<Li> In the November 2012 issue of Elle, Susan Sarandon spoke of a "really disgusting" casting - couch experience in New York City in the late 1960s or early 1970s . "I just went into a room and a guy practically threw me on the desk . It was my early days in New York and it was really disgusting . It wasn't like I gave it a second thought . It was so badly done ." </Li> <Li> In 2015, Rebecca Carroll wrote a piece about being sexually assaulted when she was 14 by a famous New York City TV anchor . </Li> <Li> In July 2016, television executive Roger Ailes was accused of sexual harassment by former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson . More than twenty other women, including Megyn Kelly and Andrea Tantaros, have since come forward with similar allegations about Ailes' predatory casting couch - like behavior in the television industry over a 50 - year period . Since then, Fox's Bill O'Reilly has also been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment; $45 million has so far been paid to six women . </Li> <Li> On 1 November 2016, defense lawyers for Bill Cosby, who has been accused of sexual assault by over 60 women, wrote that, "Even if proven (and it could not be), the age - old' casting couch' is not unique to Mr. Cosby, and thus not a' signature' nor a basis for the admissibility of these witnesses' stories, let alone a conviction ." (Cosby was convicted of sexual assault charges on April 26th, 2018). </Li>

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