<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-says-he-was-rushed-to-hospital-fearing-heart-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Spacey</a> announced that he will appear at his first ever comic book fan event after being acquitted in his sexual assault trial last year.
The 64-year-old actor said, in a video posted on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C2h02YuMzGl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>, that he&#8217;s looking forward to meeting fans at the <a href="https://madmonster.com/c24/">Mad Monster</a> comic book convention in North Carolina next month — the first comic book convention ever for &#8220;The Usual Suspects&#8221; star.
The actor also took a moment to thank his fans for &#8220;all your support through all these years. It&#8217;s meant so much to me. And I hope you can make it because it would be nice to meet in person.&#8221;
The &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; and &#8220;American Beauty&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-acquitted-in-uk-sex-assault-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star&#8217;s</a> photo appeared in promotional material about the event and he&#8217;s listed as being among the stars who will be on hand throughout the three-day event to take pictures with fans and be available for signing autographs, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kevin-spacey-books-first-comic-con-appearance-1235806007/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
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&#8220;Kevin Spacey is one of the most sought after actors in the celebrity appearance space,&#8221; the Mad Monster event told THR. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be more excited to be the first to bring him to a show.&#8221;
Other than appearing in a few strange <a href="https://x.com/KevinSpacey/status/1077263549326651392?s=20">videos</a> posted via <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/24/entertainment/kevin-spacey-christmas/index.html">social media</a>, Spacey has largely avoided being in the spotlight over the last several years following sexual misconduct and assault allegations. In October, he received a standing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/17/kevin-spacey-receives-standing-ovation-in-first-stage-appearance-since-court-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ovation</a> when he performed a Shakespearean scene in Oxford — his first stage appearance following the sexual assault trial last year. Earlier that month, he also made an appearance at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-says-he-was-rushed-to-hospital-fearing-heart-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film festival</a> in Uzbekistan. 
In July, the &#8220;Superman Returns&#8221; star was acquitted on all nine of the sexual assault charges against him in the United Kingdom. In the courtroom, Spacey reportedly wept after Justice Mark Wall said he was cleared of all charges and concluded that the &#8220;defendant may be discharged,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kevin-spacey-uk-trial-verdict-not-guilty-1235543727/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
Spacey previously pleaded not guilty to nine counts stemming from allegations that he had sexually assaulted four men between 2004 and 2013 in London, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/actor-kevin-spacey-acquitted-all-nine-sexual-offence-charges-london-trial-2023-07-26/?taid=64c1317bbbd95200010df6dc&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">Reuters</a> noted. The allegations ranged from unwanted touching to aggressive fondling — and, in one case, performing oral sex on an unconscious actor.
The actor was one of the most prominent figures accused of sexual misconduct during the start of the #<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pamela-anderson-doubles-down-on-metoo-comments-its-just-common-sense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MeToo</a> era. In November of 2017, Spacey was fired from the hugely popular Netflix series &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; following a string of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
One such accusation came from &#8220;Star Trek: Discovery&#8221; star Anthony Rapp, who accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him at a party in 1986 — when Rapp was just 14. Spacey denied the allegations. Rapp brought a civil lawsuit against Spacey but lost the case in 2022 when the actor was found not liable for battery, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/20/arts/kevin-spacey-trial-verdict#:~:text=The%20jury%20found%20that%20Mr,Rapp%20to%20bring%20his%20claim." target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> noted.

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Former &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doctor Who</a>&#8221; actor Christopher Eccleston revealed in a recent interview that he was once falsely accused of &#8220;copping a feel&#8221; while filming a sex scene with someone he described only as an &#8220;A-list actress&#8221; who was &#8220;not Nicole Kidman.&#8221;
Eccleston, who played the 9th Doctor in the popular British sci-fi series, gave no other hints as to who the actress might be, telling <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/christopher-eccleston-true-detective-sex-scene-jodie-foster-b2480975.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Independent</a> only that he was relieved it had happened prior to the #MeToo movement and the fallout surrounding disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein.
&#8220;I did a sex scene with an A-list actress – not Nicole Kidman, who was brilliant – and she implied, in front of the crew, that I was copping a feel. Because she didn’t like me,&#8221; he said, explaining that he knew he was &#8220;fortunate that happened to me before the Harvey Weinstein stuff came to light, so I wasn’t put in the stocks for it. But I’ve never felt more betrayed by a fellow actor than I did that day.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to say to you that I would sooner have put my hands in a food blender than copped a feel of that person,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It was an abuse of power, what she did. I don’t think that would have happened with an intimacy coordinator on set. I could have been accused of all manner of things.&#8221;
Part of the reason Eccleston felt so betrayed was that he had always felt it was part of his responsibility — both as an actor and as a man — to make sure that the actress was comfortable in any sex scene they did together.
&#8220;As a bloke, as a young man, you walk onto the set and see the majority of people in the crew are male,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Then there’s a beautiful woman who’s naked. So unless you are a complete a***hole, you just continually ask her: are you comfortable? Is there anything I can do?&#8221;
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That experience coupled with the #MeToo movement, he said, has made him appreciate the addition of an intimacy coordinator on set. &#8220;I’m here to protect you too, Chris,&#8221; he quoted one intimacy coordinator as saying.
&#8220;I’d not thought about that. You don’t think that maybe somebody’s copping a look at you. You just don’t, not from a working-class northern British background,&#8221; the actor continued. &#8220;I was born in ’64, when men were really not the objects of desire as far as I knew.&#8221;
Eccleston&#8217;s interview comes along with the recent season four premiere of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/episodes/?season=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">True Detective: Night Country</a>&#8221; — in which Eccleston stars alongside Oscar-winning actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jodie-foster-roasts-gen-z-over-really-annoying-workplace-habits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jodie Foster</a>.

