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The world of famous people is always filled with gossip, intrigue and scandals. However, 2017 turned out to be especially eventful for such events.
It is no secret that most of them are associated with the not quite chaste behavior of some prominent personalities.
Here are the biggest Hollywood scandals of the past year:
Scandals 2017
1 Harvey Weinstein Accusations
Without a doubt, the scandal involving Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein can be called Hollywood's biggest scandal over the past year.
In the fall of 2017, only the lazy did not discuss the scandalous news that a famous producer was involved in a serious sex scandal.
He was accused of obscene and rather terrible things.
In total, 83 women spoke out against the producer. Of these, 11 posted the ads anonymously, as they seriously feared for their lives. Others have come out openly against Weinstein, giving interviews to the media as well as posting statements on social media.
Among the accused of the producer were such famous women as Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Lena Headey, Kate Beckinsale
2. Accusations against Kevin Spacey (Kevin Spacey)
Following Harvey Weinstein, a similar scandal erupted around another no less significant personality, Kevin Spacey.
A not entirely pleasant story of 30 years ago surfaced in the media. Then other equally provocative rumors reached the restless paparazzi.
Several of his colleagues testified against the famous actor. The actor was accused of terrible things, for which you can get a very real term.
Most likely, fans of Kevin Spacey will not soon see him on the screens: because of the scandal that erupted, the actor decided to suspend his creative activity and stop acting in films and TV shows for a while.
3. Jay Z confessed to multiple infidelities
Rumors about the numerous betrayals of Jay Z, the husband of the popular singer Beyoncé, were regular. However, they did not have any confirmation or refutation until Jay Z himself confirmed them.
This happened when the star couple was on the verge of a divorce. The reason for this situation was the betrayal of Jay Z.
The American rapper honestly admitted this to journalists from The New York Times.
"Sometimes you need to survive. And when you embark on this path of a hard regime, then you begin to behave accordingly. You have to suppress all emotions in yourself. When communicating with women, you will be emotionally closed. It is very difficult to find a common language with them ... In my case it was much more serious. It was for this reason that infidelity appeared, "said Jay Z.
He also admitted that only the birth of twins helped to mend relations with Beyoncé and prevent their divorce.
According to the musician, it was a difficult period for both of them, which was accompanied by numerous quarrels and scandals.
“The hardest thing is to see the pain of a loved one. It’s even harder to realize that it is you who cause this pain. You have to make all claims to yourself,” the rapper said.
Mistake at the 2017 Oscars
4The Messed Up Envelope At The Oscars
This is not the first time that serious embarrassment has occurred at the Oscars. In 2017, the incident was much more serious than usual.
The mistake happened at the crucial moment. Actors Fane Dunaway and Warren Beatty opened the envelope and announced that the musical "La La Land" was the winner in the main nomination "Best Film of the Year".
The hall explodes with applause, the creators of the announced tape rise to receive the statuette. And when they are already delivering a solemn speech of thanks, the host of the ceremony suddenly comes up to the microphone and announces to the whole hall that a mistake has occurred, and that the painting "Moonlight" has become the winner in the nomination.
Everyone is shocked, the creators of the film La La Land are clearly upset, because they need to give the coveted statuette to their colleagues, the creators of the film Moonlight.
It is difficult to answer how, why and through whose fault such embarrassment happened. Someone talks about a mistake on the part of the presenter, someone claims that Leo DiCaprio himself joked like that. Well, there are those who say with confidence that the show was staged to raise the rating of the ceremony.
In addition, it is impossible not to note two other major scandals in the world of domestic show business that did not go unnoticed:
-Scandal with the divorce of People's Artist Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya.
-Scandal with the illegitimate son of the people's artist Spartak Mishulin.
It's time to sum up the results and remember what events the outgoing year was remembered for.
The outgoing 2017 turned out to be a bright year for scandals and conflicts. What are the public discussions of the Eurovision 2017 music contest and the premiere of the film Matilda worth. But what about the solo career of Olga Buzova and the conspiracy against Harvey Weinstein? About these and other events that we are still discussing - on the Woman's Day website.
The ban on the screening of the film "Matilda"
From April to October 2017.
