Oliver Stone was one of the people who had a bad “first take” on the Harvey Weinstein story. He was in South Korea for a film festival, and during his press availability, he got a question about Weinstein. Stone’s immediate reaction was to whine about how Weinstein could be persecuted by a “vigilante system.” I wish we lived in a world where abused women could form their own vigilante system of justice, honestly. This was Stone’s exact quote: “I’m a believer that you wait until this thing gets to trial. I believe a man shouldn’t be condemned by a vigilante system. It’s not easy what he’s going through, either.” Stone later clarified and made noise about supporting the women who came out, but his first statement still spoke volumes. And not surprisingly, it turns out that several women have their own stories about Oliver Stone. A former Playboy model claims that Oliver groped her in the 1990s:
After coming to disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s defense, Oliver Stone is now facing a sexual assault allegation of his own. Former Playboy model Carrie Stevens has accused the renowned director of groping her at a party 26 years ago. Stevens wrote in a Facebook post that Weinstein and Stone are “two of a kind.” Stevens, who was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in June 1997 and has had small acting roles since then, said the filmmaker grabbed her breast at a party.
“I was only 22 years old. Oliver walked past me and grabbed my boob as he waltzed out the front door of a party,” the now 48-year-old wrote on Thursday. “I still remember the cocky grin on his face like he got away with something. These douchebags are not above the law, and they should be held to the same standard as every other man. It’s common decency NOT to grab boobs, pu–ies (like our President does) … or any other body part of another, uninvited. They should go back to preschool, because they must’ve missed the lesson … ‘keep your hands to yourself.’”
The model told the Daily News that she was at an event held in Stone’s honor at producer Ted Field’s home when the director “reached out and … honked it like a horn.” Stevens said she’s likely not his only victim. “If they do it to one, they’ll do it to as many as they can get away with,” she said.
I believe you, Carrie Stevens. I believe Oliver Stone would behave this way. I also believe Patricia Arquette’s story, taken from her tweets:
Years ago Oliver Stone wanted me to do a movie. We talked about the Material which was very sexual.The meeting was professional. Then I received from him long stem jungle roses. It’s not uncommon to receive flowers but something about them felt weird. I ignored it. Then his assistant called to make sure it got them. I thanked them. He then invited me to a screening of Natual Born Killers. Something felt weird so I asked my boyfriend to go with me. The room was packed. Oliver stopped me coming out of the bathroom. He said “Why did you bring him?” I said “Why is it a problem I brought him? It shouldn’t be a problem. Think about THAT Oliver.” Anyway never heard about the movie again & didn’t care to.
I believe that too. I wonder if more stories will be coming out about Oliver Stone and all of these douchebags in the coming weeks and months. Ladies, use your voices. Let’s honestly try to create the feminist vigilante justice system. It can be our utopia!
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My sister told me that a friend of a friend worked on a movie set of his and that he often had sex workers in his trailer.
He’s gross and I am not surprised that he’s a sexual predator, he is also a traitor to the United States of America. Much like the Cheeto demon in chief.
In France,OLIver Stone was involved in a police affair about prostitution as client many years ago .
island_girl – How is he a traitor, what did he do?
Not surprising given the remarks he made a few days ago. At least one good thing about 2017 is that all of this male predatory behavior is being revealed and the victims are being supported. In this context that is.
As a silver lining, I’m loving all these ‘older’ women coming out with their stories (which I believe) – I find the ‘no more f*cks to give’ + ‘enough is enough’ + ‘my career is not stellar and I have something to lose, but I’ll speak up all the same’ attitude to be very inspiring. It might well be a watershed moment. I applaud all these women: just because you were not in a position to complain then it doesn’t mean it was not abuse. We hear you.
We could fill these threads for years naming men in power sexually assaulting women. It’s a sad reality of life for women. I have my own story. Just about every friend I have has a story.
If you can, I encourage one and all to read Jane Hamsher’s book Killer Instinct. It’s about the making of Natural Born Killers and, frankly, Tarantino comes out of it way worse than Stone.
Tarantino stories have been around for years and hopefully he’s next up on the cross.
