K-pop's Seungri charged with deploying gangsters at bar
By Elizabeth Shim
South Korean singer Seungri was charged with mobilizing special assault in connection with an altercation in December 2015 in southern Seoul, local reports said. File Photo by Yonhap
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A South Korean celebrity who owned a nightclub in Seoul that shuttered after multiple rape incidents was indicted for mobilizing gang members.
Seungri, a former member of boy band Big Bang, was charged with "special assault," the general military court of South Korea's Ground Operations Command said, according to local paper Hankook Ilbo on Friday.
Seungri, 30, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, already has been charged with facilitating sex trafficking, embezzling funds from his own nightclub and gambling overseas. South Korean law prohibits citizens from gambling, even when they are abroad.
South Korean military prosecutors said Thursday the defendant conspired with Yoo In-suk, former chief executive of Yuri Holdings Co., to send gang members to attack a customer who had a dispute with Seungri at a bar in Seoul in 2015.
Seungri and Yoo "displayed force and threatened victims," prosecutors said.
The charges that were addressed this week referred to an incident in late December 2015. After an argument erupted between Seungri and another bar customer at the time, Seungri called Yoo to ask for muscle, according to the Chosun Ilbo on Thursday.
Seungri's legal counsel said his client completely denies the allegations and will submit an opinion, according to reports.
Past charges against the defendant, who is currently completing his mandatory military service, relate to rape-and-drugging incidents at Burning Sun, where he served as a board of director and held shares.
I wonder how much fun he is having doing military service with all those charges hanging over his head?
The club was shuttered in 2019 after local reports said eyewitnesses saw women being dragged to VIP rooms. Whistleblowers were assaulted by staff when they tried to help, reports said.
Burning Sun opened in 2018 but continued to operate even after victims of sexual assault notified police.
Last year South Korean prosecutors charged a senior officer with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency with cover up.
Seungri has denied nearly all charges.
‘Zero tolerance’: New York Mets GM Jared Porter FIRED as four-year-old ‘pics’ come back to bite him
19 Jan 2021 14:53
The New York Mets have dismissed Porter over the messages. © Getty / Instagram @mets (inset)
The New York Mets are in damage control mode after announcing they have fired their recently-appointed general manager Jared Porter amid reports that he sent a series of unsolicited, inappropriate texts to a female reporter.
The Mets moved quickly Tuesday to sever ties with Porter, 41, just over a month after hiring him after a media storm ignited following a report by ESPN that he had sent a series of unsolicited x-rated images to a female reporter in 2016 while he was a member of the Chicago Cubs organization.
"We have terminated Jared Porter this morning," Mets owner Steve Cohen wrote on Twitter. "In my initial press conference I spoke about the importance of integrity and I meant it. There should be zero tolerance for this type of behavior."
Porter's termination comes just hours after the story was broken, with the Mets issuing an initial statement to say that they had just recently been made aware of the allegations, promising to follow-up with further information once an internal review was conducted - which apparently came early Tuesday morning.
"I have spoken directly with Jared Porter regarding events that took place in 2016 of which we were made aware tonight for the first time. Jared has acknowledged to me his serious error in judgment, has taken responsibility for his conduct, has expressed remorse, and has previously apologized for his actions," Mets president Sandy Alderson said on Monday.
"The Mets take these matters seriously, expect professional and ethical behavior from all of our employees, and certainly do not condone the conduct described in (the ESPN) story. We will follow up as we review the facts regarding this serious issue."
The allegations stem from a series of inappropriate messages sent by Porter to a foreign female reporter who has withheld her own identity for fear of public reprisal. She says that she received dozens of messages from Porter, ranging from idle chat to X-rated 'd*ck picks' - along with requests wondering why she wasn't reciprocating the photographs.
She told ESPN that she had kept the messages private for several years but was compelled to come forward when Porter was appointed as the Mets' GM for fear that he would abuse his position of authority with other women.
And now, just 37 days after signing up for the Mets gig in what he predicted would represent a "cultural shift" in the organization Porter now finds himself mired in the Major League Baseball scrapheap, and in direct opposition to the mission statement he announced on signing his contract in late December of "adding good people to the organization."
