Eric Greitens, GOP Senate Candidate, Accused of Domestic Abuse
By Ex-Wife
BY LORA KORPAR
ON 3/21/22 AT 12:34 PM EDT
Eric Greitens, a former governor of Missouri and a candidate for the U.S. Senate, was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, Sheena Greitens, court documents show.
The documents in which Sheena Greitens accused her ex-husband of "unstable and coercive behavior" and abuse are part of a child custody dispute, the Associated Press reported. The allegations outlined in the court documents include Eric Greitens allegedly hitting his then-3-year-old son.
The allegations could have an effect on Greitens' chance of winning the Senate race, which has received national attention since Republican Roy Blunt announced this month that he would not seek re-election.
Eric and Sheena Greitens divorced after a 2018 sex scandal that led to Greitens' resignation as governor. The Republican faced charges of felony invasion of privacy after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman he was having an affair with and using nude photos of her as blackmail. Though he admitted to having the affair, he denied the assault allegations. The charges were eventually dropped.
In an affidavit obtained by AP, Sheena Greitens wrote that in April of 2018, she and her then-husband got into an argument and he knocked her down and took away her cellphone, wallet and keys "so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home."
"I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home," she wrote, adding that his "behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then-3-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by his hair."
Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife. Above, Greitens addresses a crowd at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery on February 22, 2017, in University City, Missouri. PHOTO BY MICHAEL THOMAS/GETTY IMAGES
She added that he allegedly threatened multiple times that he would use his political influence to accuse her of child abuse and win custody of their children, and to get her fired from her job as a professor at the University of Texas, according to AP.
She also accused him in the affidavit of buying a gun and not telling her where he stored it, threatening to kill himself "unless I provided specific public political support."
In a statement sent to Newsweek, Greitens' press team said the allegations are false and "politically motivated," and accused Sheena Greitens of having a "documented history of mental illness and emotionally abusive behavior," calling her a "deranged individual."
"The fact is that Eric has maintained, and will maintain custody of his children," the statement said. "His ex-wife is engaged in a last-ditch attempt to vindictively destroy her ex-husband. Though she knows that the press will viciously repeat her false allegations, Eric has always been a great dad, who loves his boys and has always put them first, and that is why he is filing for full custody of his children."
Is Sheena really vindictive? Or, are Eric and his lawyers guilty of character assassination? The only thing we know for sure is that the children will be the losers.
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Peter Nygard to be extradited to U.S. to face charges,
justice minister says
Former designer accused of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy in New York
CBC News ·
Posted: Mar 22, 2022 12:27 PM CT
Peter Nygard will be extradited to the United States to face charges there after the criminal charges he's facing in Canada are resolved, federal Justice Minister David Lametti announced Tuesday.
Nygard has been awaiting the minister's decision since last fall, when he agreed to bypass the court extradition process and move straight to ministerial review by the federal justice minister.
However, the same day Nygard consented to the ministerial review of his extradition case, Toronto police arrested him on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement.
"It is important that our Canadian legal process is completed so that all parties, including victims, have an opportunity to see justice served," Lametti said in a tweet.
Nygard, 80, is the former head of a multimillion-dollar clothing company. He has been in custody since December 2020, when he was arrested at a Winnipeg house under the Extradition Act after he was charged with nine sex-related counts in New York.
He was denied bail on the Toronto charges in January. The Toronto case is set to return to court on March 30.
British prosecutors charge actor Kevin Spacey with
sexually assaulting 3 men
By Doug Cunningham
Actor Kevin Spacey was in a New York City courtroom on Thursday when the British charges were announced. He was there to testify in a civil case relating to a different sex assault accusation from 2017. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
May 26 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, who was accused five years ago of sexually assaulting a man in the 1980s, was charged on Thursday with several criminal counts also alleging sexual assault.
Britain's Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges, which include three for sexual assault and one for nonconsensual sexual activity.
The charges are based on the accusations of three men who said the incidents occurred in Britain over an eight-year period from 2005 to 2013.
"The authority to charge follows a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation," the CPS said in a statement Thursday.
"The function of the CPS is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offense, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges for a criminal court to consider," the agency added.
The sexual assaults that Spacey is being charged with occurred in London and Gloucestershire, prosecutors said.
Actor Kevin Spacey is seen at a film festival in Deauville, France, on September 9, 2008. Two of the charges filed against him on Thursday say that two of the alleged offenses occurred that same year in London. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI
The incidents related to the three assault charges occurred in both cities in 2005, 2008 and 2013 and the accustion of nonconsensual activity occurred in London in 2008, according to the complaint.
Incidentally, Spacey was in a New York City courtroom on Thursday when the new charges were announced, where he was scheduled to testify in a civil case relating to the sex assault accusation in 2017.
The accusation five years ago was made by fellow actor Anthony Rapp, who said at the time that he was sexually assaulted by Spacey in the mid-1980s while both were acting on Broadway. Rapp was about 15 at the time and Spacey was 27.
Spacey responded to Rapp's accusation in 2017 by saying that he didn't remember the encounter, but that he was "beyond horrified" to hear about it. The two-time Oscar winner also announced in his response that he is gay.
Spacey won Academy Awards for his performances in American Beauty (1999) and The Usual Suspects (1996). Rapp has also appeared in various films, including Dazed and Confused (1993) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).
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