Oscar winner Holly Hunter has joined the cast of Paramount+'s forthcoming Star Trek series Starfleet Academy.
The Piano veteran will star as the captain and chancellor of the titular academy at which young recruits train to someday boldly go where no one has gone before.
The series gets underway later in the summer of 2024.
According to Paramount+, the forthcoming show "introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself."
In the announcement, co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau enthused, "It feels like we've spent our entire lives watching Holly Hunter be a stone-cold genius. To have her extraordinary authenticity, fearlessness, sense of humor, and across the board brilliance leading the charge on Starfleet Academy is a gift to all of us, and to the enduring legacy of Star Trek."
(LOS ANGELES) -- The death investigation into "Friends" star Matthew Perry remains ongoing, especially in respect to where he acquired the ketamine that led to his death in October, according to local and federal law enforcement sources.
Perry died at his home from the acute effects of ketamine, according to the autopsy report released in December by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
Detectives have been interviewing people who could have information on the source of the drugs, the sources told ABC News, but that they do not have information to narrow in on a source. No arrests have been made.
The Los Angeles Police Department said the case is open and ongoing, with sources telling ABC News that the police have been in contact with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The DEA said had no comment.
The actor, most well-known for his role as Chandler Bing on "Friends," died at 54 on Oct. 28, 2023. He also starred in several other TV series, including "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," and films like "17 Again" and "Fools Rush In."
In a statement the day after responding to his home, the Los Angeles Police Department said Perry "was discovered by a witness unresponsive in his jacuzzi." There were no signs of foul play at the scene, according to law enforcement sources.
Perry was reported to have been receiving ketamine infusions for depression and anxiety, according to the autopsy report, but the medical examiner wrote the ketamine in his system at death could not have been from that infusion therapy because ketamineâs half life is three to four hours or less. His method of intake was listed as unknown.
In his memoir, "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," released in 2022, Perry opened up about his addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers, which was triggered after a doctor prescribed him Vicodin following a jet ski accident.
In a "20/20" interview with Diane Sawyer, Perry opened up about wanting to help people struggling with addiction, saying, "Obviously, because I was on 'Friends,' more people will listen to me. So I've got to take advantage of that, and I've got to help as many people as I can."
(NEW YORK) -- Special counsel Jack Smith appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Donald Trump to obstruct the government's investigation of his handling of classified documents, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday.
The opinion was released as an exhibit in filings responding to Trump's efforts to have the case dismissed, ahead of two hearings Wednesday related to Trump aide Walt Nauta's efforts to dismiss the related charges against him.
Trump pleaded not guilty last June to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities, and took steps to thwart the government's efforts to get the documents back. Nauta also pleaded not guilty to related charges.
In March of 2023, prosecutors pushed for a federal judge to compel testimony from one of Trump's attorneys, Evan Corcoran, by presenting a previously undisclosed theory of steps they believed Trump and his associates had taken to obstruct their investigation, alleging that after Trump was informed by his attorney of a government subpoena for video footage from his Mar-a-Lago club, he then instructed aides to return several boxes they had previously removed from a storage room in the club's basement -- without being caught on camera.
According to the newly unsealed opinion, D.C. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that after Corcoran informed Trump of the subpoena for video footage on June 24, 2022, it set into motion a scramble by Nauta to change his travel plans and fly from Bedminster, New Jersey, to Palm Beach, Florida.
"The government urged that this scramble to Mar-a-Lago in the wake of the June 24, 2022 phone call reflects the former president's realization that the removal of the boxes from the storage room before [redacted] search was captured on camera -- and his attempts to ensure that any subsequent movement of the boxes back to the storage room could occur off camera," Howell wrote.
"This theory draws support from the curious absence of any video footage showing the return of the remaining boxes to the storage room, which necessarily occurred at some point between June 3, 2022 -- when the room had approximately [redacted] boxes, according to FBI agents and [redacted] -- and the execution of the search warrant on August 8, 2022 -- when agents counted 73 boxes," wrote the judge.
The government previously alleged that Nauta took the trip to inquire about how long camera footage was stored. It was on that same trip, according to the indictment, that Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira allegedly conspired in an attempt to delete surveillance footage.
Howell ultimately agreed the government had made a "likely" showing that Trump ordered his associates to "avoid the surveillance cameras he then understood to have been deputized by the government," ordering Corcoran to testify about a June 24, 2022, phone call with the former president that occurred the same day the Trump Organization was subpoenaed for the footage.
The district judge also confirmed that, "remarkably," after the FBI's August search, Trump's attorneys on two separate instances found additional classified records at Mar-a-Lago, including four documents with classification markings in Trump's own bedroom in December 2022.
The new filings, consisting of hundreds of pages, also include new photos of Nauta allegedly moving boxes that the government contends contained the classified materials Trump was seeking to hang onto despite a subpoena from the FBI.
