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The U.K. \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Sunday Times\u003c/em> newspapers contributed to the year-long research that went into the show and also published stories on the topic. Brand has “absolutely den[ied]” any wrongdoing and described all of his prior sexual encounters as consensual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode of \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> is not yet available in the U.S. because of international broadcasting restrictions, so details of the exact allegations against Brand have so far been difficult to pinpoint on this side of the Atlantic. Below are abridged versions of the accusers’ stories, as told to the makers of \u003cem>Dispatches \u003c/em>and broadcast under pseudonyms\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning: Everything that follows is disturbing and, in places, graphic. If you are experiencing trauma for issues relating to sexual assault, please contact \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/resources\">RAINN\u003c/a> on (800) 656-4673. The helpline is available 24/7 and is completely confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Rachel\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Rachel worked as a runner on \u003cem>Big Brother’s EForum\u003c/em>, a popular British TV show hosted by Brand that followed episodes of the reality show. She and Brand developed a friendship over time. One day, she told \u003cem>Dispatches, \u003c/em>when she entered his dressing room, he stood with his penis exposed and requested oral sex. She declined, but said the encounter left her nervous. “He was the presenter,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “I was a runner. I didn’t tell anyone what he had done because I didn’t want to lose my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brand continued to be flirtatious after the incident, and Rachel softened over time, she said. Once they began a sexual relationship, Brand asked that she keep it a secret because sexual relationships with crew members were forbidden in his contract, Rachel recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an older woman,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, “I can say with clarity that I felt like I was groomed for sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Alice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alice became involved with Brand in 2006, when she was 16 years old and he was 30. (The age of consent in the U.K. is 16.) They met at MTV headquarters in London where Alice was visiting a friend. After Brand asked her out, Alice accepted and spent three months dating him. Alice said that Brand was aroused by the fact that she was a virgin and allegedly once told her, “You’re like my little dolly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t look like a woman by any means,” Alice told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “It shouldn’t be legal for a 16-year-old to have a relationship with a man in his 30s… I didn’t feel like I could argue with a grown-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13934462']During her interview with \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, Alice described an alleged incident in which Brand violently forced his penis into her mouth. She said that after she punched him in the stomach to get free and started to cry, he responded: “I only want to see your mascara run anyway.” Alice claimed that later that night, Brand held her mouth open, spat into it repeatedly, then forced her to swallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russell engaged in the behaviors of a groomer,” Alice told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “Looking back, I didn’t even know what that was… He would try to drive a wedge between me and my parents, taught me to lie to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family friend confirmed to researchers that Alice and Brand were involved during the period she cited.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Nadia\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nadia met Brand at an afterparty for an early taping of his American TV show, \u003cem>Brand X.\u003c/em> “He literally made a beeline for me,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “We were chatting backstage. He leaned in and kissed me. It was very, very quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia and Brand kept in touch after the encounter and later slept together at his home in Los Angeles. She said that on July 1, 2012, after he invited her over, he greeted her while completely naked and immediately pushed her against a wall. Nadia tried to get away from him, but Brand allegedly persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m telling him to get off me,” Nadia told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, “and he won’t get off. He got a glazed look in his eye… He’s holding me up against the wall, pushing himself in me. I couldn’t move.” Nadia also told producers that after the alleged rape, Brand asked if she was OK. She told him she was not and ran to her car “in a daze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13933160']Journalists for \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> confirmed the authenticity of a text message Nadia received from Brand at 3:29 that morning. “I’m sorry,” the text read. “That was crazy and selfish. I hope that you can forgive me, I know that you’re a lovely person. X”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia sent Brand a text seven hours later that included the line “When a girl say[s] NO it means no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also that day, Nadia went to a rape crisis center and underwent treatment. She gave staff a detailed, written account of the incident, which \u003cem>Dispatches \u003c/em>reviewed. She decided not to go to the police, apparently intimidated by Brand’s fame, and out of concern for the possible repercussions for her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Phoebe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phoebe told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that she met Brand at an AA meeting in 2013. After the two had consensual sex, Brand asked Phoebe to work for him. She accepted, considering it “a big break.” Phoebe said in her interview that while she worked for Brand, she witnessed “a revolving door of women. Five-plus women a day. Just absolute mayhem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phoebe told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that one night, after they’d attended an event together as work colleagues, she went to pick up her belongings from his house. “He ended up naked at some point and he wound up chasing me,” Phoebe said. “It got a little more aggressive, and I think then I realized, ‘This is not a joke.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phoebe said Brand locked her in his bedroom, held her down and began trying to have sex with her. “I saw something come over his eyes, I swear to God,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “His eyes had no more color. They were black. Like a different person had literally entered his body. I was screaming so loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928974']Phoebe said that Brand eventually snapped out of it, and she managed to escape. She said that Brand attempted to apologize to her several times, but that when she returned to work a few days later, Brand warned her not to talk about what happened and threatened her with legal action. “I felt like I had nowhere to go,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “I didn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> interviewed three people whom Phoebe told about the alleged assault after it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Helen Berger, Brand’s PA, 2006-2007\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The only woman to appear on camera and provide her real name to \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, Berger worked with Brand for a short but intense period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berger told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that Brand worked consistently in his underwear around her and had “a very active sex addiction” — something he readily publicly admitted at the time. Berger said that Brand shared photos of naked women with colleagues and friends (“I felt shame in that moment,” Berger noted), and repeatedly asked her to acquire phone numbers of female audience members at his MTV talk show, \u003cem>1 Leicester Square\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other former colleagues of Brand’s said he made similar requests of them, usually with audiences predominantly made up of college students. One coworker tasked with getting the women’s numbers described it as “like leading lambs to the slaughter.” Berger said that after receiving phone calls from several women in tears, she and her colleagues raised concerns about Brand to her bosses, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Daniel Sloss\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Towards the end of the episode, comedian Daniel Sloss told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that rumors about Brand’s alleged predatory behavior were well-known on the comedy circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923161']“There were many stories,” he said. “It wasn’t just coming from one person or one group of people. It was different incidents over different years and of varying degrees of severity … I know for many, many years, women [comedians] have been warning each other about Russell.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.K. show ‘Dispatches’ aired interviews with multiple women who accused the comedian of sexual abuse.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705003333,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1523},"headData":{"title":"All the Allegations Against Russell Brand in Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ | KQED","description":"U.K. show ‘Dispatches’ aired interviews with multiple women who accused the comedian of sexual abuse.","ogTitle":"What Is Russell Brand Accused of? Here Are the Allegations","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"What Is Russell Brand Accused of? 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Once they began a sexual relationship, Brand asked that she keep it a secret because sexual relationships with crew members were forbidden in his contract, Rachel recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an older woman,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, “I can say with clarity that I felt like I was groomed for sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Alice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alice became involved with Brand in 2006, when she was 16 years old and he was 30. (The age of consent in the U.K. is 16.) They met at MTV headquarters in London where Alice was visiting a friend. After Brand asked her out, Alice accepted and spent three months dating him. Alice said that Brand was aroused by the fact that she was a virgin and allegedly once told her, “You’re like my little dolly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t look like a woman by any means,” Alice told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “It shouldn’t be legal for a 16-year-old to have a relationship with a man in his 30s… I didn’t feel like I could argue with a grown-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13934462","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During her interview with \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, Alice described an alleged incident in which Brand violently forced his penis into her mouth. She said that after she punched him in the stomach to get free and started to cry, he responded: “I only want to see your mascara run anyway.” Alice claimed that later that night, Brand held her mouth open, spat into it repeatedly, then forced her to swallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russell engaged in the behaviors of a groomer,” Alice told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “Looking back, I didn’t even know what that was… He would try to drive a wedge between me and my parents, taught me to lie to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family friend confirmed to researchers that Alice and Brand were involved during the period she cited.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Nadia\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nadia met Brand at an afterparty for an early taping of his American TV show, \u003cem>Brand X.\u003c/em> “He literally made a beeline for me,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “We were chatting backstage. He leaned in and kissed me. It was very, very quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia and Brand kept in touch after the encounter and later slept together at his home in Los Angeles. She said that on July 1, 2012, after he invited her over, he greeted her while completely naked and immediately pushed her against a wall. Nadia tried to get away from him, but Brand allegedly persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m telling him to get off me,” Nadia told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, “and he won’t get off. He got a glazed look in his eye… He’s holding me up against the wall, pushing himself in me. I couldn’t move.” Nadia also told producers that after the alleged rape, Brand asked if she was OK. She told him she was not and ran to her car “in a daze.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13933160","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Journalists for \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> confirmed the authenticity of a text message Nadia received from Brand at 3:29 that morning. “I’m sorry,” the text read. “That was crazy and selfish. I hope that you can forgive me, I know that you’re a lovely person. X”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadia sent Brand a text seven hours later that included the line “When a girl say[s] NO it means no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also that day, Nadia went to a rape crisis center and underwent treatment. She gave staff a detailed, written account of the incident, which \u003cem>Dispatches \u003c/em>reviewed. She decided not to go to the police, apparently intimidated by Brand’s fame, and out of concern for the possible repercussions for her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Phoebe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phoebe told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that she met Brand at an AA meeting in 2013. After the two had consensual sex, Brand asked Phoebe to work for him. She accepted, considering it “a big break.” Phoebe said in her interview that while she worked for Brand, she witnessed “a revolving door of women. Five-plus women a day. Just absolute mayhem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phoebe told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that one night, after they’d attended an event together as work colleagues, she went to pick up her belongings from his house. “He ended up naked at some point and he wound up chasing me,” Phoebe said. “It got a little more aggressive, and I think then I realized, ‘This is not a joke.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phoebe said Brand locked her in his bedroom, held her down and began trying to have sex with her. “I saw something come over his eyes, I swear to God,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “His eyes had no more color. They were black. Like a different person had literally entered his body. I was screaming so loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928974","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Phoebe said that Brand eventually snapped out of it, and she managed to escape. She said that Brand attempted to apologize to her several times, but that when she returned to work a few days later, Brand warned her not to talk about what happened and threatened her with legal action. “I felt like I had nowhere to go,” she told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>. “I didn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> interviewed three people whom Phoebe told about the alleged assault after it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Helen Berger, Brand’s PA, 2006-2007\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The only woman to appear on camera and provide her real name to \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em>, Berger worked with Brand for a short but intense period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berger told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that Brand worked consistently in his underwear around her and had “a very active sex addiction” — something he readily publicly admitted at the time. Berger said that Brand shared photos of naked women with colleagues and friends (“I felt shame in that moment,” Berger noted), and repeatedly asked her to acquire phone numbers of female audience members at his MTV talk show, \u003cem>1 Leicester Square\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other former colleagues of Brand’s said he made similar requests of them, usually with audiences predominantly made up of college students. One coworker tasked with getting the women’s numbers described it as “like leading lambs to the slaughter.” Berger said that after receiving phone calls from several women in tears, she and her colleagues raised concerns about Brand to her bosses, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Daniel Sloss\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Towards the end of the episode, comedian Daniel Sloss told \u003cem>Dispatches\u003c/em> that rumors about Brand’s alleged predatory behavior were well-known on the comedy circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13923161","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There were many stories,” he said. “It wasn’t just coming from one person or one group of people. It was different incidents over different years and of varying degrees of severity … I know for many, many years, women [comedians] have been warning each other about Russell.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13935238/russell-brand-sexual-assault-allegations-channel-4-dispatches-sunday-times","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_11323","arts_10278","arts_2462"],"featImg":"arts_13935241","label":"arts"},"arts_13934462":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13934462","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13934462","score":null,"sort":[1694138215000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"danny-masterson-rape-conviction-accusers-scientology-sentencing","title":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","publishDate":1694138215,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Former \u003cem>That ’70s Show\u003c/em> actor Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday, following his conviction in May on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928256/danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know\">charges that he had raped two women\u003c/a>. The decision represents rarely seen justice in the post-#MeToo era, following years in which his victims were belittled and pushed aside repeatedly. Masterson and his team, however, remain unrepentant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we have great respect for the jury, and for our system of justice,” Masterson lawyer Shawn Holley said after the verdict, “sometimes they get it wrong. And that’s what happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928256']Steadfast assertions about Masterson’s innocence have been par for the course for everyone in his camp ever since accusations by four women — including one ex-girlfriend — first came to public attention in 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. Each of those women accused Masterson of drugging and raping them at his home between 2001 and 2003. Masterson, his representatives and the Church of Scientology — of which Masterson has been a lifelong member — have been issuing aggressive denials ever since. The first came from attorney Tom Mesereau in 2017: “Mr. Masterson is innocent,” Mesereau said in a statement, “and we’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a statement from Masterson himself said: “This is beyond ridiculous. I’m not going to fight my ex-girlfriend in the media like she’s been baiting me to do for more than two years. I will beat her in court … And once her lawsuit is thrown out, I intend to sue her and the others who jumped on the bandwagon for the damage they caused me and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s unrelenting approach was noted even by Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo directly before she handed down her sentence on Thursday. “I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence,” Olmedo noted, “and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you. But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here … One way or another, you will have to come to terms with your prior actions and their consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those consequences come now only because of the tenacity, determination and bravery of the women who survived Masterson’s assaults. Referred to during the trial as N. Trout, Jen B. and Christina B. — Masterson’s fourth accuser’s charges never made it to trial — those women have been fighting to be heard for upwards of two decades now. The fact that justice is finally theirs (mostly — the jury failed to reach a verdict when it came to one of the women) must be a gargantuan relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928974']In the earliest days after the alleged attacks, the women, all Scientology members, first had to get past the church’s code of silence and its commitment to handling criminal matters internally. Documents leaked to journalist Tony Ortega in 2017 suggested that when the women reported Masterson to fellow church members in the early 2000s, \u003ca href=\"https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/03/lapd-probing-scientology-and-danny-masterston-for-multiple-rapes-cover-up/\">they were pressured to not report him to outside authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents later revealed that when Christina B. reported her rape to a Scientology “ethics officer,” she was told: “You can’t rape someone that you’re in a relationship with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, when Jen B. asked permission from the church to report Masterson to the police, Scientology officials suggested that the action might result in “disconnection” for her — the practice of shunning church members deemed to be a threat to Scientology. Despite the risk of losing her family, friends and way of life, Jen B. reported her rape to the police the following year — a feat that must have required unbelievable resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accusations against Masterson did finally come to light more than a decade later, Scientology did its darnedest to discredit the women. So much so that in 2019, Masterson’s four accusers sued Masterson and the church for stalking, invading their privacy and attempting to obstruct justice. At the time, counsel for the Church of Scientology denied all charges and told \u003cem>People\u003c/em>: “This baseless lawsuit will go nowhere because the claims are ludicrous and a sham.