Geoffrey Rush is ACCUSED!

Are they taking back his Oscar? Dibs for G.

well, he's fucking ugly, he can't get none so he's gotta "force" it.

Noooooo!

J’accusé!

Fucking bitches are all stealing my gig.

He stopped down from the Australian Academy because of the allegations of "inappropriate behaviour."

this is getting old. seriously. enough with all the accusations. I don't believe all these are for real.

R7 - believe it. From what I have heard, these are merely the tip of the iceberg. Like with Weinstein, Spacey, et al. - there been talk around for ages... he’s lawyered up. But there are journalists working on getting many people to tell their stories. Watch this space...

why is no one telling the stories of Trump's accusers? I'm really not interested in these other stories until Trump pays for his many, many sexual misdeeds.

R4, it's just J'accuse. No accent mark.

Well, at least we can be thankful he isn't a Jewish molester.

Can they give his Oscar to Ralph Fiennes?

Wait til they find child porn on Meryl's husband's laptop.

tick tock

There does seem to be a trend of them all being not very good looking guys who were most likely nerdy, bullied losers growing up. Not one of the famous accused so far has been hot or even good looking. I really hate to say this but when a hot guy does the things most of these guys are accused of doing, people don't seem to care so much. Sad commentary on human society and our priorities in life. Beauty rules everything.

This complaint sounds very dubious to me. There have been no rumours about Rush; in fact he is very well-liked and respected by peers, and everyone who has worked with him says good things. I was taken aback that the STC wouldn’t tell him what the complaint was (and nowhere does the story claim sexual harassment - “inappropriate behaviour” could mean anything at this point), but told the media. Could he have sexually harassed someone just once in his life? It’s possible, but given his history, highly improbable.

The theatrical bitches in Administration at the The Sydney Theatre Company have "not disclosed details of the allegation."

They said "the complainant asked that the allegation be dealt with confidentially and did not want Rush notified or involved in any investigation."

In other words, they're having a secret court to condemn the man.

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes"

Inappropriate behavior could be his awful over-acting in many a stage show. Yeesh.

Who wants to 'King Lear' on stage anyway. It is a dirge of a play.

More, more! Again, again!

R14 you’ve been proved wrong this week in a big way

Why would he step down from all these orgs if he is innocent?

Is there something about being around copious amounts of money that turns people into sex addicts or something?

[quote]Is there something about being around copious amounts of money that turns people into sex addicts or something?

Trump is President because for the last thirty-five years the USA has been totally devoted to the concept that making money is all that matters and those who make lots of money are allowed to do anything they please with impunity.

Call it the de-Christianization of American culture. We live in reptilian society where rapacious greed prevails.

[quote]Is there something about being around copious amounts of money that turns people into sex addicts or something?

No, just like rape is usually not about sex, but power, I think there is something much more complex at play.

Back when Elliot Spitzer was caught and Jack Welch fell from his pedestal after having an affair, there were a raft of articles about why powerful men have affairs. Money, power, and no one saying ever saying "no" to you in your working life begins to bleed into other aspects of your life.

I can't do the multiple articles justice, but it's worth reading a few.

Also, some people are just pigs. Not all of the people accused are the same.

Wasn't there a poster from Oz on another thread who was saying that Rush was next?

He's not on trial R16. Out here in the real world if you go to HR to complain, confidentiality is almost guaranteed.

I’ve heard from an Australian friend in the media that there have been rumours about Rush and underage girls going around for a long time.

R28 As if anyone would trust you, Judy!

You are the nations's biggest drama queen. Your husband was so terrified during one of your tirades that your husband escaped the house and ran across the road and hid in the cricket field bushes.

Your constant hectoring and haranguing could be heard from across the harbour as far as away as Cate Blankett's (former) home.

No surprise. He looks Jewish.

[quote]Is there something about being around copious amounts of money that turns people into sex addicts or something?