The filing was just one among multiple exhibits ordered unsealed Tuesday by the district judge overseeing Trump's case, Aileen Cannon, who has set up a controversial process opposed by Smith that has enabled Trump's attorneys to make public evidence in the case that would typically remain under seal.
Some legal experts have criticized Cannon over a series of recent rulings that have benefited Trump's strategy to have the case delayed until after the 2024 election, including her order two weeks ago that put an indefinite hold on her scheduling a date for the trial.
Prime Video has just dropped the trailer to My Lady Jane, a buzzy new alternative history series that seems to have all the ingredients for a new Bridgerton-esque bodice ripper: there's literal palace intrigue, salty language and, of course, sex.
"My Lady Jane is a radical retelling of English royal history, in which King Henry VIII's son Edward does not die of tuberculosis, Lady Jane Grey is not beheaded, and neither is her scoundrel of a husband Guildford," Prime Video teases.
Calling it "an epic tale of true love and high adventure," the streamer continues: "At the center of this swashbuckling new series is the brilliant and headstrong Jane (newcomer Emily Bader), who is shocked to be crowned queen and finds herself the target of nefarious villains coming for the crown (and her head)."
Starring opposite her is Killing Eve's Edward Bluemel, Pirates veteran Jordan Peters and Preacher's Dominic Cooper as Lord Seymour, one of the plotters.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson hasn't exactly been known to be a chameleon through his movie career â even his Moana character looks like him, down to some of his famous tattoos â but a new peek at his latest project changes that.
Johnson has reteamed with his Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt for The Smashing Machine, a biopic of mixed martial arts trailblazer Mark Kerr that was directed by Uncut Gems veteran, and Blunt's Oppenheimer co-star, Benny Safdie.
In the photo posted by independent studio A24 to commemorate the first day of shooting, Johnson is shown as Kerr, sitting in the corner of an MMA ring mid-fight, as Blunt looks up at him from outside the ring; she plays Kerr's wife, Dawn Staples.
Johnson is sporting a sweaty mop of black hair on his famously bald head, his tats have been covered and, most strikingly, he's sporting facial prosthetics emulating Kerr's more blunt features.
According to IMDB, the artists behind the look were Glen P. Griffin, who also worked on Oppenheimer, and Kazu Hiro, who helped transform Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill for the actor's Oscar-winning performance in 2017's The Darkest Hour.
The Rock forwarded the photo to his socials.
Hours before, he posted a video of some of his training in mixed martial arts, including a throw of an opponent and a headlock submission.
"Working hard and feeling good about my progress so far, but far from satisfied," he captioned the video.
"Approaching this as a total student of the game, absorbing and learning as much as I can, day by day. Itâs my absolute honor to pay respect and homage to @UFC ... Mark Kerr and all the founding fathers of MMA," Johnson wrote.
(PHOENIX) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, several allies of former President Donald Trump and alleged fake electors pleaded not guilty in Maricopa County court Tuesday for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
Former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern, former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, and her husband Michael Ward were also among those arraigned today.
Giuliani appeared virtually after being served with notice of his indictment after his 80th birthday party on Friday night â and after boasting on social media that he had avoided being served.
The judge granted the prosecution's motion for Giuliani's release conditions to require the former mayor to show up in person in Arizona to be booked within 30 days, as well as a $10,000 secured appearance bond, after the state detailed to the court how Giuliani has "shown no intent to comply with legal process" after avoiding accepting service of the indictment.
Prosecutors notably asked for a cash bond, but the judge allowed Giuliani to provide a secured one.
Giuliani responded over Zoom to prosecutors, who described him as "uncooperative" and saying he was aware of the indictment, by saying, "I haven't been hiding from anyone." He blamed the difficultly for accepting service because of the threats he's faced. Giuliani called the indictment a "complete embarrassment."
At one point the judge cut Giuliani off as started going into a meandering story about the history of alleged threats that have been made against him. "I don't want to have to mute you," the judge said.
Outside of court, Nicholas Klingerman, a prosecutor for the Arizona Attorney General's office, described the multiple attempts they made to serve Giuliani, saying the former mayor was "mocking the justice system in Arizona."
Asked about Giuliani's comments during the hearing that the case is "politically motivated," Klingerman said, "the indictment speaks for itself."
"I think it's fairly clear from the indictment what the allegations are," Klingerman said.
Former Trump attorney John Eastman was the first ally of the former president to be arraigned in the case last week.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes last month announced charges against 11 named alleged fake electors and seven people whose names are redacted in the filing for their alleged role in efforts to subvert Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state.
The charges include fraud, forgery and conspiracy.
Arizona is the third state to pursue election interference charges related to the 2020 election. In December, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced felony charges against six alleged "fake electors" in that state.
In Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel similarly charged 16 "alternate electors" in July for conspiracy to commit forgery, among other charges.
Three such "fake electors" in Georgia were among the 18 co-defendants charged, along with Trump, in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state.
