Seagal is at it again

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Here’s Steven Seagal putting his hand on 16-year-old Katherine Heigl’s breast
In News by Drew Salisbury / October 24, 2017



There’s no shortage of creeps in Hollywood, as the last few weeks have made abundantly clear (if you weren’t already well aware, that is). While trying to crown the worst abuser in Tinseltown would be an endeavor akin to identifying the smelliest turd floating around in a Porta John, audio recordings uncovered Monday by the Daily Mail (and years of documented gross behavior) make a strong case for samurai-cum-******* Steven Seagal.

While it has circulated for some time and was even pointed out in an April 2017 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, a reader brought our attention to the above photo of Seagal with a then-barely 16-year-old Katherine Heigl promoting “Under Siege 2.”

Heigl turned 16 while filming the movie, which was also her big-screen debut. Here’s how she described the 43-year-old Seagal’s behavior on the set to Kimmel (emphasis ours):

The last day of shooting, and again, I had just turned 16 on this movie. And he said, ‘You know Katie, I got girlfriends your age.’ And I said, ‘Isn’t that illegal?’ And he said, ‘They don’t seem to mind.’ And I said, ‘Mom!’ I’m not making that up.

While Heigl seemed to laugh off the incident years later (or perhaps more accurately, as she tellingly put it, “block it out”), it’s wild to think that this was (and continues to be!) considered acceptable behavior. Seagal was photographed putting his hand a teenage girl’s breast in 1995, and I can guarantee you not a single word was probably written about it. Even just months ago, Kimmel was mining it for laughs. That’s pretty ****ed up!

Heigl told Kimmel despite everything she still “loved” Seagal — a performance worthy of an Emmy if I ever saw one, and very possibly driven by anxiety about hurting her career. It wouldn’t be the first time talking about sexism and misogyny in the industry got her branded as “difficult.”


[screenshot: Jimmy Kimmel Live!]

Seagal & Hollywood's Open Secret

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"a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the broken windshield of her car"

OCTOBER 30, 2017 2:11pm PT by Eriq Gardner
At Trial, Michael Ovitz Intends to Blame Steven Seagal for Threatening Journalist
Anita Busch wants the judge to rule that Ovitz can't shift responsibility for the acts of private eye Anthony Pellicano.


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Anita Busch wants the judge to rule that Ovitz can't shift responsibility for the acts of private eye Anthony Pellicano.

Michael Ovitz, the former Hollywood super-agent, is finally showcasing what his defense will be when he stands trial in February for hiring Anthony Pellicano to allegedly surveil and threaten entertainment journalist Anita Busch.

In court documents filed earlier this month, Ovitz argues that he should be able to pin blame on actor Steven Seagal for what happened in 2002, when Busch found a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the broken windshield of her car, with a card that said, "Stop."

Busch's lawsuit is the last of many civil actions over the activities of private eye Anthony Pellicano, who is currently sitting in a prison for illegal possession of firearms and explosives, unlawful wiretapping and racketeering. Before the trial begins, a judge must rule whether Ovitz can point the finger at Seagal (who has recently been the focus of accusations of sexual misconduct).

Ovitz has admitted hiring Pellicano, and Busch has brought a motion to preclude him from introducing arguments, testimony or speculation as to others who bear responsibility for Pellicano's acts.

Fighting this motion, Ovitz's attorney tells the court that Busch must prove that Pellicano was acting as his agent when he allegedly caused Busch's injuries including severe emotional distress. "But if [Busch] cannot show Mr. Pellicano was acting as Mr. Ovtiz's agent when the alleged incidents occurred, then she has no case against Mr. Ovitz," states Ovitz's court brief.

When Busch originally filed her lawsuit way back in 2004, there was a great deal of mystery about who had harassed Busch, who has worked for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter, and who currently writes for Deadline Hollywood. She originally sued anonymous John Does.

In 2002, around the time of the dead-fish incident, Busch was working on two prominent stories — one about Jules Nasso, Seagal and organized crime in Hollywood and the other about Ovitz's career, which included co-founding CAA and briefly serving as president of Disney.

Busch kept notes about the incidents and talked with the FBI in connection with its investigation. She once testified that she understood "Stop" to mean Nasso and Seagal, but later came to conclude it was Ovitz. The FBI would later say there was no persuasive evidence against Seagal, who has sought an apology over accusations that he says have been devastating to his career.

Nevertheless, in his newest court documents, Ovitz talks about how Pellicano was a high-profile investigator with numerous clients and that "evidence shows Steven Seagal hired Mr. Pellicano, and Mr. Pellicano hired [Alex] Proctor, who put the metal tray with the dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the windshield of Plaintiff's car..."

Ovitz insists the evidence is "not speculative," pointing, to among other things, what was produced by a government informant named Daniel Patterson. Working with the FBI, Patterson would secretly record conversations with Proctor.