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Scientologists have been fighting to stall a resolution in the lawsuit. The church has argued repeatedly that any arbitration must be handled within Scientology and not in a Los Angeles Superior Court. When a ruling came down against that assertion last year, the church then tried to take the case all the way to \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/supreme-court-denies-scientologys-bid-to-ban-danny-masterson-accusers-lawsuit/\">the Supreme Court\u003c/a>. (The court refused to hear the case.) The lawsuit remains frustratingly up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13921719']Moving through the criminal trial phase has been just as arduous. Though originally charged with sexual misconduct in 2017, then with three counts of rape in June 2020, it took until May 2021 for Masterson’s preliminary hearing to begin. When it did, the actor started proceedings by \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2021/05/19/danny-masterson-posts-courthouse-selfie-before-rape-case-hearing/\">posting a smiling selfie taken outside the courthouse\u003c/a> to his Instagram account. Next to his wife Bijou Philips in her car, the caption read: “Had the most beautiful Uber driver drop me off at school today. #uberwife #bijouphillips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image was a smug middle finger to each of his accusers just as they were about to share, on the stand, \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/danny-masterson-allegedly-spit-on-victim-during-rape/\">harrowing and haunting accounts\u003c/a> of the respective nights they spent at his house. Their assaults, they say, included Masterson hitting, spitting on, insulting, restraining, choking them and making threats with a gun. After listening to their stories, the judge asserted that Masterson must face trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trial didn’t start until October 2022, at which time the women had to tell their respective stories yet again — this time, with Masterson’s lawyer asserting throughout that their sexual encounters with the actor had been consensual. When that case resulted in a mistrial, it was hard to imagine how much more these women could take. Still each of them returned to court and told their stories yet again this year. If they hadn’t, Masterson would undoubtedly still be free and living his life, just as he did during the many years when fear and intimidation kept three of his accusers silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake, Masterson’s survivors have had to scale impossibly high hurdles from the get-go. This has been a case that, for them, has dragged on and on, first behind closed doors, then within an institution they trusted but that ultimately failed them, then more recently in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Masterson’s sentencing, one of the women emphasized: “I lost everything. I lost my religion. I lost my ability to contact anyone I’d known or loved my entire life. I didn’t exist outside the Scientology world. I had to start my life all over at 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914526']Despite it all, once these women committed to see this case through, they never gave up. They never backed down. They kept telling their stories again and again and again. They kept going despite every miserable, soul-destroying thing that got thrown at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to cases involving sexual violence, the wheels of justice move at a pace that is excruciating to watch, let alone live through. The way these cases drag on only extends the length of time that accusers must tolerate barbs, insults and insinuations about their character. That isn’t just deeply frustrating for those involved, it acts as a major disincentive to other survivors considering coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the women who prompted Danny Masterson’s trial just did wasn’t just an important reminder to survivors to keep going, it was profoundly satisfying for those of us who have long been frustrated by the lack of real, quantifiable justice that has resulted from the #MeToo movement. We all owe these women a debt of gratitude for the relief of seeing that sometimes justice is possible, no matter how many barriers are standing in the way.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Masterson has been smug and unremorseful since first facing rape allegations in 2017. But his accusers refused to be cowed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005050,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1395},"headData":{"title":"Danny Masterson’s Survivors Deserve a Moment of Appreciation | KQED","description":"Masterson has been smug and unremorseful since first facing rape allegations in 2017. But his accusers refused to be cowed.","ogTitle":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Danny Masterson’s Survivors Deserve a Moment of Appreciation %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","datePublished":"2023-09-08T01:56:55.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:30:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13934462/danny-masterson-rape-conviction-accusers-scientology-sentencing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Former \u003cem>That ’70s Show\u003c/em> actor Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday, following his conviction in May on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928256/danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know\">charges that he had raped two women\u003c/a>. The decision represents rarely seen justice in the post-#MeToo era, following years in which his victims were belittled and pushed aside repeatedly. Masterson and his team, however, remain unrepentant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we have great respect for the jury, and for our system of justice,” Masterson lawyer Shawn Holley said after the verdict, “sometimes they get it wrong. And that’s what happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928256","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Steadfast assertions about Masterson’s innocence have been par for the course for everyone in his camp ever since accusations by four women — including one ex-girlfriend — first came to public attention in 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. Each of those women accused Masterson of drugging and raping them at his home between 2001 and 2003. Masterson, his representatives and the Church of Scientology — of which Masterson has been a lifelong member — have been issuing aggressive denials ever since. The first came from attorney Tom Mesereau in 2017: “Mr. Masterson is innocent,” Mesereau said in a statement, “and we’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a statement from Masterson himself said: “This is beyond ridiculous. I’m not going to fight my ex-girlfriend in the media like she’s been baiting me to do for more than two years. I will beat her in court … And once her lawsuit is thrown out, I intend to sue her and the others who jumped on the bandwagon for the damage they caused me and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s unrelenting approach was noted even by Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo directly before she handed down her sentence on Thursday. “I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence,” Olmedo noted, “and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you. But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here … One way or another, you will have to come to terms with your prior actions and their consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those consequences come now only because of the tenacity, determination and bravery of the women who survived Masterson’s assaults. Referred to during the trial as N. Trout, Jen B. and Christina B. — Masterson’s fourth accuser’s charges never made it to trial — those women have been fighting to be heard for upwards of two decades now. The fact that justice is finally theirs (mostly — the jury failed to reach a verdict when it came to one of the women) must be a gargantuan relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928974","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the earliest days after the alleged attacks, the women, all Scientology members, first had to get past the church’s code of silence and its commitment to handling criminal matters internally. Documents leaked to journalist Tony Ortega in 2017 suggested that when the women reported Masterson to fellow church members in the early 2000s, \u003ca href=\"https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/03/lapd-probing-scientology-and-danny-masterston-for-multiple-rapes-cover-up/\">they were pressured to not report him to outside authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents later revealed that when Christina B. reported her rape to a Scientology “ethics officer,” she was told: “You can’t rape someone that you’re in a relationship with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, when Jen B. asked permission from the church to report Masterson to the police, Scientology officials suggested that the action might result in “disconnection” for her — the practice of shunning church members deemed to be a threat to Scientology. Despite the risk of losing her family, friends and way of life, Jen B. reported her rape to the police the following year — a feat that must have required unbelievable resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accusations against Masterson did finally come to light more than a decade later, Scientology did its darnedest to discredit the women. So much so that in 2019, Masterson’s four accusers sued Masterson and the church for stalking, invading their privacy and attempting to obstruct justice. At the time, counsel for the Church of Scientology denied all charges and told \u003cem>People\u003c/em>: “This baseless lawsuit will go nowhere because the claims are ludicrous and a sham.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Scientologists have been fighting to stall a resolution in the lawsuit. The church has argued repeatedly that any arbitration must be handled within Scientology and not in a Los Angeles Superior Court. When a ruling came down against that assertion last year, the church then tried to take the case all the way to \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/supreme-court-denies-scientologys-bid-to-ban-danny-masterson-accusers-lawsuit/\">the Supreme Court\u003c/a>. (The court refused to hear the case.) The lawsuit remains frustratingly up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13921719","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Moving through the criminal trial phase has been just as arduous. Though originally charged with sexual misconduct in 2017, then with three counts of rape in June 2020, it took until May 2021 for Masterson’s preliminary hearing to begin. When it did, the actor started proceedings by \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2021/05/19/danny-masterson-posts-courthouse-selfie-before-rape-case-hearing/\">posting a smiling selfie taken outside the courthouse\u003c/a> to his Instagram account. Next to his wife Bijou Philips in her car, the caption read: “Had the most beautiful Uber driver drop me off at school today. #uberwife #bijouphillips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image was a smug middle finger to each of his accusers just as they were about to share, on the stand, \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/danny-masterson-allegedly-spit-on-victim-during-rape/\">harrowing and haunting accounts\u003c/a> of the respective nights they spent at his house. Their assaults, they say, included Masterson hitting, spitting on, insulting, restraining, choking them and making threats with a gun. After listening to their stories, the judge asserted that Masterson must face trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trial didn’t start until October 2022, at which time the women had to tell their respective stories yet again — this time, with Masterson’s lawyer asserting throughout that their sexual encounters with the actor had been consensual. When that case resulted in a mistrial, it was hard to imagine how much more these women could take. Still each of them returned to court and told their stories yet again this year. If they hadn’t, Masterson would undoubtedly still be free and living his life, just as he did during the many years when fear and intimidation kept three of his accusers silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake, Masterson’s survivors have had to scale impossibly high hurdles from the get-go. This has been a case that, for them, has dragged on and on, first behind closed doors, then within an institution they trusted but that ultimately failed them, then more recently in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Masterson’s sentencing, one of the women emphasized: “I lost everything. I lost my religion. I lost my ability to contact anyone I’d known or loved my entire life. I didn’t exist outside the Scientology world. I had to start my life all over at 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914526","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite it all, once these women committed to see this case through, they never gave up. They never backed down. They kept telling their stories again and again and again. They kept going despite every miserable, soul-destroying thing that got thrown at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to cases involving sexual violence, the wheels of justice move at a pace that is excruciating to watch, let alone live through. The way these cases drag on only extends the length of time that accusers must tolerate barbs, insults and insinuations about their character. That isn’t just deeply frustrating for those involved, it acts as a major disincentive to other survivors considering coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the women who prompted Danny Masterson’s trial just did wasn’t just an important reminder to survivors to keep going, it was profoundly satisfying for those of us who have long been frustrated by the lack of real, quantifiable justice that has resulted from the #MeToo movement. We all owe these women a debt of gratitude for the relief of seeing that sometimes justice is possible, no matter how many barriers are standing in the way.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13934462/danny-masterson-rape-conviction-accusers-scientology-sentencing","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2462"],"featImg":"arts_13928257","label":"source_arts_13934462"},"arts_13933160":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13933160","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13933160","score":null,"sort":[1692044459000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"below-deck-reality-tv-sexual-assault-alcohol","title":"'Below Deck,' Reality Producers Stepped in to Stop a Drunken Assault — This Time","publishDate":1692044459,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Below Deck,’ Reality Producers Stepped in to Stop a Drunken Assault — This Time | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On Monday night’s double episode of Bravo’s \u003cem>Below Deck Down Under\u003c/em>, viewers saw show producers intervening to prevent a sexual assault by one crew member (a man) on another. After the offender was fired, another crew member (a woman) who had been repeatedly refusing to hear “no” from the guy she was interested in, and who had been touching him repeatedly after he asked her not to, was shown the door as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a jarring look for a franchise that has frequently reveled in what’s sometimes been abusive behavior by very drunk people for a total of 24 seasons — 10 of original \u003cem>Below Deck\u003c/em>, seven of \u003cem>Below Deck Mediterranean\u003c/em>, four of \u003cem>Below Deck Sailing Yacht\u003c/em>, one of \u003cem>Below Deck Adventure\u003c/em>, and two of \u003cem>Below Deck Down Under\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931297']To set the scene, in the world of these shows, you have the interior crew — usually, but not always, women — who serve guests meals and drinks, clean cabins, do laundry, and run the entertainment. The exterior crew (led by the bosun) — usually, but not always, men — clean the boat, handle docking and run the tender (the little auxiliary boat), manage all the jet skis and giant inflatables and other things that are set out for rich people to use, and set up and break down everything on the outside for guests. There’s also a chef. As for the guests, they’re rich enough to charter the yacht, but not so rich that they have a yacht of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rhythm of the show is that after a charter trip ends, the crew cleans up, and they have a night out in whatever cool location the yacht happens to be docked. Typically, they go to a restaurant for dinner and then some kind of a club to drink and dance, and then they stumble back onto the yacht, sometimes they fool around, sometimes they get in the hot tub, and then they pass out for the night. Hookups are frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43v5f2lrWY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘She said no’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday night’s double episode, headed back to the yacht in a van after a night of drinking, third stew Margot was half-passed-out with her head in bosun Luke’s lap, and Luke (who’s been pursuing her all season) began to make “jokes” about hooking up with her later. Aesha, the chief stew (if you watch \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em>, you just saw Aesha as Bishme’s model), clocked this situation and its dangers immediately. As they got out of the van, she announced that she was going to see Margot inside and put her to bed, and Luke was going to scram. And that’s what happened, at first. Aesha tucked Margot into her upper bunk in her tiny cabin and stepped out, and that should have been the end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a power outage on the boat that led to some chaos. And suddenly, there was Luke, walking around the crew area completely naked, holding a towel in front of his crotch. He let himself into Margot’s room, where she was fully either asleep or passed out, depending on how you choose to describe the heavy sleep that follows heavy drinking. Fully naked, he hoisted himself up and crawled into her bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the producer voices started, ordering Luke to get out of Margot’s bed. He initially resisted, there was a confrontation that included a lot of door-slamming, and eventually Luke went back to his own room, angry. He was hauled off the boat and put in a hotel, and in the morning, Luke was fired. (There are more details in \u003ca href=\"https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2023/08/below-deck-down-under-seasons-2-attempted-assault/\">this good wrap-up\u003c/a> from Andy Dehnart at \u003cem>Reality Blurred\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But wait, there’s more\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now: There are layers upon layers in a show like this. The show narrative is that the captain, Jason, made the decisions to remove Luke from the boat and to fire him, but it’s hard to imagine he had any choice. One would hope the Bravo people (including the lawyers) would have had it no other way, no matter what releases anybody signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whatever the production involvement, the story as presented by the show ended up effectively laying out some pretty basic pieces of how an event like that can happen, and what the aftermath can be. It showed how Aesha identified the risk and tried to protect Margot, and how quickly things turned in the close quarters of a boat where people have easy physical access to each other. It showed how Margot blamed herself in the morning for being drunk and too “flirty.” Aesha and Tzarina, the chef, assured her that no matter how drunk you are, nobody gets to assault you. These things might seem pretty basic to people who follow discussions about sexual violence, but they’re relatively advanced for, you know, \u003cem>Below Deck\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13932418']Luke’s departure was not the end. Second stew Laura had grown interested in a Brooklyn-born deckhand named Adam. At dinner, Adam told her plainly that he only wanted to be friends. She persisted: He would never be interested in sex with her? No. He wanted to be friends. He sometimes smiled nervously, or chuckled, but he communicated clearly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later, on the yacht, Laura was continuing to touch Adam constantly, including in the hot tub. At one point it appeared that she grabbed him under the water, given the way he jumped away and said “\u003cem>Stop \u003c/em>that.” He eventually agreed to a massage that she swore wouldn’t be sexual (perhaps hoping it would defuse the situation), but when she actually came into his room to try to do it, he insisted the door stay open and then tried to bore and ignore her into leaving. And when she crawled up on \u003cem>his \u003c/em>bed without being invited, there were more producer voices, telling her to buzz off and get out of his room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, because of this behavior and because Laura decided to go around telling everyone Luke shouldn’t have been fired and eye-rolling to Margot about how it wasn’t as if Margot had really told him no, and it wasn’t as if he would have actually assaulted her (thus indicating she was not on board with the whole “respect people’s boundaries” idea), Laura was also dismissed. And interestingly, Adam blamed himself much as Margot did, saying maybe he wasn’t telling Laura no seriously enough, or firmly enough, maybe he was trying too hard to be nice about it. It is a curious impulse, this idea that had someone understood that you really did not want them to do what they were doing, surely they would not have done it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much-too-drunken sailors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s some useful material in this episode that burbles up from all the absurdity. Obviously, it’s about consent, and about how you cannot climb into the bed of a person who hasn’t invited you particularly if they’re passed out or sleeping, particularly if you’re naked. And furthermore, you can’t keep handling anybody of any gender when they’ve asked you not to. These are, you might say, the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the whole incident raises another uncomfortable issue. Alcohol plays a critical role in many reality-show franchises. Your housewives, your people who stop being polite and start getting real, and most definitely your bachelors and bachelorettes, all have historically done a tremendous amount of drinking. But \u003cem>Below Deck \u003c/em>has always had, to me, a particularly fraught relationship with being not merely drunk, but blackout drunk. Uncomfortable levels of physical aggression and confrontation have sometimes followed these nights out, as have mornings in which apologies are of limited value coming from apologizers who clearly have no memory of what they did. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/film-tv/below-deck-eddie-lucas-baltimore-bravo-UNWBBMNDK5HQREVAXQ3GW52NII/\">an interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>The Baltimore Banner\u003c/em>, Eddie Lucas, who’s appeared on several seasons of \u003cem>Below Deck \u003c/em>as a deckhand and bosun, said this about the nights out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And then also, when we get off charter, and they’re [the producers are] like, “Oh, you know, go out, have dinner, have a good time.” You’re like, “I’d rather just get some sleep” and they’re like, “No, you’re gonna drink. You’re gonna drink and you’re gonna stay up until four in the morning, and you’re going to like it!”