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Indie rock singer Phoebe Bridgers has made an accusation against Marilyn Manson following Evan Rachel Wood and a few other women’s allegations of abuse against him, which he has denied.

Police arrested a man suspected of raping a woman on a San Francisco street after witnesses intervened and alerted authorities, officials said Thursday.

Victims of serial rapist and murderer Joseph DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, shared their stories in court Tuesday ahead of DeAngelo’s sentencing Friday.

British grime musician Solo 45 has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping four women in what police said was among the most violent sexual behavior they had seen.

A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her when she was 17 is among four plaintiffs in a new lawsuit against the imprisoned movie mogul

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been convicted in New York of rape and sexual assault against two women and has been led off to prison in handcuffs

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers have turned to an expert known for studying of false, repressed and unreliable memories

A key accuser in Harvey Weinstein’s trial testified Friday that he trapped her in a New York hotel room, angrily ordered her to undress and raped her, but that she stayed in contact with him because “his ego was so fragile” and she wanted to be seen as naive. Sobbing at points, she described a “degrading” relationship and sometimes forcible sexual...

“Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, testifying that the former Hollywood studio boss overpowered and raped her and made other crude overtures that included sending her X-rated chocolates and showing up uninvited in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other. In a quivering voice,…

Harvey Weinstein spawned the #MeToo movement. Now, the former film titan is starring in the biggest trial of its era — a landmark moment in a global reckoning that has empowered women while shining a light on power dynamics in workplaces from Hollywood Boulevard to Main Street.

Defense lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorneys said Tuesday on the eve of opening statements in Weinstein’s rape trial in New York City. The defense has “dozens and dozens and dozens of loving emails...

A restaurant supervisor at the DoubleTree hotel at the Berkeley Marina has been charged with two felony counts of rape for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a guest last year, according to prosecutors and police. Issac Amiga, 64, of San Leandro, is charged with rape by use of drugs and rape of an unconscious person for allegedly sexually assaulting the…

Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly raped two women at a Queens spa, then tried to rape another at a wellness center just more than a month later, police said Tuesday.

For the first time in Orange County, and the second time in the state, improved DNA technology has led to an arrest of a suspect in a cold case, authorities said Tuesday in detailing how they linked a defendant accused of raping a 6-year-old girl to the 2012 crime.

A 23-year-old man was arrested Thursday under suspicion of kidnapping and raping a woman at Howarth Park, police said.

A Massachusetts man who was jailed for three decades for the rape of an elderly woman pleaded not guilty Monday to a new sexual assault charge from January. George Perrot, 50, was arraigned Monday in Essex Superior Court after he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman on Jan. 4 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Police say they found the defendant on...

Cristiano Ronaldo is being asked by police to provide a DNA sample in an investigation of a Nevada woman’s allegation that he raped her in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse in 2009 and paid her to keep quiet, the soccer star’s lawyer and Las Vegas police said Thursday. Attorney Peter S. Christiansen downplayed the development, denied the rape allegation and...

Police in Arizona are investigating a long-term care facility after a report, based on a single anonymous source, that a woman who has been in a vegetative state for at least a decade gave birth. Phoenix police would only say that “the matter is currently under investigation,” when asked about the report of a patient in a vegetative state at...

Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher, two women who said they were survivors of sexual assault, confronted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Friday ahead of the Senate judiciary committee’s vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The judge also declared Cosby a “sexually violent predator,” which means he will have to undergo monthly counseling and register with police if he leaves prison.