"In July and August 2002, Patterson recorded Proctor telling Patterson that Steven Seagal hired Mr. Pellicano to set fire to Plaintiff's car, and Mr. Pellicano hired Proctor to set fire to Plaintiff's car," states the Ovitz brief. "Seagal wanted to dissuade Plaintiff from reporting on Seagal's relationship with organized crime (the Gambino family). Proctor told Patterson that Seagal was Mr. Pellicano's client, that Seagal wanted to stop Plaintiff, and that Seagal wanted to make it appear as if the Gambino family were 'putting the hit' on Plaintiff."

In reply, Busch's attorney Evan Marshall suggest this is all inadmissible and unreliable hearsay.

In a brief filed last week, they characterized what Proctor was doing was "purporting to recount statements by Pellicano," and that Proctor himself didn't buy it.

"Under no theory would Pellicano have a reason to subject his real client to potential exposure by confiding his client's identity to a minion with no need to know," states the Busch brief. "Pellicano's statements to Proctor are not even consistent, sometimes implicating Seagal, sometimes forces 'back east.'"

Marshall tells the judge of the need to screen out a prolonged examination of "every possible person [Busch] could have suspected," while Ovitz argues that his adversary is trying to win the case by disguising a motion for summary adjudication as one over the evidence to be presented at trial.

[Jimbo]

This was back in 2010:

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More are coming forward against Seagal. Wonder when legal action might commence...if ever...

Julianna Margulies Recalls "Horrific" Hotel Room Meeting With Steven Seagal
8:52 AM PDT 11/4/2017 by Meena Jang


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The 'Good Wife' actress shared she also drew the ire of Harvey Weinstein when she refused to enter his hotel suite alone after learning from her experience with Seagal.

Julianna Margulies on Friday morning spoke candidly about her harrowing experience with Steven Seagal during a visit to Sirius XM's Just Jenny.

Speaking to host Jenny Hutt, the former Good Wife star revealed she narrowly escaped a hotel room meeting with Seagal, who has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, before things could take a turn for the worse. Margulies, then 23 years old, said she was persuaded to meet the actor late at night by a female casting director who insisted he wanted to go over a scene.

"I lived in Brooklyn, and I said, 'Oh, I don't do that. I don't travel. I don't have money for a cab.' And I didn't," Margulies recalled. "And she says, 'Don't worry, we'll reimburse you.'"

The actress claims Seagal was armed with a gun when she arrived.

"I got to the hotel around 10:40, and she [the casting director] wasn't there. And he was alone and he made sure that I saw his gun, which I had never seen a gun in real life," Margulies continued. "I got out of there unscathed. … I never was raped, and I never was harmed. I don't know how I got out of that hotel room."

Margulies told Hutt she felt she had been "set up" by the casting director, and learned from the experience that she should never go into private meetings alone.

The actress added, "Because of my experience with Steven Seagal in that room, which was horrific, I refused to meet Harvey Weinstein in his hotel room when another woman brought me, saying, 'You will absolutely get [a] screen test.'"

On a separate occasion, Margulies claimed the film mogul, whose accusers now total over 70, attempted to lure her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills through a female assistant to discuss a film role she had auditioned for.

"She said, 'I'm going to drop you off at the Peninsula,' and I said, 'I'm not going up there alone.' I saw how she started to sweat. She was like, 'Don't be silly, I'm just going to drop you off. It's going to be fine.' And I said, 'Nope, then I'm going home,"" the actress recalled.

When the assistant reluctantly agreed to escort Margulies up to Weinstein's room, he opened the door in a bathrobe.

"I could see that there were candles lit in the room, and there was a dinner for two. And I saw him stare at her, daggers. And I turned to see what she had done to deserve that, and I caught her in a shrug, like, 'What could I do?'" said the actress. "He looked at me, furious, and he took the door and he said, 'Just wanted to say, "great audition."' And he slammed the door. Of course, I didn't get the part."

Margulies admitted that if she hadn't experienced that initial meeting with Seagal and didn't have an established career at the time, "I would've gone in, absolutely."

The actress slammed the notion of victim-shaming, saying, "It's not to be shrugged off."

Turning the focus to women who enable men to abuse their power, Margulies noted, "It's not always the men that are awful. … We have to start holding these people accountable."

Seagal & Hollywood's Open Secret

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Maybe they'll replace Seagal with Christopher Plummer for China Salesman. Too soon?

Portia de Rossi Claims Steven Seagal Exposed Himself to Her in Private Audition
4:33 PM PST 11/8/2017 by Patrick Shanley


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The actress on Wednesday wrote about the incident on her personal Twitter account.

Portia de Rossi has accused Steven Seagal of exposing himself to her.

The actress on Wednesday posted to her personal Twitter account that, while auditioning for a role in a film starring Seagal, the actor "told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants."

De Rossi then said that she called her agent who was "unfazed" and replied, "Well, I didn’t know if he was your type.”

