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Gerard Depardieu, left, arrives at his trial this week for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021, with his lawyer Jeremie Assous.

Gerard Depardieu is standing trial for sexual assault. He says he doesn’t know what that means

The French actor, 76, told a court that placing a hand on someone’s buttocks isn’t sexual assault and that the #MeToo movement is “a form of hysteria”.

  • Juliette Jabkhiro

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Finding supporters among judges and lawyers: former High Court judge Dyson Heydon.

A kick in the guts for women: The legal profession’s re-embrace of a disgraced judge

What message does it send when judges and lawyers lionise former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, who was found to have sexually harassed a number of associates and who drove women from the profession?

  • Gabrielle Appleby
Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce

‘You’re not a victim’: Kevin Spacey claps back at Guy Pearce over targeting accusations

Actor Kevin Spacey has responded to accusations from Guy Pearce that Spacey “targeted” him while on the set of L.A. Confidential.

  • Nell Geraets
Seam ‘Diddy’ Combs is suing NBC Universal.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sues major media company over new documentary

Combs has been held in custody in Brooklyn since his arrest in September on racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking charges.

  • Philip Marcelo
Blake Lively in It Ends With Us

Blake Lively hit with defamation suit by Justin Baldoni’s crisis PR team

It is the fifth lawsuit filed in the months-long celebrity feud that began when Lively accused movie co-star and director Justin Baldoni, of sexually harassing her on set.

  • Brittany Busch
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer at the premiere of Good Omens in London in 2019.

Neil Gaiman accuser files case alleging sexual assault, human trafficking

A New Zealand woman has filed a lawsuit accusing the author of rape and his estranged wife Amanda Palmer of presenting her to him for abuse.

  • Todd Richmond
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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

Judge warns Baldoni, Lively lawyers in It Ends With Us dispute

In the first court hearing of the high-profile celebrity feud, lawyers for the two actors have traded barbs.

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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.

Texts, lies and videotape: Making sense of the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case

It’s the highest profile celebrity feud we’ve seen for years and – more than ever – it pays to be sceptical about what you hear.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Neil Gaiman in 2015: “We realised that we were pretty similar kinds of people.”

Neil Gaiman’s new books cancelled amid sex abuse allegations

The final volume of Gaiman’s collaboration with Marc Bernardin will no longer be published following sexual assault claims against the author.

  • Ruth Hallows
Neil Gaiman pictured in Melbourne last January.

‘Entirely consensual’: Neil Gaiman responds to accusations of sexual assault

The writer has issued a statement denying allegations of assault and coercion made by a number of women.

  • Elisabeth Egan and Alexandra Alter

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