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863206']As Tzarina said, the alcohol is obviously not an excuse for the behavior, but encouraging this kind of drinking has risks. And watching the producers swoop in here only reminds you how often they do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> swoop in. They watch people get in fights, punch things, scream at each other, drink until they’re sick, drink until they have to be carried home, drink until they have no idea what they’re doing — in a way, seeing producers become visible in one instance makes them hover like ghosts at the edges in all the past situations they’ve allowed to unfold (encouraged to unfold?) without any obvious intervention. Whether any other case like \u003cem>this \u003c/em>has come up, I don’t know. But many, many of these nights have looked like they could erupt dangerously at any time, and I can’t remember ever hearing a producer say, “You’ve had enough, stop drinking, go to bed.” Either they haven’t done it, or they haven’t wanted to show that they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then this week, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2023/08/porn-violentce-claims-bethenny-frankel-lawsuit-reality-tv-nbcuniveral-bravo-1235454964/\">\u003cem>Deadline reported\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that attorneys who say they represent a number of cast and crew from NBC Universal’s reality shows (that seems to mostly mean Bravo) sent a letter to the company demanding that possible evidence be retained in anticipation of future litigation over what the letter calls “grotesque and depraved mistreatment of the reality stars and crewmembers.” And the first bullet point they allege is plying people with alcohol (while denying them food and sleep) in an effort to intentionally degrade their mental health. Another is “covering up acts of sexual violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not going to lie: I often fast-forward through the crew nights out at this point, precisely because they always seem vaguely menacing. I watch this show as a workplace show, as hard as that might be to believe. I like it for the parts where the impossible guests want endless espresso martinis and the deck crew is desperate not to have to inflate the water slide again and everybody is juggling impossible tasks. I am bored stiff by long sequences where people do shots and slur into each other’s ears and scream at each other in the hot tub. You know what I like? I like the tension of a moment where the chef forgot that one of the guests is gluten-free and now they have to improvise. I like the parts where somebody suddenly wants an umpteen-course dinner and the crew is shorthanded because somebody is seasick. I like it when rich people insist on their beach picnic and then get rained on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5lX0g2aSsg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, as with every good reality show, I admit I like it when people I don’t like get their comeuppance, usually in the form of getting fired. If one person isn’t doing their share of the work and the captain calls them in and says they’re bounced, that offers a little shiver of satisfaction, just like when a jerk gets voted off \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>. Not like this, though. Really, not like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, all that stuff, all that kind of lighthearted workplace stuff, comes alongside all the parts that I might fast-forward through, but they still happened. (For the “all this is entirely scripted!” crowd, let me say: I wish.) And on the one hand, it’s good to know there’s \u003cem>something \u003c/em>producers will step in to prevent. On the other hand, it would be good to let people stay in and get some sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Below+Deck%2C%27+reality+producers+stepped+in+to+stop+a+drunken+assault+%E2%80%94+this+time&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On ‘Below Deck Down Under’ — a show known for encouraging bad behavior — producers just intervened to prevent a sexual assault.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005153,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":2162},"headData":{"title":"Alcohol Abuse on ‘Below Deck’ Puts Cast in Dangerous Situations | KQED","description":"On ‘Below Deck Down Under’ — a show known for encouraging bad behavior — producers just intervened to prevent a sexual assault.","ogTitle":"'Below Deck,' Reality Producers Stepped in to Stop a Drunken Assault — This Time","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"'Below Deck,' Reality Producers Stepped in to Stop a Drunken Assault — This Time","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Alcohol Abuse on ‘Below Deck’ Puts Cast in Dangerous Situations %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"'Below Deck,' Reality Producers Stepped in to Stop a Drunken Assault — This Time","datePublished":"2023-08-14T20:20:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:32:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Mark Rogers","nprByline":"Linda Holmes","nprImageAgency":"Bravo","nprStoryId":"1193446744","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1193446744&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193446744/below-deck-down-under-sexual-assault?ft=nprml&f=1193446744","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 12 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 12 Aug 2023 07:00:24 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 12 Aug 2023 07:00:24 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13933160/below-deck-reality-tv-sexual-assault-alcohol","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Monday night’s double episode of Bravo’s \u003cem>Below Deck Down Under\u003c/em>, viewers saw show producers intervening to prevent a sexual assault by one crew member (a man) on another. After the offender was fired, another crew member (a woman) who had been repeatedly refusing to hear “no” from the guy she was interested in, and who had been touching him repeatedly after he asked her not to, was shown the door as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a jarring look for a franchise that has frequently reveled in what’s sometimes been abusive behavior by very drunk people for a total of 24 seasons — 10 of original \u003cem>Below Deck\u003c/em>, seven of \u003cem>Below Deck Mediterranean\u003c/em>, four of \u003cem>Below Deck Sailing Yacht\u003c/em>, one of \u003cem>Below Deck Adventure\u003c/em>, and two of \u003cem>Below Deck Down Under\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931297","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To set the scene, in the world of these shows, you have the interior crew — usually, but not always, women — who serve guests meals and drinks, clean cabins, do laundry, and run the entertainment. The exterior crew (led by the bosun) — usually, but not always, men — clean the boat, handle docking and run the tender (the little auxiliary boat), manage all the jet skis and giant inflatables and other things that are set out for rich people to use, and set up and break down everything on the outside for guests. There’s also a chef. As for the guests, they’re rich enough to charter the yacht, but not so rich that they have a yacht of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rhythm of the show is that after a charter trip ends, the crew cleans up, and they have a night out in whatever cool location the yacht happens to be docked. Typically, they go to a restaurant for dinner and then some kind of a club to drink and dance, and then they stumble back onto the yacht, sometimes they fool around, sometimes they get in the hot tub, and then they pass out for the night. Hookups are frequent.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/R43v5f2lrWY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/R43v5f2lrWY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>‘She said no’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday night’s double episode, headed back to the yacht in a van after a night of drinking, third stew Margot was half-passed-out with her head in bosun Luke’s lap, and Luke (who’s been pursuing her all season) began to make “jokes” about hooking up with her later. Aesha, the chief stew (if you watch \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em>, you just saw Aesha as Bishme’s model), clocked this situation and its dangers immediately. As they got out of the van, she announced that she was going to see Margot inside and put her to bed, and Luke was going to scram. And that’s what happened, at first. Aesha tucked Margot into her upper bunk in her tiny cabin and stepped out, and that should have been the end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a power outage on the boat that led to some chaos. And suddenly, there was Luke, walking around the crew area completely naked, holding a towel in front of his crotch. He let himself into Margot’s room, where she was fully either asleep or passed out, depending on how you choose to describe the heavy sleep that follows heavy drinking. Fully naked, he hoisted himself up and crawled into her bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the producer voices started, ordering Luke to get out of Margot’s bed. He initially resisted, there was a confrontation that included a lot of door-slamming, and eventually Luke went back to his own room, angry. He was hauled off the boat and put in a hotel, and in the morning, Luke was fired. (There are more details in \u003ca href=\"https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2023/08/below-deck-down-under-seasons-2-attempted-assault/\">this good wrap-up\u003c/a> from Andy Dehnart at \u003cem>Reality Blurred\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But wait, there’s more\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now: There are layers upon layers in a show like this. The show narrative is that the captain, Jason, made the decisions to remove Luke from the boat and to fire him, but it’s hard to imagine he had any choice. One would hope the Bravo people (including the lawyers) would have had it no other way, no matter what releases anybody signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whatever the production involvement, the story as presented by the show ended up effectively laying out some pretty basic pieces of how an event like that can happen, and what the aftermath can be. It showed how Aesha identified the risk and tried to protect Margot, and how quickly things turned in the close quarters of a boat where people have easy physical access to each other. It showed how Margot blamed herself in the morning for being drunk and too “flirty.” Aesha and Tzarina, the chef, assured her that no matter how drunk you are, nobody gets to assault you. These things might seem pretty basic to people who follow discussions about sexual violence, but they’re relatively advanced for, you know, \u003cem>Below Deck\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13932418","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Luke’s departure was not the end. Second stew Laura had grown interested in a Brooklyn-born deckhand named Adam. At dinner, Adam told her plainly that he only wanted to be friends. She persisted: He would never be interested in sex with her? No. He wanted to be friends. He sometimes smiled nervously, or chuckled, but he communicated clearly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later, on the yacht, Laura was continuing to touch Adam constantly, including in the hot tub. At one point it appeared that she grabbed him under the water, given the way he jumped away and said “\u003cem>Stop \u003c/em>that.” He eventually agreed to a massage that she swore wouldn’t be sexual (perhaps hoping it would defuse the situation), but when she actually came into his room to try to do it, he insisted the door stay open and then tried to bore and ignore her into leaving. And when she crawled up on \u003cem>his \u003c/em>bed without being invited, there were more producer voices, telling her to buzz off and get out of his room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, because of this behavior and because Laura decided to go around telling everyone Luke shouldn’t have been fired and eye-rolling to Margot about how it wasn’t as if Margot had really told him no, and it wasn’t as if he would have actually assaulted her (thus indicating she was not on board with the whole “respect people’s boundaries” idea), Laura was also dismissed. And interestingly, Adam blamed himself much as Margot did, saying maybe he wasn’t telling Laura no seriously enough, or firmly enough, maybe he was trying too hard to be nice about it. It is a curious impulse, this idea that had someone understood that you really did not want them to do what they were doing, surely they would not have done it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much-too-drunken sailors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s some useful material in this episode that burbles up from all the absurdity. Obviously, it’s about consent, and about how you cannot climb into the bed of a person who hasn’t invited you particularly if they’re passed out or sleeping, particularly if you’re naked. And furthermore, you can’t keep handling anybody of any gender when they’ve asked you not to. These are, you might say, the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the whole incident raises another uncomfortable issue. Alcohol plays a critical role in many reality-show franchises. Your housewives, your people who stop being polite and start getting real, and most definitely your bachelors and bachelorettes, all have historically done a tremendous amount of drinking. But \u003cem>Below Deck \u003c/em>has always had, to me, a particularly fraught relationship with being not merely drunk, but blackout drunk. Uncomfortable levels of physical aggression and confrontation have sometimes followed these nights out, as have mornings in which apologies are of limited value coming from apologizers who clearly have no memory of what they did. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/film-tv/below-deck-eddie-lucas-baltimore-bravo-UNWBBMNDK5HQREVAXQ3GW52NII/\">an interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>The Baltimore Banner\u003c/em>, Eddie Lucas, who’s appeared on several seasons of \u003cem>Below Deck \u003c/em>as a deckhand and bosun, said this about the nights out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And then also, when we get off charter, and they’re [the producers are] like, “Oh, you know, go out, have dinner, have a good time.” You’re like, “I’d rather just get some sleep” and they’re like, “No, you’re gonna drink. You’re gonna drink and you’re gonna stay up until four in the morning, and you’re going to like it!”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13863206","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As Tzarina said, the alcohol is obviously not an excuse for the behavior, but encouraging this kind of drinking has risks. And watching the producers swoop in here only reminds you how often they do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> swoop in. They watch people get in fights, punch things, scream at each other, drink until they’re sick, drink until they have to be carried home, drink until they have no idea what they’re doing — in a way, seeing producers become visible in one instance makes them hover like ghosts at the edges in all the past situations they’ve allowed to unfold (encouraged to unfold?) without any obvious intervention. Whether any other case like \u003cem>this \u003c/em>has come up, I don’t know. But many, many of these nights have looked like they could erupt dangerously at any time, and I can’t remember ever hearing a producer say, “You’ve had enough, stop drinking, go to bed.” Either they haven’t done it, or they haven’t wanted to show that they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then this week, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2023/08/porn-violentce-claims-bethenny-frankel-lawsuit-reality-tv-nbcuniveral-bravo-1235454964/\">\u003cem>Deadline reported\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that attorneys who say they represent a number of cast and crew from NBC Universal’s reality shows (that seems to mostly mean Bravo) sent a letter to the company demanding that possible evidence be retained in anticipation of future litigation over what the letter calls “grotesque and depraved mistreatment of the reality stars and crewmembers.” And the first bullet point they allege is plying people with alcohol (while denying them food and sleep) in an effort to intentionally degrade their mental health. Another is “covering up acts of sexual violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not going to lie: I often fast-forward through the crew nights out at this point, precisely because they always seem vaguely menacing. I watch this show as a workplace show, as hard as that might be to believe. I like it for the parts where the impossible guests want endless espresso martinis and the deck crew is desperate not to have to inflate the water slide again and everybody is juggling impossible tasks. I am bored stiff by long sequences where people do shots and slur into each other’s ears and scream at each other in the hot tub. You know what I like? I like the tension of a moment where the chef forgot that one of the guests is gluten-free and now they have to improvise. I like the parts where somebody suddenly wants an umpteen-course dinner and the crew is shorthanded because somebody is seasick. I like it when rich people insist on their beach picnic and then get rained on.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/h5lX0g2aSsg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/h5lX0g2aSsg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And, as with every good reality show, I admit I like it when people I don’t like get their comeuppance, usually in the form of getting fired. If one person isn’t doing their share of the work and the captain calls them in and says they’re bounced, that offers a little shiver of satisfaction, just like when a jerk gets voted off \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>. Not like this, though. Really, not like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, all that stuff, all that kind of lighthearted workplace stuff, comes alongside all the parts that I might fast-forward through, but they still happened. (For the “all this is entirely scripted!” crowd, let me say: I wish.) And on the one hand, it’s good to know there’s \u003cem>something \u003c/em>producers will step in to prevent. On the other hand, it would be good to let people stay in and get some sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece also appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations about what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Below+Deck%2C%27+reality+producers+stepped+in+to+stop+a+drunken+assault+%E2%80%94+this+time&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13933160/below-deck-reality-tv-sexual-assault-alcohol","authors":["byline_arts_13933160"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_2462","arts_2792"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13933161","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13930554":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13930554","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13930554","score":null,"sort":[1686852822000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bill-cosby-sued-by-9-more-women-for-alleged-decades-old-sexual-assaults","title":"Bill Cosby Sued by 9 More Women for Alleged Decades-Old Sexual Assaults","publishDate":1686852822,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bill Cosby Sued by 9 More Women for Alleged Decades-Old Sexual Assaults | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Nine more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe homes, dressing rooms and hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13875370']One woman alleges that Cosby, claiming to be her acting mentor, lured her from New York to Nevada, where he drugged her in a hotel room with what he had claimed to be non-alcoholic sparkling cider and then raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 85-year-old former \u003cem>Cosby Show\u003c/em> star has now been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60 women. He has denied all allegations involving sex crimes. He was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era — and spent nearly three years at a state prison near Philadelphia before a higher court threw out the conviction and released him in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who said Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nevada lawsuit came only a few weeks after Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill that eliminated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse cases. Similar suits have followed other “lookback laws” in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the plaintiffs, Lise-Lotte Lublin, a Nevada native, had advocated for the change. She had previously alleged that Cosby gave her spiked drinks and raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914526']The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years I have fought for survivors of sexual assault and today is the first time I will be able to fight for myself,” Lotte-Lublin said in a statement cited by the \u003cem>Las Vegas Review-Journal\u003c/em>. “With the new law change, I now have the ability to take my assailant Bill Cosby to court. My journey has just begun, but I am grateful for this opportunity to find justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a former Playboy model who alleges Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969 sued him on June 1 under a new California law that suspends the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosby publicist Andrew Wyatt blasted such laws in a statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Cosby is a Citizen of these United States but these judges and lawmakers are consistently allowing these civil suits to flood their dockets — knowing that these women are not fighting for victims — but for their addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed,” Wyatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908728']“From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts of an alleged allegation against Mr. Cosby anymore without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom,” Wyatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest suit, the women contend that Cosby “used his enormous power, fame, and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and/or their careers as a pretense to isolate and sexually assault them.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 85-year-old former ‘Cosby Show’ star has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment by more than 60 women.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005373,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":564},"headData":{"title":"Bill Cosby Sued by Nine More Women for Alleged Sexual Assaults | KQED","description":"The 85-year-old former ‘Cosby Show’ star has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment by more than 60 women.","ogTitle":"Bill Cosby Sued by 9 More Women for Alleged Decades-Old Sexual Assaults","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Bill Cosby Sued by 9 More Women for Alleged Decades-Old Sexual Assaults","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Bill Cosby Sued by Nine More Women for Alleged Sexual Assaults %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Bill Cosby Sued by 9 More Women for Alleged Decades-Old Sexual Assaults","datePublished":"2023-06-15T18:13:42.