After calling off his movie premiere and
an appearance on Stephen Colbert, a
much anticipated New York Times article
dropped with five women's accounts of
Louis CK's sexual misconduct. Welcome
back to What's Trending, I'm Ava Gordy. Be
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for more stories. Earlier today, the
premiere of Louis CK's controversial
film,
"I Love You, Daddy," was cancelled along
with his scheduled appearance tomorrow
night on The Late Show. Rumors of an
incriminating New York Times article
started swirling around the Internet, and
it was finally published. Heavily
outlined in the article are accusations
from Chicago based comedy duo Dana Min
Goodman and Julia Wolov. After an event
in Colorado in 2002, Louis CK invited
the duo up to his hotel room. While
Goodman and Wolof assumed his intentions
were to just celebrate a good show,
immediately upon arriving in the hotel
room, he asked them if he could take out
his penis. "They thought it was a
joke and laughed it off. 'And then he
really did it,' Ms. Goodman said in an
interview with the New York Times. 'He
proceeded to take all his clothes off,
and get completely naked, and started
masturbating.'" When they attempted to
share their story with fellow comedians,
Louis CK's manager Dave Becky (who also
manages Aziz Ansari, Kevin Hart, and Amy
Poehler, among others) told their managers
that they should stop talking openly
about the incident. Becky said, "I
don't recall the exact specifics of the
conversation, but know I never threatened
anyone." Comedian Rebecca Corry recalls an
experience she had while shooting a
pilot guest starring Louis CK. "'He
asked if we could go to my dressing room
so he could masturbate in front of me.'
Stunned and angry, Ms. Corry said that
she declined, and pointed out that he had
a daughter and a pregnant wife. His face
got red,' she recalled, "and he told me he
had issues.'"
These allegations were backed up by
Courtney Cox and David Arquette who are
executive producers for the pilot. Cox
said, "What happened to Rebecca on
that set was awful." Writer, illustrator,
and performer Abby Schachner called Louis
CK in 2003 to invite him to her show.
He went from mentioning that she was
cute to suddenly describing his sexual
fantasies. She said she could hear him
close the blinds, breathe heavily, and
talk softly before she realized he was
masturbating over the phone with her. She
said, "I definitely wasn't
encouraging it." But she didn't know how
to end it, either." You want to believe
it's not happening." The fifth woman chose
to go unnamed, but recounted a story from
the late 90s when she was working on the
Chris Rock Show with Louis CK. She said
she was repeatedly asked by Louis CK if
he could masturbate in front of her. She
was in her early 20s at the time, and
eventually went along with his requests.
She looks back on it saying, "Tt was
something that I knew was wrong. I think
the big piece of why I said yes was
because of the culture. He abused his
power."
Every account reported in the article
was backed up by either friends or
colleagues that were told about the
incidents right after they happened.
When the New York Times reached out for
a statement from Louis CK, his publicist
Lewis Kay said, "Louis is not going
to answer any questions." Now all of this
news was shocking to most, but has
actually been addressed before. In 2012,
Gawker reported the comedy duo's story
without naming Louis CK. And again in
2015,
Gawker published an article about a man
who had contact with Louis CK regarding
him masturbating in front of women. So
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