Seagal has previously been accused of misconduct and harassment, including allegations by: former actress and Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero, who claims the actor invited her to audition in his private home and conducted the audition in a silk kimono; actress Rae Dawn Chong, who claims that sometime in 1989-90, she was sent by her agent to Seagal's hotel for a 9:30 p.m. audition, during which he exposed himself; and Juliana Margulies, who similarly claims she met with the actor in a private room where he harassed her and was armed with a gun.

A request for comment from de Rossi was not immediately returned.

After de Rossi spoke out, wife Ellen DeGeneres took to Twitter to say, "I’m proud of my wife."

Seagal & Hollywood's Open Secret

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...I know, Monty Python lyrics are inappropriate here, but it's Monday and it's more Seagal.

Steven Seagal accused of telling actress to sit on his face
By Emily Smith November 10, 2017 | 9:07pm


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A Hollywood exec has told how she was sexually harassed by Steven Seagal as a budding actress on the set of his 1991 movie “Out for Justice.”

The exec, who asked not to be named for fear of repercussions, said Seagal lured her to his trailer for a “costume change,” then propositioned her by phone, crudely demanding, “You are not comfortable sitting on my face for an hour?”

She alleges that her first day on the set, Seagal insisted that all the new actresses gather for him to “check us all out.”

The former actress said, “Moments later, a wardrobe assistant led me to Steven’s personal trailer, to his bedroom, and asked me to change into a corset. Then, Steven opened the door [and] tried to barge in. I said, ‘Excuse me, I am changing in here,’ but he insisted, ‘I need to see what you look like.’ I told him that I wasn’t comfortable and began screaming for the wardrobe person. He just smirked and said, ‘It’s OK, I like nice girls, too.’ ”

The next night, Seagal — who was married to Kelly LeBrock, who’d just given birth to their second child — called the woman at home, saying Gregg Allman had recorded music for the soundtrack. “Steven told me, ‘You should come by and listen to some of the tracks. I’m staying at the [Hotel Bel-Air].’”

Again, she said she didn’t feel comfortable, and alleges that Seagal responded, “You are not comfortable about coming over and sitting on my face for an hour?’”

The ex-actress said, “I told him, ‘You’re married,’ and he just said, ‘Ah, you are no fun.’ I worked for two weeks, then they let me go. If I’d gone to the hotel room and slept with him I would have had a much better role.”

She recounted the ordeal to a fellow actress on the movie, who wasn’t surprised, “ ‘He didn’t give you a pager?’ she asked. ‘He has given them to a few actresses, and when he pages, you have to go immediately to his hotel room, even if it is 3 a.m.’”

Jenny McCarthy, Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies have also accused Seagal of inappropriate behavior.

His rep didn’t get back to us.

Seagal & Hollywood's Open Secret

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Jenny McCarthy Reshares Steven Seagal Harassment Claim
7:02 AM PST 11/10/2017 by Jackie Strause


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The actress, who first spoke out about her alleged casting-couch experience with the actor-producer in 1998, retold the experience on her Sirius XM radio show.
Jenny McCarthy has joined a handful of women to come forward and allege they were sexually harassed by actor Steven Seagal.

The actress and former Playboy model recalled a 1995 audition for Under Siege 2, which Seagal starred in and produced, while speaking on her Sirius XM radio show Thursday — something she had previously told to Movieline in 1998 — adding that "a lot of people" had already heard her tell the story.

"I stand across from him and he plops onto a sofa that’s near a fireplace," she recalled. "And he points at the sofa cushion next to him saying to me, 'Take a seat. Relax.' I said, 'No, thank you. I’m just really excited to read for this part. And I have so much energy I need to stand.'"

McCarthy said she wore a loose muumuu outfit so the casting people would "actually look at my face and watch me work," but that her meeting ended up being only her and Seagal.

She said the actor told her there was nudity in the part and that he couldn't tell what her body looked like in the oversized dress she was wearing.

“In my head I’m like, 'Okay. here we go. Sound the alarms, this is not a test, this is the real thing, activate all defense systems,'” she said. “But I so wanted to legitimately read for this part that I wasn’t going to give up yet. So I told him, ‘Listen. My agent says there’s no nudity. I specifically asked her and she said no.'"

She says he told her there was "off-camera nudity," which didn't make sense to her, and asked her to lower her dress. She said she only wanted to read the scene but that he asked again for her to lower the dress “so I can see your breasts."

She paused, says her eyes filled with tears and then yelled back at him, "Go buy my Playboy video — it’s on sale for $19.99." She said he followed her to her car and instructed her not to tell anybody, "or else."

“It was so disheartening,” she said of bursting into tears in her car and fearing his words. She said she was disheartened and ready to move back to Chicago at that point. “I was the last girl that day. How many girls had to take off their clothes? How many girls had to do more? It just so grossed me out.”

