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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.

A Boston man is accused of raping a teenager over a period of months. Todd Corbett, a 53-year-old man from the city’s Fenway area, appeared before a judge Monday to face three counts of aggravated rape of a child under 16, as well as a charge of distributing obscene material to a minor, according to the office of Suffolk County…

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

A self-proclaimed white nationalist was sentenced Wednesday to nearly three-and-a-half years in federal prison for threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a separate racist group that he believed was harassing him. Christopher Cantwell, a 40-year-old New Hampshire resident and radio host, was found guilty in September of extortion and threatening to injure property or…

A Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer has been indicted on charges of rape and aggravated burglary, Boston’s top prosecutor said Tuesday.

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.

A Massachusetts lawyer who has previously been charged with rape is wanted in Boston on a new rape charge as well as for allegedly breaking and entering at night, police said.

A Massachusetts lawyer who has previously been charged with rape is wanted in Boston on a new rape charge as well as for allegedly breaking and entering at night, police said.

Boston police have arrested a former Suffolk County prosecutor on a rape charge. Gary Zerola turned himself in Friday and appeared in court.

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 jury found a Boston-based Internal Revenue Service agent guilty Thursday of raping a college intern at gunpoint in 2017. A Suffolk County jury convicted James Clarke, 45, of aggravated rape, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and indecent assault and battery in the July 2017 assault of a 21-year-old woman, the Boston Globe reported. Clarke invited the victim…