WASHINGTON — About a month and a half ago, a woman who had just gone through the process of reporting harassment at her job in Washington approached Ally Coll. Coll, the president and cofounder of the Purple Campaign, a group aimed at ending workplace sexual harassment, has been outspoken on harassment issues, and the woman…
At least 11 states, from California to Vermont, passed new protections addressing workplace harassment in 2018 — and many of them go into effect in the new year. California also passed a new law requiring women on corporate boards by the end of 2019. The reforms come as the #MeToo movement has raised the curtain…
The legal academy is having its own #MeToo reckoning. The past year or so has seen a spate of law professors and administrators come under the microscope for their questionable conduct with students and staff. Full article below https://www.law.com/2018/12/05/law-profs-swept-up-in-metoo-movement/?slreturn=20190229161012
One year ago, allegations against Harvey Weinstein prompted a worldwide witnessing of sexual harassment and assault stories on social media, and the #MeToo movement sparked a cultural reckoning. Bill Cosby is in jail. Accused men, from Les Moonves to Al Franken, have been ousted from their positions of power. Allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have left…
Frustrated when doctors couldn’t find her MRI results, a celebrated cellist with migraines decided to take matters into her own hands. What Alisa Horn, found out was devastating — a diagnosis of early-stage multiple sclerosis. When she found out was nearly as bad — right before taking the stage to perform “An American in Paris”…
A fourth woman has filed a lawsuit accusing former Soros Fund portfolio manager Howard Rubin of brutalizing her in his Manhattan penthouse sex dungeon, saying he ignored her repeated use of their agreed-upon safe word, “pineapples,” during an S&M session. The woman, who has requested anonymity in her $7 million Manhattan Supreme Court suit as…
Three women filed a $27 million lawsuit on Thursday against Howie Rubin, a Wall Street figure they say raped and beat them, the New York Post reports. Rubin, 62, formerly worked as the portfolio manager for Soros Fund Management and as a trader for Bear Stearns. The women bringing the complaint against him are all…
Another woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that the former investment manager of billionaire George Soros’s company raped and tortured her. She is the fourth to make such claims. The 20-year-old woman, who requested anonymity, said a friend arranged for her to meet Howard Rubin, 62, in November 2015 for dinner and drinks. The friend…
Three women are accusing a New York millionaire of rape and violence after enticing them to visit his swanky penthouse in Manhattan. In a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn on Thursday, Howard Rubin, 62, a successful businessman on Wall Street, was accused by three women of rape and such severe physical abuse that at least one…
A former portfolio manager for an investment fund founded by financier George Soros sexually abused women at a Manhattan penthouse dungeon, according to a $27 million Brooklyn federal suit. Howie Rubin, 62, whose high-stakes dealing was featured in the best-selling books “Liar’s Poker” and “The Big Short,” rented the lavish Metropolitan Tower pad in Midtown…
