Jordaan charges rape accuser

Soccer boss Danny Jordaan has laid criminal charges against singer and former Member of Parliament Jennifer Ferguson. On Friday he went to Sandton police station where he made a sworn statement, asking the police to charge Ferguson with defamation. In March, Ferguson laid a charge of rape ...

Why Cosby verdict is probably less breakthrough than anomaly

NEW YORK • The guilty verdict against Bill Cosby was hailed by some as long overdue. Not just because his victim, Ms Andrea Constand, first reported his sexual assault on her 13 years ago, but also because, as a lawyer for other Cosby accusers put it, "women were finally believed". Getting there ...

A Guilty Conscience Needs No Accuser

SCARE tactics can sometimes achieve their purpose; but only when their target is vulnerable. Consider the flip-flopping of the President of the Medical and Dental Association. Only four months ago he accompanied a group of interested citizens on a walkabout at the St. Jude Hospital site. Afterward he ...

The Conviction of Bill Cosby

The first was that only one extra accuser was allowed to testify in that trial compared with five in the subsequent trial. The second is that the MeToo movement—which gathered steam between the two trials—has created a storm of vengeful feeling and a widespread assumption of guilt for anyone such as ...

Usher Is Being Sued Again By Herpes Accuser

Usher has been hit with another lawsuit by Laura Helm who initially sued the singer last year for allegedly transmitting herpes to her during two intimate trysts. According to Bossip, Helm filed new documents in Georgia last week for several counts of battery, negligence, fraud and intentional infliction of ...

Usher Is Being Sued Again By Herpes Accuser

Usher has been hit with another lawsuit by Laura Helm who initially sued the singer last year for allegedly transmitting herpes to her during two intimate trysts. According to Bossip, Helm filed new documents in Georgia last week for several counts of battery, negligence, fraud and intentional infliction of ...

Jerry Richardson’s accuser speaks out

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A former Carolina Panthers employee who says she was sexually harassed by owner Jerry Richardson called the NFL's investigation of Richardson “a farce” in a series of letters she wrote that Sports Illustrated published Thursday. The ex-employee, who was not identified, said she ...