All defendants charged in all three probes have pleaded not guilty, with Georgia defendants Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell and Scott Hall subsequently taking plea deals in exchange for agreeing to testify in that case. In Michigan, the attorney general dropped all charges against defendant Jim Renner in exchange for his cooperation.
(LONDON) -- He claims to be the pinnacle of masculinity. Andrew Tate -- "Top G."
The former kickboxer in the last four years has flooded social media, taking over newsfeeds, in particular those of young men, preaching views that have brought him the title of the so-called "King of Toxic Masculinity. He revels in controversy, claiming men "own" women in relationships and that women's empowerment is leading to the fall of Western civilization.
"Humanity cannot survive with female empowerment," he has said.
"The only happy relationship that can possibly exist is with a man leading and a man in charge. Any other relationship is always misery," he has also said.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, Tate has built up an enormous following online, despite being banned in 2022 from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok for violating their "hate speech" rules. For millions of men, and especially teenage boys, he has become an idol. In the United States, some far right conservatives -- such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens -- have given him a platform to talk about himself as a champion for traditional views on men in the culture war raging over gender.
But Tate is now facing three legal cases in two countries, all based around allegations of abusing women.
In Romania, where Tate has made his home for several years, he and his younger brother, Tristan, are awaiting trial on human trafficking and organized crime charges, accused of exploiting seven women. Andrew is also charged with rape. The Tate brothers are also facing possible criminal charges in the U.K., where police have issued arrest warrants on allegations of human trafficking and sexual assault. Four different British women have also served Andrew Tate with a civil lawsuit in the UK on allegations of sexual assault.
At the heart of the legal battles, the question: Is the so-called "King of Toxic Masculinity" guilty of abusing women.
The Tates have denied all the allegations against them in both countries, arguing he is the victim of opportunistic women and what he dubs the "Matrix," a supposed establishment conspiracy that he claims is targeting him because of his controversial views.
For more than a year, ImpactxNightline has reported on Tate, investigating the allegations against him and exploring the broader so-called "Manosphere" he is part of, hearing accounts from some of the women who accuse him of abuse and speaking with a former employee of his War Room organization, trying to understand his appeal to young men, as well as what it says about the discussion around masculinity.
Allegations against the Tates in Romania
Andrew and Tristan Tate live in a compound on the outskirts of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The compound, that from outside looks like a warehouse with steel shutters and bristles with cameras, is located on a dusty backroad out by the airport, sitting opposite a rundown apartment block.
In December 2022, heavily armed officers from Romania's organized crime police stormed the compound. The Tates were arrested on charges of human trafficking and forming an organized criminal group. Andrew was charged with rape. For nearly three months, the brothers were held in a Bucharest jail, until a court changed their detention to house arrest at the compound. Last August, a court eased the restrictions again, permitting the Tates to travel within Romania but not to leave the country, while they await trial.
The Tates have denied the Romanian charges and challenged evidence in the case. In late April, the Bucharest Tribunal ruled a trial should proceed, though a date has yet to be set as the Tates are again appealing that decision.
Romanian prosecutors have charged the Tates, along with two female defendants, of sexually exploiting seven women as models for an erotic webcam business. The prosecution alleges the Tates recruited the women under false pretenses by pretending they were in love with them, and then coercing them through a mixture of intimidation and emotional manipulation into working while the Tates and their associates took most of the earnings.
Central to the case are allegations involving three women -- one American, one Moldovan and one British -- whom the Tates are accused of luring to Romania and exploiting them on webcam. Prosecutors also allege the Tates recruited four women inside Romania also by deceiving them into believing they were in a relationship.
The Tates have denied the Romanian charges, insisting the women all chose to work for them willingly and that the prosecutors' allegations are based on lies.
"They've told the whole world I'm a human trafficker. You're expecting to see dungeons, and chains, and girls who are crying," Tristan Tate told ABC News following a court hearing last May. "Like, you'll laugh. I'd cry if I didn't laugh about this, literally."
Prosecutors accuse the Tates of employing a human trafficking tactic that recruits women through deception, rather than crude violence, and that anti-trafficking experts say is well-known in Romania. The tactic is commonly called the "Lover Boy Method."
"This is a method that is very subversive because it plays with the minds and the hearts of young girls or young women," Madalina Turza, who until last year oversaw Romania's national anti-trafficking strategy, told ABC News in April. She now heads the Romanian office of the anti-slavery charity Justice and Care.
Traffickers will target a woman by pretending to be in love with her, according to Turza. They convince the victim they are in a real relationship, persuading them to move away from family and friends, often abroad. Then the exploitation begins, with the trafficker pressuring the victim into various forms of forced labor, often sex work.
Rares Stan, who until April was the lead prosecutor in the Tates' case, is known in Romania for prosecuting some of the country's most high-profile organized crime cases.