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‘Abuse Of Power’: Former ‘Doctor Who’ Says A-Lister Once Falsely Accused Him Of ‘Copping A Feel’

'Abuse Of Power': Former 'Doctor Who' Says A-Lister Once Falsely Accused Him Of 'Copping A Feel'

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles-dodgers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> pitcher Trevor Bauer is looking for a second chance in the MLB, explaining that he&#8217;s learned a lot over the past few years and has made major changes in his personal life.
Bauer was initially <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147689888/la-dodgers-cut-trevor-bauer#:~:text=MLB%20Commissioner%20Rob%20Manfred%20suspended,sexually%20abused%20her%20in%202021." target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> for a stunning 324 games from the league after a San Diego woman named Lindsey Hill accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her twice in 2021. Notably, Bauer was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never charged</a> with a crime and was placed on administrative leave by his then-team before any investigation was ever conducted.
&#8220;I know I’ve made mistakes,&#8221; the athlete <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trevor-bauer-says-hes-grown-mistakes-past-hopes-second-opportunity-in-mlb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News&#8217; Bill Hemmer on Thursday. &#8220;That’s kinda what I’m trying to focus on &#8212; how do I get better from the experiences that I’ve had.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve made mistakes in my personal life,&#8221; Bauer explained. &#8220;I’m really detail-oriented when it comes to baseball and my training, but I didn’t apply the same level of scrutiny to my personal life. I made mistakes. I agreed to do things I shouldn’t have done. I was reckless. It hurt a lot of people along the way. I made things very difficult for Major League Baseball, for the Dodgers, my teammates, my friends, family, people close to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve done a lot of reflecting on that and made a lot of changes in my life to address that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’m not having casual sexual relationships anymore, for example.&#8221;
Bauer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled his legal dispute</a> with Hill last year and released a video revealing some of the text messages Hill sent to her friends prior to meeting Bauer and after one of their encounters that suggests she was always focused on getting money from him.
&#8220;&#8216;Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers,'&#8221; Bauer begins in the video with a picture of Hill’s text. “A text Lindsey Hill sent to a friend before she ever even met me. ‘What should I steal?’ she asked another, in reference to visiting my house for the first time. The answer? ‘Take his money.’ So how might that work? ‘I’m going to his house Wednesday,’ she said. ‘I already have my hooks in. You know how I roll.’ Then, after the first time we met, &#8216;Net worth is 51 mil.&#8217; she said. ‘b****, you better secure the bag,’ was the response.”
“But how was she going to do that?” Bauer continued. “‘Need daddy to choke me out,’ she said. ‘being an absolute w**** to try to get in on his 51 million,’ read another text. Then, after the second time we met, former [San Diego] Padres pitcher Jacob Nix told her ‘you gotta get this bag.’ ‘I’ll give you 50,000,’ Lindsey replied. Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, ‘do you feel a tiny bit guilty?’ ‘Not really,’ she replied.”
Bauer said these messages were “deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team” until he filed his lawsuit against Hill and the case entered discovery.
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2 years later and I can finally talk about this ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/o6jFqMzY05">pic.twitter.com/o6jFqMzY05</a>
&mdash; Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) <a href="https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1708904525724270659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A motion from Bauer to dismiss Hill’s lawsuit accusing the athlete of sexual assault includes a video of Hill and Bauer in bed. Hill appears in the 10-second video and slowly moves the camera toward a sleeping Bauer. She then moves the camera back on herself and smiles coyly.
“Hi. Just a friendly reminder that [Trevor Bauer] is 100% innocent,” one person captioned the now-viral video.
“This was taken hours after I supposedly brutally assaulted this woman, when she claims she was terrified and desperate to get out of my house and in tremendous pain,” Bauer reacted to the post.
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This was taken hours after I supposedly brutally assaulted this woman, when she claims she was terrified and desperate to get out of my house and in tremendous pain. <a href="https://t.co/k0jma3eqLP">https://t.co/k0jma3eqLP</a>
&mdash; Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) <a href="https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1570097489100808195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Trevor went on to tell Hemmer that he handled things with a lot of people, including the media, poorly in the past.
&#8220;I also made a lot of people in the media mad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was very immature with how I handled things when people would write things about me I didn’t agree with. I should’ve just had a private, adult conversation with someone. I was bullied a lot as a kid. I don’t really want to get into that, but at the time I viewed a lot of my responses on social media as standing up for myself and having a voice. And I think I was just immature.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’ve grown up a lot, for sure,&#8221; the athlete continued. &#8220;My viewpoints now are drastically different than they were five years ago, 10 years ago. Different things are important to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I’d love to play baseball,&#8221; Bauer added. &#8220;That’s my goal — to play baseball here in the United States. Still one of the best pitchers in the world. I’d like to compete at the highest level. I’m also really passionate about helping people, being good for the game. I think I’ve done a lot of damage, unfortunately, in the first half of my career, and I’d love a second opportunity to do things better.&#8221;
Ashe Schow contributed to this report 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-victim-star-pitcher-for-the-dodgers-trevor-bauer-reveals-texts-from-his-accuser-following-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Next Victim. Star Pitcher For The Dodgers’: Trevor Bauer Reveals Texts From His Accuser Following Settlement</a>

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‘Not Having Casual Sexual Relationships Anymore’: Trevor Bauer Speaks Out After Apparent #MeToo Fraud

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Vin Diesel</a> has responded to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sexual-assault">sexual battery</a> lawsuit filed Thursday by his former assistant.
Diesel’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said in a statement that his client &#8220;categorically denies this claim in its entirety.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the first he has ever heard about this more than 13-year-old claim made by a purportedly 9-day employee,&#8221; Freedman said in the statement, per <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2023/12/21/vin-diesel-sexual-battery-lawsuit-former-assistant-fast-and-furious/72001942007/">USA Today</a>. &#8220;There is clear evidence which completely refutes these outlandish allegations.”
