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Bell’s own struggle with the material is palpable when he centers himself in the documentary. “I am a child of Bill Cosby,” Bell notes in the first episode of the Showtime series. “I am Black man, I am a stand-up comic. I was born in the ’70s. I was raised by \u003cem>Fat Albert\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Picture Pages\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>. Bill Cosby himself showed me you could be smart and funny in equal measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the series undoubtedly benefits from it, Bell’s personal relationship with Cosby was not originally supposed to be part of this documentary. In promotional interviews, Bell has admitted that he only put his personal narrative into the story when a plethora of “comedians, famous people, commentators [and] people who had worked with Bill Cosby” refused to talk to him on camera, in the interests of avoiding a minefield. “I’m still experiencing fear for when this comes out in a wide way, how people respond to it,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/01/w-kamau-bell-bill-cosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bell told\u003cem> Vanity Fair\u003c/em> last week\u003c/a>. “Some people I know are going to hate it and never even watch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVr0xrvGK1Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brave souls who did volunteer to participate in \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Bill Cosby\u003c/em> are primarily a mix of academics, journalists, cultural critics, comedians and actors. The series juxtaposes Cosby’s career arc with the politics of each era, examining how those two things intersected, and how Cosby used his talent to defy the status quo at almost every turn. In the early 1960s, when Black people were either absent from TV screens or portrayed as childlike simpletons, Cosby was playing a 007-style hero in \u003cem>I Spy\u003c/em>. When 1980s mainstream media presented Black fathers as absent and irresponsible, Cosby became “America’s Dad.” That he succeeded this way continues to feel miraculous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interspersed throughout the many examples of Cosby’s success and positive influence, his rape accusers are given ample space to tell their stories at their own pace. Each is strikingly similar to the next. Each is horrific in its own singular way. (Former \u003cem>Playboy\u003c/em> model Victoria Valentino’s story plays out like a roiling nightmare, agonizing to even hear secondhand.) It is striking that many of these women speak of feeling embarrassed and ashamed of “blacking out” in Cosby’s presence rather than believing he would drug them. (Lise Lotte-Lublin explains that she only fully realized what had happened to her after Janice Dickinson publicly spoke out in 2014 about her own experience with Cosby.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13875370']One of the things that \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> does incredibly well is to explain, in great detail, how Cosby used his benevolent deeds to mask his malevolent ones. “He used the power, and the money that came with it, to directly make the lives of Black people better,” Bell narrates at one point, noting that Cosby donated millions of dollars to HBCUs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Cosby earned enough good faith to evade any real public scrutiny. It’s also, chillingly, how he got young women to trust him enough to agree to mentorships and private coaching sessions on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, the breadcrumbs Cosby scattered in popular culture about his private compulsions are also gathered together in the series. It’s a stunning presentation of what audiences are willing to overlook when it comes to our most beloved entertainers. There was Cosby’s “Spanish Fly” comedy routine in 1969. There were 15 separate mentions of the drug in his \u003cem>Childhood\u003c/em> book, released in 1991. There was the episode of \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em> in which he talks about his homemade barbecue sauce as a weird kind of aphrodisiac. There was his willingness to talk about putting drugs in women’s drinks in TV interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told you what he did. He told you about the pills,” says Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill. “He told you that they went in drinks. He made that very clear without anybody else’s help. Without any witness testimony … If I just go by what Bill Cosby tells me, I know he’s a creep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-800x515.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-800x515.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-1020x657.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-768x495.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard-1536x990.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Lily-Bernard.png 1844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily Bernard, an actor who worked on ‘The Cosby Show’ and a rape survivor, is one of the most compelling speakers in ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ \u003ccite>(Showtime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former \u003cem>Cosby Show\u003c/em> actresses Lily Bernard and Eden Tirl raise questions about who knew what and when. They argue that Cosby’s focus on young, beautiful women was an open secret on set, and that his manipulative methods of gaining access to them were well known. Cosby’s wife Camille, they explain, was never on set. (“She didn’t exist,” Bernard shrugs.) All the while, Cosby presented himself as a family man in his public life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> is helpful in understanding how Cosby’s positive image was well constructed and deeply embedded into culture. Several interviewees here—including Joseph C. Phillips, who played Martin on \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>—readily admit that they didn’t believe the women speaking out against Cosby until it happened to someone they knew. For Phillips, that was an old friend who’d also worked on \u003cem>The Cosby Show\u003c/em>. “We sit in my car,” he says. “It was an hour later, she spilled it all out, and she says to me, ‘Do you believe me?’ And I said ‘Yes, I believe you.’ She wasn’t lying. So he at least did it to her. And if he did it to her, yes, I believe there were others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_14359']Towards the end of the series, Bell poses a tough question. “What happens when the artist you idolized isn’t the human being you thought they were? And what if that person’s artistic achievement, living example and good works were so great that they changed the world? What then?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is an answer in \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em>, it’s that there are no simple answers. All we can do is talk it out. And \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Cosby\u003c/em> is a hell of a way to start that conversation. Its final moments will leave you chilled to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>You’ve heard Prince Andrew’s name. You know he was pals with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. And you know he’s been named in sexual assault allegations related to hanging out with those two toads. But until his legal troubles landed on these shores recently, it’s fairly likely that most Americans had never even heard of Prince Andrew. (He’s barely even in \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> for crying out loud!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allow me, then, to explain who Prince Andrew (a.k.a. the Duke of York) is, why he’s about to stand trial in an American court, and why this is all such a huge deal in England. (So huge, in fact, that Harry’s big bro William reportedly views Andrew as “a threat” to the royal family. Yikes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The basics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Who is Prince Andrew, anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Andrew is the third child of Queen Elizabeth II, little brother to Prince Charles, and uncle to Princes Harry and William. He is ninth in line to the throne, landing after Charles, William, William’s three kids, Harry, and Harry and Meghan’s two children. In that order.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The peak of Andrew’s celebrity came in the late 1980s after he married Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson (who \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> fans might remember from Season 4’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9aoeeGwJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London episode\u003c/a>). The couple were tabloid staples throughout the ’80s and early ’90s, and had two daughters—Princess Beatrice in 1988 and Princess Eugenie in 1990. (You might recognize the sisters from \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a22629594/princess-eugenie-princess-beatrice-cried-royal-wedding-hats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the crazy crap they wore on their heads to William’s wedding\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew first became friends with Ghislaine Maxwell in the mid-1980s when she was studying at Oxford University. The English upper classes have a tendency to stick together, and Maxwell was both wealthy and well-connected thanks to her father, Robert, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a controversial media tycoon.\u003c/a> The Maxwells’ press links would have undoubtedly been alluring for Andrew. (Remember what Harry said in his Oprah interview about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/prince-harry-says-the-royal-family-is-scared-of-the-uk-tabloids-turning-on-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the invisible contract between the [royals] and the U.K. tabloids\u003c/a>“? Robert Maxwell owned one of the biggest papers in the country.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ghislaine Maxwell was the person who first introduced Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein, though exactly when remains unclear. The prince says they were introduced in 1999; his own private secretary claims it happened in the early ’90s.