The main scandal of the outgoing 2017 can rightly be called the conflict around the film "Matilda" by Alexei Uchitel. Moreover, it arose immediately after the first trailer appeared on the network, long before the premiere. At that time, some public figures and ordinary people considered the plot of the picture, which shows the history of the relationship between the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and the ballerina Matilda, to be provocative and demanded that the film be banned from hire. From that moment, all kinds of petitions for and against, and even litigation, began to appear. It all ended with a forensic examination, allowing the release of "Matilda" on the wide screen. The premiere in Moscow passed rather calmly. True, the actors who played the main roles did not come to the premiere. More
Disappearance of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
October 2017.
In mid-autumn, news began to appear in the media that the 82-year-old actor and director Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, according to his 38-year-old wife Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, disappeared without a trace. Fortunately, just a few hours after this announcement, journalists found a famous artist in one of the capital's hospitals. And with a completely different statement: the young wife kicked him out of the theater and rewrote two of his apartments. It turned out to be extremely difficult to verify these words: Vitalina left the country and stopped answering calls. After some time, the representative of the businesswoman said that his ward did not want to award Dzhigarkhanyan's property to herself, the banal black realtors were to blame. Currently, Dzhigarkhanyan and Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya are preparing for the divorce process. And everyone is ready to defend their point of view. Read more
Harvey Weinstein harassment allegations
October 2017.
In the fall of 2017, news began to appear in all media that you can still become a star in Hollywood through ... bed! So, actress Ashley Judd in an interview with The New York Times said about the sexual harassment of the producer and director Harvey Weinstein. After the publication of the article, the veracity of her words was confirmed by dozens of other Hollywood beauties, including Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale, Bjork, Judith Godresh. At the same time, Weinstein denied the accusations against him and assured that all his contacts with women were only by mutual consent. But it was already too late. Harvey was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and from the Producers Guild of America. His family life was also destroyed. The director's wife, Georgina Chapman, has filed for divorce.
Harvey Weinstein, we recall, was considered one of the most successful producers and directors in Hollywood. He made more than 300 films, many of which have repeatedly won various film awards, including the Oscar. His most significant works are the series "War and Peace" and "Scream", as well as the films "Chief Adam Jones", "Sin City", "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn", "Inglourious Basterds" and others.
Harassment of Olga Buzova in show business
January 2017 to present.
The star of "House-2" Olga Buzova sang for the first time back in 2011, when she recorded the song "Don't Forget" in a duet with rapper T-killah. True, then no one paid much attention to this hit, and the TV presenter forgot about the singer's career for a while. Everything changed at the end of 2016 after a divorce from football player Dmitry Tarasov. Suddenly, for everyone, Olga presented the first sing "To the Sound of Kisses", then the second - "Get Used", then the third - "Few Halves", then the fourth - "Hit Parade", and by October she had already prepared a whole album and ... solo concert program. Fans greeted her performances with a bang and crowds came to the concerts. I liked the work of Buzova and Kristina Orbakaite with Dima Bilan. But there were also opponents of the girl's talent. So, Svetlana Loboda, Nastasya Samburskaya, Nikita Presnyakov, Viktor Drobysh and many others began to write negative comments about Olga. Moreover, their disputes - whether the TV presenter should sing - continue to this day. Buzova, in turn, behaves differently: she ignores criticism, she laughs at her, she cries.
Illegitimate son of Andrei Gubin
September 2017.
Everyone remembered the “tramp boy” Andrey Gubin in the spring of 2017 after he appeared on several talk shows for the first time in a long time to talk about life after fame. Then it turned out that the singer stopped giving concerts due to health problems: he does not feel half of his face, and doctors cannot find the reason for this. A few months after the artist returned to television, rumors appeared that he had an illegitimate son from one of his fans. They have 21-year-old aspiring singer Maxim Kvasnyuk, who himself said this. Gubin refused to acknowledge paternity. But I decided to take a DNA test. And he did the right thing! The test found that the probability of Andrey Gubin's paternity in relation to Maxim Kvasnyuk is 0%. More
Dependence Dana Borisova
April 2017.
