UPDATE, 1:45 PM: Back in the old days, news that people wanted buried or forgotten was often dumped on a Friday in the hopes it would be lost over the weekend. Not sure the strategic principle still applies in the digital age, but today it was announced that the latest hearing in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case will be…

UPDATE, 7:23 AM: Harvey Weinstein officially has a new defense team today, according to the New York Supreme Court. “Welcome to the New York State Supreme Court,” Justice James Burke told attorneys Ronald Sullivan Jose Baez and Duncan Levin this morning in a hearing in lower Manhattan with the disgraced producer in…

UPDATED: Rose McGowan took to Twitter to clarify her blunt thoughts on the #MeToo movement that she made during her interview with The Sunday Times Magazine. “I never said #MeToo is a lie. Ever.” she wrote. “I was talking about Hollywood and Time's Up, not #MeToo. Ugh. I'm so tired of erroneous sh*tstorms. #MeToo is…

Asia Argento seems to have accepted an apology from Rose McGowan over the latter’s incendiary comparison of Argento to Harvey Weinstein. “Although I am grateful to @rosemcgowan for her full apology following her groundless allegations about me, if she had issued it earlier, I may have kept my job on X-Factor and…

Thursday update, Sept 20: The time was set. The time has passed. Asia Argento has said on Twitter that she is moving ahead with plans to sue Rose McGowan. The actress updated, “I must inform you that I’ve instructed Mishcon de Reya to seek for substantial damages for deception, fraud, coercion and libel. You will hear…

"Contrary to [Ronan] Farrow's claims, his story was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards," the Comcast-owned network division said this morning in the latest blast after days of dust-ups over how the now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s investigation into claims of sexual harassment and…

Rose McGowan has opened up about being "betrayed" by fellow MeToo movement campaigner Asia Argento and referred to Harvey Weinstein as the "cult leader" of Hollywood. McGowan was in London doing the rounds of breakfast television series including Piers Morgan-fronted Good Morning Britain and Channel 5's Jeremy Vine…

“Be the person you wish Harvey could have been,” Rose McGowan bluntly asked Asia Argento today in a lengthy statement addressing the sexual assault claims against the filmmaker, activist and alleged Harvey Weinstein victim. In her second set of remarks since stories first emerged of Argento being involved with…

Tarana Burke, the activist who coined the phrase that started the #MeToo movement, reacted Monday to the news of Asia Argento allegedly paying off an underage sexual assault victim in 2013, saying “sexual assault is about power and privilege,” and “that doesn't change if the perpetrator is your favorite actress…

Rose McGowan says her "heart is broken" following a report published by the New York Times on Sunday that Asia Argento had arranged a deal to pay a man who accused the Italian actress and filmmaker of sexually assaulting him when he was 17 in 2013. Rather than fully distancing herself from Argento however, activist…

UPDATE, 11:41 AM: In a PR face plant by a team that clearly can’t spin straight, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer and the columnist who claimed the disgraced producer said he offered movie roles for sex now are trying desperately to put out the blaze from the damning quote. "I was present for the conversation; it was not an…

Rose McGowan was indicted today in Loudoun County, VA on one count of cocaine possession. The news stems from a January 2017 incident in which she left her wallet on her seat after a United Airlines flight into Washington, DC’s Dulles Airport. Police said two bags of cocaine were discovered inside. The charge carries…