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The legal background\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s spiraling legal concerns have been slowly creeping up on Andrew for over a decade. Here’s what happened and when:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2008:\u003c/strong> Epstein pleads guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. His 18-month sentence—later reduced to 13 months—amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist; he’s still allowed to leave jail and go to work for 12 hours a day, six days a week. The only upside of this farce? Epstein has to make payments to some of his victims, and officially becomes a registered sex offender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2009:\u003c/strong> Epstein reaches a private settlement with Virginia Giuffre over charges that he sexually abused her with Ghislaine Maxwell’s “assistance and participation” between 1999 and 2002. The civil case also references abuse by Epstein’s “adult male peers, including royalty, politicians, academicians [and] businessmen.” Giuffre receives $500,000 from Epstein and agrees to release “any other person or entity who could have been included as a potential defendant” from further legal actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13901947,arts_13866072,arts_13893693']\u003cstrong>2011:\u003c/strong> During a conversation with Giuffre—who began speaking out about her history with Epstein and Maxwell in 2010—journalist Michael Thomas stumbles across the now-infamous photo of Andrew with his arm around Giuffre. Eight years later, Thomas will step up and defend its authenticity on British television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 2015:\u003c/strong> Giuffre files a defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell after Maxwell tells the press that Giuffre’s claims about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation are “obvious lies.” In documents relating to the case, Giuffre says she was forced to have sex with Andrew at the behest of Maxwell and Epstein in 2001, when the prince was 41 and she was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 2015:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace releases a statement defending Andrew: “It is emphatically denied that H.R.H. The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. [Roberts is Giuffre’s maiden name.] The allegations made are false and without any foundation.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/04/prince-andrew-denies-underage-sex-claims-buckingham-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palace aides say Andrew will continue to work as usual\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May. 2017:\u003c/strong> The defamation case between Giuffre and Maxwell is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/billionaires-alleged-sex-slave-settles-libel-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled for an undisclosed amount of money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2019: \u003c/strong>Epstein is arrested on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. He pleads not guilty, is denied bail and, according to prison officials, subsequently makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 9, 2019:\u003c/strong> Court documents from Maxwell and Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit are unsealed, revealing more details about Giuffre’s allegations against Andrew. Giuffre’s testimony says she endured three separate assaults by Andrew. One at Epstein’s home in New York, one at Maxwell’s home in London, and one at Epstein’s private island, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saint_James,_U.S._Virgin_Islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Saint James\u003c/a>. She adds that: “Epstein instructed her ‘to give the prince whatever he demanded, and required [her] to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 10, 2019:\u003c/strong> Epstein’s dead body is found in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correction Center. Authorities claim it was a suicide. The internet does not believe them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just one of the many ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’ memes that emerged after his death.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 16, 2019\u003c/strong>: Andrew makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBS8COhhhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a disastrous appearance on respected BBC TV show, \u003c/a>\u003cem>Newsnight. \u003c/em>During his interview with Emily Maitlis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Andrew suggests the famous photo of him with his arm around Guiffre may be “doctored” because he is “not one to, as it were, hug. And public displays of affection are not something that I do.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew also states: “I don’t believe it’s a picture of me in London because … when I go out in London, I wear a suit and a tie.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew responds to an assertion by Giuffre that he sweat profusely during a trip to a London nightclub, with a claim that it’s “almost impossible for [him] to sweat” after “an overdose of adrenalin” that occurred during the Falklands War.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew says on the night the photo is said to have been taken, he was taking his daughter Beatrice to a pizza chain restaurant just outside London.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew admits to staying with Epstein, even after the financier’s 2008 conviction, because Epstein’s home was “a convenient place to stay.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Andrew is widely mocked both online and in Britain’s newspapers. One website, \u003ca href=\"https://royalcentral.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Royal Central\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, described his performance as: “plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion level bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 20, 2019:\u003c/strong> Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties “for the forseeable future.” Multiple companies and charities take steps to cut ties with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/royalfamily/status/1197213153852977153?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 24, 2019:\u003c/strong> Queen Elizabeth cancels Andrew’s 60th birthday party. Because: consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2019:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace responds to press inquiries about Andrew’s situation by re-issuing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/uk/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-panorama-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> put out in his defense in Jan. 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2020:\u003c/strong> Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested in a small New Hampshire town, after many months spent evading authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 29, 2021: \u003c/strong>Maxwell is convicted of sex trafficking a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and three conspiracy-related felonies. Giuffre is mentioned during the trial on several occasions. One witness—an abuse survivor—testifies that Giuffre had previously shared that she’d had sex with Prince Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Current Lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-800x472.png\" alt=\"A close-up of Prince Andrew's face, tilted to one side and looking browbeaten.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-800x472.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1020x602.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-160x94.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-768x453.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1536x907.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-2048x1209.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1920x1134.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Andrew, digging his own grave on ‘Newsnight’, in Nov. 2019. \u003ccite>('Newsnight'/ BBC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021:\u003c/strong> Prince Andrew is served with a civil suit, after weeks of failed attempts by Giuffre’s team. The prince is instructed to respond to the case by Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2021:\u003c/strong> London police announce they have no plans to pursue a case against Prince Andrew after “reviewing” Giuffre’s evidence over the summer. The British public collectively rolls its eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021 – Jan. 4, 2022:\u003c/strong> Andrew’s lawyers argue repeatedly that Giuffre’s 2009 settlement with Epstein means she no longer has grounds to go after Andrew in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12, 2022:\u003c/strong> Judge Lewis Kaplan disagrees and rules that Giuffre’s lawsuit against Andrew can, in fact, go ahead, because Andrew was “not a party” to the 2009 settlement reached by Giuffre and Epstein. Andrew’s trial is set for some time at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 13, 2022:\u003c/strong> The Queen strips Andrew of “military affiliations and royal patronages,” officially removes him from public duties, and announces to the world that—well—he’s basically on his own now. Which is a huge deal, especially since Andrew has long been considered her favorite son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1020x631.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-768x475.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1536x951.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-2048x1268.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1920x1188.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official royal message in which Queen Elizabeth II essentially cuts off Prince Andrew from the rest of the royal family. \u003ccite>(Twitter/ @theroyalfamily)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This also means that Andrew may no longer be addressed as “His Royal Highness” (“H.R.H.”)—a huge blow for any member of the royal family. 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The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. [Roberts is Giuffre’s maiden name.] The allegations made are false and without any foundation.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/04/prince-andrew-denies-underage-sex-claims-buckingham-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palace aides say Andrew will continue to work as usual\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May. 2017:\u003c/strong> The defamation case between Giuffre and Maxwell is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/billionaires-alleged-sex-slave-settles-libel-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled for an undisclosed amount of money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2019: \u003c/strong>Epstein is arrested on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. 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And public displays of affection are not something that I do.