The Mets, and their fans, will be hoping that this mantra will finally start to take hold.
Spanish football stars handed two-year prison sentences
for sharing sex tape
19 Jan 2021 16:40
Sergi Enrich of Eibar is one of the players to be sentenced. © AFP
Two Spanish footballers, Eibar striker Sergi Enrich and his former teammate Antonio Luna, have been given two-year suspended sentences for recording and sharing a video with sexualized content.
Along with a jail sentence, the pair have each been fined €100,000, Mundo Deportivo reported.
The verdict was delivered by a court in San Sebastián, in Spain’s Basque Country, with the players being found guilty of recording and sharing the intimate video without having the consent of a woman they filmed.
The controversial footage was captured on a mobile phone in 2016, and showed the players with a woman who claimed to have been filmed without her permission.
The scandal erupted after the video went viral, with Enrich and Luna being accused of infringement of the woman’s privacy.
Another former Eibar player, Eddy Silvestre, who was accused of sharing the video online after his teammates sent it to him, has been cleared of all charges by the court.
Enrich and Luna managed to avoid a severe jail term – the prosecution had demanded five years in prison for the two athletes and two years for Silvestre. Both apologized for their actions.
They are unlikely to actually spend any time behind bars, as under Spanish legislation, first-time offenders do not usually do time for sentences of under two years, serving it on probation instead.
Bollywood: Sherlyn Chopra accuses Sajid Khan of sexual misconduct
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Model and actress claims that the director flashed his private parts in 2005
Published: January 20, 2021 11:13
Manjusha Radhakrishnan, Chief Reporter, Gulf News
A few days earlier, late actress Jiah Khan’s sister Karishma levelled similar charges in a BBC documentary ‘Death of Bollywood’, saying that Sajid had harassed Jiah as she looked for work with him.
Sajid Khan.
Chopra took to Twitter on January 19 to recount the incident that allegedly took place in 2005.
“When I had met him in April 2005, a few days after my father’s demise, he had taken his [private part] out of his pants and had asked me to feel it,” part of her tweet read.
In 2018, actress Saloni Chopra had also accused Sajid of sexual harassment, which led him to step down as director of ‘Housefull 4’. Apart from Chopra, actresses Rachel White, Simran Suri and journalist Karishma Upadhyay have also accused Sajid of inappropriate behaviour.
Chopra added that she had proof to substantiate her claims of Sajid being a sexual predator.
“It’s not an accusation but the disclosure of a fact. Our phone records of the past may be checked regarding the same,” said Chopra. She also spoke about how emotionally broken she was after her father’s death and how the incident with Sajid had scarred her.
Sajid, the brother of choreographer-director Farah Khan, was in 2018 suspended from the Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association for a year after multiple women accused him of sexual abuse.
Antonio Brown contesting decision ordering NFL star to pay rape accuser $100,000 after direct message discovery
23 Jan 2021 09:42
Six-figure sanction: Antonio Brown © Reuters
NFL star Antonio Brown has been ordered to pay his rape accuser $100,000 after he allegedly broke a confidentiality agreement in a prior settlement.
Brown, who is aiming for a Super Bowl appearance this year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is fighting the ruling and has already submitted legal papers in a bid to overturn the decision.
The former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver was sued in 2019 by Britney Taylor after she claimed that he sexually assaulted her multiple times. One incident, in 2018, was claimed to be a violent rape.
Both Brown and Taylor signed a confidentiality agreement following Brown's lawsuit in a bid to assist the process from both sides of the legal argument.
However, TMZ Sports is reporting that Taylor has accused Brown of violating the agreement "multiple times over the past year and a half" and has called in an independent arbitrator to preside over the issue.
That arbitrator discovered that a screengrab of a direct message showing Brown discussing the case in 2019 was indeed a breach of the agreement, and as a result ordered Brown to pay Taylor $100,000.
Brown is fighting that ruling, saying that the arbitrator's ruling was not made in accordance with law and should therefore be thrown out. The rape case dispute remains unresolved.
Brown faces additional woe in his day job, with Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians confirming the wide receiver will miss out on Sunday's NFC championship game clash at the Green Bay Packers due to a knee injury.
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