she delivered food to Brett’s trailer on the set of 2004 flick After The Sunset.
“Before I literally could even figure out where to escape or where to look, he ejaculated,” she said.
Brett has “vehemently” denied the allegations.
Jeremy Piven, 52, also “unequivocally” denies claims by actress Ariane Bellamar that he groped her on the set of TV series Entourage. CBS, the network behind the actor’s latest show Wisdom Of f The Crowd, says it is investigating nvestigating the allegations. ions.