Man stabbed his own mom 42 times, claims he was under ‘Russian mind control’
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Court documents detail the moments before, during and after a man allegedly stabbed his own mother to death in Tehachapi in October.
Documents detail Matthew Jensen’s mental state, the number of times he stabbed his mother Barbara Jensen Teague, his claims as to his possible reasoning and that he had been released from a hospital for mental evaluation the day before her death.
On October 24, Jensen was pulled over in Kingman, Arizona. At the time he was pulled over, documents show that Jensen attempted to kill himself using a small pocket knife. Jensen apparently slit both his wrists and stabbed himself in the chest. He was taken to Kingman Regional Medical Center where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
It was during that stop that the welfare of Jensen’s mother became a priority for law enforcement.
Kern County Sheriff’s officials went to the home in Tehachapi where the two lived together. After not getting an answer at the door, officials made their way into the home. That’s where they found the body of Barbara Jensen Teague, covered in blood.
A coroner’s report shows Teague was stabbed 42 times.
The coroner’s report states she was stabbed, “17 to her right flank, 13 to the right side of her trunk, five to the back of her right arm, three to her right thigh, two to her back, one behind her right ear, and one inside of her left thumb. As a result of those stab wounds (Teague) had three stab wounds to her right lung, five stab wounds to her liver, and multiple sta wounds to her small and large bowels.”
Court documents also give a synopsis of an interview with Jensen following the murder of his mom.
Documents show that he said he was “incredibly happy” while living with Teague. He claims to have entered her room while she was sleeping. He had a knife with a six-inch blade. She was in the fetal position when he began stabbing her.
Documents show that Jensen said his mom “thrashed and struggled” and she said “stop, stop” as he continued to stab her. Jensen then said he “kept going”. After stabbing his mom, he went to a bathroom to wash his hands.
About 20 minutes after he stabbed her, documents state that he loaded the family dog into his mom’s car and began driving east.
Jensen said “the pain and the guilt of killing his mother caused him to cut both of his wrists with a Leatherman style tool, located in the car. Jensen said he also stabbed himself twice in the chest in attempt to commit suicide.”
When asked why he tried to commit suicide Jensen said, “I knew what I had done”.
While being interviewed, Jensen said he was “under Russian mind control” and that he was hearing voices. He said “the voices had told him to kill his mother. … ‘I did what they told me, I killed my own mother’”.
After allegedly killing his mom, documents state that Jensen didn’t remember anything. He said he remembered feeling compelled to kill himself, but instead killed her.
Jensen said he remembered looking “in her bedroom and she been stabbed to death. He stated ‘Oh my God’, no one could have done that but me”.
Court documents also show that Jensen had been taken to Adventist Health hospital in Tehachapi on October 23, the day before his mother was found dead.
His mom had said he was acting strangely the days leading to his being evaluated for a 5150 mental health evaluation.
While in the hospital Jensen got out of his bed and ran down the hallway yelling that “his mother needed to be saved and she was dead”.
At that point, his mother was still alive.
A synopsis from the Tehachapi Police Department shows that Jensen’s nurse said he had not made any suicidal or homicidal statements.
Officers talked to Jensen who “was calm and polite”. Jensen also said he did not feel like hurting himself or anyone else.
The police report recommendation stated, “No further action needed, based on my interviews with (redacted) and (redacted) it appeared Jensen did suffer from some type of unknown mental health disorder. Jensen, however, at this time did not appear to be a danger to himself or others, nor did he appear to be gravely disabled to the point he could not care for himself, thus a 5150 mental health hold was not placed on him.”
On October 24, Barbara Jensen Teague was found dead.
Jensen was initially being held in Mohave, Arizona before he was extradited to Kern County.
He’s since pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
Jensen is scheduled to be in court next on January 17.
Kelly Cutrone: Russell Simmons tried to rape me
Furious about Russell Simmons denying rape allegations against him, Kelly Cutrone has come forward to say that Simmons attempted to rape her in 1991.
Cutrone, who founded fashion PR powerhouse People’s Revolution and has starred in MTV’s “The Hills” and “America’s Next Top Model,” says she was incensed on Thursday to learn that Simmons was trying to start a #NotMe movement to deny sexual assault accusations that are made as part of the #MeToo movement. She said, “The #NotMe thing? I’m going to do a #YeahYou. F–k you.”