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:36:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Associated Press","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13930554/bill-cosby-sued-by-9-more-women-for-alleged-decades-old-sexual-assaults","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nine more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe homes, dressing rooms and hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13875370","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One woman alleges that Cosby, claiming to be her acting mentor, lured her from New York to Nevada, where he drugged her in a hotel room with what he had claimed to be non-alcoholic sparkling cider and then raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 85-year-old former \u003cem>Cosby Show\u003c/em> star has now been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60 women. He has denied all allegations involving sex crimes. He was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era — and spent nearly three years at a state prison near Philadelphia before a higher court threw out the conviction and released him in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a Los Angeles jury awarded $500,000 to a woman who said Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nevada lawsuit came only a few weeks after Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill that eliminated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse cases. Similar suits have followed other “lookback laws” in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the plaintiffs, Lise-Lotte Lublin, a Nevada native, had advocated for the change. She had previously alleged that Cosby gave her spiked drinks and raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914526","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years I have fought for survivors of sexual assault and today is the first time I will be able to fight for myself,” Lotte-Lublin said in a statement cited by the \u003cem>Las Vegas Review-Journal\u003c/em>. “With the new law change, I now have the ability to take my assailant Bill Cosby to court. My journey has just begun, but I am grateful for this opportunity to find justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a former Playboy model who alleges Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969 sued him on June 1 under a new California law that suspends the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosby publicist Andrew Wyatt blasted such laws in a statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Cosby is a Citizen of these United States but these judges and lawmakers are consistently allowing these civil suits to flood their dockets — knowing that these women are not fighting for victims — but for their addiction to massive amounts of media attention and greed,” Wyatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13908728","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“From this day forward, we will not continue to allow these women to parade various accounts of an alleged allegation against Mr. Cosby anymore without vetting them in the court of public opinion and inside of the courtroom,” Wyatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest suit, the women contend that Cosby “used his enormous power, fame, and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and/or their careers as a pretense to isolate and sexually assault them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13930554/bill-cosby-sued-by-9-more-women-for-alleged-decades-old-sexual-assaults","authors":["byline_arts_13930554"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_1873","arts_2462"],"featImg":"arts_13930556","label":"arts"},"arts_13928256":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13928256","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13928256","score":null,"sort":[1682449042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know","title":"Danny Masterson’s Rape Retrial: Key Things to Know","publishDate":1682449042,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Danny Masterson’s Rape Retrial: Key Things to Know | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Five months after a deadlocked jury led to a mistrial for actor Danny Masterson, the former star of \u003cem>That ’70s Show\u003c/em> is on trial again in a Los Angeles court. Masterson is accused of raping three women between 2001 and 2003. He could get 45 years in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the key elements, characters and issues that will factor into the retrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Direct discussion of drugging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908728']A judge is now allowing the prosecution to say directly that Masterson drugged all three women before raping them, in what may be the biggest difference from the first trial. Previously, the drugging could only be implied when the women testified to feeling disoriented, losing memory and going unconscious to a degree that could not be explained by the alcohol they had consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening statements Monday, Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said all three women had consumed drinks Masterson had given them, and that the “evidence will show that they were drugged.” The defense says there is no such evidence beyond the women’s stories. And defense attorney Philip Cohen made clear to jurors that “there is no drugging charge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New role for Scientology\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Church of Scientology loomed large at Masterson’s trial. It could loom larger still in his retrial, with Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowing expert testimony on Scientology that she denied the first time.\u003cbr>\nMasterson is a prominent member of the church. All three of his accusers are former members who grew disillusioned with the institution in the aftermath of their alleged assaults, saying that church officials told them what had happened to them was not rape, and that its policies prevented them from going to police. The church vehemently denied having any such policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two opposing experts set to testify embody the stark cultural divides the church sometimes creates. The prosecution’s expert, Claire Headley, is a former official in Scientology’s leadership group, known as the Sea Org, who became a staunch church foe, suing it in 2009 over her experience. The defense’s expert is Hugh Martin Whitt, a current high-level Scientologist who is Headley’s estranged stepfather.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The defendant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Masterson, 47, an actor since childhood, got his major break when he was cast as Stephen Hyde on the retro sitcom\u003cem> That ’70s Show\u003c/em>, which also starred Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace and would run on Fox from 1998 until 2006. At the time of the alleged assaults, his career was at its peak, and his house near Hollywood with a backyard pool and Jacuzzi was a social hub. It was also, according to prosecutors, the scene of all three crimes. Masterson had pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have repeatedly denied all of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The first accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the women Masterson is charged with raping was born into a Scientology family and was part of Masterson’s circle of friends. Nearly all of those closest to her were members, including the late Lisa Marie Presley, who also left the church long before her death in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13918217']The woman said that when she stopped by Masterson’s house to pick up a set of keys in 2003, he gave her a drink that left her sick and badly disoriented, and raped her in his bedroom upstairs. She first filed a police report, which did not lead to an arrest, in 2004. She returned to authorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The second accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first accuser to take the stand at the retrial is a model and actor who was Masterson’s girlfriend from 1996 to 2002. She previously testified that Masterson grew increasingly physically and sexually abusive in their years together. She said that it eventually led to him raping her twice late in 2001, though he is only charged with one instance, a morning when she woke to find Masterson raping her. She would go to police 15 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The third accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third woman at the center of the trial had only recently met Masterson through mutual friends in the church, which she had joined as a teenager. She testified that in 2003 that Masterson invited her to his house, where they were alone. She said she was clear that she wanted no sex, but he convinced her to get into his jacuzzi then took her to his bed, where he raped her. She went to police in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they were victims of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigation and arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Police revealed they were investigating Masterson in March of 2017. Hollywood’s #MeToo firestorm would begin about six months later, and in the midst of it Masterson would be written off \u003cem>The Ranch\u003c/em>, a Netflix Western comedy where he had reunited with Kutcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested and charged with three rapes in 2020, and in 2021 a judge ruled the evidence was strong enough for him to be tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men stand side-by-side in court, wearing suits and pandemic-era face masks. One has short curly hair, the other has white straight, chin-length hair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Masterson and his lawyer Thomas Mesereau at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Los Angeles in September 2020. The actor was arraigned on rape charges. \u003ccite>(Lucy Nicholson - Pool/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The first trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s monthlong first trial began last October. Masterson, free on bail, was accompanied to court by a large group of friends and family with ties to both Scientology and the entertainment industry, including his wife and the mother of his child, actor and model Bijou Phillips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908090']The three accusers gave emotional and often traumatic testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller argued that the evidence pointed clearly to Masterson being a “rapist” who created an environment in his home that allowed him to prey on women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen argued that the women’s testimony was hopelessly riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, fewer than half of jurors voted to convict on any of the counts. Nevertheless, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office decided to try again with a new set of jurors, and the women agreed to take the stand again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The lawyers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mueller and Cohen will reprise their roles in the retrial. But Masterson this time will also have the services of high-profile attorney Shawn Holley, whose clients have included Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Axl Rose and Lindsay Lohan. She had to miss the first trial with prior commitments representing former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer in his own sexual assault proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The ‘That ’70s Show’ actor is facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted of raping three women between 2001 and 2003.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005583,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1103},"headData":{"title":"Danny Masterson’s Rape Retrial: Key Things to Know | KQED","description":"The ‘That ’70s Show’ actor is facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted of raping three women between 2001 and 2003.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Danny Masterson’s Rape Retrial: Key Things to Know","datePublished":"2023-04-25T18:57:22.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:39:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"The Associated Press","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13928256/danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Five months after a deadlocked jury led to a mistrial for actor Danny Masterson, the former star of \u003cem>That ’70s Show\u003c/em> is on trial again in a Los Angeles court. Masterson is accused of raping three women between 2001 and 2003. He could get 45 years in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the key elements, characters and issues that will factor into the retrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Direct discussion of drugging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13908728","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A judge is now allowing the prosecution to say directly that Masterson drugged all three women before raping them, in what may be the biggest difference from the first trial. Previously, the drugging could only be implied when the women testified to feeling disoriented, losing memory and going unconscious to a degree that could not be explained by the alcohol they had consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening statements Monday, Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said all three women had consumed drinks Masterson had given them, and that the “evidence will show that they were drugged.” The defense says there is no such evidence beyond the women’s stories. And defense attorney Philip Cohen made clear to jurors that “there is no drugging charge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New role for Scientology\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Church of Scientology loomed large at Masterson’s trial. It could loom larger still in his retrial, with Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowing expert testimony on Scientology that she denied the first time.\u003cbr>\nMasterson is a prominent member of the church. All three of his accusers are former members who grew disillusioned with the institution in the aftermath of their alleged assaults, saying that church officials told them what had happened to them was not rape, and that its policies prevented them from going to police. The church vehemently denied having any such policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two opposing experts set to testify embody the stark cultural divides the church sometimes creates. The prosecution’s expert, Claire Headley, is a former official in Scientology’s leadership group, known as the Sea Org, who became a staunch church foe, suing it in 2009 over her experience. The defense’s expert is Hugh Martin Whitt, a current high-level Scientologist who is Headley’s estranged stepfather.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The defendant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Masterson, 47, an actor since childhood, got his major break when he was cast as Stephen Hyde on the retro sitcom\u003cem> That ’70s Show\u003c/em>, which also starred Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace and would run on Fox from 1998 until 2006. At the time of the alleged assaults, his career was at its peak, and his house near Hollywood with a backyard pool and Jacuzzi was a social hub. It was also, according to prosecutors, the scene of all three crimes. Masterson had pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have repeatedly denied all of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The first accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the women Masterson is charged with raping was born into a Scientology family and was part of Masterson’s circle of friends. Nearly all of those closest to her were members, including the late Lisa Marie Presley, who also left the church long before her death in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13918217","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The woman said that when she stopped by Masterson’s house to pick up a set of keys in 2003, he gave her a drink that left her sick and badly disoriented, and raped her in his bedroom upstairs. She first filed a police report, which did not lead to an arrest, in 2004. She returned to authorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The second accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first accuser to take the stand at the retrial is a model and actor who was Masterson’s girlfriend from 1996 to 2002. She previously testified that Masterson grew increasingly physically and sexually abusive in their years together. She said that it eventually led to him raping her twice late in 2001, though he is only charged with one instance, a morning when she woke to find Masterson raping her. She would go to police 15 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The third accuser\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third woman at the center of the trial had only recently met Masterson through mutual friends in the church, which she had joined as a teenager. She testified that in 2003 that Masterson invited her to his house, where they were alone. She said she was clear that she wanted no sex, but he convinced her to get into his jacuzzi then took her to his bed, where he raped her. She went to police in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they were victims of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigation and arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Police revealed they were investigating Masterson in March of 2017. Hollywood’s #MeToo firestorm would begin about six months later, and in the midst of it Masterson would be written off \u003cem>The Ranch\u003c/em>, a Netflix Western comedy where he had reunited with Kutcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was arrested and charged with three rapes in 2020, and in 2021 a judge ruled the evidence was strong enough for him to be tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men stand side-by-side in court, wearing suits and pandemic-era face masks. One has short curly hair, the other has white straight, chin-length hair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1228579762-scaled-e1682448084811.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Masterson and his lawyer Thomas Mesereau at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Los Angeles in September 2020. The actor was arraigned on rape charges. \u003ccite>(Lucy Nicholson - Pool/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The first trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s monthlong first trial began last October. Masterson, free on bail, was accompanied to court by a large group of friends and family with ties to both Scientology and the entertainment industry, including his wife and the mother of his child, actor and model Bijou Phillips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13908090","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The three accusers gave emotional and often traumatic testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller argued that the evidence pointed clearly to Masterson being a “rapist” who created an environment in his home that allowed him to prey on women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen argued that the women’s testimony was hopelessly riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, fewer than half of jurors voted to convict on any of the counts. Nevertheless, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office decided to try again with a new set of jurors, and the women agreed to take the stand again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The lawyers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mueller and Cohen will reprise their roles in the retrial. But Masterson this time will also have the services of high-profile attorney Shawn Holley, whose clients have included Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Axl Rose and Lindsay Lohan. She had to miss the first trial with prior commitments representing former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer in his own sexual assault proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13928256/danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know","authors":["byline_arts_13928256"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_8179","arts_2462"],"featImg":"arts_13928257","label":"arts"},"arts_13923921":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13923921","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13923921","score":null,"sort":[1674242813000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-full-guide-to-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-andrew-callaghan","title":"A Full Guide to the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Andrew Callaghan","publishDate":1674242813,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Full Guide to the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Andrew Callaghan | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Andrew Callaghan, a documentarian behind YouTube’s \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em> and HBO’s \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em>, is known for chronicling spectacles from Phish shows to white nationalist rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month, the 25-year-old was himself the story after thousands of social media users saw a pattern of misconduct in first- and second-hand accounts of women’s experiences that were shared across platforms in public comments and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan addressed the allegations in an Instagram post on Sunday, apologizing to the women and pledging to examine his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many who follow Callaghan’s work, the incident raises questions about Gen Z’s tolerance for sexually questionable behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an account of what has happened as of Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is Andrew Callaghan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8.jpg\" alt=\"An unkempt young white man with messy shoulder length hair looks into a camera. He is sitting in a white living room.\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8.jpg 608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube star and documentary film-maker Andrew Callaghan has publicly apologized after women came forward to say he sexually assaulted or coerced them.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Callaghan is a self-styled journalist for the digital age whose irreverent YouTube videos have earned him fame across several platforms. His brand, \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em> news, has 600,000 followers on Instagram and another 2.25 million on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan got his start while a student at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he launched a YouTube series called \u003cem>Quarter Confessions.\u003c/em> Wearing pale suits and carrying a corded microphone, Callaghan interviewed intoxicated Bourbon Street party-goers, editing together their wildest statements with quick cuts and intentionally outdated effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, he took that style of filmmaking across the country in a beat-up RV, stopping for interviews at sites like a flat-earthers’ conference and the Talladega Speedway. The show, \u003cem>All Gas No Brakes\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/style/all-gas-no-brakes.html\">fell apart in 2021 after a contract dispute\u003c/a> with its production company, Doing Things Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan then started the Patreon-funded\u003cem> Channel 5. \u003c/em>The series has amassed over 106 million YouTube views since April 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His following has only broadened since the Dec. 30 release of his first HBO documentary, \u003cem>This Place Rules, \u003c/em>which examines the cultural divisions underlying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_rX9S6sU8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with legacy journalists about his unfiltered reporting, Callaghan has defended his popularity among younger millennials and elder Gen Z’ers as a bit of media mockery in the service of media literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says giving airtime to fringe voices is an actual form of reporting in an age of overwhelming journalistic punditry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there is a massive divide in America, you’re going to find interviews on the fringe,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1146453216/andrew-callaghan-on-new-jan-6-documentary-this-place-rules\">said in a recent interview with NPR\u003c/a>. “What we try to do is physically speak to people, actually show up and be there and ask people simple questions like, ‘What’s on your mind? How are you feeling?