Money and power.

bump

He mentored Cate Blanchett during her school years. Hmmmmm

R27, HR confidentiality wouldn’t involve telling someone “there’s been a complaint against you by a person who shall remain unnamed, for doing/saying something inappropriate. We can’t tell you any more”. The complainant might well remain anonymous & protected, but Rush would at least be told the nature of the complaint.

[quote]Call it the de-Christianization of American culture. We live in reptilian society where rapacious greed prevails.

Nice try, churches are hardly sanctuaries for the sexually well-behaved. And in more religious societies than the US, rape is at least as common. Check India and Egypt if you have any doubts.

Geoffrey Rush is Suing an Australian Newspaper Over “Slurs, Innuendo, and Hyperbole” After Sexual Harassment Reports

😂😂😂

I was the poster from Oz who mentioned he was next R26.

R16 - like you, I found it hard to believe. Have friends - mostly guys - in Oz theatrical circles. And they all thought he was great. Never a bad word about him.

But then a close friend - a woman - confided that she’d heard a lot of first hand nasty stories about him from female friends in the biz over the years.

Tracey Spicer and another journalist here put out calls to talk to victims of predators in the Oz entertainment industry on social media. They didn’t name names though. And they were inundated with contacts - but a huge proportion of them were about Don Burke. His TV star personality had waned many years since, but there were so many accusers that the sheer weight of ‘em all broke the story in the media here.

Gather Rush is harder. He has dough from constantly getting film work. Is lawyered up - big-time! And if you’re in the industry here - theatre especially - and come forward - then chances are you won’t work again.

The two journos are working behind the scenes to methodically put together a verified, coherent story. But unfortunately with Rush - they got pipped to the post by one of the tabloids. Still think their story will come out up the track - will depend how many people they can convince to speak up openly about him.

Dont know who the other guy is they were targeting. My friend thought it was a younger Oz actor who has had quite a good career here and internationally - and who has thus far flown under the radar. But when she asked about him - she’d heard quite a few allegations! - apparently he wasn’t the guy who was being looked at by the journalists.

Upshot is: there’s plenty more dirt to come. Watch this space.

Just look at his pic @ R36 I'm sure the allegations are right whatever they are !

R37 Younger as in Twentysomething? DL will be devastated if it's Brendon Waites.

Just one more thing. Has anyone else noticed that all of the accused are incredibly fugly?

Edgerton?

I don't think Charlie Rose is/was ugly, though his face is obviously succumbing to looking like a mudslide.

R39 and R41 - nope. Haven’t heard anything about either of them. But then I hadn’t heard anything about Rush or the other guy until my friend told me.

He’s a kiddie fiddler

R37 That woman called Tracey Spicer has been threatening to reveal her scandalous box of secrets for over year now. She gets lots of publicity with the SJWs but never opens the box.

The accuser has been revealed. It is a former star of soapie "Home & Away" named Eryn Jean Norvill.

This snowflake complained that she (as the dead Princess Cordelia) was touched by Geoffrey Rush (as her father King Lear) carried her in the concluding moments of this harrowing, ugly play.

You can see how his hand is just inches away from the mammary gland.

The other guy accused was Craig McLachlan, of Neighbours and Doctor Blake fame, who fingered and commented on the smell of his co-stars’ pussies during sex scenes in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

This Princess of Snowflakes in Geoffrey Rush's 'King Lear' gave an interview in December 2015 exposing her naivety.

“In a world surrounded by men who are cruel and self-indulgent, [Cordelia] somehow manages to be the youngest with this bizarre breadth of perspective. She’s a better person than I am — I struggle with her.”

[Cordelia's] sense of exile, of being separated from one’s home, is a theme which resonates with the current political climate around the world, and especially in Australia. “It’s so frustrating what is going on in the world today with the amount of people displaced, asking “what is home?... when we think of these people and how they find strength. I hope that in telling this story we reach to their depths.”

