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Police continue to quiz arrested England ace Mason Greenwood,
20, over 'rape and assault of 18-year-old student'
Manchester United suspend player after 'shocking' footage circulated
on social media - as father of 'victim' says her account 'was hacked'
By LIZ HULL and EMINE SINMAZ FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:29 EST, 30 January 2022
England footballer Mason Greenwood was in police custody last night after being arrested over allegations of rape and assault.
The Manchester United forward, 20, was detained after distressing pictures and audio circulated on social media earlier in the day alleging he attacked an 18-year-old student.
The images appeared to show the woman bloodied and bruised.
Another post included a voice recording of a conversation between a man and a woman, dated October last year, which purportedly chronicled the woman being attacked.
Within hours of the messages emerging and spreading across social media, his club put out a statement saying it was aware of them and they were making inquiries ‘to establish the full circumstances’.
It added: ‘Manchester United does not condone violence of any kind.’
Mason Greenwood (pictured with England manager Gareth Southgate) is at the centre of a police investigation and has been arrested on suspicion of rape and assault this weekend
The woman was interviewed by plain clothes officers at her family home yesterday afternoon.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester police said they had launched an investigation after being made ‘aware of online social media images and videos posted by a woman reporting incidents of physical violence’.
He added: ‘Following inquiries we can confirm a man in his 20s has since been arrested on suspicion of rape and assault. He remains in custody for questioning. Inquiries are ongoing.’
Forensic officers also arrived at Greenwood’s £2million mansion in the upmarket village of Bowdon, Cheshire, yesterday evening.
Manchester United suspended the rising star, who earns a reported £75,000 a week, shortly before news of his arrest emerged. In a second statement, the club hierarchy said the player would ‘not return to training or play matches until further notice’.
News of Greenwood’s suspension and arrest is also likely to put his lucrative sponsorship deal with Nike at risk. Yesterday a spokesman for the sports brand said they were ‘deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations’ and would be ‘closely monitoring the situation’.
The allegedly incriminating posts were online for just a few hours before being deleted. The woman’s father told the Daily Mail his daughter believed her Instagram account had been hacked.
Speaking from his £1million home in an upmarket Cheshire village, the company director, 61, described the allegations as ‘dreadful’.
‘I’m just coming to terms with it,’ he said. ‘As a father you don’t want to know things like this are happening to your daughter. She is devastated. But she is safe. It is in the hands of the police now.’
Campaigners and women’s charities also welcomed the investigation into the ‘shocking’ allegations.
Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said the pictures, and particularly the voice note, were ‘shocking in the extreme’. ‘Manchester United must deal with it but it is also clearly a police matter,’ he said.
There is much more to this story, being called football's #MeToo moment, at the Daily Mail.
CNN president quits
Jeff Zucker failed to disclose romantic relationship with colleague
that came up during Chris Cuomo probe
Jeff Zucker announced his resignation as president of CNN and chairman of Warner Media’s news and sports division on Wednesday, after nine years at the cable channel’s helm.
As the reason for his move, Zucker said that he failed to disclose in a timely manner a “consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” that he said “evolved in recent years.”
“Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years,” she said in a statement. “Recently, our relationship changed during Covid. I regret that we didn’t disclose it at the right time.”
Gollust and Zucker’s relationship came up during the investigation into the CNN tenure of Chris Cuomo, the younger brother of the now-former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo. CNN fired Cuomo in December 2021, saying he inappropriately used his position at the network to help his brother defend charges of sexual harassment. Andrew Cuomo had resigned in August, dogged by the accusations which did not result in criminal charges.
“Together, we had nine great years,” Zucker said in a memo to CNN employees on Wednesday. “I certainly wish my tenure here had ended differently. But it was an amazing run. And I loved every minute.”
Zucker, 56, came to CNN in 2013. He previously worked at NBC Entertainment, where he green-lit the reality TV hit ‘The Apprentice’, starring real-estate mogul and future US President Donald Trump. Riding on that show’s success, among other things, Zucker was promoted to chief executive of NBC Universal in February 2007. Just three years later, in June 2010, Comcast offered him up to $40 million to resign, after acquiring the company.
One unnamed TV executive told the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd at the time that Zucker was “a case study in the most destructive media executive ever to exist” who had “taken a once-great network and literally destroyed it.”
So, I'm wondering if the affair is a cover for his being fired. It used to be that if you were fired for sexual indiscretions that it would be covered with another excuse. That now seems to be reversed.
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Anna Duggar - In a really bad place thanks to Josh
By CARLY STERN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:40 EST, 4 February 2022
Anna Duggar has broken her silence about her sex offender husband Josh Duggar's child porn conviction, defending him and appearing to insist that he is innocent.
Anna, 33, shared a short message on Twitter and Instagram on Thursday, her first since announcing the birth of their seventh child in November.
'There is more to the story,' Anna wrote.
Though she didn't elaborate, she included a link to her husband's motion for acquittal or a new trial.
Anna had accompanied Josh to court every day of the trial in December, and appears to believe the defense's argument that someone else could have been behind the horrific trove of photos and videos of children being sexually abused that were found on Josh's computer.
Yet she seems to be the only one steadfastly sticking by him: Several members of Josh's family had released statements in support of the conviction, and no one has liked Anna's post or tweet.
Anna Duggar has broken her silence about her sex offender husband Josh Duggar's child porn conviction, defending him and appearing to insist that he is innocent
Anna has turned off comments on her Instagram posts, which has only got about 2,000 likes in 18 hours — far less than her previous post on November 15, which announced the arrival of her daughter Madyson Lily and got over 96,000 likes.
Though her sister Priscilla liked the post, not a single member of the Duggar family has.
Many of the Duggars — including Jill and Derick Dillard, Jessa and Ben Seewald, Joy Anna and Austin Forsyth, and Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo — wrote statements following Josh's conviction in which they expressed approval of the outcome.
Though none of the Duggars approved of her post about Josh, however, they don't seem to be shunning Anna, who was present at the family's ugly sweater party in December.
While Anna managed to avoid critical comments on Instagram, they have flooded in on Twitter, with users calling her 'delusional' and 'brainwashed.'
'No dear just stop and save yourself. Have some self-respect,' wrote one.
There is a lot more on this story at The Daily Mail.
Anna seems to blame Josh's parents and Joe Biden for this conviction. I have personally witnessed someone who is a chronic liar cover up his sin by telling his wife and friends only as much as they can take without turning on him. Always blaming someone else, he put his wife and friends in an awful place. If that's what has happened here, Anna's going to need some serious help when she allows herself to believe the truth and comes to terms with it. IMHO Josh is despicable for putting her through this. Please pray for her.
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