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Kevin Spacey’s Battery Charge Was Dismissed In The Sexual Assault Case Against Anthony Rapp
In response to CNN, a New York jury discovered the 63-year-old actor, greatest identified for his function within the Netflix collection Home of Playing cards, not responsible of battery in reference to accusations made by Rapp, now 42, that Spacey made a sexual strategy to him when Rapp was 14 years outdated.
In response to NBC Information, the twelve-person jury consisted of six males and 6 ladies. After deliberating for greater than an hour, they concluded that there was sufficient proof to show that Spacey had sexually molested Rapp.
In response to CNN, whereas the decision was being introduced, Spacey’s attorneys celebrated their shopper’s success by inserting their palms on the actor’s again as they clapped quietly.
Decide Lewis Kaplan subsequently threw the case out. NBC Information noticed that Rapp’s attorneys appeared disheartened by the findings as they left the central Manhattan courthouse and revealed the commentary.
In a bit revealed in October 2017 by BuzzFeed, Rapp, now 50 years outdated, accused Spacey of sexual assault, despite the fact that the claimed encounter occurred 31 years earlier. In response to Reuters, the Broadway actor demanded a complete of $40 million in damages, together with compensatory and punitive damages, for the acts of abuse and deliberate infliction of emotional misery he was accused of committing.
Though Spacey refuted the fees and got here out as gay on the identical time, the scandal’s aftermath was detrimental to his profession. His final image, Billionaire Boys Membership, opened in only ten cinemas and made a complete of $126 on its first launch day. This led to his dismissal from Home of Playing cards and his alternative in All of the Cash within the World.
In response to the Related Press, Spacey was accused of sexual assault when actor Anthony Rapp testified that he attended a celebration at Spacey’s home and that, as soon as alone with the actor, Spacey pinned him down on a mattress and “pressured himself” on him. Nevertheless, the Lease star testified beneath cross-examination that Spacey by no means touched his genitalia, requested him to undress, or made different sexual feedback or gestures towards him. As well as, he rejected the notion that he had a sexual attraction to or fixation on Spacey.
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Beyoncé will perform a halftime show during one of the NFL's Christmas Day games
Beyoncé will perform at a halftime show during one of the NFL’s Christmas Day matchups on Netflix.
She will take the stage during a game between her hometown team, the Houston Texans, and the Baltimore Ravens, to perform songs from her latest album, Cowboy Carter.
The project was recently nominated for 11 Grammys, breaking the record for the most nominations for an album by a female artist, and placed Beyoncé as the artist with the most nominations in history, with 99.
Artists featured on the album could make an appearance, some of who include Miley Cyrus, Post Malone and Shaboozey, Netflix said Sunday.
Beyoncé previously performed at two Super Bowl halftime shows — in 2013 with Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, her former Destiny’s Child bandmates, and in 2016 with Coldplay and Bruno Mars.
The game will stream on Netflix at 4:30 p.m. ET and be shown on the participating teams’ local broadcast channels. Earlier in the day, Netflix is also streaming a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The company says it has also secured holiday games for 2025 and 2026.
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Francis Ngannou Shuts Down Jake Paul Fight Talk, 'Don't Be Silly'
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Sorry, fight fans, don’t expect Francis Ngannou to share the ring with Jake Paul … ’cause The Predator tells TMZ Sports that scrap will never happen!
We caught up with the former UFC heavyweight champion following the wildly successful Netflix boxing event that saw 60 million households tune in for Paul’s unanimous decision win over Mike Tyson — and we asked him about his tweet, saying he’d slap El Gallo the next time he saw Jake.
With fans pumped at the prospect of a Paul and Ngannou fight, we had to see if there was a chance. Unfortunately, the 38-year-old wasn’t having it, saying the prospect of them sharing the ring is straight up disrespectful.
“Come on, like, respect me a little bit,” Francis said, totally shooting down the idea.
Despite the fact they won’t be fighting, Ngannou has respect for what Paul, who is also signed to PFL (like Francis), is doing to entertain fight fans.
“If this is not entertainment, I do not know what you are looking for,” he said.
“It was entertaining, whether you like it or not. There was a curiosity to see Mike Tyson at this age; can he stand? Can he, can he? And they did entertain.”
While Paul doesn’t entice him, the idea of Deontay Wilder might. Of course, the former heavyweight champ recently said he was interested in Ngannou, with the Bronze Bomber telling us he wants to begin negotiations.
Ngannou, however, is focused on MMA, saying, “I will wait a couple of months to see if the PFL will pull something up.”
“If not, I will see if there is something in boxing either. But it’s not like it’s top in my mind.”
Bottom line, Jake, no. Deontay, maybe.
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With new safety update, Roblox aims to boost protection for young gamers
In an effort to address child safety concerns, digital gaming platform Roblox announced Monday that it is rolling out a major update to its safety features and parental controls.
The update includes amped-up parental controls and communication restrictions for players under 13.
“Any instance of a child being hurt or put in danger that has anything to do with Roblox is just absolutely unacceptable for us,” Roblox’s chief safety officer, Matt Kaufman, told Here & Now on Monday. “We make safety our number one priority.”
Roblox has been criticized for a lack of child safety protocols in the past. These updates look to change that.
“You’re seeing lawsuits filed across the country alleging child safety concerns on these big platforms that attract children,” Olivia Carville, a journalist covering child safety in the digital world, told Here & Now in October. “Congress, the courts, child safety advocates are really calling out for more protections for kids in this space.”
New parental controls
The update introduces remote-accessible parental controls – a change from existing controls only accessible through the child’s account. Now, a parent or guardian can use their own Roblox account to manage and monitor their child’s gaming experience.
In addition to the already existing spend limits, which allow parents to manage how much real money a child spends on in-game purchases, parents can now also see their child’s friends list and set a hard limit on screen time for the game.
The new parental controls will also allow adults to restrict what content their child can access using four new categories to filter content: minimal, mild, moderate, and restricted.
Players younger than 9 years old will be allowed to access the minimal and moderate categories by default. Parents can enable the other two categories depending on what they feel is appropriate.
Dr. Michael Rich, a pediatrician and director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital, told NPR that though general age-based protocols are a step in the right direction, they’re not a catch-all answer to child safety online.
“It finally comes down to the parents’ understanding and judgment of how well their child takes responsibility and respect for themselves and others in that space,” Rich said, adding that Roblox is more of a social scene rather than an average game.
Restricting DMs
In a further attempt to mitigate inappropriate content and communication for their young gamers, Roblox players under 13 can no longer Direct Message anyone in the game. They will still be able to communicate with other players using platform chat, the public chat room in games where everyone can see messages online.
Kaufman said that as many as 50,000 messages could be going across the Roblox systems at any moment. The company uses enhanced AI to determine whether to let certain messages through and filter out messages that do not meet its standards.
The new built-in restriction comes after years of concern over children meeting adults in private, unrestricted chat rooms.
Carville has investigated multiple criminal indictments where children were harmed or even abducted after meeting a predator anonymously on Roblox. In one instance, a game developer was arrested for kidnapping after hiring an Uber to drive a 15-year-old girl he met on Roblox across state lines. In another, a registered sex offender solicited nude photos from an 8-year-old girl in exchange for Robux, the platform’s in-game currency.
“As [Roblox grows], it gets harder and harder to moderate the platform,” Carville told Here & Now. “Looking forward, parents really need to know what the risks are and what they’re comfortable with their children doing.”
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