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This is the second such lawsuit filed against Affleck, 34, in just over one week. Last week, producer Amanda White filed a $2 million suit alleging sexual harassment by Affleck during the same shooting. In her suit, White claims that Affleck referred to women as “cows”; asked White, after learning her age, “Isn’t it about time you get pregnant?”; forced White to see another crew member’s penis and “inappropriately suggested” that they have a baby together; discussed his own sexual exploits; tried to get White to stay in his hotel room during filming in Costa Rica; and locked himself and Phoenix inside her bedroom while they had sex with other women.
White also discusses one instance in Vegas during which Affleck arranged for a shoot with prostitutes and male transvestites in a hotel suite. The producer claimed that the shoot had nothing to do with the Phoenix documentary, and Affleck had “orchestrated the shoot in the hotel for his personal gratification.”

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Two men charged with kidnapping and rape of 18-year-old woman
By SANDY CULLEN | scullen@madison.com | 608-252-6137 | Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:01 pm
Two men were charged Wednesday with kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Middleton woman who told police the men also tried to sell her as a prostitute on the streets of Milwaukee until a group of people helped her escape.
Andrew J. Meinholz, 20, of Middleton and Aaron T. Gilbert, 21, of Madison were both charged with first-degree sexual assault and being a party to kidnapping. Meinholz also was charged with misdemeanor bail jumping.
At an initial appearance in Dane County Circuit Court on Wednesday, bail was set at $90,000 for Meinholz and at $20,000 for Gilbert. Both were being held in Dane County Jail.

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… AP)  NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Talk about Republican Sen. David Vitter’s worst political nightmare – a surprise challenger with all the right conservative credentials and none of the baggage of the incumbent’s prostitution scandal.
Chet Traylor, the first Republican elected to Louisiana’s Supreme Court since Reconstruction, made a last-minute decision to take on Vitter after a fresh scandal for the first-term lawmaker: An aide had remained on Vitter’s payroll after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a knife-wielding incident with an ex-girlfriend.

The incumbent has responded to Traylor’s entry into the race in much the same way he handled the prostitution scandal, by keeping quiet about it. His campaign declined to comment for this story.
In 2007, Vitter would confess only to a “serious sin” after his phone number turned up among records for a Washington prostitution ring. He tersely denied later accusations that he was a customer of New Orleans prostitutes and again declined to answer questions.

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No team has yet to sign him as a free agent, and the polarizing receiver worries they’re swayed by the perception he’s a troublemaker. A perception he believes he disproved with his agreeable behaviour in Buffalo during a disappointing season last year.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Steelers have given coach Mike Tomlin a three-year contract extension.
The newspaper says Steelers president Art Rooney negotiated the deal. Terms were not available.
NEW CITY, N.Y. – Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to an indictment that alleges he had sex with a 16-year-old girl in a New York hotel room.
The former NFL star allegedly paid US$300 to the girl, a Bronx runaway, for their encounter in May. Taylor pleaded not guilty through his lawyer to third-degree rape, patronizing a prostitute, sexual abuse and endangering a child.

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… No matter what I thought coming in, I came out feeling this was a pretty amazing piece of work, jaw-dropping but dimensional. It is going to get a lot of attention, but it is not some cheap stunt where they said, ‘Let’s do some wild stuff and film it.’ It is extreme behaviour but really good filmmaking as well. Frankly, some of the behaviour is very extreme. But it is in the context of the insanity of being in Joaquin’s life for that period of time. It is a unique piece of work that is going to surprise people in different ways.”
The film is said to include a scene in which Phoenix snorts cocaine off a prostitute’s breast, massive amounts of male frontal nudity, and a man defecating on Phoenix.

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No team has yet to sign him as a free agent, and the polarizing receiver worries they’re swayed by the perception he’s a troublemaker. A perception he believes he disproved with his agreeable behaviour in Buffalo during a disappointing season last year.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Steelers have given coach Mike Tomlin a three-year contract extension.
The newspaper says Steelers president Art Rooney negotiated the deal. Terms were not available.
NEW CITY, N.Y. – Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to an indictment that alleges he had sex with a 16-year-old girl in a New York hotel room.
The former NFL star allegedly paid US$300 to the girl, a Bronx runaway, for their encounter in May. Taylor pleaded not guilty through his lawyer to third-degree rape, patronizing a prostitute, sexual abuse and endangering a child.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Free Press”

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… No matter what I thought coming in, I came out feeling this was a pretty amazing piece of work, jaw-dropping but dimensional. It is going to get a lot of attention, but it is not some cheap stunt where they said, ‘Let’s do some wild stuff and film it.’ It is extreme behaviour but really good filmmaking as well. Frankly, some of the behaviour is very extreme. But it is in the context of the insanity of being in Joaquin’s life for that period of time. It is a unique piece of work that is going to surprise people in different ways,” says Bowles.
In the film, one of the many graphic scenes is Phoenix snorting cocaine off of a prostitute’s breast. Back in October of 2008, the actor announced his retirement from acting. Now, he is developing his hip-hop career and is being managed by P. Diddy.

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And while we can only hope to be on beard-watch while skulking around Yorkville this September, Reuters reports that it’s “undetermined” whether Phoenix will have any part in the promotion of the film — I mean, what with his bustling hip-hop career and what-not.
That said, it sounds like the hope is I’m Still Here will sell itself. Magnolia’s Eamonn Bowles shilled the movie to Deadline Hollywood by saying: “It is going to get a lot of attention, but it is not some cheap stunt where they said, ‘Let’s do some wild stuff and film it.’ It is extreme behavior but really good filmmaking as well.”
But all we care about is this more illustrative bit of intel (a good sell is all about showing, not telling, kids). According to one of Deadline’s sources, who saw a preview screening of the movie, the non-mockumentary includes a scene where “Phoenix is seen snorting coke of the breast of a prostitute.”

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Affleck, who is married to Phoenix’s sister Summer, has been filming his brother-in-law since 2008, and in May this year, showed the film to Magnolia Pictures, who also distributed Phoenix’s last film, Two Lovers, reports Deadline.
After viewing the film, in which Phoenix is seen snorting cocaine off the breast of a prostitute, Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia said: “No matter what I thought coming in, I came out feeling this was a pretty amazing piece of work, jaw-dropping but dimensional. It is going to get a lot of attention, but it is not some cheap stunt where they said, ‘Let’s do some wild stuff and film it.’ It is extreme behaviour but really good filmmaking as well. Frankly, some of the behaviour is very extreme. But it is in the context of the insanity of being in Joaquin’s life for that period of time. It is a unique piece of work that is going to surprise people in different ways.”

See the full article from “NME.com”

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No team has yet to sign him as a free agent, and the polarizing receiver worries they’re swayed by the perception he’s a troublemaker. A perception he believes he disproved with his agreeable behaviour in Buffalo during a disappointing season last year.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Steelers have given coach Mike Tomlin a three-year contract extension.
The newspaper says Steelers president Art Rooney negotiated the deal. Terms were not available.
NEW CITY, N.Y. – Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to an indictment that alleges he had sex with a 16-year-old girl in a New York hotel room.
The former NFL star allegedly paid US$300 to the girl, a Bronx runaway, for their encounter in May. Taylor pleaded not guilty through his lawyer to third-degree rape, patronizing a prostitute, sexual abuse and endangering a child.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Free Press”

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