Vince McMahon Pays WWE $17.4 Million to Cover Sexual Misconduct Investigation Costs

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French actor Gerard Depardieu, who’s already indicted on rape and sexual assault charges in connection to a 2018 case, is now being accused of sexual misconduct by 13 women in an investigative report published by Mediapart. The accusations were made by female actors, make-up artists and production staff, some of whom spoke on the basis of anonymity, and allegedly occurred during the filming of 11 films released between 2004 and 2022. Mediapart said “one actress has just given her account to the French justice system.” None of these 13 women have taken legal action against Depardieu, according to a statement provided to Variety by the Paris prosecutor’s office.

Media mogul and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to intensive care at a hospital in Milan on Wednesday and is in serious but stable condition according to local media. 

WWE fans are unhappy about the recent news that Vince McMahon would be retaining some creative control behind the scenes of the brand.

Vince McMahon called Monday “a great day” as his iconic company announced plans to sell a controlling stake to Endeavor in a merger with mixed martial arts firm UFC. “Things have to evolve. A family business has to evolve, for all the right reasons. And this is the right business decision, and it’s the right family decision,” McMahon said in an interview today on CNBC.

Fans are divided over Vince McMahon’s makeover.

Sharon Acker, who starred in "Point Blank" and "The New Perry Mason," has died. She was 87. The actress passed away on March 16 at a retirement home in her native Toronto, Canada, her daughter Kim Everest confirmed to Fox News Digital on Monday.

Two of the world’s biggest fighting organizations are coming together.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Endeavor is bringing together two of the world’s biggest combat-sports franchises — UFC and WWE — in a blockbuster merger announced Monday. It’s a deal in which “one plus one equals three,” said Endeavor president and COO Mark Shapiro, who will serve in the same role for the merged UFC-WWE. The pact, valuing the combined company at roughly $21.4 billion, is anticipated to close in the second half of 2023. The deal will result in an estimated $50 million to $100 million in annualized run-rate cost synergies, according to Endeavor, including by moving WWE to Endeavor’s back-office infrastructure. Shapiro said Endeavor, when it acquired UFC, realized $70 million in cost savings.

Sharon Acker, best known as Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 film Point Blank, died March 16 in a Toronto residential home. She was 87 and her death was confirmed by daughter Kim Everest, a casting director. 

This week’s guest is Chris Chalk.

The drama unfolding in the Mike Fleiss universe has enveloped Disney, which was in discussions with the creator of The Bachelor over a producing deal before the investigation over workplace misconduct allegations surfaced.

The Bachelor creator/executive producer Mike Fleiss’ recently announced departure from the hit ABC reality franchise came after he had been investigated over workplace misconduct allegations, Deadline has confirmed.

Trigger warning: This article mentions sexual assault. Along with the Safdie brothers, he produced one of the most-talked-about films in recent memory, Uncut Gems, as well as a slew of other indie cinema darlings. So, what did Sebastian Bear-McClard do that caused his own production company to terminate his contract in 2022?

Emily Ratajkowski’s estranged husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard, has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women.

, Emily Ratajkowski's estranged husband has been accused of behaving inappropriately towards multiple teenage girls.Both Bear-McClard and Ratajkowski declined to comment for 's story. ET has reached out to reps for the exes for comment.The allegations start in early 2016, when, according to statements made in an unspecified August 2022 legal dispute against Bear-McClard and later obtained by the outlet, Bear-McClard messaged a 17-year-old girl on Instagram.Not long after, Bear-McClard allegedly let Joshua and Benjamin Safdie, his producing partners who are known as the Safdie brothers, know that he wanted to cast the girl in their film, .When the teen was called for her scene, she was allegedly naked, standing in front of nearly a dozen male cast and crew members, and made to act with an actor who had recently been released from prison, according to . "[I] was utterly stunned and felt terrified," the girl said in her statement, obtained by .

A new exposé in Variety has revealed that Hollywood producer Sebastian Bear-McClard is the subject of allegations of sexual misconduct made by several different women.

Sebastian Bear-McClard is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

Tatiana Siegel In early 2016, producer Sebastian Bear-McClard reached out to a 17-year-old girl on Instagram — an overture that led to an informal meeting at a Soho loft. Not long after, he let the Safdie brothers know that he had found the perfect person to play a small role in their upcoming film, “Good Time.” The girl, who came from an impoverished background in New York, was excited to meet the film’s star, Robert Pattinson, a then-favorite of teen girls worldwide thanks to the “Twilight” franchise. On the day of filming, she waited all day on the New York set for her scene to be called, unaware of what it entailed. By the time she made her way to a cramped room, she was naked, standing in front of nearly a dozen male cast and crew members including Josh and Benny Safdie. Instead of performing in a scene with Pattinson, she was paired with an actor who had recently been released from prison before being hired for the film. 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are on 'thin ice' with the Royal Family and have been warned to be on their 'best behaviour' if they attend King Charles Coronation in May.

Vince McMahon, the WWF’s already scandal-plagued CEO who declined to offer comment on the allegations in this piece, allegedly couldn’t stomach the idea of putting a stop to the lucrative proceedings.“Vince decreed that they should keep going,” Abraham Josephine Riesman, author of the new book “Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America,” told The Post. “So the rest of the wrestlers had to perform knowing their friend was gravely injured, probably dead, and then [later] knowing he was dead,” said Riesman, who interviewed over 150 people — many of them quite close to McMahon — while researching tell-all tome.Riesman examines McMahon’s rise from an allegedly abusive childhood in impoverished Southern Pines, NC to a tycoon overseeing a $6B industry — and some very dark moments along the way.