Louis C.K. Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Five Women

Louis C.K. is now look new allegations of intimate misconduct from no less than five unlike female comedians . Throughout thelast several weeks of report about hefty piece , in Hollywood and elsewhere , committing acts of intimate harassment , ill-treatment , and other misconduct towards women and in some cases men , C.K. ’s name has frequently been brought up - due in no small part to former allegement of sexual misconduct that have been impose against him ( going back to 2012 ) . The comedian / filmmaker has been asked about the subject in various interview since then , while his protege - turned - foe , Tig Notero , reference them in a late interview that made wave .

Earlier this week , there were rumblings that an unmasking of C.K. was on the way - and ahead of that , the premiere of C.K. ’s new movie , I bang You Daddy , was cancelled , as was his scheduled visual aspect onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert , amid reports that theNew York Timeswas preparing a piece about the comedian . Now , that piece has arrive .

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TheNew York Timesreports that five women have go on the record with accusations against Louis C.K. The accusal date from 2002 to the class thereafter , and all of them are generally consistent - that the comedian masturbated or otherwise acted inappropriately in front of them without their consent . These accusations are similar to those made in aGawkerstory age ago ; C.K. did not comment for the article .

The accusations come as C.K. was preparingI Love You , Daddy , a celluloid he wrote , conduct and starred in that , somewhat strangely , deals with the subject of a lecherous older filmmaker ( play by John Malkovich ) who the C.K. part worries is going to start dating his youthful girl ( Chloë Grace Moretz ) . The film , when it debut to mixed review at the Toronto Film Festival in September , was see by many as a cite to the career of Woody Allen , whom C.K. has acknowledged as an influence . What the accusations mean for that film , or other announced C.K. drollery , boob tube , or moving picture undertaking , remain to be seen .

The C.K. situation is moderately unlike from the many intimate harassment / ravishment news report that have made headlines of late . Unlike Harvey Weinstein , Brett Ratner , James Toback and/or many others whose longtime vile ( and , in many cases , reprehensible ) behavior is now in the public eye , C.K. is love as something of a sense of right and wrong of the clowning cosmos - a man who may have dealt with his personal flaw in his comedy , but had a persona of likability and respectability .

However , it ’s important to remember that thwarted as C.K. ’s fans may be about the newsworthiness about him , those discomfited fans are n’t the victim here , and the chronicle is n’t at long last all about them .