In the lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles and obtained by the outlet, Asta Jonasson alleged that the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Fast and the Furious</a>” actor sexually assaulted her in the fall of 2010 while filming “Fast Five” in Atlanta.
The lawsuit says Jonasson was hired by the actor&#8217;s production company, One Race, to work for him as an assistant, where her role included organizing and attending parties with him and making sure photos included his longtime girlfriend, Paloma Jimenez.
Jonasson alleges that one night in September 2010, she was asked to wait for Diesel in his suite at the St. Regis hotel while he entertained hostesses from a club. She claims that after the other women left, Diesel grabbed her wrists and forced her onto the bed. 
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She pulled away and allegedly told Diesel she wanted to leave, but she claims he then began groping her and placing his hands all over her body. Jonasson said she was scared to &#8220;forcibly refuse her superior.&#8221; She claims when Diesel moved to pull down her underwear, she screamed and ran away.
The lawsuit says that Diesel subsequently pinned her against the wall and masturbated, while &#8220;terrified, Ms. Jonasson closed her eyes, trying to dissociate from the sexual assault and avoid angering him,&#8221; per USA Today. She claims to have been fired several hours later after just two weeks on the job.
Greenberg Gross, the firm representing Jonasson, said in a statement: &#8220;We are proud to represent Ms. Jonasson and hold accountable Vin Diesel and those who allowed and covered up his sexual assault. The law exists to protect those who have been wronged, no matter how powerful or famous the defendant is. Sexual harassment in the workplace will never stop if powerful men are protected from accountability.&#8221;
Jonasson also said that the #MeToo and Time&#8217;s Up movements empowered her to file the lawsuit in an attempt to &#8220;reclaim her agency and justice for the suffering she endured at the hands of Vin Diesel and One Race.&#8221;

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October is upon us, which means it is time to think about Halloween costumes. This year, I’m thinking I’m going to be a special kind of witch: a modern #MeToo witch. With all that has transpired from the lawsuit that former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer won, reflecting on the #MeToo movement’s toxicity fits with the season. 
Contemplating my Halloween costume got me thinking about the Salem Witch Trials, a moment in American history which is still shocking. Most of us learned about the Salem Witch Trials in school, but the story never ceases to amaze me. The trials included a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of being witches in colonial Massachusetts starting around February 1692 and running until May 1693. In the tiny town of Salem, Massachusetts, 200 people were accused, 30 were found guilty, and 19 were hanged. Those were actual occurrences, actual deaths. The majority were women, but five men and two dogs were also executed. At least one man died while being tortured, and five died in jail.
Accusations started out with someone claiming that an illness or a death was caused by witchcraft, and that’s all it took to get hysteria to spread. So someone who got the flu or became ill could claim a witch gave them that sickness, and if the local magistrate deemed the claim credible, the accused would be arrested and brought in for public examination, which was essentially a series of interrogations where the accused were pressed to confess. They were then put on trial and <a href="https://www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests">witch trial tests</a> ensued. It is incredible to consider that any of this actually took place in American history.
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One of the witch trial tests was a swim test. A swim test required the accused witch to be taken to a body of water, and once there, stripped of their clothes (save their undergarments), and bound. Then, they were dropped in the water to see if they would float — or sink. The belief was that an innocent person would sink, while a witch, on the other hand, would remain on the surface of the water. Of course, this did not end well because if they were “innocent” and sank, many accidentally drowned.
Accused witches also underwent a prayer test. According to teachings from Medieval times, it was impossible for a witch to read Scripture aloud; they simply couldn’t do it. So this test required the accused to recite selections from the Bible, often being the Lord’s prayer. They could not, however, make any mistakes. A mistake could be fumbling a word, even if that was just because they were nervous — which, no doubt, they were. Having a lisp, being illiterate, and being nervous were all proof of witchcraft. And sometimes, even if the accused read without error, they were still hanged.
The touch test denoted that if the victim of witchcraft had a unique reaction to physical contact with the accused, then the sorcerer’s evil was proven. For example, if I was suddenly seized with fits of some sort, an accused witch would be forced to touch me. Had I been magically healed from their touch, my “healing” would have been evidence they had put me under some sort of spell in the first place. If I did not react to their touch, they could be considered innocent.
For the witch cake test, witch hunters would take some of the victim’s urine — that’s correct: urine — and mix it with rye meal, ashes, and ingredients for a cake. Obviously this isn’t the kind of treat you’d want to pick up while trick-or-treating at the house next door.
Then, the cake would be given to a dog, with the goal being that the dog would be put under a spell (from eating the cake) and reveal the witch.
One of my personal favorites is the witch’s marks test. Witch suspects often underwent being publicly examined for blemishes, birthmarks, or imperfections, as those were thought to be received when making a covenant with the devil. These blemishes were called the “Devil’s Mark,” and the accused were automatically believed to be working with the devil.  Since this was an easy test to fail, some of the accused attempted to get rid of these marks by burning or even cutting them off. But then a wound ended up serving as proof of a pact with the devil.
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These tests and trials seem completely bizarre, especially considering the fact that they took place in our fairly recent American history. Even so, these witch hunts don’t really feel like a relic of the past when we stop to consider today’s political landscape. Though they look different, we have our own form of these modern witch trials in today’s society. We all remember the black square test on Instagram when BLM was trending. If you were white and did not post a black square, you were immediately labeled a racist. It meant you didn’t stand with black people, and it meant you had been a racist your entire life. And if you were a celebrity and didn’t post a black square? You absolutely did not pass the black square test. You were guilty. You are a racist.
The one I have been reflecting on most recently is the #MeToo witch hunt. When that hashtag started trending, I almost lost my job as a conservative speaker because I refused to kowtow to the blanket rule that everything every woman said using #MeToo should be believed, even when the stories they were sharing kept getting more and more ridiculous. Women started crying that they had been hit on at work, that someone asked them on a date, or that they were uncomfortable next to the coffee machine. #MeToo. The big reckoning. No men in the workplace! Men are monsters! Ridiculous.