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he lets the subjects “guide the conversation” in contrast to cable news reporters who use talking-head panels to “get the viewer as pissed off as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Here’s when the allegations began to spread\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims against Callaghan began to go viral on Jan. 5, when a TikTok user who goes by the name Caroline Elise (@cornbreadasserole) posted a 2-minute video saying Callaghan pressured her into performing sexual acts with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13923167']She said Callaghan, whom she’d been messaging on Instagram, asked to stay over at her house because he’d had a falling out with a crew member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very clear about the fact that we are not hooking up,” she said. “He gets in my bed and wears me down to the point where I eventually do agree to do things I wasn’t proud of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 7, she posted again, sharing screenshots of messages she exchanged with Callaghan in 2021 and a photo of them together. She also shared screenshots of at least 10 messages from people saying they’d had a similar experience with Callaghan or knew of someone who had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise has since deleted the videos from her TikTok feed, saying the response had diminished her mental health. But other users have saved and continue to share the videos across other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/waveninja1/status/1612866496266645505\">One version of it posted to Twitter\u003c/a> has been viewed over 756,000 times. \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1702531869\">A version shared on a Twitch livestream\u003c/a> has over 833,000 views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/waveninja1/status/1612866496266645505\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise said she didn’t want to talk directly to NPR also for mental health reasons. She instead put us in touch with a long-time friend, whose name we’ve agreed to withhold over her fears of online harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend said that Callaghan knew how Caroline Elise felt about the incident months before she’d ever posted it to TikTok. The friend shared screenshots of Instagram posts from August 2021, in which the friend warned other women in her city that Callaghan had “knowingly assaulted my friend and got away with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend also shared screenshots of a text message conversation that took place between Callaghan and Caroline Elise in December 2021, after Caroline Elise had confronted Callaghan about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one long message, Callaghan said he recognized that the social power dynamics at play “can dramatically warp consent” and had tried to unpack his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “prior partners” from New Orleans and Nashville had reached out to him in response to the Instagram posts and had “started dialogues with him that have benefitted all our lives for the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do whatever I possibly can to be accountable and support you in whatever way you’d like,” the message continues. “It would mean the world to me to be able to have an open conversation with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A second accuser claims Callaghan sexually assaulted her in 2019\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s video prompted another woman, a TikTok user who goes by the name Dana (@moldyfreckle), to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of videos, Dana said Callaghan assaulted her on a drive home from dinner, first kissing her neck, then putting his hand down her pants and putting her hands on his crotch as she was telling him to stop. Callaghan left the car after she’d asked multiple times, Dana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7186167704103996715\" data-video-id=\"7186167704103996715\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a> Part 4. This will be my last video tonight. \u003ca title=\"andrewcallaghan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/andrewcallaghan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#andrewcallaghan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"allgasnobrakes\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/allgasnobrakes?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#allgasnobrakes\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"thisplacerules\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thisplacerules?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thisplacerules\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"channel5\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/channel5?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#channel5\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7186167830167997226?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana later posted a video showing screenshots of her messages with Callahan in January 2019. She hasn’t responded to multiple requests from NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the responses to her videos, Dana dismissed ideas that she was seeking clout, money or trying to sabotage Callaghan’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to let someone else go through this alone,” she said in her TikTok post, referencing Caroline’s video. “I’m just saying the truth right now and I don’t care what you believe, but I want other women who he’s affected to feel comfortable talking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the stories from Dana and Caroline Elise have remained the most widely shared and commented upon, several other people have since posted in comments or videos claiming similarly pushy sexual behavior. They say their experiences with Callaghan formed a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan respond?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Callaghan thanked the people who’d spoken out about “different ways in which my behavior has made them feel uncomfortable or pressured during a sexual situation” and apologized to them, as well as his collaborators. He did not single out any particular accusations, or confirm or deny any specific accusations circulating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CndGN_Av97E/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did, however, say that he thought many of the accusations were missing important contextual information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make a few things clear: I’ve always taken no for an answer,” he said. “As far as consent, I’ve never overstepped that line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until this point, I didn’t really realize that I had this pattern that affected multiple people,” he said, later adding that he thought going home from a bar alone “made you a loser” and that “persistence was a form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan had largely laid low online and in public \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/this-place-rules-is-a-peoples-history-of-january-6-documentary-npr-cnn/\">since a tumultuous live interview\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/events/822709/this-place-rules-hbo-original-screening-and-conversation-with-gonzo-journalist-andrew-callaghan-on-the-jan-6-insurrection\">NPR member station WBUR\u003c/a> on Jan. 4. He explained in the video that he’d waited nearly two weeks to respond because he was in a state of shock and “spiraled into a mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan also said he believes alcohol may have contributed to his decision-making and said that he’s planning to join a 12-step program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8g_ZfcrEo\">posted YouTube\u003c/a> and TikTok videos on Wednesday evening saying that she didn’t believe the apology was genuine and she didn’t forgive him, but also that she was finished talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7189806338938178862\" data-video-id=\"7189806338938178862\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7189806337738443566?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fed up, and I know other people are getting fed up,” she said. “It’s called karma. It’s not blackmail. It’s not revenge, it’s just how it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise had not publicly addressed Callaghan’s statements at the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about the blackmail claims?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three days before Callaghan’s Instagram video, news outlets \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/andrew-callaghan-all-gas-no-brakes-responds-sexual-assault-accusation/\">like TMZ\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/andrew-callaghan-allegations-tim-heidecker-1235484693/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> \u003c/a>published portions of a statement, shared by a “legal representative” for Callaghan, which acknowledged Callaghan’s need to re-evaluate his behavior but also pointed to “multiple sides to a story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While every dynamic is open to interpretation and proper communication is critical from all those involved, repeated requests for money should not be part of these conversations,” reads the statement, according to both outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Callaghan’s agent or publicist responded to NPR’s request for confirmation of the statement. Callaghan hasn’t responded to multiple NPR attempts to reach him through his social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend shared a screenshot of one message Caroline Elise sent to Callaghan six days before posting the allegations on TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message includes the handle of Caroline Elise’s Venmo account. She wrote Callaghan could use it if “HBO cuts you a fat check, and you in any way feel like helping contribute to the massive amounts of therapy bills I have accrued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend told NPR that’s the only time Caroline Elise had brought up the prospect of him reimbursing her in their conversations together. Callaghan never responded to the text, Caroline Elise’s friend said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise confirmed through her friend that she shared the allegation to raise awareness of Callaghan’s behavior. She has no plans to file a police report or a lawsuit, her friend told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 591px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot provided to NPR by a close friend of the TikTok user Caroline, who claims Andrew Callaghan coerced her into having sex in 2021. \u003ccite>(Screenshot provided to NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan’s fans react to the allegations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims, statements and reaction quickly spread on several social media platforms, where users, many of them anonymous, dissected Callaghan’s behavior in ways reminiscent of 2016’s #MeToo eruption, but with new cancel culture considerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reddit forum r/Channel5ive, which is in the top 5% of Reddit communities by size, was once dedicated to Callaghan fan adoration. Now it contains over 100 posts dedicated to investigating the allegations and debating which of the alleged behaviors crossed the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drinking with someone, inviting someone into your home, even inviting someone into your bed does not equal consent,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Channel5ive/comments/105vp67/whatever_the_truth_is_we_as_a_community_need_to/\">wrote one user in a post\u003c/a> that received 1,100 up votes and 382 comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saying let’s just ‘cancel’ the whole thing, but I really don’t like people saying we can just separate his journalism from his misconduct,” posted another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to requests by users, moderators eventually removed a Patreon link supporting Callaghan’s work and replaced it with a link to the National Women’s Law Center, which helps victims of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/_letterbxmb/status/1612620941619597313\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube and Twitch streamers whose audiences overlap with Callaghan’s also parsed through the allegations and apology, trying to glean universal lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitch streamer Hasan Piker (@Hasanabi), who boasts 2.3 million subscribers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woYpUM0EKqg\">said in his third video mentioning the allegations\u003c/a> that Callaghan’s apology is promising but that it’s only natural that his fans wait before passing judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are not going to read this with any kind of charitability,” because Callaghan hasn’t done anything yet to demonstrate how he’s changed, Piker predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does this mean for ‘Channel 5’ and Callaghan’s work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his video apology, Callaghan said he wasn’t sure what comes next, but he wanted to take a step back from public life while he processed his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 25 years old and I have my whole life ahead of me,” he said, adding that reporting was still his first love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Heidecker, a comedian who helped produce \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em>, addressed the allegations on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/234-atsuko-okatsuka/id1153746716?i=1000594133836\">his \u003cem>Office Hours\u003c/em> podcast last Thursday\u003c/a> by saying he had no plans to collaborate with Callaghan again in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OfficeHrsLive/status/1613596594925981696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no professional relationship with Andrew at this time and have no plans to have any relationship with him,” Heidecker said, speaking on behalf of his comedy and production partner, Eric Wareheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A publicist for Heidecker and Wareheim told NPR the pair had no updated comments on Callaghan’s apology. The press offices for A24 and HBO did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The YouTube page for \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em>, which had been sharing clips from \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em> for the last three weeks, hasn’t posted a new video since the week the allegations surfaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+full+guide+to+the+sexual+misconduct+allegations+against+YouTuber+Andrew+Callaghan&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The documentarian behind ‘This Place Rules’ said he’s seeking therapy after women said he sexually assaulted or coerced them.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005955,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":66,"wordCount":2430},"headData":{"title":"A Full Guide to the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Andrew Callaghan | KQED","description":"The documentarian behind ‘This Place Rules’ said he’s seeking therapy after women said he sexually assaulted or coerced them.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Full Guide to the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Andrew Callaghan","datePublished":"2023-01-20T19:26:53.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:45:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Emily Olson","nprImageAgency":"Screenshot provided to NPR","nprStoryId":"1149748975","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1149748975&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1149748975/a-full-guide-to-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-youtuber-andrew-callag?ft=nprml&f=1149748975","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:38:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 20 Jan 2023 08:21:39 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:38:34 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13923921/a-full-guide-to-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-andrew-callaghan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Andrew Callaghan, a documentarian behind YouTube’s \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em> and HBO’s \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em>, is known for chronicling spectacles from Phish shows to white nationalist rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month, the 25-year-old was himself the story after thousands of social media users saw a pattern of misconduct in first- and second-hand accounts of women’s experiences that were shared across platforms in public comments and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan addressed the allegations in an Instagram post on Sunday, apologizing to the women and pledging to examine his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many who follow Callaghan’s work, the incident raises questions about Gen Z’s tolerance for sexually questionable behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an account of what has happened as of Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is Andrew Callaghan?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8.jpg\" alt=\"An unkempt young white man with messy shoulder length hair looks into a camera. He is sitting in a white living room.\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8.jpg 608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/capture_wide-e15ad23b11e9a25a474b5b0de2e6401ac69bd3a8-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube star and documentary film-maker Andrew Callaghan has publicly apologized after women came forward to say he sexually assaulted or coerced them.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Callaghan is a self-styled journalist for the digital age whose irreverent YouTube videos have earned him fame across several platforms. His brand, \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em> news, has 600,000 followers on Instagram and another 2.25 million on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan got his start while a student at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he launched a YouTube series called \u003cem>Quarter Confessions.\u003c/em> Wearing pale suits and carrying a corded microphone, Callaghan interviewed intoxicated Bourbon Street party-goers, editing together their wildest statements with quick cuts and intentionally outdated effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, he took that style of filmmaking across the country in a beat-up RV, stopping for interviews at sites like a flat-earthers’ conference and the Talladega Speedway. The show, \u003cem>All Gas No Brakes\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/style/all-gas-no-brakes.html\">fell apart in 2021 after a contract dispute\u003c/a> with its production company, Doing Things Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan then started the Patreon-funded\u003cem> Channel 5. \u003c/em>The series has amassed over 106 million YouTube views since April 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His following has only broadened since the Dec. 30 release of his first HBO documentary, \u003cem>This Place Rules, \u003c/em>which examines the cultural divisions underlying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MH_rX9S6sU8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MH_rX9S6sU8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In interviews with legacy journalists about his unfiltered reporting, Callaghan has defended his popularity among younger millennials and elder Gen Z’ers as a bit of media mockery in the service of media literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says giving airtime to fringe voices is an actual form of reporting in an age of overwhelming journalistic punditry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there is a massive divide in America, you’re going to find interviews on the fringe,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1146453216/andrew-callaghan-on-new-jan-6-documentary-this-place-rules\">said in a recent interview with NPR\u003c/a>. “What we try to do is physically speak to people, actually show up and be there and ask people simple questions like, ‘What’s on your mind? How are you feeling?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he lets the subjects “guide the conversation” in contrast to cable news reporters who use talking-head panels to “get the viewer as pissed off as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Here’s when the allegations began to spread\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims against Callaghan began to go viral on Jan. 5, when a TikTok user who goes by the name Caroline Elise (@cornbreadasserole) posted a 2-minute video saying Callaghan pressured her into performing sexual acts with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13923167","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said Callaghan, whom she’d been messaging on Instagram, asked to stay over at her house because he’d had a falling out with a crew member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very clear about the fact that we are not hooking up,” she said. “He gets in my bed and wears me down to the point where I eventually do agree to do things I wasn’t proud of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 7, she posted again, sharing screenshots of messages she exchanged with Callaghan in 2021 and a photo of them together. She also shared screenshots of at least 10 messages from people saying they’d had a similar experience with Callaghan or knew of someone who had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise has since deleted the videos from her TikTok feed, saying the response had diminished her mental health. But other users have saved and continue to share the videos across other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/waveninja1/status/1612866496266645505\">One version of it posted to Twitter\u003c/a> has been viewed over 756,000 times. \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1702531869\">A version shared on a Twitch livestream\u003c/a> has over 833,000 views.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1612866496266645505"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise said she didn’t want to talk directly to NPR also for mental health reasons. She instead put us in touch with a long-time friend, whose name we’ve agreed to withhold over her fears of online harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend said that Callaghan knew how Caroline Elise felt about the incident months before she’d ever posted it to TikTok. The friend shared screenshots of Instagram posts from August 2021, in which the friend warned other women in her city that Callaghan had “knowingly assaulted my friend and got away with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend also shared screenshots of a text message conversation that took place between Callaghan and Caroline Elise in December 2021, after Caroline Elise had confronted Callaghan about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one long message, Callaghan said he recognized that the social power dynamics at play “can dramatically warp consent” and had tried to unpack his behavior in therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “prior partners” from New Orleans and Nashville had reached out to him in response to the Instagram posts and had “started dialogues with him that have benefitted all our lives for the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do whatever I possibly can to be accountable and support you in whatever way you’d like,” the message continues. “It would mean the world to me to be able to have an open conversation with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A second accuser claims Callaghan sexually assaulted her in 2019\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s video prompted another woman, a TikTok user who goes by the name Dana (@moldyfreckle), to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of videos, Dana said Callaghan assaulted her on a drive home from dinner, first kissing her neck, then putting his hand down her pants and putting her hands on his crotch as she was telling him to stop. Callaghan left the car after she’d asked multiple times, Dana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7186167704103996715\" data-video-id=\"7186167704103996715\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a> Part 4. This will be my last video tonight. \u003ca title=\"andrewcallaghan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/andrewcallaghan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#andrewcallaghan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"allgasnobrakes\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/allgasnobrakes?