BILL O’REILLY
The Fox News host was fired in September over sexual harassment allegations
He was ousted after it emerged that Fox News had secretly settled multi-million lawsuits with at least five women who had accused O’Reilly of sexually harassing them when they worked together.
‘Nobody is a perfect person but I can go to sleep at night very well knowing that I never mistreated anyone on my watch in 42 years,’ he said. ‘This was a political and financial hit job.’
HARVEY WEINSTEIN
Weinstein was ousted from the movie company he founded following a barrage of sexual harassment allegations that began with a bombshell New York Times article in early October.
The disgraced movie mogul is facing more than 80 sexual misconduct allegations dating all the way back to the 1970s, but claims he never engaged in non-consensual sex with women.
Weinstein, 65, is being investigated by police in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, New York and London
TERRY RICHARDSON
The 52-year-old photographer from New York was banned in October from working with several major fashion magazines amid resurfacing sexual harassment claims.
Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair were among those who were told to ‘kill’ any scheduled shoots with the snapper by parent group Condé Nast International.
Richardson has been the subject of widespread allegations of sexually abusing models over his lengthy career — accusations he has constantly denied.
MATT HALPERIN
In late October, CNN first reported that the veteran journalist sexually harassed at least five women during his stint as political director for ABC News from 1997 to 2006.
The former ABC and MSNBC reporter did not contest any of the accusations against him, saying instead that he ‘was part of the problem’ of workplace harassment at ABC News’.
He quickly issued an apology, saying: ‘I am profoundly sorry for the pain and anguish that I have caused by my past actions.’
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
Three woman have come forward within the space of a month to accuse Hoffman, 80, of sexual harassment.
Kathryn Rossetter played Hoffman’s mistress in the 1984 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, said the actor groped her on stage nightly and refused to stop even when she tearfully pleaded with him to leave her alone.
Anna Graham Hunter said Hoffman repeatedly groped and harassed her when she was a 17-year-old production assistant on the Death of a Salesman movie, while Wendy Riss Gatsiounis told Variety about how Hoffman asked her several sex-fueled questions during a business meeting in 1991.
Last week John Oliver confronted the movie legend about the allegations at a film screening, but Hoffman denied the claims in a heated exchange with the pundit.
KEVIN SPACEY
On October 29, Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp told BuzzFeed that Spacey made sexual advances toward him when the two were in Spacey’s New York apartment in 1986, when he was just 14 years old.
Spacey said he didn’t remember the specifics of the encounter, but that he nonetheless apologized to Rapp.
Since then 11 more accusers have come forward, including the teenage son of Boston news anchor Heather Unruh, who claimed Spacey had sexually assaulting him at a bar in July 2016.
There are a further 20 claims under investigation by the Old Vic, where Spacey was the former artistic director. He has declined to comment on additional accusations.
JEREMY PIVEN
Four women have accused the Entourage star of sexual assault or harassment, including reality star Ariane Bellamar who said he had repeatedly groped her breasts.
A rep for Piven, 52, issued a stern denial on behalf of the Entourage star in response to Bellamar’s allegations.
‘I unequivocally deny the appalling allegations being peddled about me,’ Piven said in a statement.
‘It did not happen. It takes a great deal of courage for victims to come forward with their histories, and my hope is that the allegations about me that didn’t happen, do not detract from stories that should be heard.’
He’s also denied accusations against him by others, including Washington-based advertising executive Tiffany Bacon Scourby who said that for 15 minutes, Piven rubbed his bare genitals on her fully clothed body then ‘ejaculated’ on to her white turtleneck.
LOUIS C.K.
The comedian was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by five women in a New York Times expose in November and quickly released a statement.
‘These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my d*** without asking first, which is also true,’ he said.
‘But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d*** isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them.’
His accusers included comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov who said they were invited to his hotel room in Aspen, Colorado back in 2002 after they had performed at the US Comedy Arts Festival.
They claimed he asked them if he could take his penis out as soon as they got into the room.
‘He proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating,’ they told the Times, as they recalled screaming and laughing in shock.
‘We were paralyzed,’ Goodman added.
AL FRANKEN
Senator Al Franken has said he doesn’t remember two alleged groping incidents and that he recalls an alleged kissing incident ‘differently’ than accuser Leeann Tweeden.
‘I am going to try to learn from my mistakes,’ the Minnesota Democratic senator told reporters at the Capitol in his first televised press conference since Tweeden made bombshell allegations about Franken’s conduct on a USO tour and released a photo of him appearing to grab her breasts while she was sleeping.
JEFFREY TAMBOR
In a private Facebook, Tambor’s former assistant, a transgender woman named Van Barnes, accused the actor of inappropriate behavior, including telling her: ‘You will love my d**k’.
In a statement, the Emmy-winning actor ‘adamantly and vehemently’ denied any wrongdoing, and called Barnes ‘disgruntled’.
Trace Lysette, a transgender actress who plays Shea on ‘Transparent’, also told The Hollywood Reporter that Tambor ‘has made many sexual advances and comments at me, but one time it got physical.’
Tambor, 73, then announced he was quitting his Amazon show Transparent and referenced what he calls a ‘politicized atmosphere’ that has afflicted the set. He also says that the idea that he would deliberately harass anyone is untrue.
CHARLIE ROSE
The broadcast journalist was fired by CBS in late November after 13 women accused him of sexual harassment, with three more coming forward just hours later.
Rose was initially suspended from the network when the Washington Post published the accounts of eight women who claim they were sexually harassed or assaulted by the journalist. That was followed by additional allegations from five other women.
In a lengthy statement in response to the expose, Rose did not deny all of the allegations being made by the women but said that he did not believe all of his accusers were ‘accurate’ in heir description of his offenses.
‘It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed,’ stated Rose.
‘I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.’
MATT LAUER
The popular host’s termination from NBC was announced on November 30, with NBC News chief Andrew Lack saying they had received a complaint Lauer had engaged in ‘inappropriate sexual behavior’.
The complaint is said to have been from an employee who accused Lauer of inappropriate sexual conduct that began during their trip at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and went on for several months, according to Variety.
Lauer is also accused of exposing his genitals to a female NBC worker in his office and reprimanded her to when she did not engage with him sexually, while another said he had given a co-worker a sex toy with an X-rated note about his intentions for the device, Variety reported.
In a statement in the wake of the revelations, Lauer took a contrite tone and said he was focused on righting past wrongs.
He said: ‘Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.’
DONALD TRUMP
More than a dozen women have accused the US president of acts of sexual harassment and assault, dating back as far as 1980.
These include Mindy McGillivray who says Trump groped her at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida more than a decade ago.
Miss USA pageant contestant Cassandra Searles has said that Trump had ‘continually grabbed my ass’.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said that all the women are lying during a White House briefing.