#MeToo 2

This one is pretty interesting.

Timothy Hutton Raped Me When I Was 14, Says Canadian Ex-Model

Hutton “completely and unequivocally denies” Johnston’s allegations. In a statement, his lawyer said the actor, whose series Almost Family concluded its first season on Fox in February, has never met Johnston at all and “will not spend one more minute dignifying these allegations as they are patently false and designed only to extort money from him.” As for her story, he says she has “provided salacious, heinous, and graphic details of this made-up sexual encounter that supposedly occurred 36 years ago. Although these were disgusting details any smut fiction writer could conjure up,” there is no evidence to support them. Hutton's attorney further said Johnston's story is “fabricated” and contains “patently false, scurrilous, and defamatory statements.”

To counter her claims, Hutton has enlisted two law firms and three spokespeople. The actor’s representatives have provided BuzzFeed News with an extensive array of information, including a 91-page letter (which they said may not be quoted), meant to discredit Johnston and halt this article.

The substance of their argument: Johnston is a liar who’s trying to shake Hutton down.

As proof, they cite the fact that she didn’t raise the issue until 2017, 34 years after she claims the incident took place — and when she did raise it, she hired a lawyer to pursue a financial settlement rather than going to the police. They point to the fact that she has no eyewitness to the alleged assault itself. Most damning of all, they said, is the fact that last March, an ex-boyfriend of hers reached out to the man she said assaulted her alongside Hutton and offered to personally broker some sort of deal.

Johnston agreed that her friend’s actions look bad. “It put me in a very difficult situation,” she said.

But as for seeking a financial settlement, Johnston points out that Hutton did in fact agree to a payment, albeit for $135,000 — far less than the $1.5 million her lawyer proposed.

After signing the initial documents, however, she walked away from the deal. She said she couldn’t stomach the terms of the agreement, which includes Hutton’s denial that anything happened at all.

Hutton’s representatives said she was just mad she wasn’t getting more money.

 

Timothy Hutton Denies Allegations Of 1983 Sexual Assault; Calls Claims Failed “Extortion Attempts”

He went to the FBI before she went to the cops, which is unusual.

I mean, WTF is a 14-year-old doing alone with two men. Where the hell were Hollywood parents?

 

Yeah, what the fuck was an underage girl doing alone with two men? I mean, WTAF?!

 

I don't know the particulars of that girl's story.

 

Minnesota Public Radio reporter Marianne Combs resigns over stalled Current story | City Pages

 

There are things said by MPR’s president that remind me of the things Noah Oppenheim said when NBC News essentially killed the Harvey Weinstein story under duress of blackmail, as related in Ronan Farrow’s “Catch And Kill.”

 

Marilyn Manson, you’re up.

 

Crazy. Seems like such a nice guy.

 

Jake Paul Promised Them Fame. Was It Worth the Price?

 

The parents who raised the Paul brothers did a fucking fantastic job didn't they?

 

Unfortunately, it'll be business as usual for the Pauls a few months after this story. The brothers will still rake in millions, with Jake continuing his experimental LARP as a boxer.

 

Ken Stringfellow on the clock.

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/posies-break-up-sexual-misconduct-allegations-1235097314/