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#allgasnobrakes\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"thisplacerules\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thisplacerules?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thisplacerules\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"channel5\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/channel5?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#channel5\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7186167830167997226?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana later posted a video showing screenshots of her messages with Callahan in January 2019. She hasn’t responded to multiple requests from NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the responses to her videos, Dana dismissed ideas that she was seeking clout, money or trying to sabotage Callaghan’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to let someone else go through this alone,” she said in her TikTok post, referencing Caroline’s video. “I’m just saying the truth right now and I don’t care what you believe, but I want other women who he’s affected to feel comfortable talking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the stories from Dana and Caroline Elise have remained the most widely shared and commented upon, several other people have since posted in comments or videos claiming similarly pushy sexual behavior. They say their experiences with Callaghan formed a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan respond?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Callaghan thanked the people who’d spoken out about “different ways in which my behavior has made them feel uncomfortable or pressured during a sexual situation” and apologized to them, as well as his collaborators. He did not single out any particular accusations, or confirm or deny any specific accusations circulating.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CndGN_Av97E"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>He did, however, say that he thought many of the accusations were missing important contextual information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make a few things clear: I’ve always taken no for an answer,” he said. “As far as consent, I’ve never overstepped that line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until this point, I didn’t really realize that I had this pattern that affected multiple people,” he said, later adding that he thought going home from a bar alone “made you a loser” and that “persistence was a form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan had largely laid low online and in public \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/this-place-rules-is-a-peoples-history-of-january-6-documentary-npr-cnn/\">since a tumultuous live interview\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/events/822709/this-place-rules-hbo-original-screening-and-conversation-with-gonzo-journalist-andrew-callaghan-on-the-jan-6-insurrection\">NPR member station WBUR\u003c/a> on Jan. 4. He explained in the video that he’d waited nearly two weeks to respond because he was in a state of shock and “spiraled into a mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callaghan also said he believes alcohol may have contributed to his decision-making and said that he’s planning to join a 12-step program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8g_ZfcrEo\">posted YouTube\u003c/a> and TikTok videos on Wednesday evening saying that she didn’t believe the apology was genuine and she didn’t forgive him, but also that she was finished talking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle/video/7189806338938178862\" data-video-id=\"7189806338938178862\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@moldyfreckle\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@moldyfreckle?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@moldyfreckle\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - DJ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7189806337738443566?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – DJ\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fed up, and I know other people are getting fed up,” she said. “It’s called karma. It’s not blackmail. It’s not revenge, it’s just how it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise had not publicly addressed Callaghan’s statements at the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about the blackmail claims?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three days before Callaghan’s Instagram video, news outlets \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/andrew-callaghan-all-gas-no-brakes-responds-sexual-assault-accusation/\">like TMZ\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/andrew-callaghan-allegations-tim-heidecker-1235484693/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> \u003c/a>published portions of a statement, shared by a “legal representative” for Callaghan, which acknowledged Callaghan’s need to re-evaluate his behavior but also pointed to “multiple sides to a story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While every dynamic is open to interpretation and proper communication is critical from all those involved, repeated requests for money should not be part of these conversations,” reads the statement, according to both outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Callaghan’s agent or publicist responded to NPR’s request for confirmation of the statement. Callaghan hasn’t responded to multiple NPR attempts to reach him through his social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend shared a screenshot of one message Caroline Elise sent to Callaghan six days before posting the allegations on TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message includes the handle of Caroline Elise’s Venmo account. She wrote Callaghan could use it if “HBO cuts you a fat check, and you in any way feel like helping contribute to the massive amounts of therapy bills I have accrued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise’s friend told NPR that’s the only time Caroline Elise had brought up the prospect of him reimbursing her in their conversations together. Callaghan never responded to the text, Caroline Elise’s friend said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Elise confirmed through her friend that she shared the allegation to raise awareness of Callaghan’s behavior. She has no plans to file a police report or a lawsuit, her friend told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 591px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/renderedimage-98424a307d1029db4726b0768b665280a04664c8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot provided to NPR by a close friend of the TikTok user Caroline, who claims Andrew Callaghan coerced her into having sex in 2021. \u003ccite>(Screenshot provided to NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>How did Callaghan’s fans react to the allegations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The claims, statements and reaction quickly spread on several social media platforms, where users, many of them anonymous, dissected Callaghan’s behavior in ways reminiscent of 2016’s #MeToo eruption, but with new cancel culture considerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reddit forum r/Channel5ive, which is in the top 5% of Reddit communities by size, was once dedicated to Callaghan fan adoration. Now it contains over 100 posts dedicated to investigating the allegations and debating which of the alleged behaviors crossed the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drinking with someone, inviting someone into your home, even inviting someone into your bed does not equal consent,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Channel5ive/comments/105vp67/whatever_the_truth_is_we_as_a_community_need_to/\">wrote one user in a post\u003c/a> that received 1,100 up votes and 382 comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not saying let’s just ‘cancel’ the whole thing, but I really don’t like people saying we can just separate his journalism from his misconduct,” posted another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to requests by users, moderators eventually removed a Patreon link supporting Callaghan’s work and replaced it with a link to the National Women’s Law Center, which helps victims of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1612620941619597313"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>YouTube and Twitch streamers whose audiences overlap with Callaghan’s also parsed through the allegations and apology, trying to glean universal lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitch streamer Hasan Piker (@Hasanabi), who boasts 2.3 million subscribers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woYpUM0EKqg\">said in his third video mentioning the allegations\u003c/a> that Callaghan’s apology is promising but that it’s only natural that his fans wait before passing judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are not going to read this with any kind of charitability,” because Callaghan hasn’t done anything yet to demonstrate how he’s changed, Piker predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does this mean for ‘Channel 5’ and Callaghan’s work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his video apology, Callaghan said he wasn’t sure what comes next, but he wanted to take a step back from public life while he processed his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 25 years old and I have my whole life ahead of me,” he said, adding that reporting was still his first love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Heidecker, a comedian who helped produce \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em>, addressed the allegations on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/234-atsuko-okatsuka/id1153746716?i=1000594133836\">his \u003cem>Office Hours\u003c/em> podcast last Thursday\u003c/a> by saying he had no plans to collaborate with Callaghan again in the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1613596594925981696"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“We have no professional relationship with Andrew at this time and have no plans to have any relationship with him,” Heidecker said, speaking on behalf of his comedy and production partner, Eric Wareheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A publicist for Heidecker and Wareheim told NPR the pair had no updated comments on Callaghan’s apology. The press offices for A24 and HBO did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The YouTube page for \u003cem>Channel 5\u003c/em>, which had been sharing clips from \u003cem>This Place Rules\u003c/em> for the last three weeks, hasn’t posted a new video since the week the allegations surfaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+full+guide+to+the+sexual+misconduct+allegations+against+YouTuber+Andrew+Callaghan&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13923921/a-full-guide-to-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-andrew-callaghan","authors":["byline_arts_13923921"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_13672","arts_8350","arts_2462","arts_8017","arts_4554"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13923928","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13915977":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13915977","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13915977","score":null,"sort":[1657656357000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"iamvanessaguillen-documentary-explores-the-culture-of-toxicity-at-fort-hood","title":"'#IAmVanessaGuillen' Documentary Explores the Culture of Toxicity at Fort Hood","publishDate":1657656357,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘#IAmVanessaGuillen’ Documentary Explores the Culture of Toxicity at Fort Hood | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The 2020 murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillén and the national outcry that followed helped shed a light on the widespread problem of sexual misconduct in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-year-old was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/887167023/fbi-files-charges-in-vanessa-guillen-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murdered by another soldier\u003c/a> while stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, after experiencing sexual harassment. Her family has said she did not report those incidents for fear of retaliation, though a \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/30/vanessa-guillen-sexual-harassment-fort-hood/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Army investigation\u003c/a> later found that she reported being sexually harassed twice. (The \u003ca href=\"https://timesupfoundation.org/sexual-harassment-assault-in-the-military/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vast majority\u003c/a> of such cases go unreported, many for this same reason.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillén’s family has been pushing for systemic change ever since. One major milestone came in January, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076143481/vanessa-guillen-murder-military-sexual-harassment-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Biden signed an executive order\u003c/a> making sexual harassment a specific crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_107528']Guillén’s killing also prompted officials to take a closer look at the culture of the base, which had seen a string of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/26/906396032/body-of-missing-fort-hood-soldier-elder-fernandes-found-a-week-after-disappearan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deaths and disappearances\u003c/a>. An Army review conducted after Guillén’s death \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944289588/army-punishes-14-at-fort-hood-after-review-sparked-by-vanessa-guillens-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found profound issues\u003c/a> at Fort Hood, including a command climate “permissive of sexual harassment and sexual assault,” and disciplined more than a dozen leaders as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women at Fort Hood have a higher risk of being sexually assaulted than the average woman in the Army, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1013-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAND Corporation analysis\u003c/a>. But the problem runs deeper than that particular base: Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1318-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1 in 4 women\u003c/a> in the military have experienced sexual harassment, and 1 in 16 have experienced sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many saw themselves in Guillén. One of those women is Karina López, a survivor of sexual assault who was also stationed at Fort Hood. She left the base a month before Guillén disappeared in April 2020, and can’t help but wonder whether she would have faced a similar fate had she stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/univision-news/united-states/hopes-rise-for-congressional-action-on-vanessa-guillen-act-more-soldiers-come-forward?utm_campaign=Univision+News,UnivisionNews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">López says she was subjected to retaliation\u003c/a> after reporting being sexually assaulted in her room by another soldier, and that commanders ignored her complaints. She filed a whistleblower complaint with the Pentagon and applied for honorable discharge in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moved by Guillén’s death, López started speaking up on social media using the hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillén and prompted scores of others to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now one of the subjects of a new Univision Noticias documentary by the same name, focusing on the culture of sexual misconduct at Fort Hood specifically. Versions of the film in both English and Spanish \u003ca href=\"http://iamvanessaguillen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will launch online\u003c/a> on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zqbFBiNzg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host A Martínez spoke with director Andrea Patiño Contreras about the problems highlighted by the film, the reforms that Guillén’s death made possible and the work that remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has details that may be upsetting to some readers; it has been condensed for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Interview highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the impact of military sexual trauma \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López told Patiño that despite all that she had endured, what really triggered her PTSD was the fact that leadership and people around her didn’t support or believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately this is very very common,” the director says. “And \u003ca href=\"https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/11/05/dod-ig-military-sexual-assault-more-likely-combat-result-ptsd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some of the research\u003c/a> that has been done says that experiencing military sexual trauma is a higher predictor of PTSD than going to combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the role of individuals vs. institutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López was almost driven to harm herself because she felt she had no allies or options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concerned mother contacted her mentor, now-retired Command Sgt. Major Sheldon Moore, who connected López with resources and tried to get her help. He says he was representing the Army, suggesting it should get credit for taking action by extension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>In our reporting we found individuals who clearly are good leaders, they care for their soldiers, they truly understand the implications that this has, but when you zoom out there’s clearly an institutional problem,” Patiño says. “I don’t think a lot of those leaders said that or acknowledged that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/002-iavg_poster-horizontal-eng-a5cb36cf1736a284135f10c1599c4a36b1271c36-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poster for #IAmVanessaGuillén, a new documentary launching online July 14.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the military’s efforts to address sexual misconduct\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary details some of the programs that the military has established to help enlisted survivors, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.army.mil/standto/archive/2018/12/04/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHARP\u003c/a> program (which stands for Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patiño says that before SHARP was created in 2008, there wasn’t really a clear system for reporting incidents. Its training also covers what to do if someone witnesses sexual harassment, and how people can protect themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say some of the advice it offers—like avoiding going out alone and making sure to keep drinks covered—puts the responsibility on the victim rather than would-be perpetrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it’s certainly important and needs to be there, it doesn’t answer the question of accountability,” Patiño says. “And it doesn’t answer the question of, well, you have this system in which people can get away with this crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what other changes are needed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only factor, she adds, pointing to things like misogyny and the fact that the military handles sexual misconduct cases differently than the civilian world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914530']Those conditions will take a long time to change, she says, though some important steps have been taken in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, the National Defense Authorization Act that Biden signed in December draws several measures from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8270?s=1&r=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am Vanessa Guillén Act\u003c/a>, including taking cases of sexual assault outside the survivor’s immediate chain of command so that their superiors are not making the decision about whether to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patiño says those changes don’t apply to sexual harassment, calling it a big contradiction because the two are closely linked. Indeed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3162.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research shows\u003c/a> that sexual harassment against servicemen and women is strongly associated with the risk of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know has experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE for 24/7 confidential help.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The audio for this interview was produced by Lilly Quiroz and edited by Mohamad ElBardicy. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%23IAmVanessaGuillen+documentary+explores+the+culture+of+toxicity+at+Fort+Hood&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new documentary examines the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillén. Her death shed light on sexual misconduct in the military.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006626,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1095},"headData":{"title":"'#IAmVanessaGuillen' Documentary Explores the Culture of Toxicity at Fort Hood | KQED","description":"A new documentary examines the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillén. 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Vanessa Guillén and the national outcry that followed helped shed a light on the widespread problem of sexual misconduct in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-year-old was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/887167023/fbi-files-charges-in-vanessa-guillen-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murdered by another soldier\u003c/a> while stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, after experiencing sexual harassment. Her family has said she did not report those incidents for fear of retaliation, though a \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/30/vanessa-guillen-sexual-harassment-fort-hood/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Army investigation\u003c/a> later found that she reported being sexually harassed twice. (The \u003ca href=\"https://timesupfoundation.org/sexual-harassment-assault-in-the-military/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vast majority\u003c/a> of such cases go unreported, many for this same reason.