Jenny McCarthy's casting couch experience with Steven Seagal

A rep for Seagal had previously denied the claims to The Daily Beast, saying, “Warner Brothers casting for the film Under Siege 2 has confirmed that Jenny McCarthy never auditioned for a role on Under Siege 2. Her claim is completely false.” THR has reached out for comment.

McCarthy joins actresses Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies in speaking out about Seagal, allegations that come during a shift in the Hollywood climate. Seagal was first accused of misconduct and harassment by Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero, her allegations sparking others, like actress Rae Dawn Chong, to come forward. The allegations are threaded together by stories of a private meeting or audition with Seagal that developed into the actor either allegedly exposing himself or sexually harassing the actress.

Seagal, along with former Amazon content chief Roy Price, director James Toback, actors Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Piven and Ed Westwick, and, most recently, comedian Louis C.K., have all had allegations leveled against them in wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, which broke early October.

Seagal & Hollywood's Open Secret

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Jenny McCarthy: Steven Seagal followed me to my car, asked me not to tell
By Matthew Wisner Published November 15, 2017 Media & Advertising FOXBusiness Opens a New Window.

Jenny McCarthy recounts alleged sexual harassment at an audition with Steven Seagal

Actress and 'Blondies' creator Jenny McCarthy on her new line of cocktails and the alleged sexual harassment she faced in Hollywood.
The sexual harassment scandal in Hollywood that initially began with allegations against Harvey Weinstein continues to expand, revealing a seemingly industry-wide issue. Movie director Brett Ratner now faces multiple allegations while “One Tree Hill” creator and executive producer Mark Schwann was accused of sexual harassment by cast members including Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton.

Actress, model and “Blondies” creator Jenny McCarthy, who was also an MTV host like Hilarie Burton, discussed the alleged sexual harassment she faced in an audition with Steven Seagal when she began making the transition from modeling to acting.

“I went into an audition and wore a long muumuu-type dress that he [Seagal] could pay attention to my eyes. I did, I looked like Mrs. Roper, you know because I wanted to be taken seriously, I was Playmate of the Year at the time and not many people take a Playmate of the Year seriously at all,” McCarthy told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria.”

According to McCarthy, Seagal commented on the dress.

“He asked if I would lower my dress because my dress was too baggy and I said ‘no.’ And he said ‘well, there’s nudity in this movie.’”

But when McCarthy countered that there was no nudity in the movie, she says Seagal replied “there’s off-camera nudity.”

She says she then left after telling Seagal, “no…go ahead and pick up my Playboy video, it’s on sale.”

But Seagal reportedly followed McCarthy to her car and said “don’t tell anyone.”

After the audition McCarthy says she called her mom and vowed to tell the world once she became famous.

When asked if she was surprised to hear about the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, McCarthy responded, “Not at all, I’m surprised it took so long though for the world to really start talking about it.”

If it seems like I'm harping on Seagal the most with the Hollywood's Open Secret scandals, it's true. He's a martial artist. He's one of us. So I find this most repugnant. It's also true that in America, we're innocent until proven guilty, but the preponderance of evidence on Seagal's character is overwhelming. We need to clean our own house.

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In my experience/observation, MA does very little to develop good character. A teacher can only do his best to serve as a good example. But if someone is inherently bad, as I believe Steven Seagal to be, no amount of proper teaching or hard-knocks experience is going to change that. In fact, as his abilities develop more, so will his power-driven ego.

I've met a number of great people in the MA. But, sadly to say, I've met at least as many people of poor character, and a few outright sociopaths/psychopaths.

TBH, I haven't been able to watch a Seagal movie in years. Even though I thought that 4 of his first 5 movies were pretty decent, or at least watchable. It isn't ONLY because the movies he's made for the past couple decades are in straight-to-DVD hell. It's because I know I'm watching a known psychopath playing a hero onscreen. When in fact, his true character is really like the villains he fought onscreen. And his early movies had some vile villains.

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By Stephen Seagal!

Steven Seagal has written an action novel, starring himself, about the deep state
Clayton Purdom
Friday 9:42am Filed to: STEVEN SEGAL


Screenshot: YouTube

Apparently smarting after his interview with Piers Morgan was ridiculed far and wide for, among other things, obtusely arguing against NFL player protests and enthusiastically praising Vladimir Putin, lawman and blues guitarist Steven Seagal licked his wounds by writing a book, such that he could better explain his political ideas. It is written in the only language Seagal knows: that of a low-rent, straight-to-DVD action flick, its dual nature upheld by each side of the colon in its title The Way Of The Shadow Wolves: The Deep State And The Hijacking Of America. The foreword is by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, because of course it is.

The book follows John Nan Tan Gode, an Arizona Tribal police officer, described on the first page of the book as having “classic chiseled features,” who stumbles upon a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power. It is, in other words, a written adaptation of a Steven Seagal movie by Steven Seagal himself, a casting suggested most prominently by its cover, in which the legendary lawman saunters brow-a-furrowed out of some sort of wolf sunset.


