#MeToo

Aerosmith star Steven Tyler has been hit with a lawsuit over a relationship he allegedly had with a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s, with the rocker being accused of sexually abusing an underage girl.

The lawsuit was filed by Julia Holcomb under California’s Child Victims Act, which created a three-year “look-back” window for filing civil suits over child sexual abuse claims, temporarily lifting the statute of limitations, according to the Daily Mail — in Holcomb’s case, her window expires Saturday, December 31.

She should probably be suing her Mother as well.

GATINEAU, Que. – A judge has acquitted Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin of sexual assault over an allegation that dates back to 1988.

The allegation stemmed from his time at the military college in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., which the complainant also attended.

A judge has sentenced former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard to five years in prison for a particularly “manipulative and degrading” rape.

“I believe (the victim). I accept her evidence in its entirety,” Justice Gillian Roberts said in a Toronto court Thursday.

After a four-week trial in May and a six-days of contentious deliberation, a jury found the 38-year-old former Hedley frontman guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm of the Ottawa woman, but not guilty of groping a 15-year-old fan after a concert and sexually assaulting her in a hotel room after she turned 16.

The verdict is in. Everyone waiting outside slips nervously back into the vast Toronto courtroom at 361 University Ave., an amalgam of old wood, blue speckled carpet, fancy office chairs, cameras, flat screens, plastic water bottles, and well-worn pews.

FAIRFAX, Va. — Inside Courtroom 5J here in Fairfax County Circuit Court, actress Amber Heard walked out of the courtroom alone last week, grim and stone-faced, after a jury delivered a stinging verdict. In a statement posted on Instagram, her ex-husband Johnny Depp wrote: “Veritas numquam perit. Truth never perishes.”

The verdict wasn’t just against Heard for defaming Depp. It was a searing indictment of a sorry chapter in American justice: the illogical, unjust “Believe Her” industry that made Heard a poster girl for a corrupt movement determined to crush men and stamp out a keystone of our civil liberties.

It is often easy to see where social movements begin, though slightly harder to discern where they end. So it is with MeToo, a movement which may be sputtering to an end in a Virginia courtroom, whatever verdict is reached.

The MeToo movement began in 2017 with the overdue revelations about Harvey Weinstein. From there it spilt across the entertainment industry, with campaigners trying to roll it out across society as a whole. A certain type of predatory male was believed to be overdue for a comeuppance. Though in general, if you are fighting for the rights of women then Hollywood, the place which invented the term “casting couch”, may prove an imperfect field of battle.

Elon Musk hit back at his critics and said a series of salacious sexual harassment allegations revealed Thursday were a ‘despicable’ attack motivated by politics amid his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

The bombshell report, published by Insider, alleged that Musk’s SpaceX paid $250,000 in severance to one of the company’s corporate flight attendants after she filed a formal complaint against the tech mogul claiming he exposed himself to her and propositioned her for sex.

The flight attendant, who has not been named, also alleged the billionaire rubbed her leg and offered her gifts – including a horse – in exchange for an erotic massage.

#IStandWithOligarchs

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, ‘one of the greatest scientists’ of his generation.

In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist. He was a tenured professor at MIT. He ran a major lab at the Whitehead Institute, overseeing a team of 39 researchers, postdocs and technicians. Their job was to disentangle the mystery of the mTOR signaling pathway, a protein Sabatini had discovered while still in medical school, at Johns Hopkins. The mTOR signaling pathway plays a critical role in tumor development. Figuring out how it works would go a long way toward saving countless lives.

This was why Sabatini was predicted to win the Nobel Prize. It was how he reeled in between three and four million dollars every year for his lab from the National Institutes of Health, the Pentagon and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, among others. It is why his colleagues have described him to me with words like “genius,” “one of the best scientists alive,” and “a pillar.”

How gross do you have to be to be involved with the pervy, pervy Lincoln Project?

The scandal-plagued NGO of ex-Republicans devoted to destroying President Trump has seen its share of sex scandals involving one of its founders, John Weaver, harassing and soliciting unwilling young men and at least one 14-year-old boy. But that’s not their only scandal; there’s a new one involving mysterious payouts for some sort of bad behavior, and these scandals aren’t over.