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The comedian turned influencer said he had had an “extraordinary and distressing week” before accusing the British government of trying to censor him.

British police say they received a sexual assault allegation after media outlets published claims against comedian Russell Brand.

Russell Brand’s management agency terminated all professional ties to the actor and comedian after sexual assault allegations were published Saturday following a joint investigation by The Times of London, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.

That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the rapes of two women two decades ago. Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo handed down the sentence to the 47-year-old Masterson at a hearing on Thursday.

Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter is facing two civil lawsuits in Las Vegas brought separately by women who allege he sexually assaulted them in 2001 and 2003.

A CIA officer trainee has been convicted in Virginia of attacking a female colleague with a scarf and kissing her inside a stairwell at the agency’s headquarters in Langley.

The “Sex and the City” actor Chris Noth admitted to infidelity but continues to deny allegations of sexual assault.

Fabian Marta—who was one of the crowd funders for the 2023 film “Sound of Freedom” about saving children from human trafficking—was arrested and charged with accessory to child kidnapping.

A federal lawsuit was filed against Delta Air Lines last week accusing flight attendants of failing to intervene after a male passenger was allegedly served at least 10 alcoholic drinks and then groped a mother and her 16-year-old daughter, according to the filing.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order giving decisions on the prosecution of serious military crimes including sexual assault to independent military attorneys. The order signed Friday takes that power away from victims’ commanders.

A London jury has acquitted Kevin Spacey on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations by four men dating back 20 years.

Elton John has testified for the defense at Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault trial as the actor’s lawyer attempted to discredit a man who claimed the Oscar winner aggressively grabbed his crotch in a car on the way to the singer’s house.

Actor Kevin Spacey dismissed sexual assault allegations made against as “absolute bollocks” as he took the stand for a second day in his U.K. trial.

Italians are using social media to denounce a court verdict clearing a school janitor of a sexual assault charge for groping a 17-year-old student because it only lasted “around five/10 seconds.”

Matthew Nilo was in court in Boston to face new charges over five attacks on four women in the city’s historic North End between 2007 and 2008. Lawyers also discussed the case against him involving four alleged sexual assaults in Charlestown around the same time.

The New Jersey attorney was indicted last month on seven charges, including rape, aggravated rape and sexual assault.

A New Jersey lawyer is accused of attacking one woman twice within two weeks as part of a string of sexual assaults he’s accused of about 15 years ago in Boston, prosecutors said Thursday. Matthew Nilo was in court in Boston to face new charges over five attacks on four women in the city’s historic North End between 2007 and…

Stephen Sauer, 61, targeted people in the city’s French Quarter who appeared drunk, lost or in need of help, according to Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul D. Connick Jr.

The U.S. Coast Guard apologized Friday for not taking “appropriate action” years ago when it failed to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service’s Connecticut academy. The service also acknowledged it did not widely disclose its six-year internal investigation into dozens of cases from 1988 to 2006. Two U.S. senators on Friday said in a...

The country singer and his estranged wife, Alexis Allen, have two children together and another on the way.