At the end of April, the mother of TV presenter Dana Borisova, Ekaterina Ivanovna, made a public statement: her daughter uses illegal drugs. Perhaps if Dana herself admitted the addiction and agreed to treatment, this could remain a family secret. But alas. The celebrity did not want to listen to her relatives, so Ekaterina Ivanovna had to turn to her famous friends for help. Moreover, at that time the state of the star was extremely difficult. Fortunately, Borisova's colleagues managed to persuade her (not without cunning, of course) to fly to a rehabilitation center in Thailand, where she remains to this day. From time to time, Dana gets in touch with Instagram subscribers and comes to Moscow to participate in a talk show to remind herself and say that she is on the mend. How long Borisova's treatment will take is still unknown, but she already has many plans: to return to television and open her own center to help people in trouble.
Yulia Samoilova's ban on performing at Eurovision
March to April 2017.
The Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 was the most scandalous in its history. Especially for our country. It all started with the fact that the authorities of Ukraine, where the event was to be held, refused entry into their country to the Russian participant Yulia Samoilova. And all because of the fact that a few years ago, while visiting Crimea, she left a political message on the social network. The dissatisfaction with this decision knew no bounds. Not only her fans and many compatriots, but also celebrities stood up for Yulia. Then all kinds of flash mobs and petitions began to appear on the network. As a result, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) joined the conflict, thanks to which Samoilova was allowed to take part in Eurovision, but only via Skype from Russia. Representatives of the artist and Channel One rejected this proposal.
At the very end of 2017, it was no longer a secret for secular Moscow that Nika and Boris Belotserkovsky broke up. The owner of the vending operator Uvenco and a well-known blogger have not been published together for a long time, but the presence of 5 children, two of whom are common, and 17 years of marriage behind them made it impossible to assume that this was the end. Both sides do not comment on the situation, but insiders report that everything in this story is very predictable - as they say, "cherchet la femme."
A real thriller for the popular singer The Weeknd turned out to be a break in relations with Selena Gomez. Let's start with the fact that exactly a year ago he left Bella Hadid for Selena, who, according to rumors, did not let go of the situation to the end. Well, Gomez, as it turned out, in a new relationship also could not forget her former boyfriend, Justin Bieber. It was with Bieber that the paparazzi captured her, and then posted photos of happy lovers online. The Weeknd tried to go on a spree and even return to Bella, hard going through the incredible resonance around his love story.
Quietly, peacefully and intelligently parted the main domestic power couple - Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich. The man, thanks to whom the word "oligarch" became a symbol of an entire era, a philanthropist and secular figure, divorced his ideal wife in all respects - a clever, beautiful girl with a dowry and impressive cultural baggage. Immediately after the intelligent official release about the end of the relationship, each of the spouses gave rise to rumors: Dasha was seen in the company of a Greek billionaire, and Roman invariably comes out with actress Yulia Peresild. By the way, together Zhukova and Abramovich also willingly appear.
For the first time in a long time, secular Moscow stopped discussing this topic on the sidelines - the former spouses did not advertise that not everything was going smoothly in the relationship. There were attempts to give the marriage a second and even a third chance, but alas, in the fall it became known that the spouses were officially divorced. Nadezhda was the initiator: rumors about her husband's romance with her namesake, a fatal society lady, who became a stumbling block in another high-profile divorce of the year, apparently added fuel to the fire of irreconcilable contradictions.
Another shocking news of recent months: Hollywood actor Ewan McGregor broke up with his wife Eve Mavrakis after 22 years of marriage. While some American tabloids are philosophically speculating about where eternal values come from in Hollywood, others are hinting at McGregor's romance with Fargo co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead. In support of this theory is the fact that Winstead also left her husband a few months ago.
“With love and respect for each other, we decided to part at the beginning of this year. We wanted not to talk about it publicly for as long as possible so that our family could go through a difficult time, ”the spouses announced their separation with such a politically correct statement. Fans had something to be sad about: 44-year-old Duhamel and 42-year-old Fergie were only married for 8 years, and another 5 years before marriage. The couple raise their son and claim that they have remained friends. High relationship.
Despite the fact that the news about the breakup of the singer Keti Topuria with her husband, businessman Lev Geykhman, appeared about six months ago, the couple officially dotted the i not so long ago. Both spouses left the scandal that preceded the divorce involving rapper Guf without comment, and after a while, life in 2 countries and busy work schedules were named as the reasons for the expense. The soloist of "A-studio" is sad on her Instagram and endlessly confesses her love to only one person now - daughter Olivia.