Simmons has been accused of sexual misconduct — including rape — by some 12 women. Although he has stepped down from his companies, including RUSH Communications, he strenuously denies any non-consensual sex.
Cutrone told Page Six that in 1991, when she was 26, she bumped into Simmons — whom she knew as a casual acquaintance — at a party and walked with him to another party. She tells us that he invited her to his apartment, and when she declined, the mogul said he needed to drop in at a friend’s house. Cutrone says she agreed to go, but she believes he led her to his own apartment instead.
“He pushed me into his apartment and then he threw me down on the floor and literally tried to grab … take my clothes off of me,” Cutrone told us, “And I started kicking him really, really hard, screaming, telling him to get the f–k off of me. And that I would have him killed if he ever f–king laid a hand on me.” She added, “I actually think I told him I would call Page Six! I was a publicist! I think I told him I would call Page Six and have him murdered.”
A friend of Cutrone’s, Tatijana Shoan, tells Page Six that she vividly remembers Cutrone telling her ex-husband Ronnie Cutrone — whom Shoan was dating — about Simmons attacking her.
Cutrone told us that after the alleged ordeal, she ran out of the apartment. “[Simmons] was just really shaken up and I f–king split. I remember running out the door and getting a cab and all I remember was that I got in a cab and I remember a feeling — which was so crazy — of, ‘Oh my god. Somebody just tried to rape me. What do I do?’ And then the energy of going to the police and pressing charges against him was overwhelming to me.”
She added, “Then what would happen afterward — and this would happen years afterward — I’d be at a table and Russell f–king Simmons would come up to the table and then people would be like, ‘Kelly, do you know Russell?,’ and I’d be like, ‘Yes, I know Russell — he tried to rape me.’”
Cutrone says she’s was horrified by Simmons’ #NotMe idea, which he unveiled on Instagram on Thursday saying, “My intention is not to diminish the #MeToo movement in anyway, but instead hold my accusers accountable.” Cutrone told us, “It’s a call to every man who wants the right to abuse women to continue.”
“All these guys [who have been accused of rape, including Simmons and Harvey Weinstein] have been doing is, like, go, like, ‘Hey, I’m really, really sorry and I’m going to step away from my business,’” said Cutrone, “But you know what, a lot of these women have to go to work everyday because they have to pay bills and they haven’t made $100 million.” Of Simmons — an avid yogi — she added, “I hope he chokes on his om pendant.”
Simmons’ lawyer provided a statement to Page Six which didn’t address Cutrone’s claims, but referred to the mass of allegations against him: “I vehemently deny all these allegations. These horrific accusations have shocked me to my core and all of my relations have been consensual.”
He added that he has “enormous respect for the women’s movement worldwide and their struggle for respect, dignity, equality and power” and said he was “devastated by any reason I may have given to anyone to say or think of me in the ways that are currently being described.”
The statement went on: “In recent weeks, some former business, creative and romantic partners have aired grievances as claims I categorically reject. In some of these instances, financial motives and direct contradictory witness testimony has been supplied to the media, which has been completely left out of stories. In the last few days, one woman attempted to extort me for $500,000 only to recant her ridiculous claim.”
He said, “I have already apologized for the instances of thoughtlessness in my consensual relations. I have separated myself from my businesses and charities in order to not become a distraction.”
Omarosa fired, ‘physically dragged’ from the White House
Former “Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault Newman had to be dragged kicking and screaming from the White House Tuesday night after she refused to believe Donald Trump had fired her, according to reports.
The official version from the Trump administration was that the reality TV star turned political aide resigned “to pursue other opportunities.”
But numerous reports from inside the ever-leaky 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. had the now-ex director of communications for the Public Liaison office going out in a hail of profanities as Chief of Staff John Kelly told her to pack her things.
She then tried to storm into the president’s residence to appeal the decision to the commander-in-chief, according to a report.
“Gen Kelly Kicked her out [with] high drama with [Omarosa] offering vulgarities and curse words as she was escorted out of the building and off campus,” April Ryan, White House bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, tweeted Wednesday.
Ryan, who is also a CNN contributor, said in her radio report that Manigault Newman, 43, “was very upset and said that she wanted to speak to the president.
“Gen. Kelly said that the president was already informed and signed off,” she said, citing sources. “Gen. Kelly is also alleged to have said that this is not like going to the principal’s office.”
