Sofia Coppola is an Oscar-winning director with a career that spans decades in Hollywood behind titles like Priscilla, The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, to name a few.
08.12.2023 - 21:33 / variety.com
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A judge on Friday certified a class action lawsuit that alleges that Disney paid 9,000 women less than their male counterparts. The suit is the largest ever certified under California’s Equal Pay Act, which makes it illegal for workers to be paid less for substantially similar work based on their gender. Lori Andrus, the plaintiffs’ attorney, applauded the ruling outside the courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.
“Disney has been gaslighting these women for four years,” she said. “They love their jobs. They love the brand.
But they want to be respected and treated the way they should be in the workplace.” Judge Elihu M. Berle rejected Disney’s arguments that the case will so sprawling as to be unmanageable. Disney’s attorney, Felicia Davis, argued that the plaintiffs are seeking to compare salaries across thousands of job groups, which reflect the decentralized decisions of thousands of managers.
The class includes female Disney employees who have worked for the company in California since April 1, 2015, in a non-union position below the level of vice president, and who have been assigned to a job family and level. It covers employees from the Disneyland hotels and theme park, the cruise line, the Disney film and TV studios, ABC, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and other units. It does not include Pixar, ESPN, Hulu, Fox, or FX.
Sofia Coppola is an Oscar-winning director with a career that spans decades in Hollywood behind titles like Priscilla, The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, to name a few.
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Vanity Fair, the “Fast and Furious” star’s former assistant Asta Jonasson claims Diesel, whose real name is Mark Sinclair, invited her to his suite at the St. Regis hotel in Atlanta after coming back from the club with hostesses.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A former assistant to Vin Diesel sued the actor on Thursday, alleging that in 2010 he pinned her against a wall in a hotel suite and masturbated in front of her. Asta Jonasson alleges that she was working for the actor in Atlanta, where he was filming “Fast Five,” when he brought her to his suite at the St. Regis Hotel and forced her onto his bed.
Taraji P. Henson recently got emotional when talking about the pay disparity she has faced during her time in Hollywood.While speaking on Sirius XM to promote her new film, The Color Purple, Henson was asked by host Gayle King if the rumours of her considering quitting acting were true. Immediately, Henson got teary-eyed and said: “I’m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do and getting paid a fraction of the cost.”“I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over.
Taraji P. Henson got real when talking about the pay disparity in Hollywood and opened up about the struggle she continues to face despite her success in the industry.
Attrakt has filed a lawsuit against former FIFTY FIFTY members Aran, Sio and Saena.According to news reports by South Korean outlets Yonhap News Agency and Korea JoongAng Daily, Attrakt has filed a “civil suit” against the three former FIFTY FIFTY singers, their parents and two executives of production company The Givers, Ahn Sung-il and Baek Jin-sil.The K-pop agency alleges that those they filed the lawsuit against were involved in the “unjust” breach of the three K-pop idols’ contracts. “The estimated damages and penalty fees reached hundreds of billions of won,” the label said.“However, we demanded the partial payment of 130billion won (roughly US$100,000), considering the possibility of a further increase in damages in the future,” Attrakt said.The lawsuit comes about two months after Attrakt terminated the contracts of members Aran, Sio and Saena, following a legal battle between the label and the K-pop idols over their contracts.The fourth and final original member of the girl group, Keena, had dropped her lawsuit against Attrakt just weeks prior and returned to the label.
who played Jimmy Keefe on the FX firefighter drama “Rescue Me,” died Sunday. He was 65.The cause was multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused Warren Beatty of coercing a teenage girl into sex in 1973, after the plaintiff’s attorney backed out of the case. Kristina Charlotte Hirsch filed the suit in November 2022 under a California law that temporarily suspended the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse.
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K.J. Yossman Prince Harry has received a judgement in his case against British tabloid newspaper The Mirror. Mr Justice Fancourt, who presided over the trial earlier this year, said he found “extensive” phone hacking between 2006 and 2011, the PA reports.
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The Voice is back in full swing.
Thousands and thousands of past and present female Disney employees can sue the Mouse House for paying them less than men/
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Another woman has sued Sean “Diddy“ Combs of sexual assault, multiple outlets report and court documents confirm. The anonymous plaintiff (referred to in her initial complaint as “Jane Doe”) filed the new lawsuit Wednesday (December 6) in Manhattan federal court, alleging that the Bad Boy Records founder and two of his associates — Bad Boy president Harve Pierre and another unidentified man — trafficked her across state lines and “gang raped” her at Combs’ Daddy’s House Recording Studio in 2003.