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew also states: “I don’t believe it’s a picture of me in London because … when I go out in London, I wear a suit and a tie.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew responds to an assertion by Giuffre that he sweat profusely during a trip to a London nightclub, with a claim that it’s “almost impossible for [him] to sweat” after “an overdose of adrenalin” that occurred during the Falklands War.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew says on the night the photo is said to have been taken, he was taking his daughter Beatrice to a pizza chain restaurant just outside London.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew admits to staying with Epstein, even after the financier’s 2008 conviction, because Epstein’s home was “a convenient place to stay.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Andrew is widely mocked both online and in Britain’s newspapers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 24, 2019:\u003c/strong> Queen Elizabeth cancels Andrew’s 60th birthday party. Because: consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2019:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace responds to press inquiries about Andrew’s situation by re-issuing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/uk/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-panorama-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> put out in his defense in Jan. 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2020:\u003c/strong> Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested in a small New Hampshire town, after many months spent evading authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 29, 2021: \u003c/strong>Maxwell is convicted of sex trafficking a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and three conspiracy-related felonies. Giuffre is mentioned during the trial on several occasions. 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The prince is instructed to respond to the case by Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2021:\u003c/strong> London police announce they have no plans to pursue a case against Prince Andrew after “reviewing” Giuffre’s evidence over the summer. The British public collectively rolls its eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021 – Jan. 4, 2022:\u003c/strong> Andrew’s lawyers argue repeatedly that Giuffre’s 2009 settlement with Epstein means she no longer has grounds to go after Andrew in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12, 2022:\u003c/strong> Judge Lewis Kaplan disagrees and rules that Giuffre’s lawsuit against Andrew can, in fact, go ahead, because Andrew was “not a party” to the 2009 settlement reached by Giuffre and Epstein. 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Which is a huge deal, especially since Andrew has long been considered her favorite son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1020x631.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-768x475.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1536x951.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-2048x1268.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1920x1188.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official royal message in which Queen Elizabeth II essentially cuts off Prince Andrew from the rest of the royal family. \u003ccite>(Twitter/ @theroyalfamily)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This also means that Andrew may no longer be addressed as “His Royal Highness” (“H.R.H.”)—a huge blow for any member of the royal family. 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It opens the way a lot of Ridley Scott period epics do, on a gloomy day with two sides preparing for battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894842']We’re in Paris in the year 1386, and the combatants are the dashing squire Jacques Le Gris—that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434868775/former-marine-adam-driver-on-what-acting-and-the-military-have-in-common\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Driver\u003c/a>—and the sullen knight Sir Jean de Carrouges—that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/96702/even-when-matt-damon-is-apologizing-he-gets-it-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Damon\u003c/a>. Jean’s wife, Marguerite, played by Jodie Comer, watches anxiously from her seat. 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We first see him and Le Gris in 1370, fighting valiantly against the English and becoming close friends. But Carrouges begins to feel resentful when their superior—Count Pierre d’Alençon, a saucy libertine played hilariously by Affleck—takes Le Gris under his wing. The count even gives Le Gris a coveted piece of land that was originally intended for Carrouges as part of his wife Marguerite’s dowry, leading to years of legal struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then one evening, Marguerite comes forward and tells her husband that while he was away, Le Gris came to their castle in Normandy and raped her. Carrouges takes the accusation public, setting in motion a duel between himself and Le Gris, which would become the last trial by combat officially recognized in France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, the first chapter ends and the movie returns to the beginning, this time replaying events from Le Gris’ perspective. As one of the count’s closest allies, Le Gris has come to enjoy a life of privilege and debauchery, and Driver basically plays him as God’s gift to women. That stokes his tensions with Carrouges, who eventually is made a knight and demands that Le Gris show him respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, Le Gris falls madly in love with Marguerite and becomes certain that she reciprocates his feelings. That brings us to their fateful encounter, in which Le Gris convinces himself that Marguerite’s protests are merely the signs of a guilty conscience. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cem>This interview includes a discussion of rape and sexual abuse\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> published \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a story\u003c/a> chronicling decades of sexual harassment abuse against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Less than three years later, a Manhattan jury found Weinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/805258433/harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-but-acquitted-of-most-sexual-assault-charg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guilty\u003c/a> of rape and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903968\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 431px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/taranaburkecreditdougal-macarthur-ca71c2d95db6227ac1d2112db8262bd0a6f3a274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/taranaburkecreditdougal-macarthur-ca71c2d95db6227ac1d2112db8262bd0a6f3a274.jpg 431w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/taranaburkecreditdougal-macarthur-ca71c2d95db6227ac1d2112db8262bd0a6f3a274-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activist Tarana Burke founded the Me Too movement in 2006 as a way for Black girls to share their stories of sexual trauma. \u003ccite>(Dougal Macarthur/Flatiron Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/689483577/tarana-burke-how-can-we-build-a-world-where-people-dont-have-to-say-me-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarana Burke\u003c/a>, the founder of the “Me Too” movement, sees a stark contrast in the timeline of Weinstein’s case and that of R&B singer R. Kelly, who dodged accusations for more than 25 years before finally being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903808/r-kelly-found-guilty-of-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convicted\u003c/a> on Sept. 28 of sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, racketeering and sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are socialized to respond to the vulnerability of white women, and it’s a truth that is hard for some people to look in the face, and they feel uncomfortable when I say things like that,” she says. “But it is true. … [There’s a] stark difference in what it takes to get attention around Black women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke has spent decades listening to Black and minority communities. She originated the phrase and concept of “Me Too” in 2006 as a way for victims of sexual violence to share their stories and connect with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, when the #MeToo hashtag went viral in response to the Weinstein allegations, Burke worried that her work would be erased. She was also concerned that the women telling their stories on the internet were opening themselves up to harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, God, these people are going to cut and bleed all over the internet, which is the very worst place to be exposed and vulnerable in this moment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she read the #MeToo stories women were sharing, she was blown away. Burke shifted her perspective to the “30,000 foot view,” and saw something much bigger than she had ever imagined unfolding. She also realized that in order to fully help women heal, she needed to tell her own “Me Too” story. She does that in the new memoir, \u003cem>Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the shame she experienced after being raped at age 7, and the duality of being good or bad \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The shame comes from] not being able to protect yourself, and then the shame of breaking the rules. When we’re children it’s sort of cut and dry: You’re either good or you’re bad. There’s not really an in between. And when you are given a message over and over and over and over again, it says, “Don’t let anybody touch your private parts. Those are nasty things. Those are fresh things. Those are things that fast girls or bad girls do.” And you find yourself in this situation at a very young age. You’re either one or the other: You’re good or you’re bad. And there’s a lot of shame attached to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On reading \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875319/watch-maya-angelou-reciting-countee-cullens-poem-heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Maya Angelou\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>‘s \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> and learning for the first time she wasn’t alone in her experience of sexual assault \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108956']It opened my mind up to the idea that, first of all, that this could happen to other people. I didn’t even think about other girls. When I read it, I thought, even then, it’s just me and Maya Angelou, because this is somebody else that this happened to, and it made me