During the altercation, Manigault Newman told Kelly that she had brought the black vote to Trump, Ryan said, but he snapped: “No, that is not the case!”
After unleashing a stream of vulgarities, the spurned aide tried to walk over to Trump’s residence — but was stopped and physically removed her from the premises, Ryan added.
A White House official said she was “physically dragged” out, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Ryan — who was friends with Manigault Newman until their relationship soured earlier this year — said Secret Service agents were the ones acting as bouncers.
The agency later denied in a tweet that it was the muscle — but seemed to confirm she had to be “escorted” out, and noted that it had “deactivated” her security pass.
“The Secret Service was not involved in the termination process of Ms Manigault Newman or the escoprt off the complex,” the agency tweeted.
Marines also provide security in the White House.
Manigault Newman’s colleagues have often questioned her role in the White House — where she could be seen at presidential photo ops, strolling the corridors and occasionally in the briefing room.
She reportedly enjoyed unfettered access to Trump before Kelly took charge of the office — and was particularly effective at pushing his buttons with inflammatory news that often sparked some of his harshest tweets.
She’s widely believed to have been behind the president’s controversial tweet that “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski “was bleeding badly from a face-lift.”
When Kelly took over, he banned her from important meetings — which she’d previously waltzed into uninvited, the New York Times reported at the time.
Her departure also comes a month after an embarrassing report revealed that she brought her 39-person bridal party to the White House for a wedding photo shoot in April, blindsiding staff and security.
“The visitors loudly wandered around, looking to snap photos in the Rose Garden and throughout the West Wing,” Politico reported.
Two sources close to Trump said Manigault Newman’s departure has been a long time coming, CNN reported.
She had traveled with him to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson on Saturday, but a White House official told CNN that she has had no direct access to the president for months.
In August, Manigault Newman got into a shouting match at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in New Orleans, when she sidestepped questions about her role in the White House.
She recently said that she was ready for the next move — and wanted to spend time with her husband, travel to Europe and go back to being a minister.
Manigault Newman, a former Democrat, has known Trump since the first season of “The Apprentice” in 2004, when she emerged as the villainous breakout star.
“People have long been unsure what she did at the White House,” a former White House official told CNN. “Many of her colleagues are elated by today’s news.”
via: https://nypost.com/2017/12/13/omarosa-is-leaving-the-white-house/
Spotted Pig owner Ken Friedman kept a ‘rape room’ where chef Mario Batali allegedly groped unconscious woman
“We called him the Red Menace,” Nelson, 40, said of Batali. “He tried to touch my breasts and told me that they were beautiful. He wanted to wrestle. As I was serving drinks to his table, he told me I should sit on his friend’s face.”
Dozens of interviews with employees at the Spotted Pig and its sister restaurants revealed a toxic top-down culture set by Friedman that not only tolerated sexual harassment, but relished it, The Times reported.
Ten women said Friedman, 56, subjected them to harassing behaviors during their time under his management, such as unwanted groping or demands for sexually explicit photos.
Server Natalie Saibel said that in 2015, Friedman ran his hands over her buttocks and groin while they were together in a room packed with patrons. He excused the crude groping by joking he had to be sure she wasn’t smuggling a forbidden cell phone, she told The Times.
Carla Rza Betts, a former wine director at the Spotted Pig and two other Friedman properties — the Breslin and the John Dory — said she eventually quit in 2013 after multiple incidents of harassment.
She said one night in 2009, Friedman took her to a rooftop bar near the Breslin to scope out the competition. Without asking, he leaned over and planted a kiss on her lips, she said.
“In the moment, you are not thinking at all,” Rza Betts, 39, told The Times. “He’s your boss. You don’t punch him. You just don’t kiss back, and pull away and try to shake it off.”
After she left in a cab, Friedman started pelting her with inappropriate text messages that she saved and shared with the newspaper.
“G’nite gorgeous. Send me a sexy picture,” he wrote in the first.
“You wish,” Rza Betts wrote back before politely thanking him for an “excellent evening!”
“(Come) on. One sexy pic,” he pleaded.
She turned him down again, but he wouldn’t relent.
“Just 1. A hot 1,” he wrote. “Show me your body.”
When Rza Betts asked if Friedman was trying to “hustle” her, he responded, “Yes. Come on. Just one sexy picture. Please.”
He finally signed off by calling her a “meanie.”
“I was embarrassed, felt taken advantage of and emotionally manipulated,” Rza Betts said.