“Geoffrey is just forever playful. He’s so generous, he’s very cheeky which is perfect for me. I feel very privileged to work with him and proud to be his ‘favourite daughter’.

She has changed her mind.

I hope I'll never hear anything about Ben Mendelsohn.

Rush likes them young. Very young

HOUSEBOUND!

Geoffrey Rush: Defamation trial hears Witness X has “vital evidence”

Geoffrey Rush defamation trial brings drama to the courtroom

Is he openly gay?

R54 No

Norvill says "everyone in that room" "enabled" Rush's behaviour, but said nothing, including the acclaimed actress Robyn Nevin, whom she counts as a friend.

In Geoffrey Rush case, it's easy to forget who is on trial

Geoffrey Rush co-star, Mark Winter, said he saw him cup actress's breast during King Lear rehearsal

I’m very moved to see Mark Winter taking the stand.

The Geoffrey Rush defamation trial has been filled with high drama. But his accuser, Eryn Jean Norvill, testified for almost eight hours with an unrelenting calm.

#IStandWithEJ

What women feel when they read about EJ Norvill and Geoffrey Rush

Another accusation.

[quote]Actress Yael Stone alleged actor Geoffrey Rush subjected her to unwanted sexual advances and even attempted to look at her naked body while she was showering. Stone told The New York Times that she had looked up to Rush, a revered actor in Australia, and was elated when she was cast opposite him in a play called The Diary of a Madman in 2010 and 2011. After they got acquainted with one another, Stone told the newspaper Rush would send her “affectionate and flirtatious” texts late at night that were sexual at times.

Geoffrey Rush accused again, this time by OITNB's Yael Stone

My opinion is that Geoffrey Rush is a gross, creepy fuckface.

Actress Yael Stone says actor Geoffrey Rush sent sexually suggestive text messages, exposed himself and attempted to watch her shower when they were in a play in 2010 and 2011.

When oh when will they catch up with Bill Nighy !

The judge has decided in Rush's favour!

He said Rush's accuser was not credible.

R68, here's a link that just was published:

Geoffrey Rush defamation case: actor to be awarded millions after win against News Corp's Daily Telegraph – live

Justice Michael Wigney hands down his verdict after actor sued Sydney’s Daily Telegraph over allegations of sexual harassment.

Summary

It’s a big win for Geoffrey Rush.

The judge ruled that all but two of his claimed imputations were indeed conveyed by the Daily Telegraph’s article. The Telegraph’s entire truth defence was then rejected. Rush was awarded $850,000, with that figure to rise by millions.

The main findings:

The Daily Telegraph’s articles conveyed the impression that Rush was “a pervert”, “a sexual predator” and “committed sexual assault in a theatre” during the King Lear production.

The Telegraph’s attempt to prove this was true was rejected.

The evidence of the complainant, Eryn Jean Norvill, was “not only uncorroborated but contradicted” by the director, Neil Armfield, and castmembers Robyn Nevin and Helen Buday.

The evidence of castmember Mark Leonard Winter, who corroborated Norvill’s account, was judged not credible.

Norvill was “prone to exaggeration and embellishment,” according to Wigney.

Rush was awarded aggravated damages, because of the poor conduct of the Daily Telegraph.

Wigney said it was “a recklessly irresponsible piece of sensational journalism of the worst kind”.

Rush was given $850,000 just for the damage to his reputation.

This figure could rise by millions, because Rush was also awarded compensation for lost earnings due to the article

Wow.

The judge had no right make to those comment about Eryn Jean Norvill. She was not on trial, she did not report the story to the media. His comments should have been directed only to the media who reported it. Typical white straight male privilege - Geoffrey Rush is a creepy slim.

Eryn Jean Norvill slandered Rush with fabricated, crazed stories. The media reported them.

One guy testified in her favor.

[quote]r7 enough with all the accusations. I don't believe all these are for real.

