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38 women share their stories of vile sexual harassment at the hands of an obscure filmmaker

mimisabreena Monday, October 23, 2017 Mashable

The Harvey Weinsteins of the world aren't always household names. Frequently, in fact, they're nothing of the sort.

So it is with James Toback, a longtime (and relatively obscure) filmmaker who is now facing allegations of sexual harassment leveled by 38 different women, as a Los Angeles Times investigation reveals. And much like Weinstein, Toback's deplorable behavior has been an open secret for decades.

He was the subject of an extensive feature in a 1989 issue Spy Magazine, which chronicled firsthand accounts from an assortment of (anonymous) women. More recently, his bad behavior was highlighted in four different Gawker stories, published between 2008 and 2012. Read more...