wonder why God would let something like this happen to a good girl. Because in the book, I’m perceiving her as different than me. She was a good girl. She listened to her grandma. She did what she was supposed to do. She did her work. She got her chores. Why did this happen to her? It was such a beautiful thing for me to have that connection. I felt just less alone to have a story in the world that I could even connect to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On doing a lot of self work to realize that the reason why she was abused had nothing to do with her \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often wonder why this person picked me. It could be something that he saw in my personality. It could be any number of things, but it’s all the depravity in his mind, it had nothing to do with who I was as a child or anything that I did as a child. There’s been all kinds of research, and we’ve seen stories, even anecdotal stories of predators telling about how they pick the children that they decide to go after and why. Maybe it’s the quiet child, maybe it’s the loud child. … They all have their reasons, but none of those reasons are connected to me, none of them were connected to me being a particular type of girl this happened to, which is what I put in my mind: “I’m the type of girl this happens to.” I had to work, go through a whole bunch of steps, to take the blame from myself and put it where it rightfully belonged. Take the burden from myself and lay it at the feet of the people who actually should hold that. That took a lot of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On seeing trauma in communities of color and how Black and brown girls are labeled as “angry” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think when you couple the messages that we receive from the world about who we are and how we show up and how we should be valued with this kind of abuse, that it creates this really disturbing mixture of emotions and bad thoughts … And so I think a lot of little Black and brown girls internalize it, and then we see it come out in anger and behavior and things like that. But nobody tends to ask us those questions about where that came from. So it’s just a label, “these little Black girls with these attitudes,” “these little angry Black girls.” … We don’t get the questions that say, “Well, where did this come from?” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a child, and children aren’t born angry. They aren’t born with attitudes. Something has to happen. Something has to have affected them in order to bring that about. Obviously, it’s not only sexual trauma, but there is trauma. And knowing that there’s so much trauma in communities of color, you would think that the first place that people would go is: “What happened?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how she coped with her own shame and trauma by being an overachiever \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think generally we’ve gotten so many messages about what sexual violence looks like and how it shows up in young survivors, in particular, and so we look for the sad girls and the girls who might be cutting or harming themselves in some way, or the girls who retreat from society. And those are also markers. But the overachieving perfectionists, melt-down-at-getting-a-B girls are also going through something. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This essay includes allegations of sexual assault and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, testimony is scheduled to begin in a Brooklyn courthouse in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1022231076/r-kelly-abuse-charges-trial-aaliyah-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first of two federal trials\u003c/a> against singer, songwriter and producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a>. Across two sets of indictments in New York and Illinois, the one-time R&B king is accused of abusing 11 girls and women over more than two decades; making child pornography; making hush-money payments to silence alleged victims; and building a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/r-kelly-charged-racketeering-including-predicate-acts-coercing-and-transporting-minor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal enterprise\u003c/a> specifically to “prey upon young women and teenagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_104682']Additionally, the New York prosecutors want to admit what they say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a> that Kelly sexually and physically abused girls and women as far back as 1991, sexually abused a boy, and committed bribery. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has consistently denied accusations that he abused anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, when I’ve told people that I’m covering the New York trial, they have been confused. Allegations have swirled around Kelly for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 25 years now\u003c/a>, and so they ask me: Wasn’t he arrested years ago? Yes: he was arrested most recently in July 2019, and he’s remained in custody for the two years since, awaiting trial. But they may also be thinking of his first big trial in 2008—and those accusations, and that trial, figure into some of the current charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, in his hometown of Chicago, Kelly was indicted on numerous child pornography charges after a notorious sex tape circulated: it purportedly showed the singer having sex with and urinating on a female whom prosecutors said was about 14 years old at the time. A full six years later, Kelly went to trial and was acquitted of all charges. The young woman who was thought to be the girl on the tape and her parents refused to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 2008 trial figures heavily into some of the current Illinois charges, which include accusations that Kelly and members of his circle intimidated the girl and her father, and persuaded them to lie to both police and a grand jury. Their subsequent refusal to testify, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-06-14-0806140185-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 other witnesses\u003c/a> identifying the girl, seems to have swayed many jurors to acquit Kelly. (That same woman, now in her thirties, said in 2019 that she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/arts/music/r-kelly-sexual-assault-tape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cooperating\u003c/a> with federal investigators.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, it seemed like much of the pop culture conversation was primarily about Kelly and his alleged predilections and behaviors, and not so much about anyone who may have been hurt. In certain ways, the culture has shifted since Kelly last stood on trial. Many fans today seem far less willing to overlook what they perceive as problematic content or context in an artist’s work—whether it’s related to racism, sexism, unfair power dynamics or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900624/the-music-industry-is-holding-dababy-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homophobia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109568']The intervening 13 years have also seen dogged, tenacious reporting on Kelly, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729310654/in-soulless-a-journalist-takes-on-r-kelly-and-the-business-that-made-him-a-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>a book by former \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> journalist and music critic \u003ca href=\"http://jimdero.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim DeRogatis\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695083431/surviving-r-kelly-producer-dream-hampton-takes-on-ecosystem-that-s-supported-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> a six-part docuseries helmed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamhampton.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dream hampton\u003c/a> that aired on Lifetime. Both were released in 2019, in the midst of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of #MeToo, many prominent accusers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798222176/the-harvey-weinstein-trial-a-brief-timeline-of-how-we-got-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">white women\u003c/a>. But the Kelly-related projects explicitly centered the mostly Black girls and women who allegedly were harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As those projects were being developed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/06/608802024/-muterkelly-gathers-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MuteRKelly\u003c/a> movement—founded by two Black women, Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye—gathered steam in an effort to pressure large entertainment companies to sever their ties with Kelly. In writing about #MuteRKelly, \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> columnist Christine Emba \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/black-women-deserve-better-will-2019-be-the-year-of-change/2019/01/09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited\u003c/a> a 1962 speech by Malcolm X: “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/jerhonda-pace-r-kelly-me-too-tarana-burke#.vc8K1olGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview \u003c/a>Barnes gave to DeRogatis for BuzzFeed News in March 2018, she asserted: “We don’t give a damn about Black girls. If R. Kelly was white, every civil rights leader would be marching in every street in this country. If the girls were white, every feminist group would be coming out enraged in droves of pussy hats to march against him. The bottom line is that R. Kelly and his victims are the perfect storm of people we don’t care about. We protect problematic Black men in the Black community, and we discard Black girls in all communities. Essentially, he is the greatest example of a predator in that he went after the most vulnerable that no one cares about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, though, Kelly’s management called #MuteRKelly “a public lynching,” noting that “since America was born, Black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it.” At the time, #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/01/607448801/-metoo-founder-tarana-burke-responds-to-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told me\u003c/a>, “The reality of lynching in America is so, so painful and so real. This is not a public lynching. This is a call for public accountability.” (Moreover, in many cases Kelly’s accusers have said that they were underage girls, not women, when they began sexual contact with him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108417']“We have seen 24 years of allegations leveled