My stance on the movement never referred to rape victims. I only talked about the #MeToo  trend just like the BLM trend. It was trendy to perceive everything as racism, and with #MeToo, it was trendy to perceive everything as aggression by men. It was trendy to call everything assault, even if it was just a bad date. But none of that mattered; I was under fire.
I was working at TurningPoint USA, and young women were asking, “How can she still be the communications director if she doesn’t support the #MeToo movement?” They wanted me ousted because I did not understand the importance of this trending hashtag.
Except I did understand it. I understood exactly what was happening. I was watching men lose their jobs and be forced to step down from their careers based on accusations. All it took was one woman who used a hashtag without any further examination — women who were not actual victims. Some women wanted revenge on certain men, and they were all suddenly “empowered” to make up allegations. And for a while, those allegations went unchecked. But, I believe in due process. I do not believe that a tweet or a hashtag should condemn someone. Some men started standing up for this too, men who are fighting women in court and scoring some big wins.
Former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer is one of those men. A woman named Lindsey Hill accused him of a violent assault in 2021, and this accusation instantly changed his entire life. It only takes an accusation to get a fire blazing. After two years in court, Bauer won against his accuser, and he has finally been able <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWf4vceSpXs&amp;t=320s">to share his side of what happened</a>. What we’ve all learned is that Lindsey Hill, his accuser, was a liar who was after money. Evidence in the form of text messages, Snapchat videos, and Google searches prove beyond reasonable doubt that Hill plotted this because she wanted a piece of his net worth.
Now, Hill has been making the rounds, apparently trying to clear her name, claiming various messages have been taken out of context — but she really doesn’t appear to be clarifying much. Her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py1WwdNlMMQ">interview with Alex Stein</a> just confirms that if “my dog ate my homework” was an actual person, it would be Lindsey Hill. It’s hard to even keep up with the nonsense while she says absolutely nothing throughout the whole interview.
The #MeToo movement was a movement led by women who pretended to be weak but were, in fact, conniving. These women understood that in a movement with power and without checks and balances, they could make up allegations as they accused any and everyone.
Whether these women wanted fame or money or power or community with the other #MeToo witches to rally around them, it was toxic. It always has been toxic, and it always will be toxic.
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Samantha had just become a doula when she was messaged on Instagram by her first client, a 24-year-old woman saying she thought she was going into labor.
The woman, Kaitlyn Braun, told Samantha that her contractions were 10 minutes apart, and then 8 minutes, the doula <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a44866427/kaitlyn-braun-doula-pregnancy-accused-fraud-harassment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Cosmopolitan in September. Doulas, women who don’t usually have formal obstetric training who are hired to guide and support pregnant women through labor, don’t typically arrive so early during labor. But because Braun had said she learned about her pregnancy late in the process and that the child was conceived out of a sexual assault, Samantha asked if Braun wanted her to come over and begin helping.
“I really want to say yes because these are intense, but I feel bad because I’m sure you’re probably busy,” Braun reportedly told Samantha.
Samantha, feeling that the young woman was too afraid to ask for help, immediately drove to Braun’s home. Samantha told Cosmopolitan that she had no reason to doubt Braun, who is overweight, was pregnant. Braun lived in a two-bedroom apartment with her mother, had a car seat in the living room, a sleeper seat in her bedroom, baby clothes, and a breast pump – all things a struggling woman would have if she were going to give birth.
Just hours after Samantha arrived at the apartment, Braun says something is leaking out of her body. Samantha tells Braun that her water is probably breaking. For the next two days, Braun labors at home with Samantha by her side, the rookie doula taking few breaks and caring for Braun’s every need.
At the end of the second day, Samantha wanted Braun to go to the hospital, but her mother resisted. Eventually, Samantha called the hospital for advice, fearing Braun was at risk of a serious infection, and was told to bring Braun in immediately, so she did. Samantha drove Braun herself, something doulas aren’t supposed to do, believing Braun couldn’t afford a taxi. Once in Samantha’s car, Braun began wailing, telling the doula to just leave and forget about her.
Samantha pulled over and called her mentor, who then spoke to Braun and convinced her to go to the hospital. Once there, however, Braun refused to get out of the car, and Samantha said she threatened to get a staffer – something she never wanted to do as a doula but felt she had been given no choice.
Braun then questioned whether her water had actually broken, or if what was leaking out of her was liquid trapped behind a mucus plug. If that were the case, Braun wasn’t at risk of infection, so Samantha did what the young woman wanted and drove her home. Braun then asked if Samantha would meet her at the hospital when she actually goes into labor.
Days later, Braun called and again said she was having contractions, so Samantha went through the entire process again of driving Braun to the hospital and persuading her to get out of the car. An ob-gyn performed an ultrasound but quickly stopped. She told Braun that there was no pregnancy and the only thing in her uterus was an IUD.
The doctor offered to call Braun a social worker or psychiatrist, but Braun demanded to go home, telling Samantha on the ride that she was “so confused.”
At this point, Samantha didn’t know whether Braun had faked everything or had a hysterical pregnancy, but she treated her like a woman who had believed she was pregnant but was not – and who felt as though she had lost a child.
Except, Braun was lying, and she continued to twist and expand on her original pregnancy story to many more doulas. The names of the doulas in these stories were changed by Cosmo to protect their identities.
During her next con, Braun was a queer sexual assault survivor shunned by her family, in labor at 32 weeks delivering a stillborn. Two doulas, referred to as Rachel and Nora, offered Braun support over the phone. Rachel said she could hear car sounds as Braun allegedly rode to the hospital during the ordeal, and heartbeat monitor sounds once she was there.
Braun continued to go through the stillbirth for the two doulas, who said that about 45 minutes after the alleged birth, Braun said she had to have an emergency dilation and curettage (D&amp;C), a procedure that removes tissue from inside the uterus. Braun told the women she would need a hysterectomy because she wouldn’t stop bleeding. The two doulas counseled her through the immense loss of losing a child and then her uterus.