Stan said he had left the Tates' case after handing it on to trial prosecutors, in order to take on a new position at Romania's attorney general's office. Speaking in his first interview with international media on the Tate case, Stan told Impact it was "exactly like any other case of human trafficking."
Romania has one of the highest number of human trafficking victims per capita in Europe, according to the U.S. State Department's 2023 Trafficking in Persons report. Stan says he has prosecuted hundreds of trafficking cases.
"The unusual thing about this case was the major public interest," he said. "Because of the people involved."
The Tates have denied the allegation that they used the "Lover Boy Method."
But prosecutors have pointed to the fact that for years Tate sold a course online that several experts in human trafficking say taught tactics that closely resemble it: Tate's "PhD Program" or "Pimping Hoes Degree," as he's called it.
Posted as video tutorials, the program's stated goal is to teach men how to seduce women and then how to monetize them by moving them into working as webcam models.
Silvia Tabusca, a legal expert in human trafficking and organized crime has studied the "Lover Boy Method" worldwide and has focused recently on the Tates case.
"For me, all the 'Lover Boy' trafficking methods are present in his Ph.D. program,' Tabusca, who is based in Bucharest, told Impact.
Tabusca points to an advertisement for the "PhD" course on Tate's website now taken down, but that she has archived.
"My job was to meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, test if she's quality, get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on webcam so we could become rich together," the advertisement reads.
In another video, Tate also refers to the "PhD" course as "my recruitment system" and tells men that it is impossible to have a women work for you without having sex with her.
"You can't get the girl to work for you if you haven't f----- her before," Tate says in the video.
Eugene Vidineac, the Tates' attorney for the Romanian case, told ABC News, he was not aware of all Andrew's comments on social media, and that prosecutors need more than public statements as evidence, arguing Tate was playing a character online.
"I don't know how stupid you can be to commit criminal thefts and to go out in public and to say how you committed the crimes, and not expect yourself to be taken [by] the authorities," said Vidineac, adding it didn't make sense since "Andrew Tate is so smart. And we see that he has the ability of communication and he is charming."
Vidineac also points to two women named in the case, Beatrice and Iasmina, who have said on social media and in an interview with Romanian television that they are not victims.
Prosecutors in the indictment allege the two women are still under the control of the Tates. Several human-trafficking experts also said it is common in "Lover Boy" cases that victims refuse to accept they have been exploited.
"They are so much manipulated by their traffickers that they don't realize that they are trapped into a slavery chain," said Turza.
Romanian prosecutors have also included in the 481-page indictment as evidence hundreds of WhatsApp and other messages they say are between the Tates and some of the women.
Among them are dozens of messages said to be between the Moldovan woman and Andrew Tate, that appear to show him first persuading her to move to Romania, saying he wants a serious relationship. In one set of messages, she explicitly says before moving she doesn't want to do webcam.
"I DON'T WANT TO DO VIDEOCHAT," she wrote on Feb. 9, 2022, according to the indictment.
Andrew Tate replied, "I do NOT want this / and I will never ask you," according to the indictment.
In the messages the Tates can also be seen allegedly telling some of the women never to go out of the house unaccompanied.
"I own you," Tate wrote on March 11, 2022, according to the indictment. "You'll never be around real men again. you'll never go out alone again. Never".
According to the indictment, Andrew Tate is charged with raping the Moldovan woman the same month in a hotel room, where, she alleged to prosecutors, he pressured her into having sexual intercourse with him and two of the other women working for him. Tate is charged with raping the woman a second time later that month.
Another British woman in the case alleges that during sexual intercourse Tate began "choking her until she lost consciousness," according to the indictment. Prosecutors used the alleged incident as an example of how Tate allegedly established psychological control through intimidation.
A spokesperson for the Tates in a statement this month said Andrew "vehemently denies any involvement in criminal activities such as rape or physical abuse. Andrew Tate remains focused on the legal proceedings in Romania and is collaborating closely with his legal team to assert his innocence."
Allegations in the United Kingdom
Born in the United States, Andrew and Tristan Tate were raised after their parents' divorce by their mother in Luton, a small city 30 miles north of London and one of the poorest cities in Britain.
In the years before he would become famous as a controversial male influencer, Andrew Tate's kickboxing career was successful, but the financial rewards were modest. Back in Luton in the early 2010s, as he has described on numerous podcasts, he decided to set up a webcam business there and would use his girlfriends as models.
Four British women are now alleging Andrew Tate sexually assaulted them during this period. The women are now pursuing a civil lawsuit at the U.K.'s High Court against Tate on the allegations, which he denies.
He is now also facing another separate criminal case in the U.K., after local British police recently issued an arrest warrant for the Tates on allegations of human trafficking and sexual assault.
In March, a Romanian court approved the extradition of the Tates to the U.K., pending the conclusion of the Romanian case.
Tate through a spokesperson denied the allegations in both U.K. cases, accusing the women of lying and of seeking to take advantage of the notoriety brought by the Romanian case.