Friedman, who opened the Spotted Pig on West 11th Street in the West Village with the backing of Batali and music mogul Jay-Z, issued an apology published by The Times.
“Some incidents were not as described, but context and content are not today’s discussion,” he said. “I apologize now publicly for my actions.”
He called his behavior “abrasive, rude and frankly wrong,” and said the women who work at his restaurants “are among the best in the business and putting any of them in humiliating situations is unjustifiable.”
His company said Tuesday that Friedman would take an indefinite leave of absence, effective immediately.
The restaurant group’s partner and star chef April Bloomfield denied turning a blind eye to prior complaints about Friedman.
“In the two matters involving uninvited approaches that were brought to my attention over the years, I immediately referred both to our outside labor counsel and they were addressed internally,” she told The Times.
“I have spoken to Ken about professional boundaries and relied on him to uphold our policies. Nonetheless I feel we have let down our employees and for that I sincerely apologize,” she said.
Batali, meanwhile, took a leave of absence from his restaurant empire and cooking show “The Chew” on Monday after a report on the food news website Eater New York included four women accusing him of inappropriate touching.
Batali apologized in a statement, saying “much of the behavior described does, in fact, match up with ways I have acted.”
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Texas mother arrested after healthy son had 323 doctor visits, 13 surgeries, officials say
A Texas woman has been arrested after her 8-year-old son had hundreds of unnecessary hospital visits and 13 surgeries, officials say.
The tipping point came last month, when 34-year-old Kaylene Bowen-Wright brought her son Christopher Bowen to a Dallas hospital, claiming he had a seizure, according to documents obtained by the Star-Telegram of Fort Worth.
The medical staff reported seeing a “general and full shake,” but could find no evidence of a seizure, officials reported.
That led them to suspect that his symptoms may have been caused intentionally, and they alerted Child Protective Services — the second such report since 2015.
“I am very concerned that mother has moved from exaggerating symptoms to inducing symptoms,” Dr. Suzanne Dakil wrote in the CPS petition, the newspaper reported.
How did this happen?
Investigators believe the medical abuse began when Christopher was only 11 days old in 2009, the Star-Telegram said.
Medical records show Christopher saw the doctor 323 times in Dallas and Houston between 2009 and 2016, according to the CPS petition.
In his short life, Christopher was placed full time on oxygen and used a wheelchair at times. He had a feeding tube outfitted directly into his small intestine, which resulted in three life-threatening blood infections, the newspaper said.
Bowen-Wright had him in hospice care before and even tried to get him on the lung transplant list, the Star-Telegram added.
She was arrested and charged with injury to a child with serious bodily harm last week, according to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.
A YouCaring fundraiser two years ago, which raised more than $8,000, said the young boy was battling a severe case of arteriovenous malformation.
“Diagnosed at the age of two, the congenital condition is slowly taking the wind out of the sails of this bright and active boy,” the campaign reads.
Doctors determined Christopher does not have cancer or many of the symptoms his mother alleged. In fact, medical staff deemed a majority of his procedures unnecessary, according to the Star-Telegram.
‘The kids don’t deserve that’
The child’s father, Ryan Crawford, told the Star-Telegram that he tried to persuade Dallas County Family Court judges that his son was not sick.
“How do you do 13 surgeries? How do you do it?” he asked. “How do you do 13 surgeries and not question the fifth surgery? The sixth surgery?”
Since being removed from his mother’s care, Christopher eats regularly, has had no seizures, feeding tubes, oxygen or an IV, officials said.
Crawford is currently looking to get custody of Christopher, who, along with his two half-siblings, was removed from her care and placed in foster care.
“It’s horrible for my son, or any kid because obviously, my son is not the only one that has had to go through this type of torture,” Crawford told the newspaper.
Music Mogul Russell Simmons Is Accused of Rape by 3 Women
Mr. Simmons, a powerful gatekeeper in the entertainment and media worlds, damaged careers and
self-confidence with his pattern of sexual assault and harassment, the women say.
In 1995, Drew Dixon was working her dream job as an executive at Def Jam Recordings, helping to oversee a chart-topping album and a ubiquitous single by Method Man and Mary J. Blige. But as her star rose, Ms. Dixon, then 24, was spiraling into depression, she said, because of prolonged and aggressive sexual harassment by her direct supervisor, Russell Simmons, the rap mogul and co-founder of the label.
