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ANOTHER ACTRESS HAS added to the dozens accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of a litany of depraved sexual misconduct as he was forced to quit Hollywood’s directing union.
More than 100 women have come forward since October to accuse the veteran producer of various degrees of bullying, degrading behavior over the past 40 years, from intimidation to rape.
In the latest case filed in a New York federal court, aspiring British actress Kadian Noble is accusing Weinstein of inviting her to a hotel room in France and sexually assaulting her.
The civil lawsuit says the producer – who denies all allegations of non-consensual sex – violated US federal sex trafficking laws during the incident in Cannes, France, in 2014.
The suit accuses Weinstein of groping her, pulled her into his hotel bathroom and forcing her to pleasure him, telling her that “everything will be taken care of for you if you relax”.
A spokesman for the Directors Guild of America confirmed that Weinstein had resigned, several weeks after president Thomas Schlamme announced disciplinary charges against the tycoon, but refused to comment further.
The filmmaker has been involved in more than 300 movies spanning six decades but has just two directing credits, for the animated 1987 film The Gnomes’ Great Adventure and 1986 comedy Playing for Keeps.
The 65-year-old has already been expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which runs the Oscars, and has resigned from the Producers Guild of America.
‘Scourge’
He also parted ways with The Weinstein Co, the production house he and his brother Bob co-founded, and was suspended by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Two female-led investor groups are interested in taking over The Weinstein Co, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, with a figure in the region of $275 million reportedly on the table.
Announcing disciplinary action against Weinstein last month, the DGA released a statement condemning the “scourge” of sexual harassment and calling for a zero tolerance approach to abuses of power.
“This isn’t about one person. We must recognize sexual harassment is endemic in our society, and painfully, in our industry. We believe that every individual has the right to a safe workplace,” it said.
The unfortunate truth is that there are those who abuse the power that they hold. For far too long, many have not spoken out – directors, agents, crew, executives, performers, producers, writers. This shameful code of complicity must be broken.
Noble is seeking unspecified damages, accusing Weinstein of being able “to force or coerce” her into sexual activity in his hotel room by promising her a film role and to wield his influence on her behalf.
She is also suing the Weinstein Co and Bob, accusing them of being aware of Weinstein’s behavior and of contributing to his foreign travel to recruit women into “forced or coerced sexual encounters”.
Police in New York, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and London have confirmed are investigating allegations of sexual assault that have been made against Weinstein.
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Where are the quotas for bin men, block layers or plumbers??? It’s an honest question, for the sake of equality we need to get them numbers even. It’s not like the CAO is an unbiased system that doesn’t take gender into account and allows people to chose the future of their own free will. Also I clearly remember when voting that on the ballot it said I could only vote for men and I didn’t have a free choice to choose who I wanted to vote for regardless of gender.
Men make up the other 50% yet less than 1% of men are on boards or are elected. Yet they have the majority in prison, the majority unemployed, the majority that commit suicide, the majority working in outdoor Laborious jobs, the majority working 5 days a week or more.
I’m all for gender equality but not by quotas and certainly not for TDs where all those that run and are elected can be either gender
Gender quotas are by their nature are discriminatory, which is ironic when the wokesters are trying to abolish discrimination
@Alan Biddulph: They call it ‘positive descrimination’ believe it or not…
There’s at least a 50% quota of women on TV commentating on mens sport.
@JG: and the vast majority not very good at it
@Peter Walsh: in fairness neither are most of the men
Still perputating the gender pay myth. It has been well and truly debunked but still quoted as fact by the bad opinion project on the journal. A calculation so basic and without any nuance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlynborysenko/2020/03/31/great-news-ladies-the-gender-pay-gap-is-a-myth/?sh=2d5c5bf83b34
https://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/
As I read somewhere recently there is a gender earnings gap. But that is merely due ro personal decisions like tour line of work or having children and deciding not to be in work for long periods of time, not the big bad ‘Patriachtly’. Ask your husband / partner to stay at home. You can’t honestly expect to be missing from work for several years and be paid the same as someone who has been present the whole time?
Would you prefer the best brain surgeon to operate on you or one chosen by a quota system?
I hope some day car insurance costs will be the same for both genders…
@Seamus Quaide: they already are. EU gender directive means you charge the same
Men make up the other 50% yet less than 1% of men are on boards or are elected. Yet they have the majority in prison, the majority unemployed, the majority that commit suicide, the majority working in outdoor Laborious jobs, the majority working 5 days a week or more.
I’m all for gender equality but not by quotas and certainly not for TD’s where all those that run and are elected can be either gender
My father had emergency surgery at 3am by a team coming off another emergency opp. How many hours did they work’ do or can women accomadate those hours.
So how about more men as
Secretaries and administrative assistants
Nursing, psychiatric and home health aides
Cashiers
Receptionists and information clerks
Dental hygienists
Childcare workers
Hair/makeup
Speech language pathologists
Dietitians and nutritionists
Why stop at gender/sexual orientation
What about the LGBTQ comunity. The non white comunity and then religous orientation.
Id rater the best person doing the job got the job.
With all these articles on gender equality in the Journal I wonder what is the gender breakdown if it’s editorial team and “journalists”?
Can someone please explain to those lefties, how democracy works? I’m absolutely for a quota for candidates in elections, but quotas on the outcome to get a parliament with 50% of the seats taken by women, would be the end of democracy. Why doing elections at all, when the results will be forged then? And what would next? A quota on transpersons in the parliament? Skin colour? Religious beliefs? Sexual orientation?
There’s at lest a 50% q
Affordable universal state childcare should be a no brainer and should be in place already, it would allow women equal access to work, should they chose that path, the reason many women work in low paid partime positions, is to split their time between working and caring for their children, school runs etc.
Because the prohibitive cost of child care makes working fulltime impossible, negating the money earned. It would also open access to further education and increasing skill sets for all parents.
The gender quota route would be an unnecessary once the childcare issue was addressed, because women would then also be able to choose to apply themselves to their work, in exactly the same way many of them currently view men in the workplace, as unhindered by commitments at home…
Just to be clear that last paragraph isnt intended as a trite dismissal, I am merely pointing out that if it comes to that point, of affordable state childcare genuinely giving women equal opportunities, then they can also complain about discrimination, if they then choose not to fully commit to work and career once the current barriers have been removed.
Because there is like it or not a section of women that want to have gender quota legislation put in place to give them a free pass, that allows them to work partime, while getting paid full-time, rise to positions of authority based on nothing but their gender.
This would also be an affront to any woman currently in a fulltime management position, or any position of authority, that who worked hard to get there on her own merits.
@David Van-Standen: are you saying that the gender quota legislation seeks to have women in part time jobs paid at full time rates?
@Sara McS: I am saying exactly what I said, that a section of women see it giving them a free pass and have a expectation that they should get preferential treatment, including getting paid more for doing less, based on the “because I’m worth it” mentality.
Groups that claim a gender pay gap exists across all work, fail to make direct like for like comparisons to come to conclusions, they adapt the data and ignore the fact that many woman currently work part-time, they take men working fulltime earning a figure and women working half those hours and earning half that figure and claim that this proves women are paid less than men!
Regardless of the motivation any gender quota legislation, ultimately elevates someone artificially and at the expense of someone else…
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