These two have confused the whole world with the intricacies of their complex relationship. At the time of writing, the couple officially denied the information about the breakup, although the Spanish media over the past month have convincingly told stories in every way that the cause of the gap was the jealousy of the football player, the professional crisis and the contradictions aggravated due to the age difference (Shakira is 10 years older than Pique years). In a word, it is too early to draw conclusions here - this couple still intends to fight for their relationship.
EUROVISION WITHOUT RUSSIA
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Yulia Samoilova was not the first to suffer from the Ukrainian authorities, who have been making crazy decisions against Russians for three years now. Cultural figures, journalists, artists, writers and performers have long been under the rink of Kiev sanctions. Everyone who has ever visited Crimea, which Ukraine still considers its own, immediately became persona non grata - the SBU closed their entry to Nezalezhnaya. The black list includes Elena Yakovleva, Alexander Rosenbaum, Mikhail Porechenkov, Elena Vorobei, Mikhail Boyarsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, in total - more than 150 names.
It came to ridiculous scandals, when, for example, the singer Natasha Koroleva, a native of Kyiv, was forbidden to come to her grandmother's funeral. Only after the intervention of unknown higher forces, the performer, as an exception, was nevertheless allowed in for a day to her homeland.
The apotheosis of the fight against songs and dances was the March decision of the Security Service of Ukraine, which closed the entry into the country for the singer Yulia Samoilova. The performer made grandiose plans for the Eurovision Song Contest. She prepared for a long time and put her whole soul into the song "The Flame Is Burning", which was supposed to sound within the walls of the International Exhibition Center in Kyiv. But for the first time in history, the song contest was held without the participation of Russia - the reason for the ban on entry was the visit of Samoilova to Crimea in 2015.
The Ukrainian authorities even tried to put forward an ultimatum to Russia: they demanded that another performer come to the competition instead of Yulia Samoilova. Moscow responded with a boycott of the event, and all Russian TV channels made a consolidated decision and refused to broadcast Eurovision.
The fact that Russia did not participate in the competition, which has long been called political, and not creative, may even be for the best. Ukrainian Eurovision was marked by several scandals. It all started with the fact that for some reason the members of the professional jury were not allowed into the hall where the performances of the performers took place. Composers, poets, singers and producers were forced to sit backstage and evaluate the singers, watching them through the monitor screen.
Then, during the performance of the Ukrainian singer Jamala, who won the 2016 contest, an unknown man with an Australian flag jumped onto the stage and showed the public his bare bottom. And after the competition, many representatives of foreign delegations complained about not the most comfortable conditions for their accommodation in Kyiv.
ATTACK ON RUSSIAN SPORT
The International Olympic Committee unleashed a real war against Russian athletes in 2017. IOC decisions to disqualify our athletes followed one after another. Moreover, each subsequent one was a copy of the previous one - only the names and dates changed. As a result, part of the medals won at the Sochi Olympics was taken away from the Russian team - it is no longer in first place, but for now in fourth. In addition, dozens of athletes have been suspended from international competitions.
All this was done on the basis of the testimony of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory. Having escaped from responsibility in the United States, he gives out portions of data on how, in his opinion, Russian sports are rotten. Officials, having forgotten the principles of the Olympic movement and the presumption of innocence, are stamping out batches of decisions to disqualify athletes and entire teams.
On December 5, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian team from participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea for anti-doping rule violations. To speak, moreover, under the Olympic flag, only athletes who have proven their purity from doping will be able to. Almost all the athletes preparing for the Games announced their participation in them. The position of the athletes was supported by President Vladimir Putin.
And Russian Paralympic athletes were banned from mentioning their citizenship at the Winter Games in South Korea. Athletes received the right to compete at the 2018 Paralympics under the flag of the International Olympic Committee due to the disqualification of the Russian Paralympic Committee.