against R. Kelly, and he has gone unscathed,” Burke continued in that 2018 conversation. “What we are looking for, in our community and out, is some accountability from the corporations that support this person who has a 24-year history of sexual violence perpetrated against Black and brown girls around the country.” (At the end of that year, Burke was one of the victims of a gun threat called into an advance screening of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> in New York; Kelly’s former manager, Donnell Russell, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902514816/r-kellys-former-manager-charged-with-gun-threat-to-surviving-r-kelly-screening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged\u003c/a> with making that threat. His case is ongoing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a large extent, #MuteRKelly came to fruition, albeit years after Kelly’s commercial and creative peak, and sometimes in highly qualified ways. In May 2018, for example, Spotify \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/10/610051559/starting-with-r-kelly-spotify-pulls-artists-from-playlists-for-hateful-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped\u003c/a> Kelly from its playlists, the way that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/secret-hit-making-power-spotify-playlist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many listeners\u003c/a> use the service, rather than seeking out particular artists or songs. If you actively search for Kelly’s music on Spotify, however, it’s still there, as are the songs he wrote and/or produced for other artists, including Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Ciara, Missy Elliott and another artist some listeners consider problematic: Michael Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been one notable exception: Much of the music by Kelly’s protégée Aaliyah—whom he married in 1994, when she was 15 years old and he was 27—is not on Spotify or other streaming services at all. But in an interesting bit of timing, Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah’s uncle and the former manager of both artists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> just days before the Kelly trial began that he is making her recording catalog available to streaming services. The New York prosecutors refer to Aaliyah in their indictment as “Jane Doe #1,” for whom they say Kelly and associates bribed a public official to create a fake ID before their marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jan. 2019, Kelly’s longtime record label RCA and its parent company, Sony Music Entertainment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped him\u003c/a> from their artist roster after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure mounted\u003c/a> from #MuteRKelly. But that decision, apparently made in the wake of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> airing, came 16 years after his last big chart hit, 2003’s “Ignition (Remix).” Furthermore, RCA and Sony never publicly acknowledged having dropped Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the most recent wave of accusations and reporting, Black and brown voices were calling for a reckoning. Nearly two decades before \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> longtime \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times \u003c/em>columnist Mary Mitchell wrote many pieces asking why the alleged victims were being dismissed or ignored, and why so many Chicagoans were so eager to \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2002/8/8/22613656/r-kelly-2002-trial-fans-rally-cook-county-chicago-sun-times-mary-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">side with Kelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many fans adored him. Quite a few fellow artists brushed aside the allegations and continued to work with him. And comedians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafRE74JGZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Chappelle\u003c/a> joked about the alleged Kelly tape and its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the debut airing of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> then-\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>culture editor (and now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR colleague\u003c/a>) Aisha Harris wrote about how the allegations against Kelly became pop-culture\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/arts/television/surviving-r-kelly-dave-chappelle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> joke fodder\u003c/a>: “For years,” she wrote, “those who laughed at Kelly were able to ignore the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109631']In retrospect, that particular spin cycle is reminiscent of what happened to Britney Spears \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1009859700/opinion-britney-is-the-latest-victim-of-the-industry-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the same era\u003c/a>. (She was one of R. Kelly’s labelmates at Jive and then RCA, and Kelly wrote and produced her song “Outrageous,” released in 2004.) Spears’ public struggles, which became little more than a joke and grist for the 24/7 grind of gossip blogs and cable channels vying for eyeballs, happened nearly simultaneously with Kelly’s Chicago trial. The girl at the center of that trial, like Spears, largely became a punchline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the women who have accused Kelly of sexual, physical and/or psychological abuse say that when they met him, they, too, like that girl allegedly featured on the infamous tape, were teenagers attempting to become professional musicians, and hoped that the king of R&B would help them chart their own musical careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the music industry, this is a familiar story. Young men strive to make it in the tough, unforgiving music industry; if they succeed, it’s often at least partly through the help of older male mentors. Young women striving to make it in the tough, unforgiving music industry might also seek the help of older male mentors; after all, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://annenberg.usc.edu/news/research-and-impact/annenberg-inclusion-initiatives-annual-report-popular-music-reveals-little\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far more\u003c/a> successful men in the business than women. But sometimes, rather than being given guidance or opportunity, they instead are cultivated as sexual conquests—and those dreams fade away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Opinion%3A+13+Years+After+The+Last+R.+Kelly+Trial%2C+The+Culture+Has+Changed&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Additionally, the New York prosecutors want to admit what they say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a> that Kelly sexually and physically abused girls and women as far back as 1991, sexually abused a boy, and committed bribery. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has consistently denied accusations that he abused anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, when I’ve told people that I’m covering the New York trial, they have been confused. Allegations have swirled around Kelly for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 25 years now\u003c/a>, and so they ask me: Wasn’t he arrested years ago? Yes: he was arrested most recently in July 2019, and he’s remained in custody for the two years since, awaiting trial. But they may also be thinking of his first big trial in 2008—and those accusations, and that trial, figure into some of the current charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, in his hometown of Chicago, Kelly was indicted on numerous child pornography charges after a notorious sex tape circulated: it purportedly showed the singer having sex with and urinating on a female whom prosecutors said was about 14 years old at the time. A full six years later, Kelly went to trial and was acquitted of all charges. The young woman who was thought to be the girl on the tape and her parents refused to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The intervening 13 years have also seen dogged, tenacious reporting on Kelly, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729310654/in-soulless-a-journalist-takes-on-r-kelly-and-the-business-that-made-him-a-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>a book by former \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> journalist and music critic \u003ca href=\"http://jimdero.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim DeRogatis\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695083431/surviving-r-kelly-producer-dream-hampton-takes-on-ecosystem-that-s-supported-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> a six-part docuseries helmed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamhampton.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dream hampton\u003c/a> that aired on Lifetime. Both were released in 2019, in the midst of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of #MeToo, many prominent accusers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798222176/the-harvey-weinstein-trial-a-brief-timeline-of-how-we-got-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">white women\u003c/a>. But the Kelly-related projects explicitly centered the mostly Black girls and women who allegedly were harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As those projects were being developed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/06/608802024/-muterkelly-gathers-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MuteRKelly\u003c/a> movement—founded by two Black women, Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye—gathered steam in an effort to pressure large entertainment companies to sever their ties with Kelly. In writing about #MuteRKelly, \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> columnist Christine Emba \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/black-women-deserve-better-will-2019-be-the-year-of-change/2019/01/09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited\u003c/a> a 1962 speech by Malcolm X: “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/jerhonda-pace-r-kelly-me-too-tarana-burke#.vc8K1olGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview \u003c/a>Barnes gave to DeRogatis for BuzzFeed News in March 2018, she asserted: “We don’t give a damn about Black girls. If R. Kelly was white, every civil rights leader would be marching in every street in this country. If the girls were white, every feminist group would be coming out enraged in droves of pussy hats to march against him. The bottom line is that R. Kelly and his victims are the perfect storm of people we don’t care about. We protect problematic Black men in the Black community, and we discard Black girls in all