Screenshot: Amazon.com

But it is also much more than that, built in the mode of so many religious and political “novels” transparently dramatizing their ideologies with a low-rent narrative, ranging from The Omega Code back to, well, Atlas Shrugged. The book synopsis touts the bona fides of Seagal and his co-author, Tom Morrissey:

Shadow Wolves is a book of fiction based on reality. Both author’s (sic) have worked with, confronted, and seen the power of the Deep State and the manner in which many federal government agencies willfully violate the Constitution and the laws of the land in service to special interests.

The 2016 election has for the first time made many American citizens aware that the Deep State is very real; that the mainstream media is a fake news media offering a false narrative designed by the secret intelligence world in service to special interests.

The whole thing was originally uncovered on Twitter by TheWarax, who pointed users toward some of its most noteworthy reviews:

The Warax
@iAmTheWarax
Ok guys, so Steven Seagal wrote a book called

THE WAY OF THE SHADOW WOLVES: The Deep State and the Hijacking of America.

If you were wondering "is the foreword written by Joe Arpiao," well of course it is.

What we need to talk about though are this book's reviews. pic.twitter.com/LqKXIA0CKm

The Warax
@iAmTheWarax
We need to talk because this review from a "clandestine case officer (spy) working the Latin American cartel terrorist target … and the interagency enemies of the constitution target" is better than Steve's whole ****ty book. pic.twitter.com/cWpPy44vei



6:25 PM - Dec 20, 2017
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@iAmTheWarax
Replying to @iAmTheWarax
We need to talk because this review from a "clandestine case officer (spy) working the Latin American cartel terrorist target … and the interagency enemies of the constitution target" is better than Steve's whole ****ty book. pic.twitter.com/cWpPy44vei


The Warax
@iAmTheWarax
"Read this book as if it were a TOP SECRET briefing,"

not making this up

"on the real enemy, which consists of rogue elements of the US Government … but are actually central to the intersection of treason, pedophilia, nuclear smuggling, and everything else that is evil." pic.twitter.com/g7VcCnQRtD

6:36 PM - Dec 20, 2017



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Now that people have noticed the book, its reviews are sullied by sheeple unshook by Seagal’s prophecies:

The Warax
@iAmTheWarax
Replying to @iAmTheWarax
You all probably think I am fukn with you but know this, I would never lie to you pic.twitter.com/O5mZPXevS6


The Warax
@iAmTheWarax
UPDATE: Ppl who saw this thread are leaving reviews now pic.twitter.com/KhMUje5IgR

9:22 PM - Dec 20, 2017

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Still, perhaps we should give The Way Of The Shadow Wolves: The Deep State And The Hijacking Of America (with a foreword by Sheriff Joe Arpaio!) its fair shake. After all, as Seagal’s author bio notes, he “is an actor, producer, screen writer, director, martial artist, sheriff, musician and international businessman.” He also has experience with groping 16-year-old girls, falsely claiming to have worked with the CIA, fending off sexual-harassment lawsuits, uh delivering roundhouse kicks or whatever, and turning into a wolf, if the cover of his debut novel is to be believed. Why would we doubt his ability to write a kickass novel that proves the existence of a vast international conspiracy of pedophiles or something?

Thread: It is available for $2.99, or free if you have Amazon Prime. Act now.

The Way Of The Shadow Wolves: The Deep State And The Hijacking Of America
Thread: Seagal is at it again

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Steven Seagal Accused of 1993 Rape: ‘Tears Were Coming Down My Face’
LAPD is investigating a separate 2005 accusation against the actor
Itay Hod | Last Updated: January 11, 2018 @ 5:04 PM


Left to Right: Faviola Dadis, Steven Seagal, Regina Simons

Regina Simons says she was 18 and an extra on Steven Seagal’s 1994 film “On Deadly Ground” when he invited her to a wrap party at his Beverly Hills home. But when she arrived, she said, he was the only one there.

“He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me,” she said. “He then took my clothes off and before I knew it he was on top of me, raping me… I wasn’t sexually active yet. People always talk about fight-or-flight. But no one talks about the freeze.”

Simons is one of more than a dozen women who have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, but she appears to be the first to publicly accuse him of rape. She and another woman, Dutch former model Faviola Dadis, told TheWrap they filed reports about Seagal with the LAPD in the last month. Dadis said he groped her during an audition in 2002.

The LAPD detective who Seagal and Dadis said they spoke to declined to comment, citing confidentiality. An LAPD spokeswoman said the department is investigating a separate case involving Seagal from 2005 but declined further comment.

Both Simons and Dadis told TheWrap that they shared their accounts with several other people years ago before going public, and those people corroborated the women’s accounts in interviews with TheWrap.

