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Gabrielle Union discussed the long-lasting effects of being raped as a teenager, saying that at times her anxiety “is so bad it shrinks my life.”

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin holds briefing to denounce alleged practice of using sexual assault DNA evidence in unrelated cases.

The “Sex and the City” star has denied allegations by the women in a report by The Hollywood Reporter that details alleged assaults in 2004 and 2015.

A federal magistrate judge in Nevada is siding with Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers against a woman suing for more than the $375,000 in hush money she received in 2010 after saying the international soccer star raped her in Las Vegas.

Beijing police say the Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained on suspicion of rape.

More than 20 years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped by a man in Escondido, an arrest has been made in the heinous case that was once cold, police announced Thursday.

A woman testified that she was five years into a relationship with actor Danny Masterson when he began having sex with her while she slept, as he often did

Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to probation for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.

Actor Armie Hammer is under investigation for sexual assault, Los Angeles police said Thursday.

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...