communities. Essentially, he is the greatest example of a predator in that he went after the most vulnerable that no one cares about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, though, Kelly’s management called #MuteRKelly “a public lynching,” noting that “since America was born, Black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it.” At the time, #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/01/607448801/-metoo-founder-tarana-burke-responds-to-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told me\u003c/a>, “The reality of lynching in America is so, so painful and so real. This is not a public lynching. This is a call for public accountability.” (Moreover, in many cases Kelly’s accusers have said that they were underage girls, not women, when they began sexual contact with him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have seen 24 years of allegations leveled against R. Kelly, and he has gone unscathed,” Burke continued in that 2018 conversation. “What we are looking for, in our community and out, is some accountability from the corporations that support this person who has a 24-year history of sexual violence perpetrated against Black and brown girls around the country.” (At the end of that year, Burke was one of the victims of a gun threat called into an advance screening of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> in New York; Kelly’s former manager, Donnell Russell, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902514816/r-kellys-former-manager-charged-with-gun-threat-to-surviving-r-kelly-screening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged\u003c/a> with making that threat. His case is ongoing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a large extent, #MuteRKelly came to fruition, albeit years after Kelly’s commercial and creative peak, and sometimes in highly qualified ways. In May 2018, for example, Spotify \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/10/610051559/starting-with-r-kelly-spotify-pulls-artists-from-playlists-for-hateful-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped\u003c/a> Kelly from its playlists, the way that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/secret-hit-making-power-spotify-playlist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many listeners\u003c/a> use the service, rather than seeking out particular artists or songs. If you actively search for Kelly’s music on Spotify, however, it’s still there, as are the songs he wrote and/or produced for other artists, including Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Ciara, Missy Elliott and another artist some listeners consider problematic: Michael Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been one notable exception: Much of the music by Kelly’s protégée Aaliyah—whom he married in 1994, when she was 15 years old and he was 27—is not on Spotify or other streaming services at all. But in an interesting bit of timing, Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah’s uncle and the former manager of both artists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> just days before the Kelly trial began that he is making her recording catalog available to streaming services. The New York prosecutors refer to Aaliyah in their indictment as “Jane Doe #1,” for whom they say Kelly and associates bribed a public official to create a fake ID before their marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jan. 2019, Kelly’s longtime record label RCA and its parent company, Sony Music Entertainment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped him\u003c/a> from their artist roster after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure mounted\u003c/a> from #MuteRKelly. But that decision, apparently made in the wake of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> airing, came 16 years after his last big chart hit, 2003’s “Ignition (Remix).” Furthermore, RCA and Sony never publicly acknowledged having dropped Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the most recent wave of accusations and reporting, Black and brown voices were calling for a reckoning. Nearly two decades before \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> longtime \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times \u003c/em>columnist Mary Mitchell wrote many pieces asking why the alleged victims were being dismissed or ignored, and why so many Chicagoans were so eager to \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2002/8/8/22613656/r-kelly-2002-trial-fans-rally-cook-county-chicago-sun-times-mary-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">side with Kelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many fans adored him. Quite a few fellow artists brushed aside the allegations and continued to work with him. And comedians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafRE74JGZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Chappelle\u003c/a> joked about the alleged Kelly tape and its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the debut airing of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> then-\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>culture editor (and now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR colleague\u003c/a>) Aisha Harris wrote about how the allegations against Kelly became pop-culture\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/arts/television/surviving-r-kelly-dave-chappelle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> joke fodder\u003c/a>: “For years,” she wrote, “those who laughed at Kelly were able to ignore the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In retrospect, that particular spin cycle is reminiscent of what happened to Britney Spears \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1009859700/opinion-britney-is-the-latest-victim-of-the-industry-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the same era\u003c/a>. (She was one of R. Kelly’s labelmates at Jive and then RCA, and Kelly wrote and produced her song “Outrageous,” released in 2004.) Spears’ public struggles, which became little more than a joke and grist for the 24/7 grind of gossip blogs and cable channels vying for eyeballs, happened nearly simultaneously with Kelly’s Chicago trial. The girl at the center of that trial, like Spears, largely became a punchline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the women who have accused Kelly of sexual, physical and/or psychological abuse say that when they met him, they, too, like that girl allegedly featured on the infamous tape, were teenagers attempting to become professional musicians, and hoped that the king of R&B would help them chart their own musical careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly started Monday with jury selection in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lingering health threats caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a shakeup of Kelly’s defense team pushed the trial into the summer, nearly two years after he was charged with abusing women and girls for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly began questioning potential jurors about whether they can keep an open mind about Kelly two years after he was charged with abusing women and girls for nearly two decades. She reminded them the defendant was presumed innocent and that they should not be influenced by anything they’ve previously heard about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeding was being conducted amid coronavirus pandemic precautions restricting the press and the public to overflow courtrooms with video feeds. Much of the time, Kelly and potential jurors weren’t clearly visible on the feeds and the audio was often faint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More screening was set for Tuesday. It was unclear how long the process will take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 54, has been locked up since he was indicted, mostly housed in a federal jail in Chicago. He was moved last month to the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to face trial in a case that’s further diminished his superstar status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109568']Last week, defense attorney Deveraux Cannick told a judge that Kelly needs to be measured for new clothing because he’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-music-health-arts-and-entertainment-4dc99d75b79a8739100f6cb45769aa3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained so much weight\u003c/a> in jail. And he asked that court transcripts be provided at no cost because Kelly has been unable to work for two years, saying: “His funds are depleted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of leading an enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees who helped him recruit women and girls for sex. Federal prosecutors say the group selected victims at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyers have said Kelly’s alleged victims were groupies who turned up at his shows and made it known they “were dying to be with him.” They only started accusing him of abuse years later when public sentiment shifted in the #MeToo era, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial had been expected to start earlier in the year. But opening statements were moved to Aug. 18 after Kelly fired his original defense team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors are expected to hear testimony from several of his accusers. A judge has ruled that the women will only be referred to by their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also are expected to offer evidence that Kelly schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for Aaliyah, a singer on the rise at 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah is identified as “Jane Doe #1” in court papers because she was still a minor when Kelly began a sexual relationship with her and believed she had become pregnant, the papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109968']“As a result, in an effort to shield himself from criminal charges related to his illegal sexual relationship with Jane Doe #1, Kelly arranged to secretly marry her to prevent her from being compelled to testify against him in the future,” the papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/86198/the-most-creepily-problematic-sexy-songs-of-the-1990s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number.