The bullying doesn't seem to end there. The IOC has not yet published a complete list of athletes admitted to the Pyeongchang Olympics. Those who fly to Korea will obviously experience unprecedented pressure from the commissioners of WADA (International Anti-Doping Agency). And the former chief investigator of this organization, Jack Robertson, has already declared all the victories of Russian athletes at the 2018 Games "dirty" in advance.
"AGAINST EVERYONE" - AGAINST THE COUNTRY?
TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, famous for her provocations, announced in 2017 her participation in the presidential elections. In principle, this is not surprising - according to the Constitution of the country, a secular lioness has every right to claim the main post in the state. But Sobchak would not be Sobchak if she simply stated this.
Ksenia Anatolyevna managed to make many provocative statements in a few days, turning her election campaign into a scandal and a farce. Having come to power, the television personality from Dom-2 wants to abolish the law on gay propaganda, legalize soft drugs, bury Lenin and do everything to ensure that Russia joins the European Union.
But most importantly, Sobchak, referring to international law, said that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. Thus, in a second, she lost millions of votes of potential voters, whom she did not have very many anyway. Aiming for the presidency, Ksenia managed to tarnish her reputation long before that. What are the words of a secular lioness about small children rustling through her windows or, as Sobchak put it, bastards that interfere with sleep until dinner. The former host of the most scandalous TV show, not so long ago, said that she was not going to become a mother and even compared children with raccoons.
Sobchak was also noted for loud scandals in public. In 2013, the TV presenter, in company with oppositionist Lev Yashin, staged a brawl in a restaurant, beating two female journalists. In the summer of 2016, the future presidential candidate made a brawl on board the plane. The TV star attacked the stewardess, cursed and shouted that she was late for the performance.
Observers are sure that speaking under the slogan "Against all" Ksenia Sobchak is actually going against her own country. Otherwise, how else can one interpret all her statements and actions in recent years?
PURE POLITICS AND CINEMA
Another near-political scandal lasted almost the entire year of 2017 and, it seems, ended only after a big film premiere. State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya could not come to terms with the filming of the film "Matilda", which reflects the history of the relationship between the last emperor of Russia, Nicholas II, and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.
Between the deputy and the director of the picture, a heated correspondence discussion unfolded. Poklonskaya did her best to prevent filming. The ex-prosecutor of the Crimea considered that the love story of Tsar Nicholas II and the dancer Matilda Kshesinskaya offends the feelings of believers, and therefore asked to ban the film from showing. The devout deputy wrote several complaints to the Prosecutor General's Office, but the premiere of "Matilda" still took place in October.
According to Poklonskaya, the purpose of the film was to discredit the history of Russia. “I won’t be surprised that a figure of “culture” who has gone to the full program will continue to put on a good face in a bad game, fulfilling the order of the owners, because the global project “Matilda” continues,” the deputy wrote on her Facebook page after the premiere.
Another high-profile scandal of 2017, this time purely political - in May, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry sent a note to the Russian Embassy demanding that five diplomats leave the country within 72 hours. President Igor Dodon stood up for diplomats, whose powers are seriously limited by the Constitution. He stated that the demarche of the executive power would lead to a deterioration in relations between Moscow and Chisinau.
An incident also connected with Moldova ended with a high-profile international scandal. The Romanian Air Force banned the passage of a civilian aircraft from Moscow to Chisinau through its airspace. The fact is that one of the passengers was Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. According to Bucharest, a member of the Russian government made unfriendly and offensive statements against the citizens of Moldova and its leadership, affecting the image of the state. In response, Rogozin promised a very tough conversation with those who pull the strings of power in Moldova and Romania.
SHOW MUST GO ON
In Ukraine, 2017 turned out to be rich in political scandals. After the Maidan, this year was the most turbulent. Poland and Hungary presented Nezalezhnaya with serious claims regarding its historical memory and attitude towards nationalists. Later they were joined by Russia and Romania after the adoption of the law on education, which infringes on the rights of national minorities.
The year ended in Ukraine with an epic with Mikheil Saakashvili: the detention and release of the scandalous politician became the greatest show in the last month of the year. It even seemed to observers that a new Maidan was brewing in Ukraine, which was launched from the roof of a house in the center of Kyiv by Saakashvili. The screaming Mishiko was very successfully compared with Carlson, however, without a propeller. The politician who once startled the world by eating his own tie fled to the roof of his house as the police ransacked his apartment.