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillén’s family has been pushing for systemic change ever since. One major milestone came in January, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076143481/vanessa-guillen-murder-military-sexual-harassment-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Biden signed an executive order\u003c/a> making sexual harassment a specific crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_107528","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Guillén’s killing also prompted officials to take a closer look at the culture of the base, which had seen a string of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/26/906396032/body-of-missing-fort-hood-soldier-elder-fernandes-found-a-week-after-disappearan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deaths and disappearances\u003c/a>. An Army review conducted after Guillén’s death \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944289588/army-punishes-14-at-fort-hood-after-review-sparked-by-vanessa-guillens-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found profound issues\u003c/a> at Fort Hood, including a command climate “permissive of sexual harassment and sexual assault,” and disciplined more than a dozen leaders as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women at Fort Hood have a higher risk of being sexually assaulted than the average woman in the Army, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1013-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAND Corporation analysis\u003c/a>. But the problem runs deeper than that particular base: Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1318-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1 in 4 women\u003c/a> in the military have experienced sexual harassment, and 1 in 16 have experienced sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many saw themselves in Guillén. One of those women is Karina López, a survivor of sexual assault who was also stationed at Fort Hood. She left the base a month before Guillén disappeared in April 2020, and can’t help but wonder whether she would have faced a similar fate had she stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/univision-news/united-states/hopes-rise-for-congressional-action-on-vanessa-guillen-act-more-soldiers-come-forward?utm_campaign=Univision+News,UnivisionNews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">López says she was subjected to retaliation\u003c/a> after reporting being sexually assaulted in her room by another soldier, and that commanders ignored her complaints. She filed a whistleblower complaint with the Pentagon and applied for honorable discharge in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moved by Guillén’s death, López started speaking up on social media using the hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillén and prompted scores of others to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now one of the subjects of a new Univision Noticias documentary by the same name, focusing on the culture of sexual misconduct at Fort Hood specifically. Versions of the film in both English and Spanish \u003ca href=\"http://iamvanessaguillen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will launch online\u003c/a> on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0_zqbFBiNzg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0_zqbFBiNzg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host A Martínez spoke with director Andrea Patiño Contreras about the problems highlighted by the film, the reforms that Guillén’s death made possible and the work that remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has details that may be upsetting to some readers; it has been condensed for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Interview highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the impact of military sexual trauma \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López told Patiño that despite all that she had endured, what really triggered her PTSD was the fact that leadership and people around her didn’t support or believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately this is very very common,” the director says. “And \u003ca href=\"https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/11/05/dod-ig-military-sexual-assault-more-likely-combat-result-ptsd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some of the research\u003c/a> that has been done says that experiencing military sexual trauma is a higher predictor of PTSD than going to combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the role of individuals vs. institutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López was almost driven to harm herself because she felt she had no allies or options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concerned mother contacted her mentor, now-retired Command Sgt. Major Sheldon Moore, who connected López with resources and tried to get her help. He says he was representing the Army, suggesting it should get credit for taking action by extension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>In our reporting we found individuals who clearly are good leaders, they care for their soldiers, they truly understand the implications that this has, but when you zoom out there’s clearly an institutional problem,” Patiño says. “I don’t think a lot of those leaders said that or acknowledged that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/002-iavg_poster-horizontal-eng-a5cb36cf1736a284135f10c1599c4a36b1271c36-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poster for #IAmVanessaGuillén, a new documentary launching online July 14.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the military’s efforts to address sexual misconduct\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary details some of the programs that the military has established to help enlisted survivors, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.army.mil/standto/archive/2018/12/04/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHARP\u003c/a> program (which stands for Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patiño says that before SHARP was created in 2008, there wasn’t really a clear system for reporting incidents. Its training also covers what to do if someone witnesses sexual harassment, and how people can protect themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say some of the advice it offers—like avoiding going out alone and making sure to keep drinks covered—puts the responsibility on the victim rather than would-be perpetrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it’s certainly important and needs to be there, it doesn’t answer the question of accountability,” Patiño says. “And it doesn’t answer the question of, well, you have this system in which people can get away with this crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what other changes are needed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only factor, she adds, pointing to things like misogyny and the fact that the military handles sexual misconduct cases differently than the civilian world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914530","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those conditions will take a long time to change, she says, though some important steps have been taken in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, the National Defense Authorization Act that Biden signed in December draws several measures from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8270?s=1&r=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am Vanessa Guillén Act\u003c/a>, including taking cases of sexual assault outside the survivor’s immediate chain of command so that their superiors are not making the decision about whether to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patiño says those changes don’t apply to sexual harassment, calling it a big contradiction because the two are closely linked. Indeed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3162.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research shows\u003c/a> that sexual harassment against servicemen and women is strongly associated with the risk of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know has experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE for 24/7 confidential help.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The audio for this interview was produced by Lilly Quiroz and edited by Mohamad ElBardicy. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%23IAmVanessaGuillen+documentary+explores+the+culture+of+toxicity+at+Fort+Hood&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13915977/iamvanessaguillen-documentary-explores-the-culture-of-toxicity-at-fort-hood","authors":["byline_arts_13915977"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_13672","arts_2462","arts_5676"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13915978","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13908728":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13908728","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13908728","score":null,"sort":[1643677480000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"we-need-to-talk-about-bill-cosby-showtime-documentary-w-kamau-bell","title":"‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ is a Tough Conversation That’s Long Overdue","publishDate":1643677480,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ is a Tough Conversation That’s Long Overdue | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In the interest of writing this review, I watched all four episodes of \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> in very quick succession—and it is not a method I would recommend. Between experiencing full-body cringes and the repeated desire to look away, I also found myself laughing at clips from old episodes of \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>—something I assumed I’d never do again. One moment, I’d be in awe at the way Cosby almost singlehandedly transformed Black representation on American television. And the next, I’d feel rage bubbling up for the multitude of women who were privately failed because of all that public admiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13830564']It is W. Kamau Bell’s ability to stare unflinchingly at Cosby’s legacy here—the monstrous and the positive in equal measure—that makes this series such an emotional rollercoaster. But it’s also exactly what makes \u003ci>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/i> so compelling. Bell’s own struggle with the material is palpable when he centers himself in the documentary. “I am a child of Bill Cosby,” Bell notes in the first episode of the Showtime series. “I am Black man, I am a stand-up comic. I was born in the ’70s. I was raised by \u003cem>Fat Albert\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Picture Pages\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>. Bill Cosby himself showed me you could be smart and funny in equal measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the series undoubtedly benefits from it, Bell’s personal relationship with Cosby was not originally supposed to be part of this documentary. In promotional interviews, Bell has admitted that he only put his personal narrative into the story when a plethora of “comedians, famous people, commentators [and] people who had worked with Bill Cosby” refused to talk to him on camera, in the interests of avoiding a minefield. “I’m still experiencing fear for when this comes out in a wide way, how people respond to it,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/01/w-kamau-bell-bill-cosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bell told\u003cem> Vanity Fair\u003c/em> last week\u003c/a>. “Some people I know are going to hate it and never even watch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVr0xrvGK1Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brave souls who did volunteer to participate in \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Bill Cosby\u003c/em> are primarily a mix of academics, journalists, cultural critics, comedians and actors. The series juxtaposes Cosby’s career arc with the politics of each era, examining how those two things intersected, and how Cosby used his talent to defy the status quo at almost every turn. In the early 1960s, when Black people were either absent from TV screens or portrayed as childlike simpletons, Cosby was playing a 007-style hero in \u003cem>I Spy\u003c/em>. When 1980s mainstream media presented Black fathers as absent and irresponsible, Cosby became “America’s Dad.” That he succeeded this way continues to feel miraculous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interspersed throughout the many examples of Cosby’s success and positive influence, his rape accusers are given ample space to tell their stories at their own pace. Each is strikingly similar to the next. Each is horrific in its own singular way. (Former \u003cem>Playboy\u003c/em> model Victoria Valentino’s story plays out like a roiling nightmare, agonizing to even hear secondhand.) It is striking that many of these women speak of feeling embarrassed and ashamed of “blacking out” in Cosby’s presence rather than believing he would drug them. (Lise Lotte-Lublin explains that she only fully realized what had happened to her after Janice Dickinson publicly spoke out in 2014 about her own experience with Cosby.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13875370']One of the things that \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> does incredibly well is to explain, in great detail, how Cosby used his benevolent deeds to mask his malevolent ones. “He used the power, and the money that came with it, to directly make the lives of Black people better,” Bell narrates at one point, noting that Cosby donated millions of dollars to HBCUs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Cosby earned enough good faith to evade any real public scrutiny. It’s also, chillingly, how he got young women to trust him enough to agree to mentorships and private coaching sessions on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the breadcrumbs Cosby scattered in popular culture about his private compulsions are also gathered together in the series. It’s a stunning presentation of what audiences are willing to overlook when it comes to our most beloved entertainers. There was Cosby’s “Spanish Fly” comedy routine in 1969. There were 15 separate mentions of the drug in his \u003cem>Childhood\u003c/em> book, released in 1991. There was the episode of \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em> in which he talks about his homemade barbecue sauce as a weird kind of aphrodisiac. There was his willingness to talk about putting drugs in women’s drinks in TV interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told you what he did. He told you about the pills,” says Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill. “He told you that they went in drinks. He made that very clear without anybody else’s help. Without any witness testimony … If I just go by what Bill Cosby tells me, I know he’s a creep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-800x515.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-800x515.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-1020x657.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-768x495.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-1536x990.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard.png 1844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily Bernard, an actor who worked on ‘The Cosby Show’ and a rape survivor, is one of the most compelling speakers in ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ \u003ccite>(Showtime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former \u003cem>Cosby Show\u003c/em> actresses Lily Bernard and Eden Tirl raise questions about who knew what and when. They argue that Cosby’s focus on young, beautiful women was an open secret on set, and that his manipulative methods of gaining access to them were well known. Cosby’s wife Camille, they explain, was never on set. (“She didn’t exist,” Bernard shrugs.) All the while, Cosby presented himself as a family man in his public life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> is helpful in understanding how Cosby’s positive image was well constructed and deeply embedded into culture. Several interviewees here—including Joseph C. Phillips, who played Martin on \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>—readily admit that they didn’t believe the women speaking out against Cosby until it happened to someone they knew. For Phillips, that was an old friend who’d also worked on \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>. “We sit in my car,” he says. “It was an hour later, she spilled it all out, and she says to me, ‘Do you believe me?’ And I said ‘Yes, I believe you.’ She wasn’t lying. So he at least did it to her. And if he did it to her, yes, I believe there were others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_14359']Towards the end of the series, Bell poses a tough question. “What happens when the artist you idolized isn’t the human being you thought they were? And what if that person’s artistic achievement, living example and good works were so great that they changed the world? What then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is an answer in \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em>, it’s that there are no simple answers. All we can do is talk it out. And \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> is a hell of a way to start that conversation. Its final moments will leave you chilled to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"W. Kamau Bell’s dissection of Bill Cosby’s life is a challenge to everyone who ever loved him.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007259,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1269},"headData":{"title":"Review: New Bill Cosby Doc Hits Showtime | KQED","description":"W. 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Between experiencing full-body cringes and the repeated desire to look away, I also found myself laughing at clips from old episodes of \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>—something I assumed I’d never do again. One moment, I’d be in awe at the way Cosby almost singlehandedly transformed Black representation on American television. And the next, I’d feel rage bubbling up for the multitude of women who were privately failed because of all that public admiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13830564","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It is W. Kamau Bell’s ability to stare unflinchingly at Cosby’s legacy here—the monstrous and the positive in equal measure—that makes this series such an emotional rollercoaster. But it’s also exactly what makes \u003ci>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/i> so compelling. Bell’s own struggle with the material is palpable when he centers himself in the documentary. “I am a child of Bill Cosby,” Bell notes in the first episode of the Showtime series. “I am Black man, I am a stand-up comic. I was born in the ’70s. I was raised by \u003cem>Fat Albert\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Picture Pages\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>. Bill Cosby himself showed me you could be smart and funny in equal measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the series undoubtedly benefits from it, Bell’s personal relationship with Cosby was not originally supposed to be part of this documentary. In promotional interviews, Bell has admitted that he only put his personal narrative into the story when a plethora of “comedians, famous people, commentators [and] people who had worked with Bill Cosby” refused to talk to him on camera, in the interests of avoiding a minefield. “I’m still experiencing fear for when this comes out in a wide way, how people respond to it,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/01/w-kamau-bell-bill-cosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bell told\u003cem> Vanity Fair\u003c/em> last week\u003c/a>. “Some people I know are going to hate it and never even watch it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qVr0xrvGK1Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qVr0xrvGK1Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The brave souls who did volunteer to participate in \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Bill Cosby\u003c/em> are primarily a mix of academics, journalists, cultural critics, comedians and actors. The series juxtaposes Cosby’s career arc with the politics of each era, examining how those two things intersected, and how Cosby used his talent to defy the status quo at almost every turn. In the early 1960s, when Black people were either absent from TV screens or portrayed as childlike simpletons, Cosby was playing a 007-style hero in \u003cem>I Spy\u003c/em>. When 1980s mainstream media presented Black fathers as absent and irresponsible, Cosby became “America’s Dad.” That he succeeded this way continues to feel miraculous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interspersed throughout the many examples of Cosby’s success and positive influence, his rape accusers are given ample space to tell their stories at their own pace. Each is strikingly similar to the next. Each is horrific in its own singular way. (Former \u003cem>Playboy\u003c/em> model Victoria Valentino’s story plays out like a roiling nightmare, agonizing to even hear secondhand.) It is striking that many of these women speak of feeling embarrassed and ashamed of “blacking out” in Cosby’s presence rather than believing he would drug them. (Lise Lotte-Lublin explains that she only fully realized what had happened to her after Janice Dickinson publicly spoke out in 2014 about her own experience with Cosby.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13875370","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One of the things that \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> does incredibly well is to explain, in great detail, how Cosby used his benevolent deeds to mask his malevolent ones. “He used the power, and the money that came with it, to directly make the lives of Black people better,” Bell narrates at one point, noting that Cosby donated millions of dollars to HBCUs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Cosby earned enough good faith to evade any real public scrutiny. It’s also, chillingly, how he got young women to trust him enough to agree to mentorships and private coaching sessions on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the breadcrumbs Cosby scattered in popular culture about his private compulsions are also gathered together in the series. It’s a stunning presentation of what audiences are willing to overlook when it comes to our most beloved entertainers. There was Cosby’s “Spanish Fly” comedy routine in 1969. There were 15 separate mentions of the drug in his \u003cem>Childhood\u003c/em> book, released in 1991. There was the episode of \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em> in which he talks about his homemade barbecue sauce as a weird kind of aphrodisiac. There was his willingness to talk about putting drugs in women’s drinks in TV interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told you what he did. He told you about the pills,” says Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill. “He told you that they went in drinks. He made that very clear without anybody else’s help. Without any witness testimony … If I just go by what Bill Cosby tells me, I know he’s a creep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-800x515.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-800x515.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-1020x657.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-768x495.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-1536x990.