Two of the women, whom ABC News is calling Helen and Sally, have told Impact they worked as models in the early days of Tate's U.K. webcam business in 2014. The women requested ABC News not use their real names out of fear they may face harassment from Tate's fans.
A third woman, who ABC News is calling Amelia, accuses Tate of sexually assaulting her and raping her during a relationship in 2013. Amelia, who also asked not to be named out of fear of retribution from Tateâs fans, filed a complaint with police from Britainâs Hertfordshire County in 2014 after ending the relationship. She said she provided police with voice messages and WhatsApp message she says she received from Tate around the time.
In one of the voice messages, which ABC News has heard, a voice that appears to be Tate can be heard saying: "Are you seriously so offended I strangled you a little bit? You didn't f------ pass out. Chill the f--- out. Jesus Christ. I thought you were cool. What's wrong with you?"
In another WhatsApp message seen by ABC News, Tate allegedly wrote: "I love raping you. And watching u let me while still debating if its a good idea or not. I like the conflict you have. And you do have it. Don't deny it."
The woman replied: "Makes you feel powerful?"
Tate allegedly wrote back: No. I'm already powerful. Its honest. Its real."
A spokeswoman for Tate declined to comment on the messages. The spokesperson did not comment separately on the women's allegations, but said Tate denies all of the allegations.
After Amelia filed her complaint, police initially took little action. Then a year later, Helen and Sally separately went to Hertfordshire police and filed a complaint alleging rape and assault.
Following the new complaints, in July 2015, Hertfordshire police arrested Tate in relation to an allegation of assault and rape, according to the police force. He was arrested again in December on suspicion of rape, and was released shortly after.
Hertfordshire police investigated the allegations against Tate for four years, before finally forwarding the case to Britain's prosecutor's office, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). But in 2019, the CPS closed the case after determining there was no realistic prospect of conviction.
The women allege that decision was wrong and accuse the police of mishandling the case, saying in interviews that the police failed to initially take the allegations sufficiently seriously.
In May, lawyers for Helen, Sally and Amelia served Tate with the civil lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages from him. They also called for police to reopen the case.
"The evidence that was gathered at the time we say was more than sufficient for a criminal prosecution to have taken place," Matthew Jury, the lead attorney representing the women, told Impact. "It is baffling to us as to why the decision was made not to prosecute in 2019."
Asked about the women's case, Hertfordshire police in a statement said "there were some delays to the investigation. This was addressed at the time and apologies were made."
"The case was only closed in late 2019 after a case file had been sent to the CPS and the decision was made not to prosecute," it said.
The CPS in a statement told ABC News: "We understand the devastating impact rape can have on victims. In this case, a specialist prosecutor carefully reviewed all the evidence and concluded there wasn't a realistic prospect of conviction."
The CPS noted that it and the police have "changed the way rape cases are handled as part of our commitment to drive up the numbers taken to court and improve victim experiences." It also noted that the women still have the option to request a review of the decision not to prosecute.
A spokesperson for Tate commenting on the allegations told Impact: "Andrew vehemently denies any involvement in criminal activities such as rape or physical abuse. These accusations are not only baseless but are seen as deliberate attempts to defame his character and provoke unwarranted public outrage through mainstream media channels."
Since the first three women announced their lawsuit, a fourth British woman has come forward and joined the suit with her own allegations of sexual assault. Evie, who has also requested ABC News not use her real name, said she first met Tate in 2014 at a club in Luton.
She said she went home with Tate and had consensual sex. But Evie said they kept in touch via text message and met up again a couple months later, when Tate came over to her place one night after work. The two started having consensual sex but he then allegedly began strangling her during the act, she said.
"We were having sex and he strangled me until I passed out," Evie told Impact. "When I came back around, he was still having sex with me while I'd been passed out."
Evie said she had not given consent to the alleged act. She said Tate also made aggressive comments and threats toward her during and afterward.
"He sort of kept saying things like: 'I own you. You're mine,'" she said. "He was quite aggressive and kept on, like, holding me against the wall by the neck."
Evie said the alleged strangulation caused the blood vessels in one of her eyes to burst, temporarily leaving it bloodshot.
Evie, now 30, said she told others about the alleged incident at the time and again over the years but downplayed it. She said she started to realize how serious it was as she got older and learned more about consent. The people Evie told have since confirmed being told about parts of the incident, with one confirming seeing that her eye was bloodshot afterward.
"I didn't really have any kind of education on consent and kind of what that looked like," Evie told ABC News. "It was only, like, years later that I looked back and thought, actually that was rape."
When asked to comment on Evie's allegations, a spokesperson for Tate told ABC News, Andrew "vehemently denies these accusations and does not condone violence of any kind towards women. All sexual acts that Andrew has partaken in have been consensual and agreed upon before by both parties."