Numerous attempts to reach Seagal for comment on this story were unsuccessful. His son, actor and model Kentaro Seagal, told TheWrap he did not know how to reach his father.

A producer who recently worked with Seagal put TheWrap in touch with an attorney he said represented Seagal, but the lawyer did not respond to a lengthy description of the accusations, or to phone calls seeking comment.

‘On Deadly Ground’

Simons — now a 43-year-old mother of two — said she had just turned 18 when she met Seagal — then in his early 40s — during an open call for his movie “On Deadly Ground” in 1993. The year before, Seagal’s “Under Siege” had raked in more than $156 million, even earning two Oscar nominations for sound production.

When her brother heard she was going on an audition for a Seagal movie, he asked to tag along. Seagal was casting for Native Americans, and Simons, who is part Navajo and part Sioux, wore borrowed tribal regalia.

As they waited with hundreds of other hopefuls, Simons said, Seagal stopped, introduced himself, and invited her and her brother to join him on set.


Regina Simons at her audition for “On Deadly Ground.” Steven Seagal can be seen in the background

Soon, they were sitting in Seagal’s trailer. She said her brother and Seagal did most of the talking: She was a shy girl from a conservative Mormon family. When she mentioned a minor headache, Seagal offered to give her a massage. She said he rubbed her hand and neck, which seemed odd, and then went to the set. (Her brother, Ben, corroborated her account of the day to TheWrap).

Steven Seagal On Deadly Ground A few weeks after shooting her scene, Simons got a phone call: She was invited to his home for the wrap party. When she arrived, she said, no one but Seagal was home, and there was no sign of a celebration.

“I asked him where is everyone and he said that they had already left,” she said.

She said Seagal then took her into an adjacent room and raped her. She was so overwhelmed that she froze — though she cried through all of it, she said.



“The only way I’m able to describe it is I literally felt like I left my body,” Simons explained. “I think because of the situation I was completely caught off guard. Tears were coming down my face and I know that it hurt. He was three times my size.”

She couldn’t utter a word, she said.

“I was crying when he was on top of me,” she said. “Even now, my 43-year-old mind knows how to process this and understand what a loving relationship is and what consensual sex is. And there was none of that.”

When it was over, she said she quickly grabbed her clothes and made a “beeline” for the door.

“All I remember is him asking me if I needed any money,” she said. “I shook my head and ran towards my car. I cried the whole way home.”

She said she contemplated coming forward and sought advice from her Mormon bishop, but decided against it.

“I wasn’t even allowed to date so for me it was a shameful thing,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, how could this have happened?’ So, I blamed a lot of it on myself and tried to pretend it didn’t happen.”

The bishop corroborated her story, with Simons’ permission. He asked that his name not be used, but said he would be willing to come forward if necessary.

“She had done a lot of crying and I tried to comfort her as best I could,” he said.

Simons said Seagal kept calling her. “I just told the lady I was living with to not take his calls,” she said. “And he finally just stopped.”

That woman, Patricia Alaniz, said she remembered Seagal calling for several weeks. She said she warned Simons to be careful.

“His behavior, calling so often, it felt predatory to me,” Alaniz told TheWrap. “He was a middle-aged man, married at the time, and she was young and naive. I thought he was grooming her.”

Simons said the trauma soured her on acting. She moved home to Utah, then back to the Los Angeles area, where she now works as a case advocate for Native-American families.

She said she went to counseling for years and a therapist diagnosed her with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in August. Her psychologist, who asked to remain anonymous, corroborated her account with Simons’ permission, saying she believed the incident with Seagal was the source of her trauma.

“For a first sexual encounter to be violent, it skews your views of the world, relationship and sex,” the therapist said. “It modified the trajectory of her life.”

The therapist also said her response — to freeze during a rape — is “unfortunately very common.”

Simons’ mother, ex-boyfriend and ex-husband also corroborated her story in interviews with TheWrap.

Betty Simons, Regina’s mother, said her daughter told her about the incident about a year after it happened.

“She was having these terrible migraines and she was stressed out and wasn’t excited about things,” she said. “Finally, she broke down and told me what happened.”

‘This Audition Is Over’

Last month, Dadis took to Instagram to accuse the actor of sexually assaulting her in 2002, saying that he fondled her breasts and grabbed her crotch during an audition for a part in an epic about Genghis Khan. The movie was never made.

She said she was invited to a “private audition” at the W Hotel in Beverly Hills where she was told to wear a bikini under her clothes so that Seagal and his team could evaluate her figure. She was promised that a production assistant and a casting director would be present.

But when she got to the hotel room, Seagal and his security guard were the only ones there.

Dadis said Seagal asked her to take off her clothes and walk through the room in her bikini. He then approached her and said he wanted to act out a “romantic scene.”