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard.png 1844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily Bernard, an actor who worked on ‘The Cosby Show’ and a rape survivor, is one of the most compelling speakers in ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ \u003ccite>(Showtime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former \u003cem>Cosby Show\u003c/em> actresses Lily Bernard and Eden Tirl raise questions about who knew what and when. They argue that Cosby’s focus on young, beautiful women was an open secret on set, and that his manipulative methods of gaining access to them were well known. Cosby’s wife Camille, they explain, was never on set. (“She didn’t exist,” Bernard shrugs.) All the while, Cosby presented himself as a family man in his public life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> is helpful in understanding how Cosby’s positive image was well constructed and deeply embedded into culture. Several interviewees here—including Joseph C. Phillips, who played Martin on \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>—readily admit that they didn’t believe the women speaking out against Cosby until it happened to someone they knew. For Phillips, that was an old friend who’d also worked on \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>. “We sit in my car,” he says. “It was an hour later, she spilled it all out, and she says to me, ‘Do you believe me?’ And I said ‘Yes, I believe you.’ She wasn’t lying. So he at least did it to her. And if he did it to her, yes, I believe there were others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_14359","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Towards the end of the series, Bell poses a tough question. “What happens when the artist you idolized isn’t the human being you thought they were? And what if that person’s artistic achievement, living example and good works were so great that they changed the world? What then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is an answer in \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em>, it’s that there are no simple answers. All we can do is talk it out. And \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> is a hell of a way to start that conversation. Its final moments will leave you chilled to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13908728/we-need-to-talk-about-bill-cosby-showtime-documentary-w-kamau-bell","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_1873","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2462","arts_8404","arts_2450"],"featImg":"arts_13908745","label":"arts"},"arts_13903685":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13903685","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13903685","score":null,"sort":[1632420663000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nicki-minaj-kenneth-petty-jennifer-hough-civil-lawsuit-attempted-rape-harassment","title":"Jennifer Hough’s Harassment Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj and Her Husband, Explained","publishDate":1632420663,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Jennifer Hough’s Harassment Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj and Her Husband, Explained | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>If you’ve been having some trouble keeping up with all of the Nicki Minaj drama circulating on the internet these last few weeks, you are not alone. Chances are, most of what you’ve heard has revolved around Nicki’s assertion that one of her cousin’s friends got swollen testicles from the COVID vaccine, which apparently made him impotent, which apparently made his girlfriend leave him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/nickiminaj/status/1437532566945341441\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truly, a tweet this preposterous is impossible for the internet to ignore, which is why \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KevzPolitics/status/1438183898358366208?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister debunked Minaj’s claims\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gaybonez/status/1440709750182670343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter is still roasting her for it\u003c/a> almost two weeks later. For some observers, however, the testicular Minaj tweet looks an awful lot like a deflection; a distraction from the very real legal trouble she and her husband, Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, are currently embroiled in. Legal trouble that could do Minaj’s reputation a lot more damage than asking people to “pray on it“ before they get vaccinated. And yesterday, that legal trouble hit daytime TV when Jennifer Hough made a heart-rending appearance on \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough’s interview follows a civil lawsuit she filed on Aug. 13 against Minaj and Petty. According to legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/news/1298910/nicki-minaj-and-husband-kenneth-petty-sued-by-his-sexual-assault-accuser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documents obtained by E! News\u003c/a> last month, Hough’s suit accuses the couple of a litany of serious offenses. These include: harassment, assault, battery, sexual assault and sexual harassment, witness intimidation and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The suit also accuses Minaj of threatening and attempting to bribe Hough. At one point, E! reports, the suit states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a direct result of the actions of Defendant Minaj and Defendant Petty, [Hough] has been traumatized her entire life. Plaintiff has moved to multiple states to avoid intimidation and harassment by Defendant Minaj, Defendant, and their allies, legal teams, and fans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t been following along in real time, you might be wondering where all of this stems from. To explain, we have to go way back to 1994. Specifically, Sept. 16, 1994—the day a 16-year-old Hough accused a 16-year-old Petty of rape. Hough reported that Petty approached her while she waited at a Jamaica, Queens bus stop, pressed an object to her back, forced her into a nearby house, fought against her objections, and raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petty was subsequently charged with first degree rape, but on April 5, 1995, he pleaded guilty to—and was convicted of—attempted rape in the first degree. (The \u003ca href=\"https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/SomsSUBDirectory/ReCaptchaServlet?offenderId=7370&g-recaptcha-response=03AGdBq24_X-gC_S78M_WKF0HaXwprUMZF07B0VeGUImVtZ_zP2DF0VkiBGy6kgbpM3Jcx1Gj3AZYgqNI0A_VNZHWQfaDbr1halHa3bZyK-O1KA917OUOqk1CW5RwIAS3RZG-9m-Z3X0KAVrGG1VVEoMdRIhq2z3yqCaK3nkOQzNsw1Zq-TRC1W9USrFXA4pglgwZDjknoKGzaGzIPTlvhvrqUQSf9MG51xuL2JcZO2BBMDeE2QBp9g0LBkZdZEDabs2a9XMkEq2Vsg65He2gxVCOXXCopmBxIByMnVZwsg0DG3QamQCVGKFgtpJ-9Am9Bak0PPLhuMd8NfAO0XVmt34APkTDozwMBQpLOTHGf5s2SMHimbHW1WBl8GEMhikDqOofhd7VKcyVmVanSBY82Q7LdlvLyDflkAkamEiPSYHSUhxn6kj_oBi4iWxeU7ToUKlyXQdL8Nfpch7ghtRSTPnkG2A36-_1uDA&Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offense listed on his conviction\u003c/a>, however, states that “Actual, Sexual Intercourse” took place. It also states that he was in possession of a “Knife/cutting instrument” at the time of the attack.) Two days before his 17th birthday, Petty was sentenced to “18 to 54 months” in a state penitentiary. He served nearly four years for the attack on Hough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='futureofyou_438664']On his release, Petty returned to Queens and promptly began a relationship with a 17-year-old Nicki Minaj—then known by her real name, Onika Tanya Maraj. But Petty didn’t stay out of trouble for long. By 2006—just one year before Minaj would release her first mixtape, \u003cem>Playtime is Over\u003c/em>—Petty pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges, following a 2002 incident in which he shot and killed a man named Lamont Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8533743/who-did-nicki-minaj-marry-kenneth-petty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petty served seven years\u003c/a> before entering a supervised release program in 2013. He stayed in the program until 2018—the year he reunited with Minaj.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, the couple’s reunion prompted the internet and tabloid media to begin reporting on Petty’s prior convictions in earnest. One \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2018/12/22/nicki-minaj-boyfriend-kenneth-petty-manslaughter-shot-three-times-stomach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report from TMZ\u003c/a> that year, titled “Nicki Minaj’s BF Manslaughter Case Was Cold-Blooded,” stated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We’re told Petty drove to the crime scene with a group of cohorts, hopped out of the car, walked across the street where Robinson was hanging out, pulled out a gun … and shot him in the stomach three times. Our sources say he then fled in the vehicle with the group.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This kind of media attention quickly put Minaj on the offensive. In June 2019, she included Petty in her video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3a1sz2Bp_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Megatron\u003c/a>.” The track includes the lyrics, “I fuck him like I miss him / He just got out of prison / Bitches be talking shit / But they ain’t got a pot to piss in.” The following month, during a featured spot on Chance the Rapper’s “Zanies and Fools,” Minaj rapped: “I met my husband when I was 17 out in Queens / If you love it, let it go, now I know what that means / While he was up North for a body, I bodied everybody and got known for my body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2019, during an episode of her Apple Music show, \u003cem>Queen Radio\u003c/em>, Minaj claimed that Petty was “wrongfully accused … when he was 15 years old.” (Petty’s arrest record clearly states he was 16 at the time of Hough’s assault.) Minaj went on to claim that Hough had attempted to recant her accusation, but didn’t after she was threatened with legal penalties for doing so. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicki-minaj-and-husband-kenneth-pettys-campaign-to-silence-his-sexual-assault-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hough has denied this\u003c/a>.) Minaj also used the phrase, “White is right,” implying that Hough was a white woman. She is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/britneyxmariah/status/1440695471572283411\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, while defending Petty on Instagram in relation to the Hough case, Minaj claimed: “He was 15, she was 16 … in a relationship. But go awf Internet. y’all can’t run my life. Y’all can’t even run y’all own life.” In \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> interview, Hough also denied that she and Petty dated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109382']Undeterred by Petty’s criminal history, or the negative publicity it was attracting, Minaj married him in October 2019. After moving from New York to Minaj’s home in L.A., Petty was pulled over by Beverly Hills police. The police discovered that Petty had failed to register as a sex offender when he moved to California—a condition left over from his 1995 conviction. On Sept. 9, Petty pleaded guilty during a virtual court hearing on the matter. He is expected to be sentenced in January 2022 and faces up to 10 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to Hough’s appearance on \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> yesterday. Hough, visibly nervous and frequently tearful, cut a sympathetic figure. “I’m tired of being afraid,” she said. “I feel like the actions that were taken in regards to this whole situation have put me in a different type of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough went on to claim that, over the last couple of years, Minaj and Petty had “sent people” repeatedly to try and negotiate a financial sum with her, in an attempt to buy her silence. She said that after consistently refusing to cooperate with the couple, threats on her life were made. “The last message I received,” Hough said, “was that I should’ve taken the money ’cause they’re gonna use that money to put on my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPugv3HtrqA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicki-minaj-and-husband-kenneth-pettys-campaign-to-silence-his-sexual-assault-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Beast\u003c/a> article from March confirms that Hough had moved three times in 2020 alone, out of concern for her personal safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough’s appearance on \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> is bound to raise her public profile to a degree that might get uncomfortable for her. But it also caused something of a Minaj backlash on social media last night, even as the rapper attempted to boost the voices of her defenders by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ritaeatspitas/status/1440832709236981769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“liking” their positive posts\u003c/a> about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> was a means for Hough to take back a narrative Minaj has used her considerable platform to try and control for the last three years. It was a means for Hough to show her humanity beyond salacious tabloid headlines. And it was a chance to explain the emotional and mental scars wrought by what happened to her in her teens, and how the fallout of that case continues to affect her now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, on the track “Nip Tuck,” Minaj compared herself to Teflon. She may have spoken too soon.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here’s everything you need to know about the back-and-forth between Minaj and Kenneth Petty and rape survivor Hough.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007703,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1436},"headData":{"title":"Nicki Minaj and Husband Face a Harassment Lawsuit. Here’s Why | KQED","description":"Here’s everything you need to know about the back-and-forth between Minaj and Kenneth Petty and rape survivor Hough.","ogTitle":"Jennifer Hough’s Harassment Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj and Her Husband, Explained","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Jennifer Hough’s Harassment Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj and Her Husband, Explained","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Nicki Minaj and Husband Face a Harassment Lawsuit. Here’s Why %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Jennifer Hough’s Harassment Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj and Her Husband, Explained","datePublished":"2021-09-23T18:11:03.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:15:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13903685/nicki-minaj-kenneth-petty-jennifer-hough-civil-lawsuit-attempted-rape-harassment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve been having some trouble keeping up with all of the Nicki Minaj drama circulating on the internet these last few weeks, you are not alone. Chances are, most of what you’ve heard has revolved around Nicki’s assertion that one of her cousin’s friends got swollen testicles from the COVID vaccine, which apparently made him impotent, which apparently made his girlfriend leave him.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1437532566945341441"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Truly, a tweet this preposterous is impossible for the internet to ignore, which is why \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KevzPolitics/status/1438183898358366208?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister debunked Minaj’s claims\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gaybonez/status/1440709750182670343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter is still roasting her for it\u003c/a> almost two weeks later. For some observers, however, the testicular Minaj tweet looks an awful lot like a deflection; a distraction from the very real legal trouble she and her husband, Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, are currently embroiled in. Legal trouble that could do Minaj’s reputation a lot more damage than asking people to “pray on it“ before they get vaccinated. And yesterday, that legal trouble hit daytime TV when Jennifer Hough made a heart-rending appearance on \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough’s interview follows a civil lawsuit she filed on Aug. 13 against Minaj and Petty. According to legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/news/1298910/nicki-minaj-and-husband-kenneth-petty-sued-by-his-sexual-assault-accuser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documents obtained by E! News\u003c/a> last month, Hough’s suit accuses the couple of a litany of serious offenses. These include: harassment, assault, battery, sexual assault and sexual harassment, witness intimidation and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The suit also accuses Minaj of threatening and attempting to bribe Hough. At one point, E! reports, the suit states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a direct result of the actions of Defendant Minaj and Defendant Petty, [Hough] has been traumatized her entire life. Plaintiff has moved to multiple states to avoid intimidation and harassment by Defendant Minaj, Defendant, and their allies, legal teams, and fans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t been following along in real time, you might be wondering where all of this stems from. To explain, we have to go way back to 1994. Specifically, Sept. 16, 1994—the day a 16-year-old Hough accused a 16-year-old Petty of rape. Hough reported that Petty approached her while she waited at a Jamaica, Queens bus stop, pressed an object to her back, forced her into a nearby house, fought against her objections, and raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petty was subsequently charged with first degree rape, but on April 5, 1995, he pleaded guilty to—and was convicted of—attempted rape in the first degree. (The \u003ca href=\"https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/SomsSUBDirectory/ReCaptchaServlet?offenderId=7370&g-recaptcha-response=03AGdBq24_X-gC_S78M_WKF0HaXwprUMZF07B0VeGUImVtZ_zP2DF0VkiBGy6kgbpM3Jcx1Gj3AZYgqNI0A_VNZHWQfaDbr1halHa3bZyK-O1KA917OUOqk1CW5RwIAS3RZG-9m-Z3X0KAVrGG1VVEoMdRIhq2z3yqCaK3nkOQzNsw1Zq-TRC1W9USrFXA4pglgwZDjknoKGzaGzIPTlvhvrqUQSf9MG51xuL2JcZO2BBMDeE2QBp9g0LBkZdZEDabs2a9XMkEq2Vsg65He2gxVCOXXCopmBxIByMnVZwsg0DG3QamQCVGKFgtpJ-9Am9Bak0PPLhuMd8NfAO0XVmt34APkTDozwMBQpLOTHGf5s2SMHimbHW1WBl8GEMhikDqOofhd7VKcyVmVanSBY82Q7LdlvLyDflkAkamEiPSYHSUhxn6kj_oBi4iWxeU7ToUKlyXQdL8Nfpch7ghtRSTPnkG2A36-_1uDA&Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offense listed on his conviction\u003c/a>, however, states that “Actual, Sexual Intercourse” took place. It also states that he was in possession of a “Knife/cutting instrument” at the time of the attack.) Two days before his 17th birthday, Petty was sentenced to “18 to 54 months” in a state penitentiary. He served nearly four years for the attack on Hough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"futureofyou_438664","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On his release, Petty returned to Queens and promptly began a relationship with a 17-year-old Nicki Minaj—then known by her real name, Onika Tanya Maraj. But Petty didn’t stay out of trouble for long. By 2006—just one year before Minaj would release her first mixtape, \u003cem>Playtime is Over\u003c/em>—Petty pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges, following a 2002 incident in which he shot and killed a man named Lamont Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8533743/who-did-nicki-minaj-marry-kenneth-petty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petty served seven years\u003c/a> before entering a supervised release program in 2013. He stayed in the program until 2018—the year he reunited with Minaj.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, the couple’s reunion prompted the internet and tabloid media to begin reporting on Petty’s prior convictions in earnest. One \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2018/12/22/nicki-minaj-boyfriend-kenneth-petty-manslaughter-shot-three-times-stomach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report from TMZ\u003c/a> that year, titled “Nicki Minaj’s BF Manslaughter Case Was Cold-Blooded,” stated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We’re told Petty drove to the crime scene with a group of cohorts, hopped out of the car, walked across the street where Robinson was hanging out, pulled out a gun … and shot him in the stomach three times. Our sources say he then fled in the vehicle with the group.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This kind of media attention quickly put Minaj on the offensive. In June 2019, she included Petty in her video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3a1sz2Bp_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Megatron\u003c/a>.” The track includes the lyrics, “I fuck him like I miss him / He just got out of prison / Bitches be talking shit / But they ain’t got a pot to piss in.” The following month, during a featured spot on Chance the Rapper’s “Zanies and Fools,” Minaj rapped: “I met my husband when I was 17 out in Queens / If you love it, let it go, now I know what that means / While he was up North for a body, I bodied everybody and got known for my body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2019, during an episode of her Apple Music show, \u003cem>Queen Radio\u003c/em>, Minaj claimed that Petty was “wrongfully accused … when he was 15 years old.” (Petty’s arrest record clearly states he was 16 at the time of Hough’s assault.) Minaj went on to claim that Hough had attempted to recant her accusation, but didn’t after she was threatened with legal penalties for doing so. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicki-minaj-and-husband-kenneth-pettys-campaign-to-silence-his-sexual-assault-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hough has denied this\u003c/a>.) Minaj also used the phrase, “White is right,” implying that Hough was a white woman. She is not.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1440695471572283411"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, while defending Petty on Instagram in relation to the Hough case, Minaj claimed: “He was 15, she was 16 … in a relationship. But go awf Internet. y’all can’t run my life. Y’all can’t even run y’all own life.” In \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> interview, Hough also denied that she and Petty dated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_109382","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Undeterred by Petty’s criminal history, or the negative publicity it was attracting, Minaj married him in October 2019. After moving from New York to Minaj’s home in L.A., Petty was pulled over by Beverly Hills police. The police discovered that Petty had failed to register as a sex offender when he moved to California—a condition left over from his 1995 conviction. On Sept. 9, Petty pleaded guilty during a virtual court hearing on the matter. He is expected to be sentenced in January 2022 and faces up to 10 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to Hough’s appearance on \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> yesterday. Hough, visibly nervous and frequently tearful, cut a sympathetic figure. “I’m tired of being afraid,” she said. “I feel like the actions that were taken in regards to this whole situation have put me in a different type of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough went on to claim that, over the last couple of years, Minaj and Petty had “sent people” repeatedly to try and negotiate a financial sum with her, in an attempt to buy her silence. She said that after consistently refusing to cooperate with the couple, threats on her life were made. “The last message I received,” Hough said, “was that I should’ve taken the money ’cause they’re gonna use that money to put on my head.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SPugv3HtrqA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SPugv3HtrqA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicki-minaj-and-husband-kenneth-pettys-campaign-to-silence-his-sexual-assault-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Beast\u003c/a> article from March confirms that Hough had moved three times in 2020 alone, out of concern for her personal safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough’s appearance on \u003cem>The Real\u003c/em> is bound to raise her public profile to a degree that might get uncomfortable for her. 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