Being a pervert and being allowed to hide behind your “auteur” status is disgusting.
man I just want to cry.. I have a friend, a a male, who was abused from 8 to 13 by a priest. Lots of ‘you are a bad boy, your parents are ashamed of you”.. at 14 someone went to the cops and the priest was ousted. My friend’s parents asked him and he said yes he was raped 9there were other boys). They told him “to forget all about it, he’s young he will forget etc..” he realized later they were ashamed. he was ashamed and he never recovered. he is 50 now.. but still
another friend, female,. Parents divorced. She has to visit her dad. Molested her from 9 to 11. at 10 her dad’s brother raped her.. at 15 she has full blown psoriasis because of her trauma.Her dad never apologized. When he was sick he calls for her. She reluctantly goes. She expects for forgiveness. Nope. he just wanted to be surrounded by his multiple kids.. She is 45 and still psoriasis a gogo.
another female friend: at 19 dates a 27 old guy.. Once during sex he tries to forces her for a Bj. She refuses. He grabs her neck and pushes her to his privates. She refuses and he goes for strangulation. another time late night after a work shift her boss (after so many innuendos, hand on her back or comments on how he wishes her skirt was a bit less long, or nice legs, or how he prefers her when she had longer hair, makes sure she works the last shift so he can be there) makes a move on her and tries to forcibly kiss her, grabs her hair and pull her hands to his crotch..thanks heaven for the guard! he didn’t see anything but she did scream..
It’s easy to say ” but why did you stay’ when you have rent, loans to pay. Plus she thought “as long as it was verbal” she could handle even though she always had a pit in her stomach whenever he was there at the closing.
I have a friend those mother was raped by her husband before they got divorced. He was hellbent on anal. it was violent. She was ashamed. Her mom said ‘well now you should go back to your husband” .. It was i the 40’s when in these days rape by a spouse was not recognized.
I have reached out to these people and no one has moved on from their assaults but they had to carry this unwanted souvenirs mixed with feel of shame, anger..and powerless sometimes when there is no answer at the question “why me?”
I’m so sorry to hear those stories!! I know too many people who have been through similar experiences, both men and women. One guy friend of mine was raped and drugged by two horrible women, and one guy who had his virginity taken by a friend of his mothers (!) when he was just a teenager. She snuck in his room while the mother was downstairs partying. When he told me that I was like “Oh my God that was so wrong of her” and I could tell he was actually really ashamed of it, he’d never really spoken about it, and the few guy friends he had at the time just patted him on the back thinking it was cool because the mothers friend was attractive. Who does that?? Despicable!
I also had a really bad experience after a break up with my ex, he hadn’t been able to move out yet so we were forced to sleep in the same bed for a week, and I got seriously rapey vibes from him that week, it was awful. I had put my foot down and told him I didn’t want to have sex with him any longer and it was like he was obsessed with getting me to sleep with him before he left. It made me feel really uncomfortable and unfortunately tainted my entire memory of that relationship because I felt unsafe around him for the first time, like he didn’t respect my boundaries. I think he actually scared himself with the way he was behaving so luckily he decided to move in with a friend much sooner than we had agreed on. Looking back on it now I don’t know why I didn’t just force him to sleep on the couch or something, but I guess I didn’t expect that from him and really didn’t know what to say or do. We didn’t have sex that week but it was very very uncomfortable 🙁
Forgive me but I have no word. i am speechless. Just mad and angry for your male friends who I suppose were too ashamed to go after these women. as for your situation I would be dead scared too.
‘feminist vigilante justice system’
That will work out fine
Well, with his newly found love for Russian dictator Putin that woudn’t be surprising because some matcho masculinity at expense of women is very much part of Russian oligarch mentality. Russia has also now decriminalized domestic abuse. Probably Oliver feels at home in that kind of enviroment. I hope now all the perves in Hollywood tremble in fear because they will be outted now that thr floodgate is open. I hope more of these creeps are exposed.
“Let’s honestly try to create the feminist vigilante justice system. It can be our utopia!” is the best comment I’ve read on rape culture in Hollywood.
The one piece of satisfaction is that these ‘aging dinosaurs’ will die within the next decade or two. The sooner the better.