My experience with a sexual harassment situation at work back in the 90s (witness not victim), there is no speaking "in defense" of someone. There is only "What have you seen?" "What have you heard?" "What did you do?"

6 months? Are we saying HK reported it that long ago? This does not add up. I'm thinking when Perv Muhney first assaulted HK, she let it slide but he did it again as he made he work life uncomfortable. She then went to the brass. I'm not getting she reported it 6 months ago but that he'd been harassing her that long.

Does this make sense?

It makes perfect sense, in my situation the harasser was well-known to everybody as a sex hound who'd put the make on every woman he could but it became accepted 1.) because he was good at his job and 2.) because the workplace was so dysfunctional in so many ways the bar was set rather high. The clash comes when new people are hired and they have a healthier idea of what is and isn't acceptable. The tough thing for the whistleblower is that all the people around her think it's no big deal. It's like growing up in an abusive family. You have no idea what normal is until you meet someone at school whose parents don't put out lit cigarettes on their arm.

HK probably was rightly upset when he first touched her and got the "Oh that's just how he is!" excuse but with the second time she decided enough was enough.

Where'd this 6 months news come from? And why are people taking Tommy from Highlight Hollywood's words as fact?

Edited January 6, 201411 yr by chicklitsandfantasies

The first time he probably said he brushed against her by accident or something stupid like that

Edited January 6, 201411 yr by dragonflies

I don't where the 6 months thing came from. It was not in mentioned when the story was originally posted here at SON or in the TMZ report. It seems to be something that floated out of some gossip site.

Wonkette's pop-culture site HappyNiceTimePeople.com picked up the Muhney news.

http://happynicetimepeople.com/sideboob-rodman-muhney-madonna/

It think this is the first time they've covered anything soap related.

Edited January 6, 201411 yr by marceline

6 months? Are we saying HK reported it that long ago? This does not add up. I'm thinking when Perv Muhney first assaulted HK, she let it slide but he did it again as he made he work life uncomfortable. She then went to the brass. I'm not getting she reported it 6 months ago but that he'd been harassing her that long.

Does this make sense?

Also seems possible that HHK was not his first victim. In a situation like he said/she said, they may not be able to do anything the first time it's reported, if there isn't any corroborating evidence. Once multiple people complain or there is a witness, a pattern of behavior starts to emerge and TPTB can take action. All of that coming together could have taken quite awhile.

I don't where the 6 months thing came from. It was not in mentioned when the story was originally posted here at SON or in the TMZ report. It seems to be something that floated out of some gossip site.

I think it came from MAB's friend Tommy at that joke of a site Highlight Hollywood. He's always spinning things and making up lies to act like he has inside info other than the few things MAB tells him.

I had never even heard of that Highlight Hollywood site until MAB did her backtracking act on MM there.

I think it came from MAB's friend Tommy at that joke of a site Highlight Hollywood. He's always spinning things and making up lies to act like he has inside info other than the few things MAB tells him.

Also, a couple of these sites have said MM has been bullying/harnessing more than one person over a period of time and this was the last straw. Certainly sounds like it's been going on for months if not longer.

SMH. What's next? Hunter was touching MM's hands with her boobs, and not the other way around?

That would be almost like saying Paul and Christine ran backwards into Phyllis' car and then fell down. Almost.

Also, a couple of these sites have said MM has been bullying/harnessing more than one person over a period of time and this was the last straw. Certainly sounds like it's been going on for months if not longer.

Well that we know since we've seen his Twitter outburst. Look how many fights he's started with EB alone the most memorable one being the pedophile mustache fight. But that's separate issue from this particular incident.

I went back and found SharonRocks' original post with the scoop (I posted it below). According to her, MM's firing occurred pretty directly after HK reported him. TMZ reported that he had been bullying others besides HK and that sexually harassing her was the last straw. This suggests to me that Sony's HR was aware of his bullying and/or had been investigating the situation prior to HK's complaint.

A very reliable source told me that Muhney was sexually harassing Hunter King, who plays Summer. He fondled her breasts once and did it again when they were hanging out with the actor who plays Fenn. King wasn't having it and neither was SONY. She is of age (19) but he's 38 and married! Apparently she went to the higher ups and he was dismissed.

JFP is NOT the villain in this- she actually did fight for him to say (and perhaps settle the dispute within the cast) but SONY insisted he be let go, likely to avoid a possible lawsuit and terrible publicity.

Which makes the interview that Muhney gave all the more disgusting.

I believe there was a Blind Item about this in SOD not long ago, and I almost wonder if Branco's BI was about this as well.

Anyhow, that's the 411 on why he was let go- hence DD and Logan saying there was more to the story and Giddens keeping quiet. They're all in the know. Why else would Daytime Confidential not have put out an outraged story, as much as they diss JFP's Y&R?

This makes me even MORE disgusted by Branco- you'd think he has the whole story, though maybe all of the reliable sources know better than to tell him anything.

Edited January 6, 201411 yr by Ann_SS

You know, not to fan the flames of any ongoing stan wars or anything, but I'd [!@#$%^&*] a brick if we were to learn SharonRocks or their source was, in fact, Sharon Case. I mean, it'd be a little too MELROSE PLACE, but...just sayin'.

If someone witnessed it happening, that would have sped up the firing too.

$875 dollars?

Stans FAIL!