"He is saddened that a few opportunistic women who he has allegedly spent time with nearly a decade ago have decided to try and take advantage of his current situation."
Evie joined the other women's lawsuit in 2023. She has said she had decided to join now because she wanted "justice."
"For all the, kinda the crimes that he's done against women. And also to just teach young men that it's not okay-- and young women as well-- that it's not okay to, like, have these views and to treat women like this," she said.
Romanian prosecutors in their indictment against the Tates have cited two of the women's police complaints in the U.K. as relevant background to the current case there.
Amid the allegations, in March this year local police from Bedfordshire County in the U.K. issued arrest warrants for both Andrew and Tristian Tate in a new criminal case on allegations of human trafficking and rape. The Tates have said they deny all the new charges. A Bucharest court approved a U.K. extradition request for the Tates, but only once the Romanian case against them concludes.
A trial is likely to take years to begin in court, but could begin as early as this summer.
"Whatever happens in the Romanian prosecution, he is now going to be extradited from Romania to face prosecution also in the U.K.," Jury said. "So, the civil case aside, he's got a long many years ahead of him."
This story includes reporting from ABC News' ImpactxNightline special "Andrew Tate â Into the Manosphere," which is available to stream on Hulu from May 16.
The hour-long special includes interviews with some of the women accusing Tate of sexual assault, as well as with a former employee of Tate's War Room organization.
(NEW YORK) -- A Virginia woman who was at the forefront of school desegregation is sharing her experiences, and the hatred she endured, 65 years later.
In February 1959, then-14-year-old Betty Kilby stepped into the history books as one of the 21 Black students who first attended her formerly segregated local high school, responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision fewer than five years earlier declaring "separate but equal" to be unconstitutional, paving the way for the racial integration of public schools in America.
On their radios and televisions at home, Kilby and her friends heard parents and governors say that what they were doing was wrong. James Lindsay Almond Jr., the governor of Virginia at the time, said that the integration and mixing of the races in Virginia would "absolutely destroy public education."
Kilby, now a civil rights activist and author, remembers everything about that day in February nearly 70 years ago outside Warren County High School in northern Virginia. She recalls how tightly she held on to her clipboard, how cold it was, and how cold they were.
"They told us not to look at the people, not to look at the crowd, to remain focused on going up the hill," Kilby recalled. "The memory of going up that hill will never cease from my brain. I could hear the racial slurs. We just thought that that would be the day that we died."
During her senior year, Kilby said she was walking alone when a group of white students pulled her into a room.
"And as I cross the auditorium one day, I was grabbed," Kilby said, becoming emotional at the memory. "And I was raped. And at that point I begged God to take me home."
Yet Kilby told no one then about what had happened, saying that if she'd told her father, "he would have probably tried to kill somebody."
Many people believe that the Supreme Court's May 17, 1954 decision to integrate American schools involved just one case from Topeka, Kansas. But it was actually a combination of fights from across the country â including one from Virginia.
Today, surviving students of what was then Moton High School, a segregated Black school in northern Virginia, celebrate their walkout that led to one of the lawsuits.
"We had no library. We had no cafeteria, we had no science lab," said former student Joan Cobbs. "Also we had hand-me-down books from the white school. And they were tattered and torn. So, what happened is we went out on a strike for two weeks."
Over 60 years later, their story caught the attention of a group of talented Virginia high school students, who produced an award-winning documentary about it.
The students learned how the Black students stayed safe by organizing their schedules so they could walk together between classes. They also heard about the principals and teachers who refused to even say hello.
"It's one thing to read about history in a textbook, but when that person who made that history is standing in front of you, that really just gives you a deeper passion to share that history," said student filmmaker Elizabeth Kidd.
"We can't forget the lessons of the past if we want to make change for the future," added fellow student filmmaker Pria Dua.
The former segregated Moton High School, where the students walked out in the 1950s, is now a museum.
"Children paid the price. I paid the price," said Kilby, remembering that time, more than two generations ago. "I gave up my innocence to integrate these schools. Not because we wanted better. We wanted the same."
SMITH COUNTY — Smith County officials and others involved in the construction project held a Topping Out Ceremony for the County’s Parking Garage on Monday, May 20, 2024. The ceremony signifies the last of the 504 precast pieces being placed on top of the garage. Smith County Officials, representatives from Hoar Construction, SCI Construction and Fitzpatrick Architects, as well as employees, signed the 44,000-pound piece of concrete before it was hoisted by a 212-foot crane and secured on the top of the garage. The project is about halfway completed and is expected to open in October.
He may be famous for showing off some massive portions in his long running Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, but Guy Fieri has been cutting back -- and cut weight as a result.
The self-appointed Mayor of Flavortown tells Men's Health he's now 30 pounds lighter, a journey he began during the COVID-19 pandemic with the help of personal trainer Scott Butler.
Guy credits Butler's intense workout routine inspired by military training as well as a change in the chef's diet.