In the days following the alleged stillbirth, Braun told the women she was being transferred to a new hospital, and then another hospital, because the bleeding wouldn’t stop. She then tells the women she was diagnosed with a clotting disorder and late-stage pelvic cancer. The doulas say they are no longer the professionals Braun needs, but continue to offer her support as she weighs her options before deciding to stop treatment, which would mean she would die in three months.
These two doulas told Cosmo they were sexual assault survivors, so they understood when Braun said she didn’t want them to call the police about a male doctor who allegedly violated her while trying to stop her from bleeding.
While being transferred to yet another hospital, Braun told the women over the phone that the male doctor was in the ambulance with her, gave his name, and then enacted an alleged rape before she hung up the phone. Rachel looked up the man’s name and found that he was a real doctor at the hospital. At the next hospital, Braun said the doctor raped her again but was caught by a nurse and the police were now involved. She told the women what the doctor did to her in graphic detail and said he seemed to enjoy the fact that he was ripping out her stitches.
The person Rachel was dating at the time reached out to reporters about the doctor’s arrest, but they could find no record of any police report. At that point, the doulas began to question Braun’s story.
Braun then said she was pushing out chunks of a tumor and even sent a photo of a piece of a tumor, which Nora reverse-image searched and found it was from a Wikipedia article. They then found the images Braun had sent of her stillborn child, which they found on the first page of Google’s search results. Rachel then called the hospital where Braun was allegedly staying, but they had no record of her as a patient. The women then called the police to conduct a welfare check.
A couple hours later, the police called back to say they found Braun in her living room and that she was fine.
Braun would go on to con dozens of other doulas, at one point peeing in front of one to say her water broke, and faking voices of friends to con another. Doulas began posting their stories online and helping others who had been contacted by Braun to realize they were being duped.
In March, Braun was charged with 32 counts of fraud, sexual assault, false pretenses, indecent acts, and criminal harassment in relation to at least six of the doulas she conned, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11876173/Social-worker-24-charged-sexual-assault-hiring-doulas-help-fake-pregnancies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Some of the doulas reported they were traumatized by their experience with Braun, with one alleged victim, Amy Perry, telling CTV News she helped Braun for free.
“The moans, the sounds she made were really realistic, even through the last stage of labor – through transition – she would even go as far as to vomit, which is the normal thing,” Perry told the outlet. “We really felt that there was an individual who was alone in the world going through something really horrible and we were just willing to put the scope of our practice aside and help her.”
In May, 17 victims pressed charges against Braun, CTV News <a href="https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/17-victims-pressing-charges-against-woman-accused-of-defrauding-harassing-ont-doulas-police-1.6394763" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, bringing the total number of offenses to 52. Braun is in jail awaiting trial.
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Emmy Award-winning English actress Julia Ormond accused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvey-weinstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvey Weinstein</a> of sexual battery in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, joining more than 100 women who have alleged patterns of misconduct from the disgraced Hollywood film producer over several decades.
In addition to accusing Weinstein, 71, in the lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court, Ormond is also suing The Walt Disney Company, Miramax (now partially owned by Paramount Global), and Creative Arts Agency (CAA), who represented her at the time, for allegedly enabling his behavior.
“Our client has suffered tremendously both personally and professionally due to the assault by Harvey Weinstein, and the failure from Disney, Miramax and CAA to prevent it and to appropriately respond when she reported what happened,” Ormond’s attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor and Effie Blassberger <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/julia-ormond-harvey-weinstein-lawsuit-battery-caa-disney-1235744853/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Variety in a statement. “She feels completely betrayed by CAA for its knowing disregard for her safety and well-being, and looks forward to holding accountable the people and institutions that enabled Harvey Weinstein’s horrific and predatory behavior.”
The two reportedly first met during a business meeting in London in 1994 after Ormond’s U.K. agent told her an “important producer” wanted to discuss the film business and multiple future roles. Over the next year, Weinstein and Ormond developed a “close, but professional, business relationship,” Variety noted. By August of 1995, her agents at CAA worked out a two-year production deal for Ormond and her production company with Weinstein’s company, Miramax, where she worked out of its New York City offices and lived in an apartment paid for by the company.
According to the lawsuit first reported by Variety, Ormond claims Weinstein forced her to give him oral sex after a business dinner in 1995 — around the same time in her career when she landed roles in films as the female lead, including “Legends of the Fall,” “First Night,” and a remake of “Sabrina.”
“At the dinner, Weinstein refused to discuss business matters and kept changing the subject,” the lawsuit states. “Finally, following dinner, Weinstein said he would only discuss the project back at the apartment Miramax had provided for Ormond as part of their first-look deal with her. Her defenses down because she had consumed several drinks, and wanting to finally get to what she thought was the purpose of their meeting, Ormond agreed to have Weinstein come back to her apartment. Soon after, Weinstein stripped naked and forced her to perform oral sex on him.”
The complaint says that the alleged assault could have been prevented if Disney, Miramax, and CAA had protected Ormond. The suit also accused the three entrainment companies of continuing to “handsomely profit from their close association with Harvey Weinstein for many years after Ormond was assaulted by him and then cast aside by Hollywood.”
Ormond apparently told her former agents, Bryan Lourd, now the chief executive of CAA, and Kevin Huvane, now a co-chairman of the agency, about the alleged incident afterward. But the complaint claims the agency did not take any steps to protect her, and informed her that the “going rate” for settlements paid to women who alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted them was $100,000.
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“Rather than take Ormond’s side and advocate for her interest, they suggested that if she reported Weinstein to the authorities, she would not be believed, and he would seriously damage her career,” the lawsuit reads. “Still worse, not long after Weinstein’s assault on Ormond and her reporting of the assault to them, CAA lost interest in representing her, and her career suffered dramatically.”