On work calls, he would talk graphically about how she aroused him. At a staff meeting, he asked her to sit on his lap. He regularly exposed his erect penis to her. Late that year, Mr. Simmons raped her in his downtown Manhattan apartment, Ms. Dixon said. She quit Def Jam soon after.
“I was broken,” she said.
In recent interviews, four women spoke on the record about a pattern of violent sexual behavior by Mr. Simmons, disclosing incidents from 1988 to 2014. Three of the women say that he raped them.
In each case, numerous friends and associates said they were told of the incidents at the time. The women said they were inspired to come forward in the aftermath of the accusations against Harvey Weinstein, as victims’ stories have been newly elevated and more often believed.
Told in detail about the rape accusations and other misconduct, Mr. Simmons, 60, said in a statement: “I vehemently deny all these allegations. These horrific accusations have shocked me to my core and all of my relations have been consensual.”
He added: “I have enormous respect for the women’s movement worldwide and their struggle for respect, dignity, equality and power.”
[Read Russell Simmons’s Complete Statement]
Last month, Mr. Simmons — a forefather of hip-hop who went on to great success in fashion, media and more — apologized for being “thoughtless and insensitive” and announced he was stepping down from his companies after the screenwriter Jenny Lumet became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual assault at the time.
“I have re-dedicated myself to spiritual learning, healing and working on behalf of the communities to which I have devoted my life,” he said in his statement on Wednesday. “I have accepted that I can and should get dirt on my sleeves if it means witnessing the birth of a new consciousness about women.
“What I will not accept is responsibility for what I have not done. I have conducted my life with a message of peace and love. Although I have been candid about how I have lived in books and interviews detailing my flaws, I will relentlessly fight against any untruthful character assassination that paints me as a man of violence.”
The most powerful men and companies in popular music have thus far gone largely unscathed in the national reckoning over sexual abuse. A major reason: Sex and debauchery are built into the music industry, where the boundaries between work and play blur in late nights at clubs and studios, and many women have scant power or incentive to complain about being mistreated.
These women still face powerful industry gatekeepers like Mr. Simmons, whose pedigree and ability to make or break careers allowed his abusive behavior to go unchallenged for decades, his accusers contend. “Russell was like the king of hip-hop,” Ms. Dixon said.
She said she was later harassed by another boss, L.A. Reid, the music legend known for his work with TLC and Mariah Carey, driving her from a business where women had little autonomy. In a statement to The New York Times, Mr. Reid did not address the specific claims but apologized if his words were “misinterpreted.”
Black women, especially, felt powerless against Mr. Simmons and his cohort in the small world of urban music, with several saying that misconduct against them could go unchecked because their place in the industry was so tenuous. They feared being ostracized, or worse.
Three of the women now accusing Mr. Simmons were pursuing careers in the music industry that they said were disrupted or derailed in part by their experiences with him.
“I didn’t sing for almost a year,” said Tina Baker, a performer who said Mr. Simmons raped her in the early ’90s, when he was her manager. “The second he agreed to work with me, my budget increased, the label was paying more attention to me,” Ms. Baker recalled. But after the assault, she said, “I went into oblivion.”
‘He Pushed Me on the Bed’
First known as a hyperactive party promoter turned manager from Queens who helped boost Run-DMC, Mr. Simmons was among the first to view hip-hop as a big business and cultural force. In 1983, with the producer Rick Rubin, he made Def Jam the defining rap label of its era, with hits by the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Public Enemy.
Even after Mr. Simmons sold his remaining stake in Def Jam for a reported $100 million in 1999, he served as an ambassador for hip-hop through comedy (“Def Comedy Jam”), clothing (Phat Farm) and activism. Today, his company Rush Communications oversees an array of businesses and nonprofits, including the politically minded media company Global Grind.
In 1987, Toni Sallie, a music journalist for the trade magazine Black Radio Exclusive, met Mr. Simmons while on assignment. She found him to be a charming, if gruff, playboy. They ended up going on a few dates before Ms. Sallie, then 28, decided they were not a match.
But the two remained cordial, Ms. Sallie said, and in the fall of 1988, Mr. Simmons invited her to his Manhattan apartment for a party he said he was hosting for his girlfriend. When Ms. Sallie arrived, the place was empty except for Mr. Simmons, she recalled. Saying he wanted to show her the apartment, Mr. Simmons led her to his bedroom.