\u003c/a>” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is only part of the legal peril facing the singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly. He also has pleaded not guilty to sex-related charges in Illinois and Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly won multiple Grammys for “I Believe I Can Fly,” a 1996 song that became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings, advertisements and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade later, he began releasing what eventually became 22 musical chapters of “Trapped in the Closet,” a drama that spins a tale of sexual deceit and became a cult classic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kelly has been trailed for decades by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109631/i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaints\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109968/on-cbs-an-indicted-r-kelly-literally-screams-his-innocence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegations\u003c/a> about his sexual behavior, including a 2002 child pornography case in Chicago. He was acquitted in that case in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scrutiny intensified again amid the #MeToo movement in recent years, with multiple women going public with accusations against the singer. The pressure intensified with the release of the Lifetime documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108417/lady-gaga-needs-to-talk-about-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal charges soon followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AP\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bill Cosby is free. He’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bill-cosby-conviction-overturned-5c073fb64bc5df4d7b99ee7fadddbe5a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free on a technicality\u003c/a>, despite 60 women coming forward and repeatedly sharing their \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harrowing and credible stories\u003c/a> with the whole world. He’s free despite his own incriminating testimony. He’s free after serving only three years in prison despite a whole lifetime of allegedly drugging and raping and traumatizing women. He is unapologetic and unrepentant, and he is free. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also free, we learned as of yesterday, is James Franco, who finally wheedled his way out from under sexual misconduct and fraud allegations. He agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former students for over $2.2 million, three years after the women first accused him of sexually exploitative practices during acting lessons he held at the Studio 4 school. Franco’s former co-stars, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/106415/will-hbo-give-james-franco-yet-another-pass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ally Sheedy\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/busy-philipps-says-bully-james-franco-pushed-her-to-the-ground-while-filming-freaks-and-geeks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Busy Philipps\u003c/a>, both spoke out about their own awful experiences with the actor. At this point, even his one-time best friend Seth Rogen \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/seth-rogen-james-franco-sexual-misconduct-accusations-1234950486/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has disowned Franco\u003c/a>. But, just like Bill Cosby, Franco is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dylan Farrow described the Cosby and Franco outcomes as a “travesty,” and summed up the feelings of frustrated women everywhere \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RealDylanFarrow/status/1410334656591917056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is a perfect example of how not just our society, but our justice system, continually fails survivors of sexual assault. For those that question … survivors about the reasons and timing of coming forward, I hope that today will serve as a teachable moment on empathy, on why it takes years—if ever—for someone to disclose their abuse. Many survivors will look at the events of today and decide it’s not worth it; that even when justice is served, it can be taken away … My heart goes out to the survivors today and every day.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13899317']To make matters worse, also on June 30, Britney Spears was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1012027100/judge-denies-britney-spears-request-father-removed-conservator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">denied freedom from her conservatorship\u003c/a>. This despite her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899317/britney-spears-full-statement-to-the-court-in-her-conservatorship-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disturbing testimony\u003c/a> detailing the myriad ways her life is restricted, controlled and, frankly, not her own. Spears bravely stood up in a court, pleaded with a judge to help her (because, among other things, she says she is being forced to keep using birth control against her will) and, despite an outpouring of public support, it all came to naught. Britney Spears is not free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If American women had ever been in any doubt about who the legal system in this country protects, June 30 let us know, loudly and clearly, three times in a row. If any of us had been laboring under the assumption that things were improving for women in the post-#MeToo landscape, June 30 shut that hope right back down, over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since the hashtag exploded onto the cultural landscape in 2017, much has been made of the #MeToo movement and the ways that it “targets” men. But the truth of the matter is that even after hundreds of thousands of women publicly revealed their traumas; even after famous women named and shamed their attackers, the only two high-profile abusers punished in a court of law post-#MeToo were Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. (We almost got Jeffrey Epstein too, but we all know how that turned out.) We understood them to be only the two most obvious, most egregious serial predators. And what that quietly told women everywhere was that, in order to bring down a rapist in a court of law, scores of women have to be victimized first. If you happen to get raped by a man who doesn’t rape scores of other women? Well, good luck and godspeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, of course, one of the only two legal victories we were clinging to for the sake of hope, sanity and some semblance of justice is suddenly null and void. Because a fairly feeble technicality (three justices dissented) was given priority over the lives, physical and mental welfare, and interrupted careers of 60 women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892800']That means our only remaining proof that justice might prevail in matters of sexual assault is Harvey Weinstein. And despite his 23-year prison sentence, his case reeks of injustice too. Because while Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act, those were only two of the five charges that he faced. In the wave of relief that followed his two convictions, America somehow managed to forget the fact that he was found \u003cem>not\u003c/em> guilty on three other charges. An astonishing outcome, given what we’d been told, repeatedly, about the man on trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein was found not guilty of first-degree rape, defined in the state of New York as “\u003ca href=\"https://criminaldefense.1800nynylaw.com/new-york-penal-code-130-35-rape-in-the-first-degree.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engag[ing] in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion\u003c/a>.” This despite Jessica Mann’s harrowing testimony that, “The more I fought, the angrier he got.” He was also found not guilty of two counts of predatory sexual assault. Annabella Sciorra appeared in court specifically in support of those charges. She testified that she was raped by Weinstein after he forced his way into her apartment. “I was punching, I was kicking him, I was trying to take him away from me,” she said. Apparently the jury didn’t believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Weinstein’s case, the overwhelming reality of just how hard it is for women to get justice in this country is writ large. But at least Harvey Weinstein isn’t free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling of outrage that washed over us when Cosby was released yesterday isn’t new, of course. We feel it every time we think about \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christine Blasey Ford\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anita Hill\u003c/a> and the victimized students of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunting_Ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hunting Ground\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and the female soldiers of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Invisible War\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. We feel it when we think about \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Turner\u003c/a>. And we definitely feel it every time we remember all the men who were “#MeToo-ed” but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892800/allen-v-farrow-is-the-most-damning-indictment-of-woody-allen-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never faced criminal charges\u003c/a>, and are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889064/johnny-depps-uk-libel-case-failed-and-his-us-one-is-likely-doomed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still working\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I sound depressed and despondent and hopeless, it’s because I am. Like most women in this country, I am tired. I am tired of men getting away with it. I am tired of flimsy punishments that don’t fit the crime. I am tired of hearing women relive their traumas over and over again, only to be tossed the smallest consolation crumbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t want to write this essay. I really didn’t. 