rape allegations
Rapper Yella Beezy allegedly raped a woman on their first date before she was able to flee his Texas apartment.
Gayle King is speaking out about Oprah Winfrey’s decision to drop out of the Russell Simmons rape accuser documentary. Winfrey is backing away from the untitled documentary from filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, weeks before the film is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Winfrey joined the project as an executive producer and the doc was going to release as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A stooped Harvey Weinstein shuffled into court with a walker Tuesday for the start of jury selection at the disgraced Hollywood mogul’s sexual assault trial in New York, the morning after prosecutors in Los Angeles brought charges against him. RELATED: New Charges For Harvey Weinstein The judge ruled that jury selection […]
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Patriots receiver Antonio Brown declined to answer questions about allegations of sexual assault and rape against him and says he’s keeping his focus on football. Brown answered only four questions at his locker on Thursday in an interview that lasted just over a minute. It was his first interview with reporters […]
VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys for former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. say five women who accused him of rape and lewd conduct invented the allegations to prey on his wealth, while prosecutors say his fame empowered him to prey on the most vulnerable. Winslow’s status was mentioned by both sides in closing arguments Tuesday […]
LSU running back Tae Provens has been accused of raping a “blacked out” victim at an LSU apartment on March 24. According to NOLA.com he was booked on a third-degree rape charge Wednesday. According to reports, the victim said she and a friend went to Provens’ apartment at 3 a.m. on the morning of March […]
Meredith Watson, the woman who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of raping her is also leveling that same charge at Corey Maggette, a former NBA player. The incident allegedly happened during his one season at Duke, according to a report on Monday evening from the New York Times. Maggette was a member of the Blue Devils during […]
Chris Brown says he’s going after the woman who accused him of rape, as he plans to sue her for defamation following his arrest in Paris. The R&B star had been detained in Paris on suspicion of rape, CBS News reported Tuesday. Brown was held with two other people, including his bodyguard, after a 24-year-old woman […]
UPDATE: Brown has been released with no charges filed, addresses allegation on his official Instagram. See below. PARIS (AP) — Two police officials say U.S. singer Chris Brown and two other people are in custody in Paris after a woman filed a rape complaint. One police official said the complaint was filed […]
Disgraced music mogul Russell Simmons says a rape lawsuit filed against him is “nothing more than an attempt … to extort large sums of money” from him, and he wants the case dismissed. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Simmons refers to the lawsuit — which was filed by a woman known as Jane Doe back […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant has been dropped from the jury of an animated film festival after calls for the former NBA star’s ouster over a 2003 rape allegation. Eric Beckman is the CEO of the organization behind the Animation Is Film Festival. He wrote in a statement Wednesday that the festival’s stakeholders decided […]
Alexia Norton Jones says she was assaulted by him in November 1990.
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