"The year has been in some ways just extraordinary in a beautiful way and it's been in some ways extraordinary in a really challenging way," proclaims Mapplethorpe producer Eliza Dushku. From almost any perspective, that seems like an understatement from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Married last summer and…

Claiming that there's been nothing but "deflection, denial, and spin" from CBS, Bull's Michael Weatherly and an EP on the drama over revelations of harassment and the $9.5 million settlement she received, Eliza Dushku today decided to tell her own side of the story – and it doesn't read well for the already…

After it was revealed that Les Moonves was directly involved in a $9.5 million payout to Eliza Dushku in January after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum accused Bull star Michael Weatherly of sexual harassment, Weatherly’s former NCIS alums took to Twitter to defend their former co-star. NCIS fan favorite Pauley Perret…

EXCLUSIVE: As accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein and others began flooding Hollywood early this year, CBS’ then-CEO Les Moonves stepped in to settle claims against one of the network’s biggest stars. Moonves was deeply and directly involved in the $9.5 million payout that CBS…

CBS paid Eliza Dushku $9.5 million to resolve claims that she was retaliated against for complaining about sexual harassment on the set of the prime time drama Bull, according to a report in the New York Times. Dushku appeared in three episodes of the show and had been assured of a significant recurring role, the NYT…

For the last 15 years, Bring It On and Dollhouse actress Eliza Dushku and her brother Nate Dushku have been trying to mount a biopic about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. “It’s not the easiest thing to get an art film financed, we’re not a Marvel comic,” she told Deadline at our Tribeca studio. In…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this occasional column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: Whether it’s Hollywood industry news or sexual harassment allegations, the speed at which trade journalism takes place…

True Lies star Arnold Schwarzenegger has weighed on the controversy surrounding Eliza Dushku’s allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of that 1994 film’s stunt coordinator, Joel Kramer. Replying to a tweet by co-star Tom Arnold, the former California governor wrote: Tom, you bet your ass all of us would have done…

Two veteran stunt women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by famed stunt coordinator Joel Kramer. One involves a 10th grade girl who came to the North Carolina set of Virus in the spring of 1997 to see how movies are made, while a second woman claims that more than 30 years ago Kramer forced her…

On the heels of Eliza Dushku accusing famed stunt coordinator Joel Kramer of sexually assaulting her on the set of the 1994 movie True Lies when she was 12 and he was 36, Kramer has been dropped as a client by his agency, Worldwide Production Agency. “WPA has elected to part ways with Joel Kramer based on the…

Jamie Lee Curtis, who starred as the mother of Eliza Dushku’s character in 1994’s True Lies, says Dushku shared her story of sexual abuse with Curtis “privately a few years ago,” and that the older actress “was shocked and saddened then and still am today.” In a column written for the Huffington Post today, Curtis…

UPDATED with Rae Sanchini’s statement: Two more people close to Eliza Dushku, her agent at the time JoAnne Colonna and longtime friend Peter Conti, have come forward to support the actress’ account of sexual assault at the hands of top stunt coordinator Joel Kramer during the filming of the 1994 hit True Lies when she…