Ormond, who an Emmy for her supporting role in HBO’s “Temple Grandin,” told Variety she decided to publicly speak out about the alleged assault after nearly 30 years to be a part of the “systemic change” she feels is needed in Hollywood. She filed the lawsuit under the Adult Survivors Act, which creates a window outside the statute of limitations to seek civil damages for sexual battery.
“I am coming forward with my story now publicly because I feel as if we still need systemic change, and I feel that we need accountability from enablers, in order to get there,” Ormond told Variety. “I feel that this is what happened with me.”
Weinstein was originally a kingpin of the entertainment industry and co-founded Miramax. His legend status fell apart in 2017 when more and more women came forward to accuse the producer of sexual misconduct in what would later become the beginning of the #MeToo movement.
More than 100 women have accused Weinstein of various sex crimes. The former entertainment mogul denies the sexual acts were non-consensual and maintains that his accusers sought to advance their positions in the entertainment industry.
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year sentence in New York following convictions for rape and sexual assault from a 2020 case, which will be consecutively followed by serving another 16-year prison sentence in Los Angeles, making it all but certain that he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Imran H. Ansari, Weinstein’s attorney, told Variety in a statement that his client “categorically denies the allegations made against him by Julia Ormond and he is prepared to vehemently defend himself.”
“This is yet another example of a complaint filed against Mr. Weinstein after the passing of decades, and he is confident that the evidence will not support Ms. Ormond’s claims,” Ansari said.
CAA, Disney, and Miramax have not issued public statements concerning Ormond’s lawsuit.
 Amanda Harding contributed to this report.

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Danny Masterson, famously known for his role as Steven Hyde in “That &#8217;70s Show,” was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-danny-masterson-found-guilty-of-two-counts-of-rape-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles jury found him guilty</a> of raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home in the early 2000s.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo handed the sentence to the 47-year-old actor after he reportedly listened to statements from the women he was convicted of sexually assaulting in 2003.
“Mr. Masterson, I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence, and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you,” Olmedo told Masterson before handing down the sentence, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/danny-masterson-sentencing-rape-trial-fd7a10eda44d0e3ddde582d4c7053eb6?taid=64fa1b51c3af050001f10525&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>. “But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here. Your actions 20 years ago took away another person’s voice, and choice. One way or another you will have to come to terms with your prior actions, and their consequences.”
A Los Angeles jury found Masterson guilty of two counts of rape in a retrial in May after several women he met through the Church of Scientology accused him of sexual assault in the early 2000s.
According to reports, the jury of seven women and five men reached the verdict after seven days of deliberation, but couldn’t decide on another sexual assault charge involving an ex-girlfriend, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, with 8 of 12 jurors favoring a guilty verdict.
The retrial comes after three women — Carnell-Bixler and two Jane Does — came forward over six years ago and accused Masterson of sexually assaulting them between 2001 and 2003, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Masterson allegedly drugged and raped the women in his Hollywood Hills home. A judge declared the first round of deliberations a mistrial in November after the jury deadlocked.
Before the sentencing on Thursday, Masterson’s lawyer, Shawn Holley, reportedly told the judge that “his life that will be impacted by what you decide today.”
“And the life of his 9-year-old daughter, who means the world to him, and to whom he means the world,” Holley said. “He has lived an exemplary life, he has been an extraordinary father, husband, brother, son, co-worker and community servant.”
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Masterson rose to fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s while starring in “That ’70s Show” alongside Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, and Topher Grace.
In 2016, Masteron and Kutcher reunited on the Netflix comedy “The Ranch” until the sitcom wrote his character off the show following a Los Angeles Police Department investigation.
The women reportedly testified that church officials conspired with Masterson to cover up the incidents and not to report a member to law enforcement. They have previously said the reason LAPD and other law enforcement agencies refused to pursue Masterson was due to his affiliation with the Church of Scientology, and the church intervened in his case, impeding the investigation by filing “50 affidavits from Scientologists who denied the woman’s account.”
Scientology church officials have “vehemently denied having any policy that forbids members from going to secular authorities,” the Associated Press reported.
After the verdict earlier this year, the church told the outlet in a statement that the “testimony and descriptions of Scientology beliefs” during the trial were “uniformly false.”
“The Church has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone — Scientologists or not — to law enforcement,” the statement said.
Masterson reportedly said previously that the sexual relations between him and his accusers were consensual and denied the rape allegations that the women brought against him during the #MeToo wave in 2018.
“It seems as if you are presumed guilty the moment you are accused,” he said when the allegations were first brought against him.
Masterson, who did not testify or have his lawyers call witnesses, will be eligible for parole after serving 25 1/2 years, but could reportedly be imprisoned for life.

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Lizzo is just one example of an increasingly common phenomenon: high-profile employers facing media scandals and expensive litigation due to toxic workplace allegations.
According to recent reports, pop star Lizzo has been dropped from the shortlist of performers being considered for the Super Bowl halftime show. This is the latest public setback for the embattled star, who was recently sued by three former dancers alleging that her company created a hostile work environment of weight-shaming, sexual harassment, extreme stress, and other problems. The resulting media coverage presented a damning story to the public, and Lizzo&#8217;s online streams and downloads plummeted dramatically while her image transformed overnight.
However, as is common in many of these situations, the lawsuit generating such breathless negative media coverage is itself quite weak. The suit is rife with questionable assumptions and leaps of logic. The most publicly damaging allegations — such as those of weight shaming lack any substantiation whatsoever. At times the lawsuit reads like the diary of a person afflicted by paranoia. Perhaps this is why Lizzo and her team confronted the main claimant about her mental health at one point, as the lawsuit alleges.
Yet the flawed nature of the lawsuit has not prevented it from causing tremendous damage to Lizzo&#8217;s image. Almost no one will actually read the lawsuit or read it with a critical eye, as the claimants and their attorneys well know, but bad headlines generated by the lawsuit are the real objective anyway. Those headlines can force an employer to the settlement table, no matter the facts: many of these suits are blatant money grabs aimed at easy settlements.