“He pushed me on the bed and jumped on top of me, and physically attacked me,” she said. “We were fighting. I said no.” He raped her, she said. Two friends, Sheila Brody and Arlene Hirschkowitz, and a colleague confirmed that Ms. Sallie told them about the assault around the time it happened.
Through his lawyer, Brad D. Rose, Mr. Simmons acknowledged that he dated Ms. Sallie but denied any nonconsensual sex.
Ms. Sallie said she was too afraid to report the assault: “If I went to the police, I didn’t know how that would turn out.”
She also worried about her burgeoning career. “You have to understand, I was very much in a man’s game,” Ms. Sallie said. “Black women were just starting to break into the field.”
About a year later, at a music conference in South Florida, Ms. Sallie, who was then working for Warner Bros. Records, said she encountered Mr. Simmons in a hotel lobby. When he tried to lead her to a dark beach, she resisted and he attacked her, grabbing her by the hair, she said, and even chasing her into the women’s restroom before she escaped to her room, where she barricaded the door. (“At no time did Mr. Simmons conduct himself inappropriately,” Mr. Rose said.)
To this day, Ms. Sallie said, “I don’t feel comfortable in a room full of men.”
Music executives she told about the hotel incident brushed it off, she added. “I felt alone for 29 years,” she said, “like nobody would listen to me.”
Following the reports of alleged misconduct by Mr. Simmons in November, Ms. Sallie said she contacted the Manhattan district attorney’s office to accuse him.
A law enforcement official confirmed that a woman contacted the district attorney’s office to report an incident from 1988 and added that a different anonymous woman had recently reported an incident from 1991. The official said the incidents had occurred so long ago that the statute of limitations had lapsed and the crimes had not been prosecuted. There are no details about the woman from the 1991 incident.
But the official said the women had been referred to the New York Police Department’s Special Victims squad so that there would be a record of their complaints if more recent allegations were to emerge.
‘I Shut My Eyes and Waited for It to End’
Ms. Baker, the singer, thought Mr. Simmons could elevate her career as her new manager. She had performed as a backup vocalist for Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, and, as Tina B, released pop and dance records in the 1980s.
One night in late 1990 or early 1991, she ran into Mr. Simmons at a club, and he invited her back to his apartment to discuss her career. “I didn’t think anything of going,” Ms. Baker said, having been there many times without incident.
This time, though, “it all got really ugly, pretty fast,” Ms. Baker said. As soon as they entered, Mr. Simmons started pouring drinks and trying to kiss her, leading to a scuffle, she said. She recalled “him on top of me, pushing me down and him saying, ‘Don’t fight me,’” Ms. Baker said. She was pinned on the bed. “I did nothing, I shut my eyes and waited for it to end.”
She cried the whole way home, she said. In interviews and email, her ex-husband, Arthur Baker, a music producer; her psychologist, Dr. Robin Goldberg; another therapist; and a former roommate all confirmed that she told them she was raped.
Mr. Simmons, through his lawyer, said he had “no recollection of ever having any sexual relations with Ms. Baker.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/arts/music/russell-simmons-rape.html
Salma Hayek Says Harvey Weinstein Threatened To ‘Kill’ Her
The actress reveals in an op-ed that Weinstein’s demands sent her into a “crying and convulsing” breakdown.
Actress Salma Hayek has come forward with a horrifying and searing account of her experiences with disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein, who she said harassed her with sexual demands and furiously threatened: “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”
Hayek, in a New York Times op-ed headlined “Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too,” published Wednesday, revealed how she opened the door to the then-Hollywood kingpin during the making of her 2002 film, “Frida,” her passion project about the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Her yes to the movie deal, she wrote, quickly led to having to tell Weinstein no.
“No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. No to me taking a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a shower. No to letting him give me a massage. No to letting a naked friend of his give me a massage. No to letting him give me oral sex. No to my getting naked with another woman. No, no, no, no, no,” she wrote.
When sweet talk and persistence failed him, Hayek said Weinstein resorted to “Machiavellian rage.” Once, she wrote, “in an attack of fury, he said the terrifying words, ‘I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.’”
She also described a “nervous breakdown” she had when Weinstein forced her into a full-frontal nudity sex scene with another woman. Hayek said her “body wouldn’t stop crying and convulsing.”