“I expressed that I was uncomfortable with that especially since I was in my bikini,” Dadis told TheWrap. “And then he started pinching my nipples and grabbing my crotch area with his other hand. I quickly yelled ‘This audition is over!'”

She said she tried to run out of the room but was blocked by Seagal’s security guard. “I began yelling: ‘I need to leave right now, this is B.S., I need to leave right now!’ He motioned to his security guard to let me go and I ran out.”

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Photo: Faviola Dadis/Instagram

TheWrap spoke to Dadis’ mother and her ex-boyfriend, who corroborated her account. Her mother, Ute, said her daughter told her what happened about a week later.

Dadis is currently being represented by civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom.

Both Dadis and Simons share an agent, but said they did not discuss their accounts before deciding to come forward. They said their agent introduced them to each other after learning from each of them, separately, about their accounts.

Seagal has been spending time in Asia and Russia, where he is a passport-carrying citizen and enjoys a cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin.

He has been previously been accused of harassment and other misconduct by actresses Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies, Katherine Heigl, Eva LaRue, Rae Dawn Chong, Lisa Guerrero and Jenny McCarthy. (A rep for Seagal told The Daily Beast of McCarthy: “Her claim is completely false”).

Seagal has also been accused of sexual misconduct by several ex-assistants: Patricia Nichols, Kayden Nguyen, Blair Robinson, and an unnamed assistant.

Marty Singer, Seagal’s lawyer at the time of Nguyen’s accusations, called them a “complete fabrication without a scintilla of truth.” Singer also said Seagal had “no knowledge” of Blair.

Singer no longer represents Seagal.

Seagal's 'at it again' may finally be catching up to him at Hollywood's Open Secret gets exposed. I wonder if this will affect his latest film, China Salesman. I doubt they could pull a Plummer/Spacey swap on that one.

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Steven Seagal Accused of 1993 Rape
Two women have levied allegations against the actor, who has also been accused of sexual misconduct by Portia di Rossi, Jenny McCarthy and others


Two women have accused actor Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct, including one alleged rape. Vyacheslav Prokofyev\TASS via Getty Images

By Kory Grow
3 days ago

Two women have accused Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct, including a rape that one of the women claimed took place in 1993. The accounts, first reported by The Wrap, describe an alleged pattern where the actor would invite women to places where they expected to find multiple people, only to allegedly see only him; he'd then allegedly advance on them. The women said they both filed reports with the Los Angeles Police Department.

"I have a platform that I will continue to use to amplify those who don't have a voice," writes actress and activist

Regina Simons, 43, said she first encountered Seagal at a casting call for what would be the 1994 film On Deadly Ground. The production was casting Native Americans, and the actress, who's of Navajo and Sioux descent, borrowed regalia from her family. Seagal allegedly spotted her and introduced himself, inviting her and her brother, who'd accompanied her to the audition, on set. When she said she had a headache, she said the actor offered her a massage that included rubbing her hand and neck – which she felt was odd.

After she shot her scene, Seagal allegedly invited her to what he described as a wrap party at his home. When she arrived, she said no one else was home and that he took her into another room. "He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me," she claimed. "He then took my clothes off and before I knew it he was on top of me, raping me. … I wasn't sexually active yet. People always talk about fight-or-flight. But no one talks about the freeze." She claimed she cried the whole time. Several people, including her mother and a bishop, corroborated that Simons had told them about the assault.

Another woman, Dutch former model Faviola Davis, told The Wrap she'd gone for a "private audition" in 2002 for a Genghis Khan movie that ultimately was never made. Davis said she had expected a casting agent and a production assistant to be there, but when she arrived, she said she found only Seagal and a security guard. She'd been instructed to wear a bikini for the role, and Seagal allegedly asked her to disrobe so he could see her figure and then asked to act out a romantic scene.

"I expressed that I was uncomfortable with that especially since I was in my bikini," Dadis told The Wrap. "And then he started pinching my nipples and grabbing my crotch area with his other hand. I quickly yelled, 'This audition is over!'" She attempted to leave but the guard reportedly blocked her exit; she claimed Seagal motioned that it was OK for her to leave and she did. Multiple people, including Dadis' mother, said she'd told them about the alleged incident, which she also described on Instagram.

A rep for Seagal did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment.

LAPD reps said they were not able to speak about Seagal and Dadis' complaints. A spokeswoman for the police told the site that it was investigating a separate case regarding the actor that allegedly took place in 2005.

More than half a dozen women in Hollywood have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, including Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies, Katherine Heigl and Jenny McCarthy, among others. Similarly, several ex-assistants have levied accusations against the actor. A rep for Seagal told The Daily Beast that McCarthy's claim was "completely false," and a lawyer addressed two of the assistants who've accused him, saying Kayden Nguyen's accusation was "complete fabrication" and that the actor had "no knowledge" of another woman's claims. The Wrap reported that the lawyer no longer represented the actor.