Toxic workplace allegations are becoming increasingly common, particularly in situations with high-profile targets and heavy media attention. Often these allegations entail lawsuits, but in many cases, damaging media coverage is the goal of disgruntled ex-employees. 
Recently, talk show host and pop star Kelly Clarkson was accused by multiple anonymous employees in a hit piece by Rolling Stone. According to her accusers, her highly rated “The Kelly Clarkson Show” is run by overly demanding producers who don&#8217;t pay lower-level staff what they believe they should make. Similar allegations dogged the canceled HBO Max shows “Lovecraft Country” and “The Other Two,” while the Woody Harrelson series “The White House Plumbers” officially paused production to deal with workplace toxicity claims. In another arena, famous celebrity chef and restauranteur Barbara Lynch found herself besieged in the press recently over her supposedly toxic managerial style.
If you find such claims highly subjective, you are correct. In fact, the problem with many of these toxic workplace scandals is their basis on the claimant&#8217;s subjective perception and understanding of events. Whereas the bar for establishing a toxic workplace claim was once quite high, it has now become unnecessary to prove anything at all to launch a negative media campaign, damage the target&#8217;s reputation, or even cancel the target altogether.
In hindsight, Ellen DeGeneres may have been the canary in the coal mine. In 2020, the media gleefully disseminated and amplified the claims of anonymous ex-employees who complained about the high-stress environment on “The Ellen Show.” A number of these overwrought allegations bordered on the comical, and one might wonder how much of this much ado about nothing is the result of a discordance between generational worldviews: one can detect in many of these allegations a particular whine indicative of a younger, self-entitled perspective. At any rate, despite any proof of actual misconduct, “The Ellen Show” was canceled within months.
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If it feels as if we have been down this road before, perhaps that is because the new #ToxicWork movement feels similar to #MeToo in a number of concerning respects. Both movements contain threads of well-intentioned sentiment but are all too often weaponized to settle personal grievances, generate media coverage, and make money. And just as heavily publicized #MeToo claims often rely less on legitimate evidence of wrongdoing and more on subjective &#8220;she-said&#8221; accounts, so too do many allegations of workplace toxicity presented in the media and in high-profile civil litigation. In far too many situations, the truth doesn&#8217;t matter and it certainly doesn&#8217;t outweigh the power of dramatic, attention-grabbing misconduct headlines. And of course, the reputational and professional damage done is generally irreparable even if the claims can be legally invalidated.
Perhaps we would do well to take a lesson from #MeToo&#8217;s failures all too clearly illustrated in the hoax against Johnny Depp exposed last year in court and reserve judgment on toxic workplace allegations until such claims have been proved in court. A successful career takes decades to build but only hours to destroy in our current cancel culture.
Kristen Lacefield, PhD, Lecturer of English &amp; Media Studies. Kristen is an independent new media journalist and one of the most outspoken critics of the #MeToo movement and cancel culture. She is known as &#8220;Colonel Kurtz&#8221; on social media and broadcasts on Instagram and YouTube.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-discusses-his-image-in-wake-of-sexual-abuse-scandals-in-10-years-it-wont-mean-anything" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Spacey</a> was acquitted on all nine charges in his sexual assault trial in the United Kingdom.
In a courtroom on Wednesday, the 64-year-old actor reportedly wept after Justice Mark Wall told the Hollywood star that he was cleared of all charges and concluded that the &#8220;defendant may be discharged,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kevin-spacey-uk-trial-verdict-not-guilty-1235543727/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
After exiting the courtroom, Spacey spoke to the press and thanked his legal team, the jury, and the court staff.
&#8220;I imagine that many of you can understand that there is a lot for me to process after what has happened today, but I would like to say that I&#8217;m enormously grateful to the jury for having taken the time to examine all of the evidence and all of the facts carefully before they reached their decision and I am humbled by the outcome today,&#8221; Spacey said, per <a href="https://people.com/kevin-spacey-uk-sexual-assault-trial-verdict-7556772?hid=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;did=9790540-20230726&amp;utm_campaign=ppl-breakingnews_relationship-builder&amp;utm_source=ppl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=072623&amp;lctg=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> magazine.
&#8220;I also want to thank the staff inside this courthouse, the security and all those who took care of us every single day, my legal team, Evan Lowenstein and Lucy for being here every day,&#8221; he added.
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Kevin Spacey spoke to press after being cleared of all sexual assault charges in the U.K. &quot;I am enormously grateful to the jury for having taken the time to examine all of the evidence and all of the facts carefully before they reached the decision.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zmP0695pDp">https://t.co/zmP0695pDp</a> <a href="https://t.co/LBRPvhilFP">pic.twitter.com/LBRPvhilFP</a>
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Spacey previously pleaded not guilty to 9 counts stemming from allegations that he had sexually assaulted four men between 2004 and 2013 in London, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/actor-kevin-spacey-acquitted-all-nine-sexual-offence-charges-london-trial-2023-07-26/?taid=64c1317bbbd95200010df6dc&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> noted. The allegations ranged from unwanted touching to aggressive fondling to, in one case, performing oral sex on an unconscious actor.
The &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-must-pay-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-to-house-of-cards-producers-after-alleged-sexual-misconduct-on-set" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> originally faced 12 charges when the trial started in June, People Magazine noted. During the trial, an indecent assault charge was added. However, all four indecent assault charges were later dropped due to a &#8220;legal technicality.&#8221;
Spacey denied all allegations against him, labeling two of them consensual and another a &#8220;clumsy pass.&#8221;
&#8220;While I am disappointed with [the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s] decision to move forward, I will voluntarily appear in the U.K. as soon as can be arranged and defend myself against these charges, which I am confident will prove my innocence,&#8221; Spacey said on <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/kevin-spacey-voluntarily-court-sexual-assault-charges-85056782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Morning America</a> when the charges were announced.