"Once I started getting more serious about that, the quantity of food I was eating, and exercise, it really changed the whole thing," Fieri told the outlet about his intermittent fasting diet. "It wasn't as gnarly as you might think," adding, "I'm not a big breakfast fan."
Butler put him through a combination of fitness regimes including rucking and high-intensity interval training, as well as a daily cold plunge and getting into a sauna.
Rucking involves walking or running while carrying a backpack of weights or a weighted vest. Fieri said he rucks the hills near his house a few times a week.
A clinical trial published by the National Library of Medicine also found that participants who wore weighted vests for eight hours a day for three weeks without doing any physical activities experienced some weight loss compared to those who didn't wear the vests.
Like any other fitness routine or diet, it's best to consult with your physician or physical therapist before using a weighted vest.
WHITE OAK — Brandon Gilliam, 42, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to the 2021 murder of Steve McDowell. According to our news partner KETK, Gilliamâs sentence comes only weeks after Regina Massie, 40, also pleaded guilty in connection to McDowellâs murder. Case records revealed that Gilliam and Massie were hired by McDowell to fix his truck but then he discovered money was missing from the truck. Massie reportedly told investigators that Gilliam hit McDowell in the head with a foot-long pipe after he was confronted about the money missing from McDowellâs truck. Gilliam then reportedly tried to suffocate McDowell by covering his mouth and nose. Massie also quoted Gilliam as saying âMcDowell should not have died over $35.â Gilliamâs sentence started on Monday.
(LONDON) -- A plan by an International Criminal Court prosecutor to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders is "absurd," casting a "terrible stain" on the court, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
"We are supplying now nearly half of the water of Gaza. We supplied only 7% before the war. This is completely opposite of what he's saying. He's saying we're starving people?" Netanyahu said on ABC News' Good Morning America on Tuesday. "We have supplied half million tons of food and medicine with 20,000 trucks. This guy is out to demonize Israel. He's doing a hit job."
A prosecutor with the ICC on Monday said he would file applications for arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu, alleging that they "bear criminal responsibility" for "war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Gaza.
Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan said he would seek warrants for both Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. Khan laid out a list of allegations against Netanyahu and Gallant, including starvation of civilians, willfully causing great suffering and other "inhumane acts."
"We submit that the crimes against humanity charged were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack against the Palestinian civilian population pursuant to State policy," Khan said in a statement. "These crimes, in our assessment, continue to this day."
Netanyahu said on Monday that his country didn't have a "deliberate starvation policy" and the charges detailed by the ICC prosecutor were "fallacious."
"In fact, we have the opposite policy, to allow maximum humanitarian aid to get people out of harm's way," He said, "while Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way at gun point."
World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain recently said that "full-blown famine" is occurring in northern Gaza.
President Joe Biden called the prosecutor's decision to seek arrest warrants for the Israeli leaders "outrageous."
"And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence -- none -- between Israel and Hamas," Biden said Monday.
The prosecutor's statement came as Israel continued weighing a potential full-scale invasion into Rafah, a southern Gazan city where many Palestinians have sought refuge during Israel's war with Hamas.
"The battle in Rafah is critical. It is not only the remaining [Hamas] battalions there but their escape and supply pipelines," Netanyahu said last week while speaking to troops after taking an aerial tour of the Gaza Strip. "This battle, of which you are an integral part, is a battle that will decide many things in this campaign."
Netanyahu early this month met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for more than two hours in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. Blinken during that meeting "reiterated the United States' clear position on Rafah," Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, said at the time.
U.S. officials have in the weeks since that meeting been in "close communication" with Israeli leaders, letting them know that the U.S. opposes a major military operation in the city, Miller said on Monday.
"We don't think that would be productive to Israel's security either in the short term or the long term," Miller said, "and we think it would have a dramatic impact on the lives of the Palestinian people there and on the ability to get humanitarian assistance in."
More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed since the fighting began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. About 1,200 people were killed on Oct. 7 in the Hamas cross-border attack on southern Israel, according to Israel.
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Monday asked what would happen when the war was over.
Netanyahu said Hamas would have to be destroyed first, then Israel could "demilitarize" Gaza. After that, there would have to be a civilian administration put in place, he said.
"There is peace and stability and prosperity only through victory," Netanyahu said. "The road to peace goes through victory over Hamas."
HBO has greenlit a yet-to-be titled, 10-episode comedy series starring Steve Carell. The single-camera series from Ted Lasso showrunner Bill Lawrence and Scrubs producer Matt Tarses, is set on a college campus and centers on "an author's complicated relationship with his daughter," per the premium cable channel. "The combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth, and charm. We're thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration," Amy Gravitt, executive vice president, HBO & Max Comedy Programming, said in a statement.