As a result, Saakashvili was detained by the police, then he was beaten off by his supporters. A few days later they took him again, and for some reason the court released the brawler to freedom. The political spectacle is not over here - 2018 will obviously bring together even more viewers of the phantasmagoric production directed in the West.
PASSION FOR CATALONIA
In October, Europe entered a period of serious trials and a crisis of statehood: Catalonia went to aggravate relations with Spain. Illegal from the point of view of Madrid, the referendum, which the Catalans held with battle and blood on October 1, showed that 90% of the inhabitants of the autonomy want independence.
Obviously, not a single country of the Old World recognizes the independence of the new state that appeared on the map of Europe. Meanwhile, serious economic consequences of the October events will be long-term. First of all, this will hit the euro, and then the tourist flow to Spain will sharply decrease.
In addition, the example of Catalonia may be followed by two, if not three dozen regions in which separatist sentiments are strong. These are Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium, Scotland and Northern Ireland in Great Britain, Lombardy and Venice in Italy, Upper Silesia in Poland and Lapland in Norway…
And when the events in Catalonia will seem like flowers to the Old World against the backdrop of a large-scale parade of sovereignties, then, perhaps, Europe will finally realize what a mistake it made by attacking Russia after the reunification of Crimea with it.
Every year, dozens of celebrities become the main actors in scandals: show business stars, politicians, athletes, designers - no one is immune from such stories. Let's refresh the memory of the biggest scandals of the past year.
IOC decision on Russia's participation in the Olympics
The most "fresh" scandal of the outgoing 2017 is associated with sports and, alas, with Russian athletes. After numerous stories with doping tests, accusations and disqualifications, the IOC decided to allow the national team of our country to participate in the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang only under a neutral (Olympic) flag. Indignation, confusion and despair in connection with what happened, numerous domestic athletes and stars. A fierce debate began on the topic of whether the Russians should go to the Olympics, where they will not even have the opportunity to perform in uniform with state symbols. to this day.
Sex scandal in Hollywood
This year will be remembered by us as a sex scandal, equal to which Hollywood, it seems, has not yet known. It all started in October with the publication of The New York Times by Harvey Weinstein, which lasted for decades and which, apparently, the entire film industry knew about but was silent about. The first of the stars about the harassment by the famous producer spoke Rose McGowan.
The publication produced the effect of an exploding bomb, and new details began to be revealed in the media almost every hour. In total, Harvey was accused of harassment by about 50 women.
Since the publication of the article, nothing has happened: the stars began to speak out one after another against Weinstein (some people spoke out in support of the producer, but "received" from the public in full), celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow told about their own sad stories. Weinstein was fired from his own company, from the American Film Academy, from him, and the police opened a criminal case against him.
Those episodes with the participation of famous people began to surface, which, it would seem, no one would ever remember. The American Film Academy, in response to everything that is happening, even made changes to its rules: the leadership is developing a certain code of rules according to which academics should behave.
Following Weinstein, Lars von Trier, James Toback, Ed Westwick, Dustin Hoffman, Brett Ratner, Kevin Spacey were accused of harassment (the latter in passing). The “icing on the cake” was the accusation against Donald Trump: Billy Baldwin remembered how many years ago the current president molested his wife.
The #MeToo movement has started online. Alyssa Milano:
If all women who have experienced sexual harassment write Me Too in the comments, we will understand the real scale of the problem.
Some of the stars who took part in the flash mob according to Time magazine. The weekly gave the title to those who were not afraid to talk about their experiences (Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan, Taylor Swift and others).
Interestingly, we also had our own mini-scandal in connection with the Hollywood events. No, none of the celebrities of the industry were convicted of harassment, but the statements of Russian celebrities regarding the high-profile story caused fierce discussions. The public met Lyubov Tolkalina with particular ambiguity.
Yes, it's all nonsense! Men should molest women, and women should resist. Leo Tolstoy said: "Young ladies love to be squeezed"
— said the director.
Tolkalina also surprised everyone by saying that “sexual harassment is wonderful,” and blaming the victims, who, according to her, knew what they were doing.
Arrest of Kirill Serebrennikov