“I started throwing up while a set frozen still waited to shoot,” she wrote. “I had to take a tranquilizer, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse. As you can imagine, this was not sexy, but it was the only way I could get through the scene.”
In a statement to BuzzFeed’s Kate Aurthur, a spokesperson for Weinstein said the producer denied “all of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma.” The rep also said that other investors preferred that Jennifer Lopez, “who at the time was a bigger star,” play Frida but that Weinstein overruled them and backed Hayek as the lead.
“Mr. Weinstein does not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for filming,” the statement added.
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Botnet hackers that caused huge Internet blackout did it for money, revenge
Botnet hackers that caused huge Internet blackout did it for money, revenge
A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to computer crimes charges for an online attack that caused a massive Internet outage last year, according to federal court documents unsealed Tuesday.
The Justice Department says Paras Jha, an ex-Rutgers student, built the Mirai botnet, which operated hundreds of thousands of infected household devices to flood websites with traffic, knocking out services such as Netflix and PayPal. The plea agreement was filed Dec. 5 in federal court in Alaska.
Dalton Norman and Josiah White were charged with helping Jha and also pleaded guilty last month.
The plea agreement says Jha and his cohorts built the botnet to launch denial of service attacks against business competitors and others against whom they held grudges and to make money from renting the botnet to others. They also wanted to extort money from companies that either were under attack or wanted to avoid being attacked, it said.
The Mirai botnet infected Internet-connected devices with malicious software to launch a series of attacks on websites. Among the targets was an Internet infrastructure firm, Dyn.
The program allows even unskilled hackers to take over Internet-connected devices and use them to launch distributed denial of service, or DDoS attacks. The software spreads via the Internet, taking over DVRs, cable set-top boxes, routers and even Internet-connected cameras used by stores and businesses for surveillance.
In the past, such DDoS attacks were accomplished by hijacking computers with malicious software and turning them into a robot network, or botnet, that sent the messages.
Mirai and other software available online now focus on compromising devices that are connected to the Internet but that most consumers don’t think of as computers, the so-called Internet of Things.
Jha and his cohorts made more than $180,000 leasing access to others who made money by directing fake Internet traffic to ads on infected websites, the plea agreement says.
Google employee’s half-naked body found floating in San Francisco Bay
The half-naked body of a 23-year-old Google employee was found floating in the San Francisco Bay Thursday, officials said.
The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office identified the woman as Chuchu Ma of Mountain View, the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety tweeted.
Officials from the county sheriff’s office told Fox 2 KTVU it was not immediately clear if the woman’s body was dumped into the bay or if her body floated to the bay from another location.
Department of Public Safety Captain Shawn Ahearn told Fox 2 that “The medical examiner and us and our detective units are actively working the investigation to see what there were. We don’t know the circumstances of why the body was in the water.”
Ma, according to KNTV, worked at Google as a software engineer. The company said: “Chu Chu was an excellent software engineer in our developer product team. We are devastated to learn of her passing and our deepest condolences are with her family and friends.”
Investigators told Fox 2 that bicyclist Dan Coyle saw a body floating in a drainage canal in the bay around 10 a.m. on Thursday and alerted authorities.
“It’s very sad. This is a beautiful trail. I take it five days a week. Lots of people take it every day. and some people take it to work. It’s just very sad to learn that happened, whatever it is,” Coyle said.
Article via: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/11/google-employees-naked-body-found-floating-in-san-francisco-bay.html
ROMAN POLANSKI CALLS NEW SEXUAL ASSAULT CLAIM BS But LAPD Launches Investigation
Roman Polanksi is sharing information with LAPD detectives who’ve opened a new investigation into an allegation he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl back in 1975.
LAPD just announced the investigation into claims made by Marianne Barnard. She recently filed a police report about the alleged assault during a photo shoot. Barnard claims Polanski was directing the shoot, which initially involved her mother, but claims she was eventually left alone with him — and that’s when he allegedly attacked her.
Marianne hinted her mother might have been paid off to leave.
Polanski says Barnard’s claim is bogus, and his attorney Harlan Braun tells TMZ … they hired their own private investigators to look into the allegation. Braun says Marianne’s mother refused to talk to their investigators, and they’ve turned over their findings to LAPD.
LAPD acknowledges the statute of limitations have long since run for Polanski to be charged, but says it’s investigating because any evidence collected could help in other cases.
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/12/roman-polanski-sexual-assault-new-investigation-10-year-old-girl/