Arts & Entertainment
Kevin Sorbo claims Gianni Versace sexually harassed him
the actor says the incident occurred during his model days
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“Hercules” star Kevin Sorbo is alleging that designer Gianni Versace sexually harassed him.
While discussing the Harvey Weinstein scandal on “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast, Sorbo says that during his modeling days pre-“Hercules,” he was a victim of sexual harassment from the late Italian designer.
“I’ve got my sexual harassment story,” Sorbo says. “He wanted to meet me because of my height. At 6-foot, 3-inches, he wanted me to do fashion shows with these 6-foot tall women.”
In 1984 Sorbo says that Versace began to invite him to dinner parties with distinguished guests like Sophia Loren, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti and Richard Gere. The more parties Sorbo attended the fewer the guests who attended became. Eventually, Sorbo found himself at a dinner alone with Versace.
Sorbo began to discuss modeling business when Sorbo claims Versace started touching him.
“All of a sudden, his hand goes up my leg,” Sorbo says before asking Versace, “Dude, you know I’m straight?”
“‘This is why I like you. You’re not a girlie man. You are a man’s man,'” Sorbo recalled Versace telling him.
“‘In life, you must f**k everything,” Sorbo recounted Versace’s words. “‘You must do the dog, and the cat, and the boy, and the girl.'”
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Sorbo says he still remained friends with Versace after the incident.
“He booked me for his fashion shows but I never got his campaign, but I knew the game, just like I know the game of Hollywood,” Sorbo says. “Casting couches have always been around. I don’t play that game, nor do I care to.”
Sorbo is currently starring in the Christian film “Let There Be Light,” which hits theaters on Friday, Oct. 27.
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Madonna announces release date for new album
‘Confessions II’ marks return to the dance floor
Pop icon Madonna on Wednesday announced that her 15th studio album will be released on July 3.
Titled “Confessions II,” the new album is a sequel to 2005’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” an Abba and disco-infused hit.
The new album reunites Madonna with producer Stuart Price, who also helmed the original “Confessions” album. It’s her first album of new material since 2019’s “Madame X.”
“We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies,” Madonna said in a press release. “These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect — with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people,” continued the statement. “Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions. Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
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(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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In an act of artistic defiance, Baltimore Center Stage stays focused on DEI
‘Maybe it’s a triple-down’
By LESLIE GRAY STREETER | I’m always tickled when people complain about artists “going political.” The inherent nature of art, of creation and free expression, is political. This becomes obvious when entire governments try to threaten it out of existence, like in 2025, when the brand-new presidential administration demanded organizations halt so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming or risk federal funding.
Baltimore Center Stage’s response? A resounding and hearty “Nah.” A year later, they’re still doubling down on diversity.
“Maybe it’s a triple-down,” said Ken-Matt Martin, the theater’s producing director, chuckling.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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