Spacey was one of the most prominent figures accused of sexual misconduct during the start of the #MeToo era.  In November 2017, he was fired from the Netflix series &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; following a string of sexual assault and misconduct allegations against him.
One such accusation came from &#8220;Star Trek: Discovery&#8221; star Anthony Rapp, who accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him at a party in 1986, when Rapp was 14. Spacey denies the allegations. Rapp brought a civil lawsuit against Spacey but lost the case in 2022 when the actor was found not liable for battery, People noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-pleads-not-guilty-in-uk-sexual-assault-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty In UK Sexual Assault Case</a>

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UFC Irish fighter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/conor-mcgregor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conor McGregor</a> has been accused of &#8220;violently&#8221; sexually assaulting a woman inside a men&#8217;s bathroom at the Kaseya Center in Florida last week during Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets.
The incident allegedly happened after the Nuggets defeated the Heat on June 9, according to demand letters sent to McGregor obtained by TMZ Sports.
In the letters, attorney Ariel Mitchell claims NBA and Miami Heat security aided the attack by separating the unnamed woman from her friend and forcing her into a restroom where McGregor and a personal security guard were waiting.
&#8220;Security refused to let [the woman] exit or allow anyone else, including her friend, inside the bathroom,&#8221; Mitchell wrote, adding that McGregor allegedly appeared from inside a wheelchair-accessible stall &#8220;and shoved his tongue in the victim&#8217;s mouth and aggressively kissed her.&#8221;
The letters further stated the woman told the 34-year-old fighter she had to urinate, which helped remove him from her. However, the letters claim McGregor forced the woman to have oral sex with him, grabbed and pinned her against the bathroom wall, and attempted to &#8220;sodomize her.&#8221;
At that point, Mitchell wrote in the letters that the woman repeatedly elbowed the former UFC Featherweight and Lightweight Champion, which helped her escape. As the woman fled the scene, she allegedly left her purse that McGregor&#8217;s security guards &#8220;held hostage&#8221; until she pleaded for them to return the personal belonging to her.
Two days later, the woman allegedly reported the assault to local authorities on Sunday morning, who encouraged her to seek legal representation.
The Miami Police Department told <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1669433258671591425?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TMZ that an investigation</a> into the matter is ongoing.
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Mitchell said the woman seeks settlements with the NBA, the Miami Heat, and McGregor.
Attorneys representing McGregor reportedly denied the allegations, adding that the mixed martial artist &#8220;will not be intimidated.&#8221;
Miami Heat officials on Thursday released a statement saying the basketball organization is aware of the allegations and would conduct a full investigation into the matter while the NBA is working with the team to gather more information.
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UFC officials addressed the allegations and said they would also work to gather more information.
&#8220;The organization is aware of the recent allegations regarding Conor McGregor and will continue to gather additional details regarding the incident,&#8221; UFC said in a statement published by TSN <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1669426790362669056" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporter</a> Aaron Bronsteter. &#8220;UFC will allow the legal process to play out before making any additional statements.&#8221;
McGregor faced <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/conor-mcgregor-under-investigation-for-second-sexual-assault-accusation-per-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexual assault allegations in 2019</a> after an Ireland woman claimed he assaulted her inside her vehicle outside a Dublin pub. In September 2020, authorities arrested the UFC fighter in Corsica on suspicion of attempted sexual assault and indecent exposure. He also faced a separate assault accusation in <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/conor-mcgregor-denies-assault-allegations-from-woman-on-his-yacht-last-summer-in-ibiza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 2023</a>.
The alleged incident occurred during the same NBA Finals game where McGregor participated in a halftime skit that sent the Heat&#8217;s mascot &#8220;Burnie&#8221; to the emergency room after he punched the person inside the costume multiple times while promoting his TIDL Sport recovery spray.

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-spacey">Kevin Spacey</a> said he isn’t concerned about the future of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> career despite current and past <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sexual-assault">sexual assault</a> charges.
“I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London. The second that happens, they’re ready to move forward,” the 63-year-old told <a href="https://www.presseportal.de/en/pm/9377/5533591">ZEITmagazin</a> ahead of his London trial, which begins June 28 and is expected to last four weeks.
Spacey’s legal drama began in 2017 during the height of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/metoo">#MeToo</a> movement when “Star Trek: Discovery” star Anthony Rapp <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kevin-spacey-did-not-molest-actor-anthony-rapp-civil-jury-concludes">claimed</a> that Spacey made a sexual advance toward him in 1986 when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26.
Spacey <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinSpacey/status/924848412842971136">posted</a> on Twitter that he did not remember having that experience with Rapp, but didn’t rule it out.
&#8220;But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,&#8221; Spacey wrote on social media while simultaneously coming out as gay.
&#8220;This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. I know that there are other stories out there about me and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy,&#8221; he wrote, saying he was planning to &#8220;live as a gay man&#8221; going forward.
The allegations spurred 15 other people to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/11/07/kevin-spacey-scandal-complete-list-13-accusers/835739001/">come forward</a> with their own stories of alleged sexual abuse from Spacey. The actor currently faces 12 sexual assault cases in the U.K. and pleaded not guilty to all of them.
“It’s a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be canceled,” Spacey told ZEITmagazin about the repercussions for his career and reputation.
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“The moment scrutiny is applied, these things fall apart,” he said. “That’s what happened in the Rapp trial, and that’s what will happen in this case.” 
“In 10 years, it won’t mean anything. My work will live longer than I will, and that’s what will be remembered,” Spacey said.

Kevin Spacey Discusses Alleged Sexual Abuse Scandals: ‘In 10 Years, It Won’t Mean Anything’

Kevin Spacey Discusses Alleged Sexual Abuse Scandals: 'In 10 Years, It Won’t Mean Anything'

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