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I think they missed the part about \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet, \u003c/em>which I thought was the genius of this. And here we are many, many, many years later with another edition of this film about to be released in December—by the way, when I will, literally, the day before we open, be 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On having to darken her skin for film roles \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I rarely, rarely ever saw my own color when I did movies. When I first went to MGM, I played a Cajun girl from New Orleans. So they actually used my own skin color. But as I got older and had more of a career, I kept getting darker and darker and darker. … [\u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em>] was worse. That was like mud. … It was so thick and it was so dark that our faces would streak and show our real color underneath. And I remember saying to a makeup man once, “I don’t know why I have to be this color. … This is not my color.” And he actually said to me as he was making me up, “What are you, racist?” Well, talk about nonplussed. I didn’t even know what to say to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the allegation that her Hollywood agent raped her early in her career\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very first time I spoke about it was when I did the documentary. I mentioned it in my book, also my biography, but it’s heartbreaking. By the way, I ran into this man, this agent, about five years ago in Palm Springs because it turned out he had booked me in a concert that I was going to do there. And I saw his face and I thought, oh, my God, it’s him. And you know what he told me without being asked? He said, “I’m sorry I didn’t make you pregnant, because that was the whole idea. … Then you would be beholden to me forever.” … I was speechless. I was absolutely speechless, I just said, “Excuse me.” And I left the room. I was dumbstruck. What do you say? “You cur, you bastard, you son of a bitch.” What do you say? … You know what, I’m glad I didn’t [say anything], because that would have probably opened too many doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On dating Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thirty years ago this month, \u003cem>Madonna: Truth or Dare\u003c/em> was released to much fanfare. The documentary—part concert movie, part backstage exposé—captured the singer’s 1990 Blond Ambition world tour. It would be the highest grossing documentary of all time for the next 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> stands as a feminist moment awkwardly sandwiched between its second and third waves. At the same time, the movie is probably most remembered for its strides toward gay visibility. The film presented Madonna’s touring crew as one big, (usually) happy family. And because all but one of her dancers were gay, same-sex relationships were presented in the film as just the same as everyone else’s. In 1991, in the midst of the AIDS crisis, the impact of that cannot be overstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZeyJPQT2A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just Madonna’s relationships with her dancers, either. At one genuinely vulnerable point, she is seen dedicating a concert to \u003ca href=\"http://www.newnownext.com/keith-haring-birthday-60-madonna-brooke-shields/05/2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her friend Keith Haring\u003c/a>, who had recently lost his life to AIDS-related complications. Later, we see her lunching with her friend Sandra Bernhard, as the two casually discuss the woman Bernhard is sleeping with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the biggest pop stars in the world at the time, Madonna’s example mattered. She knew it, and so did Alek Keshishian, her 26-year-old director. “I was in this bubble where that was just all accepted,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/arts/music/madonna-truth-or-dare-alek-keshishian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keshishian told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2016. “I felt instinctively that I wanted to get across how in Madonna’s world, homosexuality was just a fact of life. These dancers, who she felt so close to, they were going through that age of AIDS. There was still so much stigma against it. I felt personally the power of putting that out, but I had no idea that it might resonate with others quite the way it did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003cem>Huffington Post\u003c/em>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madonnas-groundbreaking-t_b_9238490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daryl Deino wrote\u003c/a> about the impact \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> had on him as a closeted young man in Skokie, Illinois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[There] was a scene of a gay pride parade—something I had never seen before … Madonna’s dancers stand in the sidelines while people march, screaming, ‘We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it!‘ There are all types of people … ‘Even I could fit in there,’ I thought. That moment changed my life … Madonna’s dancers were now my heroes. They let me know that it was okay to be different. Even if you are a part of the LGBT community, you wouldn’t understand what I felt unless you lived through the ‘80s or early ‘90s as a teenager.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It’s important to acknowledge in 2021 just how crucial the documentary was at the time. Because for audiences watching now who didn’t live through the era, there is much in \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> to be offended by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, the movie is riddled with gay slurs. It’s impossible not to flinch now, watching Madonna drop so many ‘F’ bombs. At one point, she tells one of her dancers, “I wouldn’t hire fags that hate women. I kill fags that hate women. In fact, I kill anybody who hates women.” Cringeworthy though it is, the scene is a reflection of the ‘90s as a period of reclaiming historically hostile language, and a reminder that allies at the time were permitted to do the same. (By the end of the decade, even the ladies of \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> were using the other ‘F’ word.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13915838']That outburst is especially tough to sit through after scenes in which the one straight dancer Madonna has hired appears to hate gay men. “It’s my first time working with fags,” Oliver Crumes tells the camera. “Have you ever seen [dancer] Luis [Camacho] walk in his underwear in front of just a whole bunch of people? I don’t have no kind of respect for these people. We know he’s a fag, or gay, or whatever you wanna call it. But you don’t have to show it to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crumes \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/madonna-truth-or-dare-oral-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently admitted to \u003cem>Vulture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “Before the tour started, I was homophobic. I wasn’t all with it. Learning from all the guys what their lives were like when they were young was just mind-blowing. If it wasn’t for Madonna and that tour, I would never have got that experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same interview, backing vocalist Donna DeLory stands by the movie as one that empowers women. “My daughter is 18,” she says, “and in this day and age, she watches that movie and sees nothing but strength. She sees a role model. To be around a woman like Madonna was just like, ‘Yes!’ We felt taken care of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that, for the most part, the Madonna we see in \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> is powerful, always in control, and astoundingly disciplined with her work ethic. She goes far above and beyond the 21st century idea of leaning in. But the way she handles a sexual assault, mid-tour, is jaw-dropping to witness in the post-#MeToo age. After one of her makeup artists, Sharon Gault, is attacked in New York City, the only member of the crew who seems appropriately concerned is dancer Carlton Wilborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was at the club dancing,” Wilborn tells Madonna, backstage. “The next thing she knew was that she woke up in her room nude, and her stuff was stolen, and she went to the bathroom and her butt was bleeding.” Madonna responds by covering her face, nervously laughing, then offering an explainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how you wouldn’t remember something like that,” she says. “They drugged her ass. All I can think of is that she started talking about how she was on tour with me, she’s staying at the Ritz Carlton and those guys, whoever they were, got it in their mind that they were going to fuck with her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juxtaposed with the scene between Madonna and Wilborn is one in which Gault relays her experience. “I never thought that something like that would ever happen to me,” a visibly shellshocked Gault tells DeLory and fellow backing vocalist, Niki Haris. “It was a nice club. It was really nice. And there were nice people there, and I was dancing with these boys. I was totally sober … And then next thing I know, I wake up this morning. I’m never going to go out by myself again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112976']At no point does anyone attempt to contact police, or the club at which Gault was drugged, or get medical or therapeutic assistance for her. The assault is treated as simply a hazard of being naive in New York City, and a particularly harsh life lesson. For anyone still wondering why so many of Harvey Weinstein’s and Bill Cosby’s accusers didn’t come forward sooner, this moment in \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> stands as an efficient explainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legacy of \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> is further complicated by the fact that three dancers—Crumes, Gabriel Trupin and Kevin Stea—sued Madonna in 1992 over the film, in part, for invasion of privacy. The three had not wanted certain scenes included in the film, and felt they had not been adequately compensated for their contributions. The case was settled out of court in 1994. This year, Stea told \u003cem>Vulture\u003c/em>, “The choice I made to do the lawsuit was literally because I said, ‘What would she do? She would fight for herself’ … She kept telling me, ‘Don’t let people take advantage of you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When all is said and done, \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em> may not be perfect, but it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a perfect snapshot of early 1990s culture, messy though it was. Its status as a groundbreaking work of both female and LGBT empowerment is certainly warranted, despite how 2021 audiences might react to the language and attitudes caught on camera. That three of the dancers featured—Wilborn, Trupin and Salim Gauwloos— were, unbeknownst to audiences, living with HIV or AIDS at the time of filming only serves to give the film added poignancy. (San Francisco resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/OBITUARY-Gabriel-Trupin-3017397.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trupin\u003c/a> died just five years after appearing in \u003cem>Truth or Dare\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alek’s particular vision really paid tribute to gay culture,” dancer Kevin Stea noted this year. “Being gay himself and sharing the humanity of our community is what gave this movie long-lasting legs, and power, and iconic status.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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