Terry Crews sues Hollywood agent he says groped him

[TheGoverness]

Terry Crews sues Hollywood agent he says groped him

Terry Crews is suing the Hollywood agent he accused of groping him last year at an industry event.

After filing a complaint with the LAPD last month, Crews has launched a lawsuit against William Morris Endeavor agent Adam Venit for assault, battery and sexual harassment, among other charges. He is also suing the talent agency.

After Crews made his allegation public on Twitter in October (though not naming Venit specifically), the former motion picture head was identified in trade publications and suspended from WME. Venit returned to the company in a demoted role about a month later.

What followed was allegedly physical. "Venit, upon his first meeting Crews, viciously grabbed Crews’ penis and testicles so hard that it caused Crews immediate pain."

The suit says Crews shoved Venit back "knocking him into several people who were standing nearby" causing the actor to yell out. But Venit "continued to leer at Crews, provocatively wagging his tongue again, and then grabbed and squeezed Crews’ genitals again." Crews states he asked the nearby Sandler, with whom he had appeared in several films, for help.

"Sandler shook his head at Venit in disbelief," reads the suit, and later called the actor to see if he was OK. The next day, Venit called Crews to apologize, saying he was not himself.

Good on Terry for coming out with this. Some people need to recognize that this stuff happens to men, too. It's not just women that are affected by this kind of inappropriate behavior.

#CrewsCrew

 

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If Terry Crews can have his genitals groped--as big and intimidating looking as he is--then no one is safe from professionally powerful and connected men. :lol:

What is interesting is you have yet heard any complaints from transsexual m-to-f women. But my guess is more than one in Hollywood and the modeling world or media world in general has been groped or extorted (for a position/job) into doing a sexual favor.

I know men. My mother was surprised all these men were being accused, I was not. And women would be surprised to find out a lot of these guys that tell others they won't have any sex with a transwoman in fact will behind closed doors. By "many" I'm talking, oh I don't know, say... 90% of men?

Of course not all men are going to use their positions of power to grope or extort sexual favors. But there are enough men that will that it's not uncommon.

 

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If Terry Crews can have his genitals groped--as big and intimidating looking as he is--then no one is safe from professionally powerful and connected men. :lol:

What is interesting is you have yet heard any complaints from transsexual m-to-f women. But my guess is more than one in Hollywood and the modeling world or media world in general has been groped or extorted (for a position/job) into doing a sexual favor.

I know men. My mother was surprised all these men were being accused, I was not. And women would be surprised to find out a lot of these guys that tell others they won't have any sex with a transwoman in fact will behind closed doors. By "many" I'm talking, oh I don't know, say... 90% of men?

Of course not all men are going to use their positions of power to grope or extort sexual favors. But there are enough men that will that it's not uncommon.

The only remedy at this point is guillotines.

edit: Or ten minutes in a cage with Terry Crews, no questions asked afterwards.

 

[Celebrity]

Kind of ridiculous that Mr. Crews is being surveilled. He shared a text message from last month which apparently shows a text from Russell Simmons asking him to give the agent a "pass."


https://www.salon.com/2017/12/24/terry-crews-and-the-shifting-image-of-survivors/

 

[PTF]

This dude's acting career has been spiraling down the toilet for some time. Why not jump on the band wagon ?