Of course nothing is 100%. Is this your first brush with humankind?

That doesn't mean most cases aren't factual. People have little to gain, long term, by bringing forth false accusations publicly.

R73 She did not. She made complaints within the Sydney Theatre Company - her right to do so. That the media got hold of them is not her fault. Rush is a sleaze.

How can a woman function in a modern communications industry if she can't even voice her concerns with her fellow workers at the appropriate time?

I realise that Cordelia (and Ophelia) are fairly backward, helplessly precious characters but a modern woman should be able to communicate such things.

She could have approached the media and worked out some kind of conciliation/resolution with Rush in the first week rather than let it drag out over more than a year. (She's reminding me of Jussie Smollett)

R77 Eryn Jean Norvill never spoke to the media. They got the story from an employee of the Sydney Theatre Company - probably someone with an ax to grind. She was forced by the court to give her account of her compliant. Eryn Jean Norvill is most definitely the victim here on a number of fronts. She is a victim of Rush's behaviour, of someone within the Sydney Theatre Company contacting the media, and the media for reporting a story that the victim did not want to be made public.

So where is Rush's rep now then? Is he a Spacey still however in Hollywood and elsewhere and too on the nose to be hired? Or, will he confine himself to theatre and have the luvvies rally round him? Will he still appeal to audiences?

** I heard his (distinctive) voiceover the other night on a new movie trailer release actually (not anything in which he was cast), which made me wonder if that's how his bread has recently been buttered and will continue to do so as still legitimately lucrative in it's way.

**Haven't checked his recent IMDB...

R78 Eryn Jean Norvill never spoke to anyone, that's the trouble.

Now Rush may have been socially-inappropriate but Norvill is definitely socially-inadequate.

A conciliation could have been made out of court but passive Norvill faffed around for over a year. And so she is (indirectly) responsible for Rush's loss of wages over that year.

Millions of dollars of expensive lawyers were brought into action over that year due to her social-inadequacy.

You must get really upset when sexual assaults can be proved conclusively R80 , the glee you are taking in this woman's ruin is disturbing.

I'm starting to think this was overblown and the allegations against him were unfounded. By the way I can't wait till there are women accused of innapropriate touching of men. This definitely happens so men should speak up too.

R80 Norvill's being (indirectly) responsible for Rush's million-dollar loss of wages is similar to Friar Laurence being (indirectly) responsible for the double-suicide of Romeo and Juliet.

Rush has had multiple allegations made against him. There is a pattern of behaviour - good riddance to him. Anyway, for someone with limited talents (he could be amusing in the right role, I'll grant him that) he must have made millions over the last two decades. More than enough to keep him and his family very comfortable for decades to come.

One other interesting thing from the Judge's findings above:

The evidence of castmember Mark Leonard Winter, who corroborated Norvill’s account, was judged not credible.

[quote]Norvill's being (indirectly) responsible for Rush's million-dollar loss of wages is similar to Friar Laurence being (indirectly) responsible for the double-suicide of Romeo and Juliet.

I had thought that at 65 no one's stupidity could surprise me anymore.

I stand corrected.

R37 Who is this “younger Oz actor who has had quite a good career here and internationally”? Jai Courtney?

R47 That Craig McLachlan really is a crummy excuse for an ageing sex-symbol.

R59 Why are you moved to see Mark Winter taking the stand?

R81 Reductio ad Absurdem

R18 Have you seen some of his “awful over-acting in many a stage show’?

R28 Well, Judy, you hysterical husband-beater, you should have spoken up earlier

R48 Ineptitude!

[quote]r82 I can't wait till there are women accused of innapropriate touching of men. This definitely happens so men should speak up too.

You can start. Let's hear your story.

R88 My boss was always touching me.

That woman hired three handsome men to be her own personal 'harem'.

R88 Asia Argento?

R87 = Cunty contrarian.

R91 ~

You're pretty heavily invested in this then R92?