Warner Bros. Pictures has set a September 21 premiere date for the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, followed by an encore presentation on the late actorâs birthday, September 25, according to Deadline. Using never-before-seen home movies and personal archive material, the film chronicles Reeve's career, which most notably included playing the Man of Steel in four Superman films between 1978 and 1987, the tragic horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down, and his activism on behalf of finding a cure for spinal cord injuries and disability rights. Reeve died in 2004 at the age of 52.
Paramount+ has tapped Genesis Rodriguez for the second season of Lioness, according to Variety. The Umbrella Academy actress will play Captain Josephina Carrillo, "a dedicated soldier with a fierce personality" and "a skilled helicopter pilot," per the outlet. Rodriguez joins Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Nicole Kidman, Michael Kelly and Morgan Freeman, the last of whom will be a regular in season 2.
A United States Congressional delegation meets with government officials in Turks and Caicos, May 20, 2024. (Turks and Caicos Islands, Governor's Office/Facebook)
(NEW YORK) -- A Congressional delegation traveled to Turks and Caicos over the fate of five U.S. tourists detained there for ammunition charges that carry a minimum 12-year sentence in prison if convicted.
The bipartisan delegation met with government leaders in Turks and Caicos on Monday, where they called for leniency for the Americans who they said inadvertently had ammunition in their luggage.
Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, one of the members of the delegation, told ABC News' Good Morning America that he left the meetings feeling like they "didn't find a real path forward" and are considering next steps if they can't reach a solution.
"I felt like they were doing their job, which is representing Turks and Caicos. We went there doing our job, representing the United States with real concerns," he said. "I mean, you have currently five Americans being charged ... and among them all they had less than 20 bullets."
In addition to Mullin, the U.S. delegation included Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa.; Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa.; Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.; Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla.; and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas -- who all have constituents who are among the detained Americans.
Fetterman said he left the meetings feeling "optimistic that we can get this resolved."
"We had the opportunity to meet each of the detained Americans, who were in good spirits but want to go home," Fetterman said in a statement. "These people did not set out to break the law. They are people who made a mistake and now face substantial time in prison because of it. As we articulated to TCI officials, I urge the court to be lenient when addressing this case."
In the most recent case, Sharitta Shinise Grier, of Orlando, Florida, was visiting Turks and Caicos with her daughter for Mother's Day when, during a routine search at the Howard Hamilton International Airport on May 13, officials claim to have found two rounds of ammunition in her bag, police said. She was charged with one count of possession of ammunition and released on $15,000 bail. She has been ordered to remain in the Caribbean territory until the completion of her case, police sources said.
Ryan Watson, of Oklahoma, was arrested on April 24 after hunting ammunition was allegedly found in his carry-on bag before flying home with his wife. He was released on $15,000 bond but remains on the islands as his court case continues. Watson told ABC News he didn't know the ammunition was in the bag.
Tyler Scott Wenrich of Virginia was charged on April 23 when officials found illegal ammunition during a checkpoint on Turks and Caicos while he was traveling on a cruise, investigators said. His plea hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.
Bryan Hagerich, of Pennsylvania, is awaiting sentencing on the islands after pleading guilty to possession of 20 rounds of ammunition. Hagerich, who was arrested in February, told ABC News he forgot hunting ammunition was in his bag while he was traveling. His next hearing has been scheduled for Friday.
Michael Lee Evans, of Texas, also pleaded guilty to possession of seven 9mm rounds of ammunition in his luggage and is awaiting sentencing.
Mullin said one family has already spent more than $100,000 in attorney fees, while a father has had to borrow money to be able to stay on the island while his son's case plays out and is "literally living off hot dogs and rice."
"We have to find some type of a solution here," Mullin said, adding that it is "unacceptable" that one American from Indiana has already served a six-month prison sentence on the ammunition charge.
Two years ago, the Turks and Caicos government tightened their gun laws and prohibited civilian firearms or ammunition. If convicted, offenders are sentenced to a minimum of 12 years in prison.
Mullin said they were pushing for Turks and Caicos officials to have more leniency when it comes to people mistakenly traveling with ammunition.
"We thought we could find some type of common ground to separate the two -- ones with the intent and one with no criminal intent," Mullin said. "We weren't able to get to that conclusion. So their whole point was that, let the system work."
Mullin said the next step might be warning American citizens about traveling and doing business in Turks and Caicos.
"I don't think we're to that point. But if we can't come to a solution, that's the next option for us," he said.
Following the meeting with the Congressional delegation, the Turks and Caicos governor's office said in a statement that the government has "clear laws prohibiting the possession of firearms and/or ammunition and strict penalties are in place to serve and protect all who reside and visit the Turks and Caicos Islands."
The office said the government officials "appreciated that the circumstances for U.S. nationals who find themselves in this position can be difficult but were aware that U.S. officials are providing consular support to each of the individuals."
"Where the court finds there are exceptional circumstances, the sentencing judge does have discretion, under the law, to impose a custodial sentence and a fine that are fair and just in the circumstances of each case," the governor's office added.