"Is the thrill that'll gitcha when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone"

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Steven Seagal Says Accusers Have ‘Lied and Been Paid to Lie About Me Without Any Evidence’
TheWrap reported last week on a woman who accused Seagal of rape in 1993
Tim Molloy and Itay Hod | Last Updated: January 15, 2018 @ 6:56 PM



Steven Seagal responded to sexual misconduct accusations against him by saying women have “lied and been paid to lie about me without any evidence, any proof, any witnesses.”

“This is just a complete tragedy,” the action star told “InfoWars” host Alex Jones on Monday. “This isn’t just me but hundreds of people around the world,” he said, adding that “many of those people are completely innocent.”

“I can tell you that 40 percent of these claims are false,” he added, without elaborating on how he arrived at that particular figure.

“There is a whole force of people gathering around the world now putting in lots of money and lots of time investigation people who are coming are coming after us,” Seagal added in a remote interview from Japan. “The people who are being paid to lie and the people who are paying them to lie are going to be exposed.”

Seagal did not respond to attempts to contact him last week when TheWrap reported the account of Regina Simons, a woman who said Seagal raped her in 1993 while she was an extra on his film “On Deadly Ground.” Her mother, a bishop at her church and a therapist, among others, corroborated that Simons had shared her story with them.

Seagal chose Jones’ conspiracy-minded “InfoWars” to break his silence. In a lengthy interview, which covered everything from Vladimir Putin to the “deep state” to the so-called “gay-mafia,” Jones claimed that he was contacted by “former high-level people in the CIA and others, saying, ‘Hey Steven Seagal wants to talk to you and we need to get him on to counter the narrative.'”

TheWrap first reported Thursday that the Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation into Seagal on a separate sexual misconduct case from 2005. The department declined further comment.

Simons and another women recently filed complaints against the actor with the LAPD. Simons said Seagal invited her to his home in Beverly Hills in 1993 after she appeared as an extra in his movie “On Deadly Ground.”

“He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me,” she told TheWrap. “He then took my clothes off and before I knew it he was on top of me, raping me… I wasn’t sexually active yet. People always talk about fight-or-flight. But no one talks about the freeze.”

Simons is one of more than a dozen women who have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, but she appears to be the first to publicly accuse him of rape. Dutch former model Faviola Dadis told TheWrap she filed a report about Seagal with the LAPD in the last month. Dadis said he groped her during an audition in 2002.

The LAPD detective who Seagal and Dadis said they spoke to declined to comment, citing confidentiality.

On Monday, ex-Bond girl Rachel Grant accused the actor of sexual assault in 2002 during a film rehearsal in Bulgaria.

Through his lawyers, who spoke with the BBC, the action movie star has denied Grant’s assault accusation as well as another claim by the actress that he tried to expose himself.”I want to share what happened to me, so people will hear it and others might come forward,” Grant told the BBC.

You can watch the full interview with Seagal above.

I didn't watch the vid. If anyone does and wants to post the time codes for the best parts, be my guest.

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Woman accuses film star Steven Seagal of rape in 1993
Updated 9:40 pm, Friday, January 26, 2018


Photo: Ivan Sekretarev, AP
FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2015, file photo, actor Steven Seagal speaks at a news conference, while attending an opening ceremony for a research and development center in Moscow, Russia. A once-aspiring actress has alleged Seagal raped her at a wrap party for the film “On Deadly Ground,” claiming he undressed her and assaulted her on his bed while she focused on a photo of Seagal’s wife on the nightstand. Regina Simons called the alleged assault “very predatory, very aggressive and traumatizing” during an interview that aired Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 on “Megyn Kelly Today.” She was 18 at the time.

NEW YORK (AP) — A once-aspiring actress has alleged Steven Seagal raped her at a wrap party for the film "On Deadly Ground," claiming he undressed her and assaulted her on his bed while she focused on a photo of Seagal's wife on the nightstand.

Regina Simons called the alleged assault "very predatory, very aggressive and traumatizing" during an interview that aired Friday on NBC's "Megyn Kelly Today." She was 18 at the time.

Seagal's lawyer did not immediately return calls for comment Friday.

Simons said she was surprised to find that she was the only one invited to Seagal's 1993 party to celebrate the end of filming. She had been an extra and said "before I knew it, he was on top of me and I couldn't move." She says she froze and "felt like I left my body."

During the alleged attack, Simons said she remembers looking at a photo of Seagal and "the lady from 'Weird Science.'" At the time, Seagal was married to Kelly LeBrock, who starred in "Weird Science."

Simon said she reported her allegations to Beverly Hills, California police, where the incident occurred.

Other women have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct. Jenny McCarthy said the action star sexually harassed her during a 1995 audition, while Portia de Rossi accused Seagal of unzipping his pants during an audition.

A Seagal spokesman denied McCarthy's accusations to The Daily Beast. McCarthy told the same story to Movieline in 1998.

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