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JPMorgan executive vehemently denies lurid sexual harassment allegations that went viral on social media

JPMorgan executive vehemently denies lurid sexual harassment allegations that went viral on social media

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Lorna Hajdini, a female executive director with JPMorgan, has denied sexual harassment allegations made against her in a lawsuit this week that quickly went viral on social media. The complaint, filed Monday, April 27, in New York, shared lurid details from an ex-JPMorgan employee, identified only as “John Doe,” claiming Hajdini coerced him into sex, made racist remarks and drugged him. In the complaint, Doe claims Hajdini was promoted to a senior role on his team at the investment bank in early 2024 and soon made sexual advances towards him. When Doe rejected her advances, he alleges Hajdini threatened his career. Doe claimed Hajdini told him on one occasion: “If you don’t f*** my brains out tonight, I’m going to sabotage your promotion.” Similarly shocking quotes have become widely spread on social media as users make light of the …

Euphoria season 3: How Sam Levinson’s lurid drama became the most toxic show on TV

Euphoria season 3: How Sam Levinson’s lurid drama became the most toxic show on TV

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter If certain corners of the internet are to be believed, last Tuesday night, Zendaya arrived fashionably late to the Los Angeles premiere of her salacious HBO series Euphoria. She posed for photographers, briefly hugged the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, with the strained affection of a child being asked to embrace their cousin who smells, then leapt into a waiting car headed to parts unknown. But in fact, Zendaya didn’t speed off as rapidly as possible from the scene of the crime (or, as it’s also known, the third season of TV’s most depleting exercise in pop-video nihilism). Instead, she giddily chatted with her castmates, then took her seat at the TCL Chinese Theatre to watch her character guzzle down bags of fentanyl. Perhaps things in Euphoria-ville weren’t quite as bad as some had imagined? That said, it might not matter much. …

Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards review – Martin Clunes is far too good for this lurid Channel 5 drama

Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards review – Martin Clunes is far too good for this lurid Channel 5 drama

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Arriving ahead of Channel 5’s one-off, ripped-from-the-headlines dramas about Kate McCann and murderer Tracie Andrews is Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, a lurid Goosebumps tale about Britain’s most famous disgraced newscaster. Tacky channel? Shot under a veil of secrecy before its announcement? Angry statements by Edwards to the Daily Mail condemning it? Check, check, check. But Power isn’t quite as lowbrow as you might imagine. Star Martin Clunes is in total go-for-broke mode in the title role, uncannily furrowing his brow to just the right degree and bringing overqualified Welsh-accented gravitas to a script that asks him to repeatedly sink to all kinds of mucky carnal urges. The project he’s in, though, doesn’t match him: it’s the kind of rush-job TV lobotomy that satisfies nothing but a viewer’s baser instincts. Likely out of legal necessity, Power doesn’t illuminate as much …