Category: rape

Second Woman Accuses Leon Black of Rape; Black’s Rep Calls Claim ‘Complete Fiction’

September 21, 2021
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NEW YORK—A second woman has accused former Apollo Global Management Inc Chief Executive Leon Black of rape, saying he attacked her in the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in 2002. The claim, by a woman identified as “Jane Doe,” was included in a proposed amended civil lawsuit filed on Monday night by Guzel…

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Police in China Detain Canadian Pop Star Kris Wu Over Rape Allegation

August 2, 2021
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BEIJING—Police in China said they have detained a 30-year-old Canadian man surnamed Wu on suspicion of committing rape, with state media identifying him as Chinese-born pop singer Kris Wu. Wu was being investigated over accusations made online of “tricking young girls into having sex with him,” according to a statement by police in the Chaoyang…

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 Judge Grants Motion to Dismiss Charges for 2 Victims in Rape Case

July 15, 2021
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SANTA ANA—An Orange County Superior Court judge on July 14 granted a request by prosecutors to dismiss charges related to two alleged rape victims in the case against a Newport Beach hand surgeon and his girlfriend, who are accused in drugging and sexually assaulting several women. Prosecutors from the California Attorney General’s Office had said…

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Former Classmate Charged in 1995 Murder of Mary Catherine Edwards

May 9, 2021
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A former classmate has been charged in the 26-year-old case of Mary Catherine Edwards, who was raped and murdered in 1995. Edwards was a teacher who lived alone in Beaumont, Texas. She was last seen on the evening of Jan. 13, 1995. Her parents discovered her body in the bathroom after going to her house…

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Man Sentenced To Life For Role In Long Beach Woman’s Killing

March 30, 2021
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LONG BEACH—One of three men who had been on death row for the December 1998 rape and beating death of a mother of three attacked while walking to a store in Long Beach was re-sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Superior Court Judge Laura Laesecke said the maximum possible sentence…

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Greens Senator Retracts Comments, Apologises After Minister Sues

March 24, 2021
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Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters has issued a public apology for the defamatory comments she made about Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. Waters admitted that on Feb. 21, she published a media release on her website and Twitter and made comments during a press conference that contained false and defamatory statements that Dutton, a Liberal…

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Turnbull Reveals Contact With Rape Victim

February 28, 2021
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Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for a coronial inquiry into the death of a woman who claimed to have been raped in 1988 by a man who is now a federal cabinet minister. Turnbull has also revealed the woman wrote to him in 2019 with details of the allegations and he had…

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Rape Allegation Against Australian Cabinet Minister

February 26, 2021
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A letter has been sent to Prime Minister Scott Morrison alleging a 1988 rape by a current cabinet minister. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is now dealing with allegations of a sexual assault in relation to one of his own cabinet ministers in 1988. A letter was sent to Morrison, as well as Labor’s leader in…

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Australian PM ‘Upset’ by Second Assault Allegation

February 19, 2021
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A former Liberal staffer has made a formal police complaint about her alleged rape amid reports of a second incident allegedly involving the same man. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says allegations a second woman was sexually assaulted by the same man who allegedly abused former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House are distressing and…

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