Sexual Harassment Law Blog

Until recently, “toxic” was about the last adjective anyone would use to describe comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. Now, dozens of former Ellen Show employees have revealed an atmosphere of rampant sexual harassment by executive producers. To date, 47 former employees have...

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein received a sentence of 23 years in prison on March 11 for sexually assaulting two women in New York. At age 67, that is tantamount to a virtual life sentence for Weinstein, who will be 90 if he serves the full term.
He is still facing additional sexual...

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein, 69, the man whose abhorrent behavior helped launch the #MeToo movement, had his day in court this week. A New York City jury found Weinstein guilty on two counts out of five counts, but he escaped conviction on the most serious charges.
Still, he will go to...

The Grammys have long been criticized for failing to properly recognize female artists and artists of color. Now there is an explosive issue facing the 63-year-old parent organization of the awards, and it involves sexual harassment.
Each year, the Recording Academy, formally known as the...

The name Harvey Weinstein, once synonymous with quality movie-making, is now more associated with the term “sexual predator.” More than 30 actresses and former employees will share in a tentative $25 million settlement between Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film company, The...

Survivor, the show that places strangers in a real-life situation in which they must provide themselves with food, shelter, and fire at a remote location, is now in its 19th season on U.S. television. The European version has been around even longer. Players are divided into various...

The MeToo movement revealed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. Nearly 30 years ago, lawyer and academic Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment when both worked at the EEOC.
Thomas was confirmed by the Senate and still...

As trial lawyers, we have seen it all. At least I thought so until this case. If ever there was a “worst boss” contest, billionaire Alkiviades “Alki” David would probably be the winner. If half of what a former employee says is true, David takes sexual harassment to a new...

Alki David, 51, the billionaire founder of FilmOn, an internet-based television provider, was ordered by a California jury to pay $8 million in punitive damages in a case involving sexual battery against a former employee. Both of the companies he founded must pay for the damages. His other company...

Eliza Dushku would have received approximately $9.5 million had she remained a cast member of the CBS series “Bull” for four years. That didn’t happen, but she’ll still receive that much money because “Bull” star Michael Weatherly made sexually harassing comments...